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The Story of Mr Sommer

by Patrick Süskind

A boy's village childhood with all the traditional attributes - father, mother, brother, sister, a house on a lake, tree-climbing, going to the races, music …
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Crime and Punishment

by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Hailed by Washington Post Book World as “the best [translation] currently available" when it was first published, this second edition of Crime and Punishment has …
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The Brothers Karamazov

by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Translated with an Introduction by David McDuff.
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The Tin Drum

by Günter Grass

In celebration of the 50th anniversary of this classic novel, an acclaimed translator and scholar has drawn from many sources for this new translation, more …
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

by Mark Haddon

Despite his overwhelming fear of interacting with people, Christopher, a mathematically-gifted, autistic, fifteen-year-old boy, decides to investigate the murder of a neighbor's dog and uncovers …
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Steppenwolf

by Hermann Hesse

An autobiographical novel featuring Harry Haller in "an experimental mix of symbolism, realism, and fantasy."--Cover.
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The Plague

by Albert Camus

“Its relevance lashes you across the face.” —Stephen Metcalf, The Los Angeles Times • “A redemptive book, one that wills the reader to believe, even …
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The Hobbit, Or, There and Back Again

by John Ronald Reuel Tolkien

Bilbo Baggins, a respectable, well-to-do hobbit, lives comfortably in his hobbit-hole until the day the wandering wizard Gandalf chooses him to take part in an …
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