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  • Madame Bovary: Provincial Manners

    Provincial Manners

    by Gustave Flaubert, Malcolm Bowie, Mark Overstall ...
    Translated by Margaret Mauldon ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    Emma Bovary yearns for a life of luxury and passion of the kind she reads about in romantic novels. But life with her country doctor husband in the provinces is unutterably boring, and she embarks on love affairs to realize her fantasies. This new translation by Margaret Mauldon perfectly captures Flaubert's distinctive style. - ;'Would this misery go on forever? Was there no escape? And yet she ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Madame Bovary : Provincial Manners

    Provincial Manners

    by Gustave Flaubert, Malcolm Bowie, Mark Overstall ...
    Translated by Margaret Mauldon ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'Would this misery go on forever? Was there no escape? And yet she was every bit as good as all those other women who led happy lives!' When Emma Rouault marries Charles Bovary she imagines she will pass into the life of luxury and passion that she reads about in sentimental novels and women's magazines. But Charles is a dull country doctor, and provincial life is very different from the romantic ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Proust Among the Stars

    How To Read Him; Why Read Him?

    by Malcolm Bowie ...
    The first book to address everyone who relishes reading Proust and wants to know more about how his writing works.This is a matchless close reading of a literary masterpiece, In Search of Lost Time, and a lesson in how to read the Great Books profitably and pleasurably.‘Read this excellent book’ Stuart Jeffries, Guardian‘Very refreshing… a splendidly tough-minded and generous introduction’ Gabriel ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • Anna Karenina

    (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

    by Leo Tolstoy ...
    Translated by Richard Pevear, Larissa Volokhonsky ...
    Series series Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition
    The must-have Pevear and Volokhonsky translation of one of the greatest Russian novels ever writtenDescribed by William Faulkner as the best novel ever written and by Fyodor Dostoevsky as “flawless,” Anna Karenina tells of the doomed love affair between the sensuous and rebellious Anna and the dashing officer, Count Vronsky. Tragedy unfolds as Anna rejects her passionless marriage and thereby ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Midnight's Children

    A Novel

    by Salman Rushdie ...
    Series series Modern Library 100 Best Novels
    **The iconic masterpiece of India that introduced the world to “a glittering novelist—one with startling imaginative and intellectual resources, a master of perpetual storytelling” (The New Yorker)WINNER OF THE BEST OF THE BOOKERS • SOON TO BE A NETFLIX ORIGINAL SERIESSelected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time • The fortieth anniversary edition, featuring a new ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Clara: A Novel

    War Could Not Destroy Her Spirit or Lessen Her Love

    by Kurt Palka ...
    Inspired by a true story and based on a wealth of family documents, this elegant and compelling novel chronicles the lives of two families from the 1930s through the coming of the Nazis and World War II, and the long, difficult post-War period to the present. A must-read for fans of Irene Nemirovsky, Hans Fallada, and Bernhard Schlink's The Reader.This vividly realized, masterfully executed novel ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Remains of the Day

    Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature

    by Kazuo Ishiguro ...
    Series series Vintage International
    BOOKER PRIZE WINNER • From the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, here is “an intricate and dazzling novel” (The New York Times) about the perfect butler and his fading, insular world in post-World War II England.This is Kazuo Ishiguro's profoundly compelling portrait of a butler named Stevens. Stevens, at the end of three decades of service at Darlington Hall, spending a day on a country ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • All the Light We Cannot See

    A Novel

    by Anthony Doerr ...
    *NOW A NETFLIX LIMITED SERIES—from producer and director Shawn Levy (Stranger Things) starring Mark Ruffalo, Hugh Laurie, and newcomer Aria Mia Loberti*Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist, the beloved instant New York Times bestseller and New York Times Book Review Top 10 Book about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • Fifty Shades Of Grey

    Book One of the Fifty Shades Trilogy

    by E L James ...
    Series Book 1 - Fifty Shades of Grey Series
    "And in this quiet moment as I close my eyes, spent and sated, I think I'm in the eye of the storm. And in spite of all he's said, and what he hasn't said, I don't think I have ever been so happy."When literature student Anastasia Steele goes to interview young entrepreneur Christian Grey, she encounters a man who is beautiful, brilliant, and intimidating. The unworldly, innocent Ana is startled ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

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  • Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

    by J.K. Rowling ...
    Series Book 1 - Harry Potter
    Turning the envelope over, his hand trembling, Harry saw a purple wax seal bearing a coat of arms; a lion, an eagle, a badger and a snake surrounding a large letter 'H'.Harry Potter has never even heard of Hogwarts when the letters start dropping on the doormat at number four, Privet Drive. Addressed in green ink on yellowish parchment with a purple seal, they are swiftly confiscated by his grisly ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • Monsieur Proust's Library

    by Anka Muhlstein ...
    Reading was so important to Marcel Proust that it sometimes seems he was unable to create a personage without a book in hand. Everybody in his work reads: servants and masters, children and parents, artists and physicians. The more sophisticated characters find it natural to speak in quotations. Proust made literary taste a means of defining personalities and gave literature an actual role to play ... Read more

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  • Dix raisons (possibles) à la tristesse de pensée

    by Pierre-Emmanuel Dauzat, George Steiner ...
    « Si nos processus de pensée étaient moins pressants, moins crus, moins hypnotiques, nos déceptions constantes, la masse grise de la nausée nichée au coeur de l'être, nous désempareraient moins. Les effondrements mentaux, les fuites pathologiques dans l'irréalité, l'inertie du cerveau malade peuvent, au fond, être une tactique contre la déception, contre l'acide de l'espoir frustré. Les ... Read more

    $11.99 USD