Possession: A Romance
by A S Byatt
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For years I talked about Holden Caulfield and Rob Fleming as the only two characters
in literature I ever identified with, the only two I ever read about and thought,
"That is my life." Then I read Possession. Then I met Roland Michell. As
I read the...
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Ulysses (90 Edition)
by James Joyce
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Ulysses is one of the most influential novels of the twentieth century. It was not easy to find a publisher in America willing to take it on, and when Jane Jeap and Margaret Anderson started printing extracts from the book in their literary magazine The...
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Fifth Business
by Robertson Davies
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Vacant Possession
by Hilary Mantel
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A dark and uproarious tale of revenge.Ten years have passed since Muriel Axon did her ma in, ten years of living in a mental asylum. But Muriel has not forgotten her welfare worker, Isabel, or her neighbor, Colin. Nor has she forgiven. There are still...
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Burning Your Boats : the Collected Short Stories (95 Edition)
by Angela Carter
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One of our most imaginative and accomplished writers, Angela Carter left behind a dazzling array of work: essays, criticism, and fiction. But it is in her short stories that her extraordinary talents — as a fabulist, feminist, social critic, and...
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The Name of the Rose; Including Post Script to the Name of the Rose
by Umberto Eco
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It is the year 1327. Franciscans in an Italian abbey are suspected of heresy, but Brother William of Baskerville's investigation is suddenly overshadowed by seven bizarre deaths. Translated by William Weaver. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book...
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Dubliners: Text and Criticism; Revised Edition (Viking Critical Library)
by James Joyce
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In these masterful stories, steeped in realism, Joyce creates an exacting portrait of his native city, showing how it reflects the general decline of Irish culture and civilization. Joyce compels attention by the power of its unique vision of the world...
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Every Day is Mother's Day
by Hilary Mantel
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Stephen King meets Muriel Spark in Hilary Mantel's first novel. Evelyn Axona — medium by trade — and her half-wit daughter Muriel have become a social problem. Barricaded in their once-respectable house, they live amid festering rubbish...
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Fludd
by Hilary Mantel
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One dark and stormy night in 1956, a stranger named Fludd mysteriously turns up in the dismal village of Fetherhoughton. He is the curate sent by the bishop to assist Father Angwin-or is he? In the most unlikely of places, a superstitious town that...
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Wuthering Heights
by Emily Bronte
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"My greatest thought in living is Heathcliff. If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be... Nelly, I "am" Heathcliff! He's always, always in my mind: not as a pleasure... but as my own being." "Wuthering Heights" is the only...
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