Great Surprise! - NY Review of Books Literature Classics

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The Siege of Krishnapur

by J.G. Farrell

Winner of the Booker Prize. An insightful and thrilling novel about the British Empire in India during the Great Mutiny of 1857, as seen through …

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The Year of the French

by Thomas Flanagan

In 1798, Irish patriots, committed to freeing their country from England, landed with a company of French troops in County Mayo, in westernmost Ireland. They …

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A Time of Gifts

by Patrick Leigh Fermor

This beloved account about an intrepid young Englishman on the first leg of his walk from London to Constantinople is simply one of the best …

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The War of the Worlds

by Herbert George Wells

H.G. Wells's spellbinding account of an invasion from outer space is the first and still the best of all such stories. Ten massive, super-intelligent aliens …

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