Hollywood by Charles Bukowski; Howard Sounes (Introduction by)
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Category: International Classics | Series: Canons Ser.
'What will you do?' 'Oh, hell, I'll write a novel about writing the screenplay and making the movie.' 'What are you going to call it?' 'Hollywood.' Henry Chinaski has a penchant for booze, women and horse-racing. On his precarious journey from poet to screenwriter he encounters a host of well-known star ...Show more
Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell
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Category: International Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
"A crucially important book." - The Guardian "One of Orwell's very best books and perhaps the best book that exists on the Spanish Civil War." - The New Yorker Homage to Catalonia is George Orwell's brutally honest account of his experience as a militiaman during the Spanish Civil War. In the last d ...Show more
Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell
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Category: International Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic Socialism as I understand it'. Thus wrote Orwell following his experiences as a militiaman in the Spanish Civil War, chronicled in Homage to Catalonia. Here he ...Show more
How The West Was Won (Louis L'amour's Lost Treasures) by L'amour Louis
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Category: International Classics | Series: Louis l'Amour's Lost Treasures Ser.
As part of the Louis L'Amour's Lost Treasures series, this edition contains exclusive bonus materials They came by river and by wagon train, braving the endless distances of the Great Plains and the icy passes of the Sierra Nevada. They were men like Linus Rawlings, a restless survivor of Indian co ...Show more
IDIOT THE by DOSTOYEVSKY FYDOR
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Category: International Classics | Series: Signet Classics (Paperback)
A classic by a Russian master Prince Myshkin, the idiot, is an almost comically innocent Christ figure in a land of sinners, one whose faith in beauty contrasts sharply with that of his society's.
Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Category: International Classics | Series: Evergreens Ser. | Reading Level: good
The Idiot is a novel by the 19th-century Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky. It was first published serially in the journal The Russian Messenger in 1868-9. The title is an ironic reference to the central character of the novel, Prince a young man whose goodness and open-hearted simplicity lead many of th ...Show more
If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin
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Category: International Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
In this honest and stunning novel, soon to be a major motion picture directed by Barry Jenkins, James Baldwin has given America a moving story of love in the face of injustice. Told through the eyes of Tish, a nineteen-year-old girl, in love with Fonny, a young sculptor who is the father of her child, B ...Show more
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
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Category: International Classics | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: very good
Truman Capote's masterpiece, In Cold Blood, created a sensation when it was first published, serially, in The New Yorker in 1965. The intensively researched, atmospheric narrative of the lives of the Clutter family of Holcomb, Kansas, and of the two men, Richard Eugene Hickock and Perry Edward Smith, wh ...Show more
Inventions, Researches and Writings of Nikola Tesla (Barnes & Noble Leatherbound Classics) by Nikola Tesla; Thomas Commerford Martin (Editor)
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Category: International Classics | Series: Barnes and Noble Leatherbound Classic Collection
The Inventions, Researches and Writings of Nikola Tesla is the definitive record of the pioneering work of one of the modern world's most groundbreaking inventors. During the early twentieth century, Tesla blazed the trail that electrical technology followed for decades afterward. Although he pioneered ...Show more
Irish Ghost Stories (Macmillan Collector's Library) by David Stuart Davies
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Category: International Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Designed to appeal to the book lover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautifully bound pocket-sized gift editions of much loved classic titles. Bound in real cloth, printed on high quality paper, and featuring ribbon markers and gilt edges, Macmillan Collector's Library are books to lo ...Show more
Jane Austen Seven Novels: (Omnibus Edition) by Jane Austen
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Category: International Classics | Series: Barnes and Noble Leatherbound Classic Collection
In a publishing career that spanned less than a decade, Jane Austen revolutionised the literary romance, using it as a stage from which to address issues of gender politics and class-consciousness rarely expressed in her day. The novels included in this beautiful leatherbound collection — Sense and Sen ...Show more
Jane Eyre: A Retelling (Barrington Stoke) by Tanya Landman
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Category: International Classics | Series: Classic Retellings
Orphaned as a child, tormented by her guardian and cast out to a harsh boarding school, Jane Eyre has been raised in the shadow of cruelty and isolation. But when she takes a job as governess in Thornfield Hall, where secrets lurk in the attic and strange laughter echoes through the night, Jane meets th ...Show more