The Road to Wigan Pier
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A searing account of George Orwell's observations of working-class life in the bleak industrial...
The Story of Hong Gildong
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The Story of Hong Gildong is arguably the single most important work of classic Korean fiction. Like...
Think, Pig!: Beckett at the Limit of the Human
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This book examines Samuel Beckett's unique lesson in courage in the wake of humanism's postwar...
Victorian Writers and the Environment: Ecocritical Perspectives
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Applying ecocritical theory to the work of Victorian writers, this collection explores what a...
Radiant State
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With his loving evocation of a dark and fantastical realm that owes much to the myth and history of...
Rambling on: An Apprentice's Guide to the Gift of the Gab
Bohumil Hrabal and David Short
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Novelist Bohumil Hrabal was born in Brno, Czechoslovakia, and he spent decades working at a variety...
River God
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River God, the first in Wilbur Smith's blockbusting Egyptian Novels, is a thrilling adventure set...
The Ashes of London
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From the No.1 bestselling author of The American Boy and The Silent Boy comes a brand new historical...
The Conquest of Plassans
Helen Constantine and Emile Zola
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'Abbe Faujas has arrived!' The arrival of Abbe Faujas in the provincial town of Plassans has...
The Intrusions
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Described as 'addictive' (Financial Times), 'brimming with suspense' (Daily Express), 'masterful'...