The Newspaper of Claremont Street - SIGNED LIMITED EDITION by Elizabeth Jolley
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This is the story of an old cleaning woman--known as "Weekly" or "The Newspaper" to the residents of Claremont Street for whom she works--who dreams of escape from the parasitic demands of both her past and her present. This new edition of a contemporary classic reintroduces this very popular and distin ...Show more
The Mystery of a Hansom Cab: Text Classics by Fergus Hume
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Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Series: Text Classics
Fergus Hume's sensational novel The Mystery of a Hansom Cab is Australia's original blockbuster and international best-selling crime novel. First published in 1886, it was an overnight sensation, selling hundreds of thousands of copies around the world and being translated into eleven languages. Over a ...Show more
Tales of the Convict System - Selected Stories of Price Warung [i.e. W. Astley] by Price Warung; B. G. Andrews (ed)
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Suspended Sentences: Three Novellas by Patrick Modiano
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Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Series: The Margellos World Republic of Letters
In this essential trilogy of novellas by the winner of the 2014 Nobel Prize in Literature, French author Patrick Modiano reaches back in time, opening the corridors of memory and exploring the mysteries to be encountered there. Each novella in the volume--Afterimage, Suspended Sentences, and Flowers of ...Show more
Cain by José Saramago
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The last novel by Nobel Prize-winner José Saramago, Cain daringly reimagines the characters and narratives of the Old Testament. Saramago's tale runs from the Garden of Eden, when God realizes he has forgotten to give Adam and Eve the gift of speech, to the moment when Noah's Ark lands on the dry peak o ...Show more
The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrun by J. R. R. Tolkien
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The world first publication of a previously unknown work by J.R.R. Tolkien, which tells the epic story of the Norse hero, Sigurd, the dragon-slayer, the revenge of his wife, Gudrún, and the Fall of the Nibelungs. "Many years ago, J.R.R. Tolkien composed his own version, now published for the first time, ...Show more
Broken Columns - Two Roman Epic Fragments: The Achilleid of Publius Papinius Statius and the Rape of Proserpine of Claudius Claudianus by David R. Slavitt (Editor); David Konstan (Contribution by)
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There is more to classical literature than just the classics. Here David Slavitt expands the canon by presenting vivid, graceful, and amusing translations of two neglected fragmentary works of Latin literature. The first is Publius Papinius Statius's first-century epic Achilleid, an extraordinary fusion ...Show more
Tarzan of the Apes & Other Tales by Edgar Rice Burroughs
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This volume contains 'Tarzan of the Apes', 'The Return of Tarzan', 'The Beasts of Tarzan', 'The Son of Tarzan', 'Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar' and 'Jungle Tales of Tarzan' Abandoned to his fate when his English parents die in the African jungle, a baby boy is rescued and reared by a loving ape foster m ...Show more
The Illustrated Still Glides the Stream by Flora Thompson
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A Month of Sundays by John Updike
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In this brilliant novel, John Updike has created one of his most memorable characters: the Reverend Tom Marshfield -- literate, charming, sexual -- whose outrageous behavior with the ladies of his flock scandalizes his parish.... "From the Trade Paperback edition."