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Omoo
By Herman Melville. 2007
Melvilles continuing adventures in the South Seasnow for the first time in Penguin Classics Following the commercial and critical success…
of Typee, Herman Melville continued his series of South Sea adventure-romances with Omoo. Named after the Polynesian term for a rover, or someone who roams from island to island, Omoo chronicles the tumultuous events aboard a South Sea whaling vessel and is based on Melvilles personal experiences as a crew member on a ship sailing the Pacific. From recruiting among the natives for sailors to handling deserters and even mutiny, Melville gives a first-person account of life as a sailor during the nineteenth century filled with colorful characters and vivid descriptions of the far-flung locales of Polynesia. .Cannery Row
By John Steinbeck. 2002
Steinbeck's tough yet charming portrait of people on the margins of society, dependant on one another for both physical and…
emotional survival Published in 1945, Cannery Row focuses on the acceptance of life as it is: both the exuberance of community and the loneliness of the individual. Drawing on his memories of the real inhabitants of Monterey, California, including longtime friend Ed Ricketts, Steinbeck interweaves the stories of Doc, Dora, Mack and his boys, Lee Chong, and the other characters in this world where only the fittest survive, to create a novel that is at once one of his most humorous and poignant works. In her introduction, Susan Shillinglaw shows how the novel expresses, both in style and theme, much that is essentially Steinbeck: "scientific detachment, empathy toward the lonely and depressed...and, at the darkest level...the terror of isolation and nothingness."For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.From the Trade Paperback edition.The Hermit And The Wild Woman and Other Stories
By Edith Wharton.
The Secrets of a Fire King
By Kim Edwards. 1997
Young, fiery and bright, Eshlaini has her whole future ahead of her - until her father condemns her to a…
life of spinsterhood. Joyce has settled into Malaysian life after thirty years as an ex-pat wife - or so she thinks, until a newcomer arrives and reveals just how little of her home she knows. Jade Moon wants the best for her family - but, surrounded by Americans who reject her Korean traditions, she must first work out what 'the best' means. Though cultures and distances separate them, their experiences reflect our universal fears and desires. From a breathtaking island off Singapore to upstate New York and France, Kim Edwards takes in the world, compassionately and gracefully exploring the obstacles of time, place and circumstance in all of our quests for love, happiness and acceptance.The Bay of Foxes: A Novel
By Sheila Kohler. 2012
An erotic tale of passion and power and their dangerous consequences In 1978, Dawit, a young, beautiful, and educated Ethiopian…
refugee, roams the streets of Paris. By chance, he spots the famous French author M., who at sixty is at the height of her fame. Seduced by Dawit's grace and his moving story, M. invites him to live with her. He makes himself indispensable, or so he thinks. When M. brings him to her Sardinian villa, beside the Bay of Foxes, Dawit finds love and temptation—and perfects the art of deception.A History of New-York from the Beginning of the World to the End of the Dutch Dyna
By Washington Irving. 2012
All Roads Lead to Calvary
By Jerome K. Jerome.
All Roads Lead to Calvary is a 1919 novel by the British writer Jerome K. Jerome. It was one of…
the last works written by Jerome, better known for his Three Men in a Boat, and shows the influence of the First World War on him. It is a Bildungsroman in which a Cambridge University educated woman Joan Allway becomes a journalist and then a wartime ambulance driver. She encounters various different people, gaining new experiences and confronting many of the moral issues of the day.Mirage
By Anonymous, Patrick Hanan. 2016
First published anonymously in 1804--its author remains unknown--Mirage is set in Guangzhou (Canton), some decades before the city was overwhelmed…
by the opium trade and the Opium War. Su Jishi, the adolescent son of the head of the Chinese traders' association, the men licensed to deal with foreign merchants in the port, is suddenly burdened with responsibility for his powerful family after his father's unexpected death. More interested in sex than money, Su Jishi learns to navigate between pleasure and commerce, as rebellions erupt just outside the city.At the crossroads of two of the greatest Chinese books--the aristocratic coming-of-age novel, The Story of the Stone (The Dream of the Red Chamber) and the military epic Outlaws of the Marsh--Mirage is panorama of libertines and concubines, lecherous monks and celibate soldiers, corrupt officials and drunken scholars. As entertaining as a bestseller, it is a hectic recreation of vanished mores and customs, and the life of a Chinese city as it was beginning to discover--and deal with--the rest of the world.Mary Coin: A Novel
By Marisa Silver. 2013
Bestselling author Marisa Silver takes Dorothea Lange's Migrant Mother photograph as inspiration for a story of two women--one famous and…
one forgotten--and their remarkable chance encounter. In 1936, a young mother resting by the side of the road in central California is spontaneously photographed by a woman documenting migrant laborers in search of work. Few personal details are exchanged and neither woman has any way of knowing that they have produced one of the most iconic images of the Great Depression. In present day, Walker Dodge, a professor of cultural history, stumbles upon a family secret embedded in the now-famous picture. In luminous prose, Silver creates an extraordinary tale from a brief event in history and its repercussions throughout the decades that follow--a reminder that a great photograph captures the essence of a moment yet only scratches the surface of a life.Smiling the Moon
By Thomas Lawrence. 2013
The solrom a soul journey to heal within by going without Two travellers collide in the wild country…
on the island of Bracka Geeter not much more than a boy is running from the shadows cast by the death of his father Wode a gnoseer one of a sacred group possessing a deep knowledge of energy and power of the Inner Realms seeing and knowing what most cannot He is called to The Tree of Knowledge for a question of destiny his answer for one reaches into depths of karma for all But Wode has his own need of regeneration after the death of his wife The shared journey the two voyagers begin has consequences neither can have imagined What are the incredible powers that Wode s teachings begin to unleash in Geeter How can Wode move past his grief and return to his true spirit Smiling the Moon is a beautiful fable that is rich with magical encounters unexpected detours and meetings between soulsThe Serpent in the Garden
By Janet Gleeson. 2005
She opened the shagreen box. Couched in gray silk was an emerald necklace, one he had not seen for twenty…
years. The stones were just as he recalled them: a dozen or more, baguette cut and set in gold links, with a single ruby at the center. Flashes of verdigris, orpiment, and Prussian blue sparkled in the candlelight. The form of this necklace was as disturbing as ever. It had nearly cost him his life. It is the summer of 1765. The renowned and exquisitely dressed portrait painter Joshua Pope accepts a commission to paint the wedding portrait of Herbert Bentnick and his fiancée, Sabine Mercer, to whom Bentnick has become engaged less than a year after the death of his first wife. Joshua has barely begun the portrait when a man's body is found in the conservatory. A few days later, Sabine's emerald necklace disappears, and Bentnick accuses Joshua of theft. The painter is suddenly fighting not only for his reputation but for his life. With a sure understanding of period detail and character, Janet Gleeson creates a richly nuanced tale of greed and revenge that plays out in the refined landscapes and dark streets of eighteenth-century London.Big Sur
By Jack Kerouac, Aram Saroyan. 1962
Coming down from his carefree youth and unwanted fame, Jack Kerouac undertakes a mature confrontation of some of his most…
troubling emotional issues: a burgeoning problem with alcoholism, addiction, fear, and insecurity. He dutifully records his ever-changing states of consciousness, which culminate in a powerful religious experience. Big Sur was written some time after Jack Kerouac's best-known works, following a visit to northern California and the first feelings of midlife crisis. Kerouac stayed for several weeks in a cabin in Big Sur, California, and with friends in San Francisco. Upon returning home, he wrote this account in a two-week period.Becoming Josephine
By Heather Webb. 2014
A sweeping historical debut about the Creole socialite who transformed herself into an empress Readers are fascinated with the wives…
of famous men. In Becoming Josephine, debut novelist Heather Webb follows Rose Tascher as she sails from her Martinique plantation to Paris, eager to enjoy an elegant life at the royal court. Once there, however, Rose’s aristocratic soldier-husband dashes her dreams by abandoning her amid the tumult of the French Revolution. After narrowly escaping death, Rose reinvents herself as Josephine, a beautiful socialite wooed by an awkward suitor#151;Napoleon Bonaparte. #147;A debut as bewitching as its protagonist. ” #151;Erika Robuck, author of Hemingway’s Girl and Call Me Zelda #147;Vivid and passionate. ” #151;Susan Spann, author of The Shinobi MysteriesUnder Western Eyes
By Joseph Conrad.
Whirligigs
By O. Henry.
The Mirror of the Sea
By Joseph Conrad.
The White Hotel
By D. M. Thomas. 1981
It is a dream of electrifying eroticism and inexplicable violence, recounted by a young woman to her analyst, Sigmund Freud.…
It is a horrifying yet restrained narrative of the Holocaust. It is a searing vision of the wounds of our century, and an attempt to heal them. Interweaving poetry and case history, fantasy and historical truth-telling, THE WHITE HOTEL is a modern classic of enduring emotional power that attempts nothing less than to reconcile the notion of individual destiny with that of historical fate. ¿I quickly came to feel that I had found that book, that mythical book, that would explain us to ourselves¿ Leslie Epstein, New York TimesThe Sandcastle
By Iris Murdoch. 1957
A sparklingly profound novel about the conflict between love and loyalty The quiet life of schoolmaster Bill Mor and his…
wife Nan is disturbed when a young woman, Rain Carter, arrives at the school to paint the portrait of the headmaster. Mor, hoping to enter politics, becomes aware of new desires. A complex battle develops, involving love, guilt, magic, art, and political ambition. Mor’s teenage children and their mother fight discreetly and ruthlessly against the invader. The Head, himself disenchanted, advises Mor to seize the girl and run. The final decision rests with Rain. Can a “great love” be purchased at too high a price?When the Sleeper Wakes
By H. G. Wells.
The Pioneers
By James Fenimore Cooper.