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A Dance to the Music of Time

by Anthony Powell

"Movement 2. The rumble of distant events in Germany and Spain presages the storm of WWII. In England, even as the whirl of marriages and …
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The Rainbow

 

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The Leopard

by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

A classic of modern fiction. Set in the 1860s, THE LEOPARD is the spellbinding story of a decadent, dying Sicilian aristocracy threatened by the approaching …
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Under the Volcano

by Malcolm Lowry

Set in tropical Mexico, this is the story of a man's obsessive need to drink himself to death.
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To the Lighthouse

by Virginia Woolf

The novel that established Virginia Woolf as a leading writer of the twentieth century, To the Lighthouse is made up of three powerfully charged visions …
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The Magus

by John Fowles

The Magus is the story of Nicholas Urfe, a young Englishman who accepts a teaching assignment on a remote Greek island. There his friendship with …
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Blood Meridian

by Cormac McCarthy

25th ANNIVERSARY EDITION • From the bestselling author of The Passenger and the Pulitzer Prize–winning novel The Road: an epic novel of the violence and …
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The Untouchable

by John Banville

WINNER OF THE LANNAN LITERARY AWARD FOR FICTION • From the Booker Prize-winning author of The Sea comes the fascinating story of a former British …