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The Complete Fiction of Nella Larsen - Passing, Quicksand, and the Stories by Nella Larsen; Erika Renée Williams (Introduction by)
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Category: No Category | Series: Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Ser.
A Contemporary Classics hardcover omnibus of the complete fiction of one of the most gifted writers of the Harlem Renaissance, including her most famous novel, Passing Throughout her short but brilliant literary career, Nella Larsen wrote piercing dramas about the Black middle class that featured sens ...Show more
The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
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Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Ser.
In Everyman's Library for the first time--one of the most moving and eloquent accounts of the Holocaust, read by tens of millions of people around the world since its publication in 1947."The Diary of a Young Girl" is the record of two years in the life of a remarkable Jewish girl whose triumphant human ...Show more
The Famished Road - Introduction by Vanessa Guignery by Ben Okri; Vanessa Guignery (Introduction by)
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Category: No Category | Series: Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Ser.
A beautiful hardcover Contemporary Classics edition of Nigerian author Ben Okri's 1991 Booker Prize-winning novel, a masterpiece of magical realism narrated by a Yoruba spirit child. Azaro, the narrator of The Famished Road, is an abiku, a spirit child, who in the Yoruba tradition of Nigeria exists ...Show more
The Intuitionist - Introduction by Colin Grant by Colson Whitehead; Colin Grant (Introduction by)
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Category: No Category | Series: Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Ser.
A 25th anniversary hardcover edition of the debut novel by the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Underground Railroad that wowed critics and readers and marked the emergence of an important American writer. EVERYMAN'S LIBRARY CONTEMPORARY CLASSICS. It is a time of crisis in a major metropol ...Show more
The Lady in the Lake/ The Little Sister/ The Long Goodbye/ Playback by CHANDLER RAYMOND
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Category: Everyman's Library | Series: Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Ser.
Creator of the famous Philip Marlowe, Raymond Chandler elevated the American hard-boiled detective genre to an art form. Chandler's last four novels, published here in one volume, offer ample opportunity to savor the unique and utterly compelling fictional world that made his works modern classics. The ...Show more
The Leopard: With Two Stories and a Memory by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
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Category: Everyman's Library | Series: Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Ser.
A classic of modern fiction. Set in the 1860s, THE LEOPARD is the spellbinding story of a decadent, dying Sicilian aristocracy threatened by the approaching forces of democracy and revolution.
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat - And Other Clinical Tales by Oliver Sacks; Atul Gawande (Introduction by)
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Category: No Category | Series: Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Ser.
In his most extraordinary book, the bestselling author of Awakenings and "poet laureate of medicine" (The New York Times) recounts the case histories of patients inhabiting the compelling world of neurological disorders, from those who are no longer able to recognize common objects to those who gain ext ...Show more
The Periodic Table by Primo Levi; Raymond Rosenthal (Translator)
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Category: No Category | Series: Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Ser.
Primo Levi's The Periodic Table is a collection of short stories that elegantly interlace the author's experiences in Fascist Italy, and later in Auschwitz, with his passion for scientific knowledge and discovery. This Penguin Modern Classics edition of is translated by Raymond Rosenthal with an essay o ...Show more
The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro; John Sutherland (Introduction by); Salman Rushdie (Introduction by)
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Category: Everyman's Library | Series: Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Ser.
From the Nobel Prize-winning author of Never Let Me Go Winner of the Booker Prize ONE OF THE BBC'S '100 NOVELS THAT SHAPED OUR WORLD' A contemporary classic, The Remains of the Day is Kazuo Ishiguro's beautiful and haunting evocation of life between the wars in a Great English House. In the summer o ...Show more
The Sea, the Sea; a Severed Head by Iris Murdoch; Sarah Churchwell (Introduction by)
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Category: No Category | Series: Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Ser.
These two major novels--by one of the most influential British writers of the twentieth century--are ferociously dark comedies that combine playfulness with profundity. A Severed Head (1961) is one of Iris Murdoch's most entertaining works, tracing the turbulent emotional journey of Martin Lynch-Gibbon, ...Show more
We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live : Collected Nonfiction by Joan Didion
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Category: Fiction | Series: Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Ser.
Joan Didion's incomparable and distinctive essays and journalism are admired for their acute, incisive observations and their spare, elegant style. Now the seven books of nonfiction that appeared between 1968 and 2003 have been brought together into one thrilling collection. "Slouching Towards Bethlehem ...Show more
Women in Love by D. H. Lawrence; David Ellis (Introduction by)
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Category: Everyman's Library | Series: Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Ser.
With an Introduction by Joyce Carol Oatesforeword by the authorCommentary by Carl van Doren, Rebecca West,Aldous Huxley, and Henry MillerIt is . . . the world of the poets and the preponderance of the poet in Lawrence that is the key to his work. He magnified and deepened experience in the manner of a p ...Show more