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As a girl, Clara del Valle can read fortunes, make objects move as if they had lives of their own, and predict the future. Following the mysterious ... More

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Set in a country of arbitrary arrests, sudden disappearances and summary executions, Isabel Allende's magical new novel tells of the passionate ... More

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'My name is Eva, which means 'life', according to a book of names my mother consulted. I was born in the back room of a shadowy house, and grew up ... More

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Authentic 18th-century Chinese detective novels. Dee and associates solve 3 interlocked cases: "The Case of the Double Murder at Dawn, The Case of ... More

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Includes Part One of "Candide"; three stories; selections from "The Philosophical Dictionary, The Lisbon Earthquake," and other works; and thirty ... More

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As in the case with many other Icelanders' sagas, the author of Laxdaela is unknown, but believed to have been composed in the middle of the ... More

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In The Wild Geese, prominent Japanese novelist Ogai Mori offers a poignant story of unfulfilled love. The young heroine, Otama, is forced by poverty ... More

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As the might of the Imperial Japanese Army is crumbling, so too are the tenuous ties with human society held by a sensitive soldier of World War II.

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Na-o-mi. The three syllables of this name, unusual in 1920s Japan, captivate a 28-year-old engineer, who soon becomes infatuated with the girl so ... More

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First published in 1894, Knut Hamsun's PAN recounts Thomas Glahn's retrospective narrative of his life and adventures in the Norwegian woods. PAN ... More

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The Floating Opera and The End of the Road are John Barth's first two novels. Both concern strange, consuming love triangles and the destructive ... More

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This 1949 collection of Eudora Welty's short stories all take place over the course of some 40 years in Morgana, a fictitious Mississippi town. ... More

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These two novellas, by the author of The Age of Grief and The Greenlanders reveal the intricate and often heart-breaking inner workings of families. ... More

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Mann's bestselling work of fiction now appears in a trade paperback format with a striking new jacket. Sales of the classic have totaled over 800,000 ... More

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'One of the most gifted and startling writers to have come out of the American South' - V. S. Pritchett. "Wise Blood", Flannery O' Connor's first ... More

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"Demanding but confident and beautifully written" (Boston Globe), this is the story of a young Native American returning to his reservation after ... More

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Shimamura is tired of the bustling city. He takes the train through the snow to the mountains of the west coast of Japan, to meet with a geisha he ... More

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Reissued in new trade paperback format and design, "The Ugly American" is the multi-million-copy bestseller that coined the phrase for tragic ... More

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One of Sartre's greatest existentialist works of fiction, The Wall contains the only five short stories he ever wrote. Set during the Spanish Civil ... More

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Almost from the time of its publication early in 1846, Melville's first book, based on his own travels in the South Seas, has been recognized as a ... More

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