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Marlow, a ferry-boat captain on foreign assignment in the Congo, searches for the legendary and...

As uplifting as it is moving, Holding the Man is a funny, sad and celebratory...

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Depicting decadence and moral corruption in pre-revolutionary France, Dangerous Liaisons is one of the most...

G.K. Chesterton's 1908 masterpiece, The Man Who Was Thursday, is a metaphysical thriller, and a...

The Innocence of Father Brown is the first collection of stories starring Father Brown, a...

A woman has been reported missing to detective Marlowe and a corpse is found in...

Philip Marlowe's client, a dried-up husk of a woman, wants him to recover a rare...

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On an ordinary summer's afternoon, Alice tumbles down a hole and an extraordinary adventure begins....

E. H. Carr's What Is History? is the classic introduction to the theory of history....

In a world struggling back from the brink of apocalypse, life is harsh. But for...

Flame-haired Grady McNeil is beautiful, rich and defiant. Her privileged society life leaves her wanting,...

Truman Capote's In Cold Blood is both a masterpiece of journalism and a powerful crime...

The townspeople of Oran are in the grip of a deadly plague, which condemns its...

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Anthony Burgess's A Clockwork Orange is the shocking seminal novel that spawned one of the...

Richard Hannay has just returned to England after years in South Africa and is thoroughly...

Bill Bryson's Mother Tongue is a hymn to the English language. In examining how a...

In a house haunted by memories, the past is everywhere . . . As darkness...

Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre to this day entrances readers with its passionate portrayal of a...

Enter Borges' timeless worlds, where the ideal and the abstract challenge reality; where philosophical paradoxes...

In 1914 Karen Blixen arrived in Kenya with her husband to run a coffee-farm. Drawn...

Dorothy thinks she's lost forever when a tornado whirls her and her dog, Toto, into...

'Pat Barker's novel is not only a vivid evocation of the agony of the First...

1918, the closing months of the war. Army psychiatrist William Rivers is increasingly concerned for...

In the sixteenth century, Zen monks in Japan developed the haiku, an unrhymed poetic form...

Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice is the original romantic comedy, brimful of wit and wisdom....