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The Red and the Black (Modern Library Classics)

by Stendhal

Published: 2004-05-11

Paperback: 560 pages

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A Major New TranslationThe Red and the Black, Stendhal’s masterpiece, is the story of Julien Sorel, a young dreamer from the provinces, fueled by Napoleonic ideals, whose desire to make his fortune sets in motion events both mesmerizing and tragic. Sorel’s quest to find himself, and th...

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Think Twice

by Lisa Scottoline

Published: 2014-01-28

Mass Market Paperback: 448 pages

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Is evil born in us?or is it bred? That is the question at the heart of this penetrating novel from blockbuster New York Times bestselling author Lisa ScottolineBennie Rosato looks exactly like her identical twin, Alice Connelly, but the darkness in Alice's soul makes them two very differen...

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The Water's Edge (Inspector Sejer Mysteries)

by Karin Fossum

Published: 2010-08-11

Paperback: 227 pages

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Reinhardt and Kristine Ris, a married couple, are out for a Sunday walk when they discover the body of a boy and see the figure of a man limping away. They alert the police, but not before Reinhardt, to Kristine’s horror, kneels down and takes photographs of the dead child with his cell ...

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The Plague (Penguin Modern Classics)

by Albert Camus

Published: 2008-04-01

Paperback: 0 pages

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The Plague is Albert Camus' world-renowned fable of fear and courage. The townspeople of Oran are in the grip of a deadly plague, which condemns its victims to a swift and horrifying death. Fear, isolation and claustrophobia follow as they are forced into quarantine. Each person responds in their own...

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Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family

by Thomas Mann

Published: 1994-06-28

Paperback: 731 pages

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A Major Literary Event: a brilliant new translation of Thomas Mann's first great novel, one of the two for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature in 1929.Buddenbrooks, first published in Germany in 1900, when Mann was only twenty-five, has become a classic of modem literature -...

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The Castle (Oxford World's Classics)

by Franz Kafka

Published: 2009-07-26

Paperback: 336 pages

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Kafka's last novel, The Castle is set in a remote village covered almost permanently in snow and dominated by a castle and its staff of dictatorial, sexually predatory bureaucrats. The novel breaks new ground in exploring the relation between the individual and power, asking why the villag...

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The Betrothed: I Promessi Sposi (Penguin Classics)

by Alessandro Manzoni

Published: 1984-03-06

Paperback: 720 pages

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Set in Lombardy during the Spanish occupation of the late 1620s, The Betrothed tells the story of two young lovers, Renzo and Lucia, prevented from marrying by the petty tyrant Don Rodrigo, who desires Lucia for himself. Forced to flee, they are then cruelly separated, and must face many dangers including...

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The House by the Medlar Tree

by Giovanni Verga

Published: 1984-03-02

Paperback: 275 pages

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Giovanni Verga (1840-1922) is the most important of the Italian Realist School of novelists. This new edition of The House by the Medlar Tree (I Malavoglia) makes the complete English version of his masterpiece available once more. The story of the Malavoglia, a family of poor Sicilian fis...

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To Each His Own (New York Review Books Classics)

by Leonardo Sciascia

Published: 2000-10-31

Paperback: 176 pages

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This letter is your death sentence. To avenge what you have done you will die. But what has Manno the pharmacist done? Nothing that he can think of. The next day he and his hunting companion are both dead.The police investigation is inconclusive. However, a modest high school teacher with ...

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Robinson Crusoe (Collins Classics)

by Daniel Defoe

Published: 2010-04-01

Paperback: 304 pages

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HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'It happen'd one Day about Noon going towards my Boat, I was exceedingly surpriz'd with the Print of a Man's naked Foot on the Shore.' Shipwrecked in a storm at sea, Robinson Crusoe is washed...