My desert island books part 29

Discover the ultimate desert island reads in 'My Desert Island Books Part 29'—curated list of must-have books for survival, inspiration, and endless adventure.

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Tess of the D'Urbervilles

by Thomas Hardy

A heartbreaking portrayal of a woman faced by an impossible choice in the pursuit of happiness When Tess Durbeyfield is driven by family poverty to …
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The Sea, the Sea

by Iris Murdoch

Winner of the Booker Prize—a tale of the strange obsessions that haunt a playwright as he composes his memoirs Charles Arrowby, leading light of England's …
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Collected works

 

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The Third Life of Grange Copeland

by Alice Walker

Despondent over the futility of life in the South, black tenant farmer Grange Copeland leaves his wife and son in Georgia to head North. After …
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Call It Sleep

by Henry Roth

When Henry Roth published Call It Sleep, his first novel, in 1934, it was greeted with critical acclaim. But in that dark Depression year, books …
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Requiem for Harlem

by Henry Roth

In the concluding book in this extraordinary, four-volume spiritual and literary odyssey, Roth tells the psychologically lacerating story of Ira Stigman, a senior at City …
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The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby

by Charles Dickens

'The novel has everything: an absorbing melodrama, with a supporting cast of heroes, villains and eccentrics, set in a London where vast wealth and desperate …
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The Annotated Flatland

by Ian Stewart

By contemplating the notion of dimensions beyond their own, Abbott's Victorian readers were exposed to the then-radical idea of a fourth dimension - preparing them …
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Flatterland

by Ian Stewart

First there was Edwin A. Abbott's remarkable Flatland, published in 1884, and one of the all-time classics of popular mathematics. Now, from mathematician and accomplished …
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The Planiverse

by A.K. Dewdney

A classic book about life in a two-dimensional universe, written by a well-known author. Now brought back into print in this revised and updated edition, …
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