Letters to a Young Poet
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'What matters is to live everything. Live the questions for now.' A hugely influential collection...
Kidnapped
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'Cut iron with iron, What makes iron valuable, Big kuku tree and big silk-cotton tree, Fari and...
On the Shortness of Life
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Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see...
The Lifted Veil
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'Why did she stand before me with the candle in her hand, with her cruel contemptuous eyes fixed on...
The Queen of Spades
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'Hermann waited for the appointed hour like a tiger trembling for its prey.' One of Pushkin's most...
The Sea Raiders
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'...slowly uncoiling their tentacles...and making a soft purring sound to each other' A disgusting...
In Search of Lost Time: The Way by Swann's: v. 1
Lydia Davis, Marcel Proust and Christopher Prendergast
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Since the original prewar translation, there has been no completely new rendering of the French...
List of the Lost
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'Beware the novelist ...intimate and indiscreet ...pompous, prophetic airs ...here is the fact of...
Daphnis and Chloe
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'This only they knew, that the kiss had destroyed him and the bath had destroyed her.' In this...
Embers
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The Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller, available as a Penguin Essential for the first time. A castle...