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Leonard Cohen - Poems and Songs by Leonard Cohen
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Category: Poetry | Series: Everyman's Library Pocket Poets | Reading Level: very good
This anthology contains a cross-section covering his career, including such legendary songs as "Suzanne", "Sisters of Mercy", "Bird on the Wire", "Famous Blue Raincoat" and "I'm Your Man" and searingly memorable poems from many collections including "Flowers for Hitler", "Beautiful Losers" and "Death of ...Show more
Life and Fate by Vasily Grossman; Polly Jones (Introduction by); Robert Chandler (Translator)
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Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library CLASSICS Ser.
Based around the pivotal WWII battle of Stalingrad (1942-3), where the German advance into Russia was eventually halted by the Red Army, and around an extended family, the Shaposhnikovs, and their many friends and acquaintances, Life and Fate recounts the experience of characters caught up in an immense ...Show more
Lolita by Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich
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Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Ser.
"Lolita" tells the story of aging Hubert Humbert who has an obsessive, devouring, and doomed passion for the nymphet, Dolores Haze. It is also the story of a hypercivilized European colliding with the cheerful barbarism of postwar America. All in all, "Lolita" is filled with awe and exhilaration, along ...Show more
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
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Category: Fiction | Series: Everyman's Library Classics Ser. | Reading Level: near fine
This is a journey through madness and death resulting in stylized violence, narrated with irony and lyricism by Humbert himself. Lolita is also an acerbic and visionary portrait of the United States, its suburban horrors, and of motel and plastic culture.
Love in a Cold Climate and the Pursuit of Love by Nancy Mitford; Laura Thompson (Introduction by)
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Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library CLASSICS Ser.
Nancy Mitford modelled the characters in her best-known novels on her own unconventional (and at the time of writing, notorious) family. We are introduced to the Radletts through the eyes of their cousin, Fanny ('the Bolter's girl'), on one of her frequent visits to their country estate: Uncle Matthew t ...Show more
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Ser.
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Lullabies and Poems for Children by D. Secker-Larson
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Category: Kid's Classics | Series: Everyman's Library pocket poets
Money for Nothing by P. G. Wodehouse
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Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library P G WODEHOUSE Ser.
The action is mostly set at Rudge Hall, home to the obese miser Lester Carmody, and at Healthward Ho, a health farm run by 'Chimp Twist, along with his cohorts 'Soapy' and 'Dolly' Molloy. who were all previously encountered in Sam The Sudden (1925) and would return in Money in the Bank (1946). Hugo Camo ...Show more
Montale - Poems by Eugenio Montale; Jonathan Galassi (Editor, Translator)
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Category: Poetry | Series: Everyman's Library POCKET POETS Ser.
Montale's incandescently beautiful poetry is deeply rooted in the venerable lyric tradition that began with Dante, but he brilliantly reinvents that tradition for our time, probing the depths of love, death, faith and philosophy in the bracing light of modern history. Montale's poems teem with allusion ...Show more
Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
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Category: No Category | Series: Everyman's Library Classics Ser.
This fiercely comic tale stands in marked contrast to its genial predecessor, "The Pickwick Papers." Set against London's seedy back street slums, "Oliver Twist" is the saga of a workhouse orphan captured and thrust into a thieves' den, where some of Dickens's most depraved villains preside: the incorri ...Show more
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenietisyn
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Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library
From the icy blast of reveille through the sweet release of sleep, Ivan Denisovich endures. A common carpenter, he is one of millions viciously imprisoned for countless years on baseless charges, sentenced to the waking nightmares of the Soviet work camps in Siberia. Even in the face of degrading hatred ...Show more
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Ser.
Probably Garcma Marquez's finest and most famous work. "One Hundred Years of Solitude" tells the story of the rise and fall, birth and death of a mythical town of Macondo through the history of the Buendma family. Inventive, amusing, magnetic, sad, alive with unforgettable men and women, and with a trut ...Show more