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For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
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Category: Classics/Literature | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
High in the pine forests of the Spanish Sierra, a guerrilla band prepares to blow up a vital bridge. Robert Jordan, a young American volunteer, has been sent to handle the dynamiting. There, in the mountains, he finds the dangers and the intense comradeship of war. And there he discovers Maria, a young ...Show more
Glass Bead Game by Hermann Hesse
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Category: Classics/Literature | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
"The title refers to an ultra-aesthetic game which is played by scholars in the kingdom of Castalia around the year 2400. This game involves all branches of knowledge, and spiritual values - especially those of the east. Hesse's longing to find a dynamic fusion of mind with nature is set forth more pene ...Show more
Green Hills of Africa by Ernest Hemingway
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Category: Classics/Literature | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
Green Hills of Africa is Ernest Hemingway's lyrical journal of a month on safari in the great game country of East Africa, where he and his wife Pauline journeyed in December 1933. Hemingway's well-known interest in - and fascination with - big-game hunting is magnificently captured in this evocative ac ...Show more
Gulliver's Travels: and Alexander Pope's Verses on "Gulliver's Travels" by Jonathan Swift
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Category: Classics/Literature | Series: Vintage Classics | Reading Level: General Adult
In the course of his famous travels, Gulliver is captured by miniature people who wage war on each other because of religious disagreement over how to crack eggs, is sexually assaulted by giants, visits a floating island, and decides that the society of horses is better than that of his fellow man. Swif ...Show more
Haroun and Luka by Salman Rushdie
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Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics
Haroun: What's the use of stories that aren't even true? I asked that question and the Unthinkable Thing happened: my father can't tell stories anymore. That means no more laughter in the city of Alifbay and now the place stinks of sadness. So it's up to me to put things right. If the water genie Iff ca ...Show more
I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith; Valerie Grove (Introduction by)
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Category: Classics/Literature | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
"I write this sitting in the kitchen sink" is the memorable first line of this enchanting coming-of-age story, told in the form of Cassandra Mortmain's journal. Cassandra wittily describes life growing up in a crumbling castle, with her father who suffers from crippling writer's block, her glamorous but ...Show more
In Patagonia by Bruce Chatwin
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Category: Classics/Literature | Series: Vintage Classics | Reading Level: very good
IN PATAGONIA is a Quest or a Wonder Voyage. It is about wandering and exile. Bruce Chatwin travels to a remote country in search of a strange beast and, as he goes along, describes his encounters with other people whose stories delay him on the road.
In Praise of Shadows by Junichiro Tanizaki
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Category: Classics/Literature | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
"This is an essay on aesthetics by one of the greatest Japanese novelists. The text ranges over architecture, jade, food, toilets, and combines an acute sense of the use of space in buildings, as well as perfect descriptions of lacquerware under candlelight and women in the darkness of the house of plea ...Show more
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
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Category: Classics/Literature | Series: Vintage Classics Ser. | Reading Level: General Adult
Jane EyreBy Charlotte Brontëm grasp my hair and my shoulder: he had closed with a desperate thing. I really saw in him a tyrant, a murderer. I felt a drop or two of blood from my head trickle down my neck, and was sensible of somewhat pungent suffering: these sensations for the time predominated over fe ...Show more
Jane Eyre (Vintage Classics) by Charlotte Brontë
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Category: Classics/Literature | Series: Vintage Classics Brontë Ser.
2016 CHARLOTTE BRONTE BICENTENARY WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY MAGGIE O'FARRELL As an orphan, Jane's childhood is full of trouble, but her stubborn independence and sense of self help her to steer through the miseries inflicted by cruel relatives and a brutal school. A position as governess at the Thornfield ...Show more
Kings in Grass Castles by Mary Durack
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Category: Australiana | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
When Patrick Durack left Ireland for Australia in 1853, he was to found a dynasty of pioneers, and build an empire of cattle-land across the great stretches of Australia. His grand-daughter, Mary Durack, with a profound sense of family history, has rebuilt the saga of the Duracks, a saga that is the sto ...Show more
Light in August by William Faulkner
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Category: Classics/Literature | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
A landmark in American fiction, "Light in August" explores Faulkner's central theme: the nature of evil. Joe Christmas - a man doomed, deracinated and alone - wanders the Deep South in search of an identity, and a place in society. After killing his perverted God-fearing lover, it becomes inevitable tha ...Show more