Chinua Achebe
Obi Okonkwo is an idealistic young man who, thanks to the privileges of an education in Britain, has now returned to Nigeria for a job in the civil service. How ...
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Shirley Jackson
The best-known of Shirley Jackson's novels and a major inspiration for writers like Neil Gaiman and Stephen King as well as the hit Netflix series, The Hauntin ...
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J.M.G. Le Clezio
Explores how the physical sensations we experience can be as strong as feelings of love or hate, with their power to bring chaos to our lives. This title featur ...
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Vladimir Nabokov
A novella in which a middle-aged man weds an unattractive widow in order to indulge his paedophilic obsession with her daughter. ...
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Chaim Potok
Asher Lev is a gifted loner, the artist who painted the sensational "Brooklyn Crucifixion". Into it he poured all the anguish and torment a Jew can fe ...
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Tennessee Williams
Abandoned by her husband, Amanda Wingfield comforts herself with recollections of her earlier, life in Blue Mountain when she was pursued by 'gentleman callers' ...
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Italo Calvino
A collection of nineteenth-century fantastic literature - from enchantments and horrors to subtler, psychological terrors. It includes Hoffmann's "The Sand ...
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Susan Sontag
Based on the lives of Sir William Hamilton, his wife, Emma, and Lord Nelson in the final decades of the eighteenth century, this title examines the shape of Wes ...
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Susan Sontag
A story inspired by the emigration to America in 1876 of Helena Modrzejewska, Poland's most celebrated actress, accompanied by her husband, Count Karol Chlapows ...
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Susan Sontag
A series of provocative discussions on everything from individual authors to contemporary religious thinking, Against Interpretation and Other Essays is the def ...
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Arthur Miller
In Joe and Kate Keller's family garden, an apple tree - a memorial to their son Larry, lost in the Second World War - has been torn down by a storm. But his los ...
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William S Burroughs
Explores the personal relationship between Burroughs and cats. ...
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William S Burroughs
A man, dispirited by ageing, endeavours to steal a younger man's face; a doctor yearns for a virus that might eliminate his discomfort by turning everyone else ...
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William S Burroughs
A novel that offers an account of the constant cycle of drug dependency, cures and relapses. ...
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William S Burroughs
A surreal fable that features a cast of notorious characters: The Crying Gun, who breaks into tears at the sight of his opponent; The Priest, who goes into gunf ...
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William S Burroughs
Presents a surreal novel. It is based on orgiastic wasteland of drugs, depravity, political plots, paranoia, sadistic medical experiments and endless, gnawing a ...
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Italo Calvino
Pin is a bawdy, adolescent cobbler's assistant, both arrogant and insecure who - while the Second World War rages - sings songs and tells jokes to endear himsel ...
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Italo Calvino
A couple on a journey across Mexico are excited by the idea of a particular ingredient, suggested by ancient rituals of human sacrifice. Precariously balanced o ...
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Italo Calvino
Beginning with an essay on the attributes that define a classic, this collection provides the author's criticism. ...
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Italo Calvino
Includes stories about the evolution of the universe, with characters that are fashioned from mathematical formulae and cellular structures. ...
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Jack Kerouac,William S Burroughs
In 1944, Jack Kerouac and William Burroughs, then still unknown writers, were both arrested following a murder: one of their friends had stabbed another and the ...
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Ralph Metzner,Richard Alpert,Timothy Leary
Suitable for all subsequent mind-expanding inquiries, this title provides an interpretation of an ancient sacred manuscript, the Tibetan Book of the Dead, from ...
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Hermann Hesse
Integrating Eastern and Western spiritual traditions with psychoanalysis and philosophy, this title tells the story of a young Brahmin's search for ultimate rea ...
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Brian Aldiss
The Sun is about to go Nova. Earth and Moon have ceased their axial rotation and present one face continuously to the sun. The bright side of Earth is covered w ...
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