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Reading the World
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The Stranger by Albert Camus Publisher Comments Since it was first published in English, in 1946, Albert Camus's extraordinary first novel, The Stranger (L'Etranger), has had a profound impact on millions of American readers. Through this story of an ordinary man who unwittingly gets drawn into a... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Silence by Shusaku Endo Publisher Comments A novel of faith and doubt set in medieval Japan. Endo relates the history of the Japanese Christians who were persecuted after the rise to power of the samurai in the 17th century, and in particular the plight of Japanese priests who were forced to... (read more) List Price $11.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov Publisher Comments Introduction by Simon Franklin; Translation by Michael Glenny From the Hardcover edition.... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Season of Migration to the North by Tayeb Salih Publisher Comments A beautifully constructed novel set in the Sudan.... (read more) List Price $8.95 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez Publisher Comments One of the 20th century's enduring works, One Hundred Years of Solitude is a widely beloved and acclaimed novel known throughout the world, and the ultimate achievement in a Nobel Prizewinning career. The novel tells the story of the rise and fall... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $2.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Rings of Saturn by W. G. Sebald Publisher Comments "Ostensibly a record of a journey on foot through coastal East Anglia," as Robert McCrum in the London Observer noted, The Rings of Saturn "is also a brilliantly allusive study of England's imperial past and the nature of decline and fall, of loss and... (read more) Your price: $14.95 New - Trade Paper
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Blindness by Jose Saramago Publisher Comments The late Nobel laureates final novel, a radical retelling of the Old Testament "Reading the Portuguese writer José Saramago, one quickly senses the presence of a master." Christian Science Monitor "Saramago is the most tender of writers...with a... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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C.P. Cavafy: Collected Poems. (Revised Ed.) (Princeton Modern Greek Studies) by C P Cavafy Publisher Comments C. P. Cavafy (1863-1933) lived in relative obscurity in Alexandria, and a collected edition of his poems was not published until after his death. Now, however, he is regarded as the most important figure in twentieth-century Greek poetry, and his poems... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Crime and Punishment (Penguin Classics) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky Staff Pick One of the great classics of world literature, Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment is the story of Raskolnikov, a young man who — unable to complete his studies — commits what he calls "justifiable murder." What ensues is as demanding and illuminating... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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BestsellersThursday,February 16, 2012 |
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