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As Malcolm Cowley says in his introduction, the first edition of Leaves of Grass `might be called the buried masterpiece of American writing`, for it exhibits `Whitman at his best, Whitman at his freshest in vision and boldest in language,...

Leo Percepied, aspiring writer and self-styled free-wheeling bum, gravitates to the subterraneans, impoverished intellectuals who haunt the bars of San Francisco. One of them is Mardou Fox, part Negro, part Cherokee, beautiful and a little crazy,...

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In the vaulted Gothic towers of Notre-Dame lives Quasimodo, the hunchbacked bellringer. Mocked and shunned for his appearance, he is pitied only by Esmerelda, a beautiful gypsy dancer to whom he becomes completely devoted. Esmerelda, however, has...

As Cold War hysteria inflames America, FBI agents pay a surprise visit to a Communist man and his wife in their New York apartment. After a trial that divides the country, the couple are sent to the electric chair for treason. Decades later, in...

Fifteen-year-old Pamela Andrews, alone and unprotected, is relentlessly pursued by her dead...

A novel of immeasurable richness, filled with adventures, ironies, and wonderfully drawn characters, all conveyed with Twain`s mastery of humor and language, Huckleberry Finn is often regarded as the masterpiece of American...

The Rainbow (1915) chronicles the lives of three generations of the Brangwen family over a period of more than 60 years, setting them against the emergence of modern England. The central figure of Ursula becomes the focus of Lawrence`s examination...

In 1960, when he was almost sixty years old, John Steinbeck set out to rediscover his native land. He felt that he might have lost touch with its sights, sounds and the essence of its people.Accompanied only by his dog, Charley, he travelled all...

A brainwashed James Bond has tried - and failed - to assassinate M, his boss. Now Bond has to prove he is back on form and can be trusted again. All 007 has to do is kill one of the most deadly freelance hit men in the world: Paco Pistols...

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Bond is sent to a casino in Royale-les-Eaux to disgrace the lethal Russian...

A chance acquaintance brings together the prosperous bourgeois Wilcox family and the clever, cultured, and idealistic Schlegel sisters. As clear-eyed Margaret develops a friendship with Mrs. Wilcox, the impetuous Helen brings into thier midst a...

Raju`s first stop after his release from prison is the barber`s shop. Then he decides to take refuge in an abandoned temple. Raju used to be India`s most corrupt tourist guide - but now a peasant mistakes him for a holy man. Gradually,...

`We need London`s mythical wolf almost as much as we need the wildernesses of the world, for without such ghost-animals from the depths of the human subconscious we are alone with ourselves` - from the introduction. This volume of the best of...

This collection of new translations brings together the small proportion of Kafka`s works that he thought worthy of publication. It includes Metamorphosis, his most famous work, an exploration of horrific transformation and alienation Meditation,...

Controversy has surrounded Pericles for centuries, due to the fact that critics and editors have argued that much of the play was written between 1607 and 1608 by one of Shakespeare`s inferior collaborators, and that it shows in both its style...

The Way by...

M looked coldly across the desk. It was going to be dirty work and Bond, because he belonged to the Double 0 section, had been chosen for it. You`ve got to kill this sniper. And you`ve got to kill him before he gets Agent 272. Is that understood So,...

In need of money, the fat and foolish Falstaff devises a scheme to seduce two married women and steal their husbands` wealth. By talking to each other, however, the wives soon discover his plan and begin to plot their own revenge....