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Murphy (Beckett, Samuel Ser.)
By Samuel Beckett. 1957
Early novel by the Nobel Prize-winning playwright and novelist who died in 1989. With grim humor, verbal showmanship, and playful…
erudition--very different from his later works--Beckett explores the deterioration of an alienated Irishman in London. Murphy attempts to disengage himself from everyday life, finally taking refuge in an asylum. Some strong language. 1938Ferdydurke
By Witold Gombrowicz, Danuta Borchardt. 2000
A thirty-year-old writer is abducted by a professor and turned back into a schoolboy. He uses his newfound freedoms to…
give offense and admit to disreputable desires. This 1937 black comedy, a classic of European modernism, is translated into English directly from the Polish original for the first time. Foreword by Susan Sontag. 2000Stories and texts for nothing (Beckett, Samuel)
By Samuel Beckett. 1967
Up at the villa (Vintage International)
By W. Somerset Maugham. 2000
Thirty-year-old English widow Mary Panton, mending her spirits at a borrowed Italian villa, receives two marriage proposals--one from a friend…
of her late father and another from a ne'er-do-well. When tragedy strikes, Mary uncovers the true character of each suitor. 1940Three of Melville's early novels, set in Polynesia in the South Seas and based on his sailing experiences. Typee (1846)…
contrasts idyllic island living with restrictive western manners. The sequel, Omoo (1847), pursues this theme in Tahiti, while Mardi (1849) tells of an allegorical voyage. 1849Lost horizon: a novel
By James Hilton. 1933
Classic utopian adventure fantasy. One of four Western passengers abducted during an airplane hijacking from Baskul, Hugh Conway, recounts the…
group's sojourn at the mysterious lamasery of Shangri-La in the mountains of Tibet. Hugh describes Shangri-La's unusual inhabitants and their quest, and the feelings of peace and contentment he enjoyed there. 1933How it is (Beckett, Samuel)
By Samuel Beckett. 1964
An anguished, disembodied voice expresses a grim, fragmentary vision of human life stripped to its essence in this experimental fiction…
by the Irish-born winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. Originally written in French in 1961 and translated into English by the author. Some strong language. 1964Jonathan Livingston Seagull
By Richard Bach, Russell Munson. 1970
Refusing to conform to the life of the flock, Jonathan, a seagull, intensely desires to fly higher than any gull…
has ever flown. After his death, he returns to inspire the gulls who once scorned him. Bestseller. 1970Norwegian wood (Vintage International)
By Haruki Murakami. 2000
Toru Watanabe is overcome by sadness when he hears the Beatles' song "Norwegian Wood." It evokes the events of that…
long-ago autumn of 1969 when he made love to Naoko, the girlfriend of his best friend, Kizuki, who had committed suicide two years before. Explicit descriptions of sex and some strong language. 2000Siddhartha (Shambhala classics)
By Hermann Hesse, Herman Hesse, Sherab Chodzin Kohn. 2000
Nobel Prize-winning author's tale of a young Brahmin who abandons his comfortable home to wander through the Indian countryside seeking…
enlightenment. Based on the early life of Buddha. Originally published in German in 1922. 2000The Revenant: A Novel of Revenge
By Michael Punke. 2015
A thrilling tale of betrayal and revenge set against the nineteenth-century American frontier, the astonishing story of real-life trapper and…
frontiersman Hugh Glass. The year is 1823, and the trappers of the Rocky Mountain Fur Company live a brutal frontier life. Hugh Glass is among the company's finest men, an experienced frontiersman and an expert tracker. But when a scouting mission puts him face-to-face with a grizzly bear, he is viciously mauled and not expected to survive. Two company men are dispatched to stay behind and tend to Glass before he dies. When the men abandon him instead, Glass is driven to survive by one desire: revenge. With shocking grit and determination, Glass sets out, crawling at first, across hundreds of miles of uncharted American frontier. Based on a true story, The Revenant is a remarkable tale of obsession, the human will stretched to its limits, and the lengths that one man will go to for retribution.Independent people: an epic
By Halldór Laxness. 1997
A saga of Icelandic peasant life in which Bjartur, a stubborn sheep farmer, struggles to buy and maintain his own…
land. An independent man, he outlives several wives to raise his brood, including an adopted daughter. By the 1955 Nobel Prize winner. Some strong language. 1946A place to come to: a novel
By Robert Penn Warren. 1977
Jed Tewksbury, aided by a dedicated teacher and a football scholarship, rises from the backwoods of Alabama to become a…
literature professor. He fights in World War II, marries twice, and carries on a torrid love affair before making peace with himself and his past. Explicit descriptions of sex and some strong language. 1977Sentinelle de la pluie (Litt©♭rature ©♭trang©·re)
By Tatiana De Rosnay. 2018
La famille Malegarde se réunit à Paris à l'occasion du 70e anniversaire de Paul, spécialiste des arbres ayant acquis une…
réputation internationale. Alors qu'une catastrophe naturelle est sur le point de s'abattre sur la capitale, des circonstances critiques contraignent Paul et Lauren, ainsi que leurs enfants, Linden et Tilia, à s'avouer d'intimes secrets menaçant l'unité familiale.On parole
By Akira Yoshimura. 1999
Former teacher Shiro Kikutani is paroled after sixteen years for murdering his wife and her lover's mother. With the help…
of his parole officers, Shiro adjusts to a life of constant supervision. But when he remarries, his new spouse becomes obsessed with obtaining him a pardon. Some violence. 1999The body artist: a novel
By Don DeLillo, Don Delillo. 2001
Recently married, body artist Lauren Hartke and movie director Rey Robles spend several months in a rented house before Rey…
commits suicide. Lauren then discovers a strange man who--unbeknownst to her--has been living in the home. And he sounds like Rey. Some descriptions of sex. Bestseller. 2001Count Julian (Masks)
By Juan Goytisolo, Helen Lane. 1989
The author, considered one of Spain's great modern novelists, creates a deranged exile's stream-of-consciousness diatribe against his homeland under Franco.…
The protagonist, obsessed with the legendary Count Julian who betrayed his homeland to the invading Moors in the Middle Ages, dreams of another invasion in which destruction will be total. Some explicit descriptions of sex. 1974The Gospel according to the Son
By Norman Mailer. 1998
First-person account of the story of Jesus and the gospels from the prophet's own point of view. Reveals his human…
side, including his doubts and his passions. Recounts his life and times, his ministry, and conflict with the devil. 1997Boredom
By Alberto Moravia. 1999
Dino, an Italian artist from a wealthy, pampered background, recalls having always felt "bored" or detached from reality. Now in…
his mid-thirties, he becomes fixated on Cecilia, a young model, and sets about trying to "own" her, blurring the distinctions between sex, money, and love. 1960Dead souls: A Novel (Vintage Classics)
By Nikolaǐ Vasilʹevich Gogolʹ, Nikolai Gogol, Richard Pevear, Larissa Volokhonsky. 1997
Pavel Ivanovich Chichikov travels across the Russian countryside with a money-making scheme to buy up "dead souls"--deceased serfs still on…
the tax roll until the next census. When he is eventually arrested, his lawyer mounts an unusual defense. A satire originally published in 1842, newly translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky. 1996