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The Fortress by Meša Selimović
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsA novel on 18th century Sarajevo under Ottoman rule, featuring a soldier returned from the wars. A Muslim, he marries a Christian girl who supports him while he dabbles in politics, eventually leading a raid to rescue a friend from jail... -
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আরণ্যক by Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 16 ratings'Aranyak' is a simple and uncomplicated story. The protagonist Satyacharan has gone to an estate in Bhagalpur after getting a job of a manager. Initially his urban lifestyle might have revolted against the lonely jungle life but gradually nature hypnotized Satyacharan. Gradually he can not even resist a moment's absence from the forest... -
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Ponniyin Selvan - The Crown by Kalki
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe fourth part in the series Ponniyin Selvan, recounts the incidents when crown prince Aditha Karikalan leaves Kanchi inspite of Malayamans efforts to prevent him from doing so. For Aditha Karikalan now, there is no turning back.. -
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Gone with the Wind, Part 2 of 2 by John Escott, Margaret Mitchell
Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsIn Part 2, the American South has lost the Civil War. Scarlett O'Hara has to work hard to build up her life again, but she has no money. The handsome Rhett Butler is rich, but he is soon to be hanged for murder. Then there is Ashley Wilkes. He is married now, but Scarlett still loves him...Categorized as:
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Austen: Persuasion by Judy Simons
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsA study guide for the novel Persuasion... -
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O Continente - Volume I by Erico Verissimo
Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsA vast sprawling period novel of the minor wars that wracked Brazil from the days when its European masters gambled with their colonists' affairs to the Civil Wars which turned family against family and set Republicans and Federalists at each others throats. Backgrounded by these wars, the story follows the history of the Terra-Cambaras, during 150 years, in the southern part of Brazil. The men . -
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Time of Parting by Anton Donchev
Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIn the 17th century, a Bulgarian Christian region is selected by the Ottoman rulers to serve as an example of conversion to Islam. A Janissary who was taken from the village as a boy is sent to force the reluctant inhabitants to convert. The local Turkish governor seeks a peaceful solution, but ultimately torture, violence, and rebellion break out... -
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Three Poems: Host and Guest / Aluda Ketelauri / The Snake-Eater by Vazha-Pshavela
Rated: 4.70 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsVazha Pshavela (1861-1915) is considered one of the great poets in the fifteen-centuried Georgian literature. The three poems represented in the book are the most distinguished works of the poet... -
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The Complete Short Novels by Anton Chekhov
Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars · 36 ratingsAnton Chekhov, widely hailed as the supreme master of the short story, also wrote five works long enough to be called short novels. Here, brought together in one volume for the first time, in a masterly new translation by the award-winning translators Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky... -
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Los pilares de la Tierra by Ken Follett
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsEl gran maestro de las novelas de acción y de suspense lleva al lector a la Edad Media para sumirlo en un fascinante mundo con reyes, damas, caballeros, pugnas feudales, castillos y ciudades amuralladas. El amor y la muerte se entrecruzan constantemente en este magistral tapiz que tiene como centro la construcción de una catedral gótica... -
![Les Miserables: Sheet Music by Claude-Michael Schonberg, Alain Boublil]()
Les Miserables: Sheet Music by Claude-Michael Schonberg, Alain Boublil
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsPiano duet arrangements of eight beautiful favorites from Les Mis: Bring Him Home * Castle on a Cloud * Do You Hear the People Sing? * A Heart Full of Love * I Dreamed a Dream * In My Life * On My Own * Stars... -
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ಆವರಣ [Aavarana] by S.L. Bhyrappa, ಎಸ್.ಎಲ್. ಭೈರಪ್ಪ
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsAavarana (Kannada: ಆವರಣ) is a 2007 Kannada novel by one of the eminent novelists S.L. Bhyrappa. Aavarana means enveloping or covering something. This novel deals with the historical period in Indian history when the Mogul Emperor Aurangzeb ruled most part of India. Aavarana was sold out even before its release in February 2007... -
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Осъдени души by Dimitar Dimov, Димитър Димов
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The Complete Sonnets and Poems by William Shakespeare
Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThis is the only fully annotated and modernized edition to bring together Shakespeare's sonnets as well as all his poems (including those attributed to him after his death) in one volume. A full introduction discusses his development as a poet, and how the poems relate to the plays, and detailed notes explain the language and allusions... -
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Hellados by Nodar Dumbadze
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsHellados von Nodar Dumbadze erzählt über die Geschichte von zwei Teenagern aus Abchasien – Djemal und Ianguli. Als Djemal von Tiflis nach Suchumi zur Verwandtschaft umzieht, wird er mit dem Häuptling des Stadtviertels, dem griechischen Jungen Ianguli, konfrontiert. Ihre Beziehung, die am Anfang voll von Brüskierungen war, entwickelt sich langsam zur starken Freundschaft... -
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Żelazny kaganek by Димитър Талев
Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars · 19 ratingsPowieść przedstawia losy macedońskiego rodu Głauszewów. Akcja powieści rozpoczyna się w połowie lat 30. XIX w. Stojan Głauszew, zabiwszy psa, który należał do lokalnego wielmoży tureckiego, w obawie przed jego gniewem decyduje się na ucieczkę ze wsi. Osiada w pobliskim mieście Prespa, gdzie poznaje Sułtanę, kobietę zaradną, silną i energiczną... -
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Znachor by Tadeusz Dołęga-Mostowicz
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 14 ratings"Znachor" is a one of the best novels written by Tadeusz Dołęga-Mostowicz. It has been published in 1937... -
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ثلاثية غرناطة by Radwa Ashour, رضوى عاشور
Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsثلاثية غرناطة هي ثلاثية روائية تتكون من ثلاث روايات للكاتبة المصرية رضوى عاشور و هم على التوالي: غرناطة - مريمة - الرحيل... -
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Short Stories by Anton Chekhov
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe thirty-four stories in this volume span Chekhov's creative career. They present a wide spectrum of comic and serious themes and a variety of techniques. (His short novels, available in another Norton volume, Seven Short Novels by Chekhov, have been omitted... -
![Gaban by Munshi Premchand]()
Gaban by Munshi Premchand
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsGaban, first published in 1931, five years before Premchard's death, is the story of Ramanath, a morally weak but physically charming youth brought to near-disaster by his beautiful wife Jalpa's inordinate craving for jewelry. This is a felicitous translation by Christopher R King and will enable many readers to appreciate Premchand's important novel, available for the first time in English... -
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Four Classic Novels by Jane Austen
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe complete novels of Jane Austen's Pride & Prejudice, Sense & Sensibility, Emma and Persuasion in one large, brand new and giftable hardcover with perfect dj... -
![Fear by Anatoli Rybakov]()
Fear by Anatoli Rybakov
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsFrom Publishers WeeklyIn this sequel to his international bestseller Children of the Arbat , Rybakov picks up the story of Sasha Pankratov and his friends from Moscow's fashionable Arbat district as Josef Stalin launches the reign of terror that saw millions of Soviet citizens arrested, exiled or shot for counterrevolutionary activities... -
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![Four Novels: Great Expectations / Hard Times / A Christmas Carol / A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens]()
Four Novels: Great Expectations / Hard Times / A Christmas Carol / A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsSuperb collection of Dickens' best, includes five of his major novels. The Pickwick Papers, The Adventures of Oliver Twist, David Copperfield, Great Expectations, and Tale of Two Cities. 1114 pages... -
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![Αιολική γη by Ilias Venezis]()
Αιολική γη by Ilias Venezis
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratings"Η Αιολική γη γράφεται μέσα στα δύσκολα χρόνια της Κατοχής, σε μια περίοδο δηλαδή ανάπηρης ελευθερίας, ανυπέρβλητων δυσκολιών και ευτελισμού της ανθρώπινης ζωής... -
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Today I Wrote Nothing: The Selected Writings by Daniil Kharms, Matvei Yankelevich
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsDaniil Kharms has long been heralded as one of the most iconoclastic writers of the Soviet era, but the full breadth of his achievement is only in recent years, following the opening of Kharms' archives, being recognized internationally... -
![Marble Dance by Lygia Fagundes Telles]()
Marble Dance by Lygia Fagundes Telles
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThis haunting psychological portrait of three sisters--Virginia, Octavia, and Bruna--explores the pleasures and torments of sexuality in the world of the wealthy Brazilian... -
![The Plays of Anton Chekhov by Anton Chekhov]()
The Plays of Anton Chekhov by Anton Chekhov
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsEnglish translations of Chekhov's classic plays by a Russian-language scholar who is also a veteran Chekhovian actor... -
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Bomarzo by Manuel Mujica Lainez
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAs sumptuous, dazzling, corrupt and gorgeous as the 16th-century Italian Renaissance in which it is set, Bomarzo is the story of Pier Francesco Orsini, the hunchbacked, ruthless, but vulnerable Duke of Bomarzo, ancient fortress in the mountains outside Rome... -
![Of Time and the River: A Legend of Man's Hunger in His Youth by Thomas Wolfe]()
Of Time and the River: A Legend of Man's Hunger in His Youth by Thomas Wolfe
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThe sequel to Thomas Wolfe's remarkable first novel, Look Homeward, Angel, Of Time and the River is one of the great classics of American literature. The book chronicles the maturing of Wolfe's autobiographical character, Eugene Gant, in his desperate search for fulfillment, making his way from small-town North Carolina to the wider world of Harvard University, New York City, and Europe... -
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Charlie by Lesley Pearse
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsCould you find the strength to save your family? Can young Charlie find the strength to save her family? One glorious summer's day, sixteen-year-old Charlie Welsh has her privileged childhood brought to an abrupt and terrifying end when she witnesses her mother being brutally attacked in her own garden by two strangers... -
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Mayombe by Pepetela
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsPepetela's novel is a fascinating study of the tensions produced by racism, tribalism, and sexual morals... -
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Adam și Eva by Liviu Rebreanu
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 18 ratings„Adevaratul, pretiosul modernism inseamna ravna de-a produce valori estetice imbracate in spiritul timpului, dar cu un nivel mai inalt decat al epocii precedente.” Liviu Rebreanu (1885 - 1944) Cu „Adam si Eva”, aparut in 1925, Liviu Rebreanu se afla la al treilea roman, dupa „Ion” (1920) si „Padurea spanzuratilor” (1922)... -
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Her Benny by Silas Kitto Hocking
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThis book is a little gem. It was first published in 1880 by a Cornish Minister who upped sticks to bang his drum up in the 'grim North', ( including 3 years in Liverpool, which is where this story is primarily set )... -
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Love is Just a Word by Johannes Mario Simmel, Йоханес Марио Зимел
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThis is the story of Oliver and Verena, who fall in love and risk everything to keep each other.He is the son of a notorious German industrialist. She is the voluptuous, indiscreet wife of a wealthy and ruthless businessman.Apart they have been two lonely people. Half alive. Together, they are radiant... -
![The Genius by Theodore Dreiser]()
The Genius by Theodore Dreiser
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsTheodore Dreiser heavily invested himself in The Genius, an autobiographical novel first published in 1915. Thoroughly immersed in the turn-of-the-century art scene, The Genius explores the multiple conflicts between art and business, art and marriage, and between traditional and modern views of sexual morality... -
![Manto: Selected Stories by Saadat Hasan Manto]()
Manto: Selected Stories by Saadat Hasan Manto
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratings...Categorized as:
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Amok and Other Stories by Stefan Zweig
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsA doctor in the Dutch East Indies torn between his medical duty to help and his own mixed emotions; a middle-aged maidservant whose devotion to her master leads her to commit a terrible act; a hotel waiter whose love for an unapproachable aristocratic beauty culminates in an almost lyrical death, and a prisoner-of-war longing to be home again in Russia... -
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Lord Byron: The Major Works by Lord Byron
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsByron is regarded today as the ultimate Romantic, whose name has entered the language to describe a man of brooding passion. Although his private life shocked his contemporaries his poetry was immensely popular and influential, especially in Europe... -
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கடல் புறா [Kadal Pura] 1 by Sandilyan
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsகடல் புறா எழுத்தாளர் சாண்டில்யன் அவர்களால் எழுதப்பட்ட ஒரு வரலாற்றுப் புதினம். சிறீ விசய நாட்டில் இருந்து சோழர் உதவி தேடி இளவரசருக்கும் அவரது மகளுக்கும் சோழ இளவரசரான அநபாயரும் அவரது படைத்தலைவரான கருணாகர பல்லவனும் அவர்களுக்கு உதவுவது கதையின் ஒரு பகுதியாகும். இம்முயற்சிக்கு அநபாயரின் தோழரான அமீர் என்ற அராபியரும் அவரது ஆசானாகிய அகூதா என்ற சீனரும் உதவுகின்றனர்... -
![The Essential Plays by Anton Chekhov]()
The Essential Plays by Anton Chekhov
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsBecause Chekhov’s plays convey the universally recognizable, sometimes comic, sometimes dramatic, frustrations of decent people trying to make sense of their lives, they remain as fresh and vigorous as when they were written a century ago... -
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The Norton Anthology of American Literature by Robert S. Levine, Wayne Franklin
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe Norton Anthology of American Literature, Shorter Eighth Edition, features a diverse and balanced variety of works and thorough but judicious editorial apparatus throughout. The new edition, which also newly includes much-requested authors and selections and 130 in-text images, remains an unmatched value for students...Categorized as:
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Scarecrow by Владимир Железников
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsTwelve-year-old Lena comes to live with her eccentric grandfather in a small Russian town and finds herself mocked and persecuted by a gang of her classmates at her new school... -
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![The Major Works by Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Sloan]()
The Major Works by Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Sloan
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsPercy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) was a Romantic poet of radical imaginings, living in an age of change. His tempestuous life and friendship with Byron, and his tragically early death, at times threatened to overwhelm his legacy as a poet, but today his standing as one of the foremost English authors is assured... -
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Agrā rūsa by Elīna Zālīte
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsGalvenās varones Elzas vēstījums meitai ir godīgs, atklāts un dziļi emocionāls jaunas sievietes “vieglās laimes” atspoguļojums. Gan grāmatā, gan latviešu mākslas filmā “Agrā rūsa” (G. Cilinska režijā) Elzas, Ķikuļa kunga, Straujupa, Italo, sabiedrības dažādu sociālo slāņu morāle un rīcība atklājas īpaši spilgti... -
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The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Vol. D: The Romantic Period by M.H. Abrams, Stephen Greenblatt
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsFirmly grounded by the hallmark strengths of all Norton Anthologies thorough and helpful introductory matter, judicious annotation, complete texts wherever possible The Norton Anthology of English Literature has been revitalized in this Eighth Edition through the collaboration between six new editors and six seasoned ones... -
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Fiela's Child by Dalene Matthee
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsSet in nineteenth-century rural Africa, Fiela's Child tells the gripping story of Fiela Komoetie and a white, three-year old child, Benjamin, whom she finds crying on her doorstep. For nine years Fiela raises Benjamin as one of her own children. But when census takers discover Benjamin, they send him to an illiterate white family of woodcutters who claim him as their son... -
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The Brothers by Milton Hatoum, John Gledson
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIntroducing a major new voice in Brazilian letters.Set among a Lebanese immigrant community in the Brazilian port of Manaus, The Brothers is the story of identical twins, Yaqub and Omar, whose mutual jealousy is offset only by their love for their mother... -
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Captain's Daughter and Other Stories by Alexander Pushkin
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIntroduction by John Bayley; Translation by Natalie...
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