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What do readers say about We Have Always Lived in the Castle?
weird and macabre lyrical and descriptive psychological horror novel a bewitching novelWinner of the 2016 AIGA + Design Observer 50 Books | 50 Covers competition
We Have Always Lived in the Castle
Taking readers deep into a labyrinth of dark neurosis, We Have Always Lived in the Castle is perhaps the crowning achievement of Shirley Ja... More details on We Have Always Lived in the Castle
My name is Mary Katherine Blackwood. I am eighteen years old, and I live with my sister Constance. I have often thought that with any luck at all I could have been born a werewolf, because the two mid...
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What do readers say about Of Mice and Men?
straightforward but poetic beautiful, tragic story a stage play primitive, minimal, and sparseThis classic novel tells the tale of an unusual friendship between two very different men: the mentally challenged and sometimes violent Lennie, and his loyal yet reluctant caretaker George. Finding comfort in one another's company, George and Lennie... More details on Of Mice and Men
A FEW MILES south of Soledad, the Salinas River drops in close to the hillside bank and runs deep and green. The water is warm too, for it has slipped twinkling over the yellow sands in the sunlight b...
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What do readers say about The Yellow Wallpaper?
sharp, modern, intense writing another creepy novel nineteenth century gothic fiction early feminist literatureTHE YELLOW WALL-PAPER is a short story by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, first published in January 1892 in The New England Magazine. It is regarded as an important early work of American feminist literature, illustrating attitudes in the 19th century tow... More details on The Yellow Wallpaper
If a physician of high standing, and one's own husband, assures friends and relatives that there is really nothing the matter with one but temporary nervous depression—a slight hysterical tendency—wha...
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What do readers say about Convenience Store Woman?
concise and clear short and thought-provoking clean, short sentences, refreshing unimaginative and uninsightfulShortlisted for the Best Translated Book Award
Longlisted for the Believer Book Award
Longlisted for the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation
A Los Angeles Times Bestseller... More details on Convenience Store Woman
A convenience store is a world of sound. From the tinkle of the door chime to the voices of TV celebrities advertising new products over the in-store cable network, to the calls of the store workers, ...
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What do readers say about To Be Taught, If Fortunate?
devastating and beautiful stand alone novel narrow first person nothing like wayfarersNational Bestseller!
A Hugo and Locus Award Nominee!
"Extraordinary . . . A future sci-fi masterwork in a new and welcome tradition." - Joanne Harris, author if Chocolat
A stand-alone science fiction novella from the award-winning, bestselling, cr... More details on To Be Taught, If Fortunate
If you read nothing else we’ve sent home, please at least read this. I ask knowing full well that this request is antithetical to what I believe in my heart of hearts. Our mission reports contain our ...
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What do readers say about The Uncommon Reader?
light and witty sparkling and funny short and sweet wry sense of humorFrom one of England's most celebrated writers, a funny and superbly observed novella about the Queen of England and the subversive power of reading
When her corgis stray into a mobile library parked near Buckingham Palace, the Queen feels duty-bound ... More details on The Uncommon Reader
At Windsor it was the evening of the state banquet and as the president of France took his place beside Her Majesty, the royal family formed up behind and the procession slowly moved off and through i...
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What do readers say about The Vegetarian?
dark and brutal dark, joyless novel purity and simplicity dark and unsettlingWinner of the 2016 Man Booker International Prize
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times Book Review
Publisher's Weekly
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The deep oxblood curtain fell over the stage. The dancers waved their hands so vigorously the whole row became a blur of movement, with individual figures impossible to make out. Though the applause w...
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What do readers say about Death in Venice?
very deep story tedious and overblown creepy and depressing strange, creepy little novelEight complex stories illustrative of the author's belief that "a story must tell itself," highlighted by the high art style of the famous title novella.... More details on Death in Venice
GUSTAV ASCHENBACH (or von Aschenbach, as his name read officially since his fiftieth birthday), on a spring afternoon of that year 19—which for months posed such a threat to our continent, had left hi...
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What do readers say about One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich?
sharp, quick, and biting very short, but great shorter but very punchy true narrative formForeshadowing his later detailed accounts of the Soviet prison-camp system, Solzhenitsyn's classic portrayal of life in the gulag is all the more powerful for being slighter and more personal than those later monumental volumes. Continuing the tradit... More details on One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
THE HAMMER BANGED reveille on the rail outside camp HQ at five o’clock as always. Time to get up. The ragged noise was muffled by ice two fingers thick on the windows and soon died away. Too cold for ...
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What do readers say about The Invention of Morel?
surrealism meeting magical realism concise and precise a very strange novella short science fictionJorge Luis Borges declared The Invention of Morel a masterpiece of plotting, comparable to The Turn of the Screw and Journey to the Center of the Earth. Set on a mysterious island, Bioy's novella is a story of suspense and exploration, as well as a w... More details on The Invention of Morel
ArOUND 1880 Stevenson noted that the adventure story was regarded as an object of scorn by the British reading public, who believed that the ability to write a novel without a plot, or with an infinit...
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