Take Up and Read: Summer 2007

Discover the best books of summer 2007 with 'Take Up and Read.' Explore our curated reading list for top picks, must-reads, and literary gems from that sunny season.

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The Man Without Qualities, Vol. 1

by Robert Musil

Set in Vienna on the eve of World War I, this great novel of ideas tells the story of Ulrich, ex-soldier and scientist, seducer and …
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The Man Without Qualities, Vol. 2

by Robert Musil

"Musil belongs in the company of Joyce, Proust, Kafka, and Svevo. . . . (This translation) is a literay and intellectual event of singular importance."--New …
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Mrs. Dalloway

by Virginia Woolf

Mrs. Dalloway is the portrait of a single day in a woman's life.
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Ulysses

by James Joyce

This revised volume of the acclaimed novel follows the complete unabridged text as corrected in 1961. Set entirely on one day, 16 June 1904, Ulysses …
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Zeno's Conscience

by Italo Svevo

Long hailed as a seminal work of modernism in the tradition of Joyce and Kafka, and now available in a supple new English translation, Italo …
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Collected Fictions

by Jorge Luis Borges

For the first time in English, all the fiction by the writer who has been called “the greatest Spanish-language writer of our century” collected in …
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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

by J. K. Rowling

At a time when the forces of evil seem to be gaining the upper hand, Harry comes of age in the wizarding world, and must …
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The Street of Crocodiles

by Bruno Schulz

The Street of Crocodiles in the Polish city of Drogobych is a street of memories and dreams where recollections of Bruno Schulz's uncommon boyhood and …
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Death of Virgil

by Hermann Broch

It is the reign of the Emperor Augustus, and Publius Vergilius Maro, the poet of the Aeneid and Caesar's enchanter, has been summoned to the …
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The Magic Mountain

by Thomas Mann

NOBEL PRIZE WINNER • A monumental work of erudition and irony, sexual tension and intellectual ferment, The Magic Mountain is an enduring classic. With this …