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Antic Hay by Aldous Huxley
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
WITH A FOREWORD BY DAVID LODGE When inspiration leads Theodore Gumbril to design a type of pneumatic trouser to ease the discomfort of sedentary life, he decides the time has come to give up teaching and seek his fortune in the metropolis. He soon finds himself caught up in the hedonistic world of his f ...Show more
Arrival and Departure by Arthur Koestler
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
This was the third novel of Arthur Koestler's trilogy on ends and means - the other two are THE GLADIATORS and DARKNESS AT NOON -and the first he wrote in English. The central theme is the conflict between morality and expediency, and in this novel Koestler worked it out in terms of individual psycholog ...Show more
Ashenden : Vintage Classics by W. Somerset Maugham
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
When war broke out in 1914, Somerset Maugham was dispatched by the British Secret Service to Switzerland under the guise of completing a play. This title collects stories that are rooted in author's own experiences as an agent, reflecting the ruthlessness and brutality of espionage, its intrigue and tre ...Show more
Augustus - A Novel by John Williams
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Category: No Category | Series: Vintage Classics | Reading Level: very good
A brilliant and beautifully written novel in the tradition of Robert Graves' I, Claudius, Augustus is a sweeping narrative that brings vividly to life a compelling cast of historical figures through their letters, dispatches, and memoirs. A mere eighteen years of age when his uncle, Julius Caesar, is mu ...Show more
BLACK SNOW by BULGAKOV MIKHAIL
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Category: No Category | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
When Maxudov's bid to take his own life fails, he dramatises the novel whose failure provoked the suicide attempt. To the resentment of literary Moscow, his play is accepted by the legendary Independent Theatre and Maxudov plunges into a vortex of inflated egos. With each rehearsal more sparks fly and t ...Show more
Barchester Towers by Anthony Trollope
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Category: No Category | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
This 1857 sequel to The Warden wryly chronicles the struggle for control of the English diocese of Barchester. It opens with the Bishop of Barchester lying on his death bed; soon a battle begins over who will take over power, with key players including the rather incompetent Dr Proudie, his fiendishly u ...Show more
Beloved by Toni Morrison
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics
Terrible, unspeakable things happened to Sethe at Sweet Home, the farm where she lived as a slave for so many years until she escaped to Ohio. Her new life is full of hope but 18 years later she is still not free. Sethe's new home is not only haunted by the memories of her past but also by the ghost of ...Show more
Brave New World Revisited by Aldous Huxley
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
In his 1932 classic dystopian novel, "Brave New World", Aldous Huxley depicted a future society in thrall to science and regulated by sophisticated methods of social control. Nearly thirty years later in "Brave New World Revisited", Huxley checked the progress of his prophecies against reality and argue ...Show more
Bright Star The Complete Poems and Selected Letters (Vintage Classics) by John Keats
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Category: Poetry & Short Stories | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
This book includes an introduction by director Jane Campion. John Keats died in penury and relative obscurity in 1821, aged only 26. He is now seen as one of the greatest English poets and a genius of the Romantic age. This collection, which contains all his most memorable works and a selection of his l ...Show more
Brighton Rock by Graham Greene; J. M. Coetzee (Introduction by)
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY J.M. COETZEEA gang war is raging through the dark underworld of Brighton. Seventeen-year-old Pinkie, malign and ruthless, has killed a man. Believing he can escape retribution, he is unprepared for the courageous, life-embracing Ida Arnold. Greene's gripping thriller, exposes a w ...Show more
Brunos Dream by Iris Murdoch
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
Features Bruno, dying, obsessed with spiders and preoccupied with death and reconciliation. He lies at the center of an intricate spider's web of relationships and passions: Bruno's estranged and grieving son Miles; Danby, Bruno's widowed son-in-law, creepy Nigel the nurse and his besotted twin Will, fi ...Show more
COLLECTED STORIES by BOWEN ELIZABETH
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Category: No Category | Series: Vintage classics
Throughout these seventy-nine stories - love stories, ghost stories, stories of childhood, of English middle-class life in the twenties and thirties, of London during the Blitz - Elizabeth Bowen combines social comedy and reportage, perception and vision in an oeuvre which reveals, as Angus Wilson affir ...Show more