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Brideshead Revisited
by Evelyn Waugh
Evelyn Waugh's most celebrated novel is a memory drama about the intense entanglement of the narrator, Charles Ryder, with a great Anglo-Catholic family. Written during …
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Animal Farm and 1984
by George Orwell
George Orwell's classic satire on totalitarianism in which farm animals overthrow their human owner and set up their own government is accompanied by "1984," his …
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The Great Gatsby
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
For use in schools and libraries only. A young man newly rich tries to recapture the past and win back his former love, despite the …
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Edgar Allan Poe Complete Tales and Poems
by Edgar Allan Poe
The life of American writer Edgar Allan Poe was characterized by a dramatic series of successes and failures, breakdowns and recoveries, personal gains and hopes …
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The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories
by H. P. Lovecraft
A definitive collection of stories from the unrivaled master of twentieth-century horror "I think it is beyond doubt that H. P. Lovecraft has yet to …
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The Haunting of Hill House
by Shirley Jackson
An anthropologist conducts an unusual research project in a reputedly haunted house.
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The Nightmare Factory
by Thomas Ligotti
A collection of horror fiction turns the abstract matter of dreaming moments into vivid and compelling nightmares
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Silk
by Caitlin R. Kiernan
To the residents of her small southern city, second-hand store owner Spyder Baxter is crazy. But her friends and followers know better. Something lives within …
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Dashiell Hammett: Complete Novels (LOA #110)
by Dashiell Hammett
Presents five novels by Dashiell Hamilton, all published between 1929 and 1934.
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The Postman Always Rings Twice, Double Indemnity, Mildred Pierce, and Selected Stories
by James M. Cain
These three classics from the master of the noir novel, along with five otherwise unavailable short stories, are electric with the taut narrative voice, the …
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The Children of Men
by P. D. James
In 2021, with the human race becoming extinct because of the infertility of all males, Oxford historian Theodore Faron is drawn into the schemes of …
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The Drowning Pool
by Ross Macdonald
When a millionaire matriarch is found floating face down in the family pool, the prime suspects are her good-for-nothing son and his seductive teenage daughter. …
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A Coffin for Dimitrios
by Eric Ambler
ONE OF TIME MAGAZINE'S 100 BEST MYSTERY AND THRILLER BOOKS OF ALL TIME • The classic story of an ordinary man seemingly out of his …
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