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Author
Series
Everyman's library volume 327
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Collects three of the author's novels, all inspired by the tragedies faced by the Igbo people during the European colonization of Africa.
Author
Series
Everyman's library volume 251
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
Stories provide an ironic viewpoint on life in nineteenth-century Russia.
Author
Series
Everyman's library volume 307
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
A compilation of works by one of the most popular writers of American, hard-boiled crime fiction features the tough, antihero detective, the Continental Op, who narrates four linked stories and the novel, "The Dain Curse."
Author
Series
Everyman's library volume no. 380
Publisher
Everyman's Library
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Marguerite Duras was one of the leading intellectuals and novelist of post-war France, but her wartime writings were not published in full until after her death. The Wartime Notebooks trace Duras's formative experiences - including her difficult childhood in Indochina and her harrowing wait for her husband's return from Nazi internment - revealing the personal history behind her bestselling novels. The Lover is the best known of these; set in pre-war...
Author
Series
Everyman's library volume 305
Publisher
Everyman's Library
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
1992.
Language
English
Description
The spirit of satire flourished during the Enlightenment as in no other period, and the crowning achievement of that caustic, brilliantly learned age was Voltaire's Candide, published in 1759, at the height of its author's enormous European fame. Following the worldwide encounters - with shipwrecks, earthquakes, pestilence, and human insanity - of its hero and his incomparably absurd tutor, Dr. Pangloss, Candide is the most entertaining of all philosophical...
Author
Series
Everyman's library volume 329
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
In three classic works, a time traveler finds a strange new world in the year 802,700; a scientist attempts to fulfill his evil desires after becoming invisible; and an astronomer fights for survival after Martians invade Earth.