Now in November by Josephine Johnson

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Category: Classics

Now in November I can see our years as a whole. This autumn is like both an end and a beginning to our lives, and those days which seemed confused with the blur of all things too near and too familiar are clear and strange now. Forced out of the city by the Depression, Arnold Haldmarne moves his wife an d three daughters to the country and tries to scratch a living from the land. After years of unrelenting hard work, the hiring of a young man from a neighbouring farm upsets the fragile balance of their lives. And in the summer, the rains fail to come. ...Show more

Nutcracker by Alexandre Dumas

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Category: Classics | Series: Barnes and Noble Leatherbound Pocket Editions Ser.

The Diving-Bell and the Butterfly (4th Estate Matchbook Classics) by Jean-Dominique Bauby

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Category: Classics | Series: 4th Estate Matchbook Classics Ser.

One of the most remarkable memoirs ever written. One of the ten books - novels, memoirs and one very unusual biography - that make up our Matchbook Classics' series, a stunningly redesigned collection of some of the best loved titles on our backlist. In December 1995, Jean-Dominique Bauby, editor-in-chi ef of French Elle and the father of two young children, suffered a massive stroke and found himself paralysed and speechless. But his mind remained as active and alert as it had ever been. Using his only functioning muscle - his left eyelid - he was determined to tell his remarkable story, painstakingly spelling it out letter by letter. The Diving-Bell and the Butterfly records Bauby's lonely existence but also the ability to invent a life for oneself in the most appalling of circumstances. It one of the most extraordinary books about the triumph of the human spirit ever written. ...Show more

Empire of the Sun (4th Estate Matchbook Classics) by J. G. Ballard

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Category: Classics | Series: 4th Estate Matchbook Classics Ser.

The classic, heartrending story of a British boy's four year ordeal in a Japanese prison camp. One of the ten books - novels, memoirs and one very unusual biography - that make up our Matchbook Classics' series, a stunningly redesigned collection of some of the best loved titles on our backlist. Based o n J. G. Ballard's own childhood, this is the extraordinary account of a boy's life in Japanese-occupied wartime Shanghai - a mesmerising, hypnotically compelling novel of war, of starvation and survival, of internment camps and death marches. It blends searing honesty with an almost hallucinatory vision of a world thrown utterly out of joint. Rooted as it is in the author's own disturbing experience of war in our time, it is one of a handful of novels by which the twentieth century will be not only remembered, but judged. ...Show more

Catch-22 (TVTI) by Joseph Heller

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Category: Classics

HEDLEY THOMAS: (Investigative journalist, creator of the podcast 'Teacher's Pet' & friend of Bookoccino) "A classic I somehow failed to read until this year, but inspired by George Clooney’s TV series I took the plunge and was soon having many spontaneous laugh-out-loud moments. Incredibly fu nny with its biting satire on war and military service, irreverent, sad and somehow uplifting."   Yossarian, a Bombardier in the US Air Force, is frantic and furious because thousands of people he has never met are trying to kill him. His real problem is not the enemy - it is his own army which keeps increasing the number of missions the men must fly to complete their service. If Yossarian makes any attempts to excuse himself from the perilous missions then he is caught in Catch-22: if he flies he is crazy, and doesn't have to; but if he doesn't want to he must be sane and has to. That's some catch... ...Show more

The Birds by Tarjei Vesaas

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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.

This is the story of Mattis, a mentally handicapped man who lives with and is cared for by his older sister, Hege. Within their isolated, lakeside existence, Mattis cannot make sense of his tangled thoughts, frightening apparitions, surges of emotion and clever insights. When a travelling lumberjack att racts Hege's affections, the disruption is too much for Mattis to bear. This Norwegian masterpiece sensitively captures the mystic command of the natural world, the prison of unfulfilled time and the fragility of the human mind. The narrative is sparse, poetic and contemplative with an ending that crescendos into heartbreak. ...Show more

Claudine in Paris (Claudine #2) by Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette

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Category: Classics | Series: Vintage classics

Claudine is in despair, having left her beloved Montigny for a new life in Paris. But her instinctive curiosity gradually leads to an awakened interest in the city. She records her witty observations and adventures amongst the intriguing characters that surround her.

Stoner by John Williams; John McGahern (Introduction by)

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Category: Classics | Reading Level: good

Colum McCann once called Stoner one of the great forgotten novels of the past century, but it seems it is forgotten no longer - in 2013 translations of Stoner began appearing on bestseller lists across Europe. Forty-eight years after its first, quiet publication in the US, Stoner is finally finding the wide and devoted readership it deserves. Have you read it yet? William Stoner enters the University of Missouri at nineteen to study agriculture. A seminar on English literature changes his life, and he never returns to work on his father's farm. Stoner becomes a teacher. He marries the wrong woman. His life is quiet, and after his death his colleagues remember him rarely. Yet with truthfulness, compassion and intense power, this novel uncovers a story of universal value. Stoner tells of the conflicts, defeats and victories of the human race that pass unrecorded by history, and reclaims the significance of an individual life. A reading experience like no other, itself a paean to the power of literature, it is a novel to be savoured. ...Show more

The Way Back by Erich Maria Remarque; Brian Murdoch (Translator)

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Category: Classics

The sequel to All Quiet on the Western Front, one of the most powerful novels of the First World War and a twentieth-century classic. The men who survived the horror of the Western Front endured unimaginable violence and the loss of their innocence - they were the lucky ones. How do they return home? Y oung, spirited Ernst is one. Finding himself inexplicably returned to his childhood bedroom, chafing, restless, he attempts to resurrect his life. If All Quiet on the Western Front was a lament for lost generation, this sequel speaks with the same resonant voice for those who came back. The is a new definitive English translation by expert Remarque-translator Brian Murdoch. 'Remarque is a craftsman of unquestionably first rank'- New York Times Book Review ...Show more

The New Annotated H P Lovecraft V2 Beyond Arkham by H. P. Lovecraft; Leslie S. Klinger (Editor); Alan Moore (Introduction by); Victor LaValle (Introduction by)

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Category: Classics

In 2014, The New Annotated H. P. Lovecraft was published to widespread acclaim-- vaunted as a "treasure trove" (Joyce Carol Oates) for Lovecraft aficionados and general readers, alike. Hailed by Harlon Ellison as an "Olympian landmark of modern gothic literature," the volume included twenty-two of Lovec raft's original stories. Now, in this final volume, best- selling author Leslie S. Klinger reanimates twenty-five additional stories, the balance of Lovecraft's significant fiction, including "Rats in the Wall," a post- World War I story about the terrors of the past, and the newly contextualized "The Horror at Red Hook," which recently has been adapted by best- selling novelist Victor LaValle. In following Lovecraft's own literary trajectory, readers can witness his evolution from Rhode Island critic to prescient literary genius whose titanic influence would only be appreciated decades after his death. Including hundreds of eye- opening annotations and dozens of rare images, Beyond Arkham finally provides the complete picture of Lovecraft's unparalleled achievements in fiction. ...Show more

The Nutcracker and Other Christmas Tales (Barnes and Noble Collectible Editions)

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Category: Classics | Series: Barnes and Noble Leatherbound Classics Ser.

Rumpole of the Bailey by John Mortimer

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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.

Horace Rumpole, the old boy committed to defending the apparently indefensible, trusting of a jury, scornful of the law's pomposities, appears here in a new edition of the 1978 iconic Rumpole debut. This volume collects the much-loved stories 'Rumpole and the Younger Generation', 'Rumpole and the Alter native Society', 'Rumpole and the Honourable Member', 'Rumpole and the Married Lady', 'Rumpole and the Learned Friends' and 'Rumpole and the Heavy Brigade'. ...Show more