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Clarice Lispector
The Burned Sinner and the Harmonious Angels

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'One of the hidden geniuses of the twentieth century' - Colm Tóibín A housewife's life is shattered by a sudden epiphany. A simple tale of killing cockroaches fragments into multiple narratives, each unc…

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Charles Dickens
The Chimes

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Trotty Veck, an elderly porter, has read so many newspaper reports about crime and immorality that he believes the working classes are irredeemable. But, on New Year's Eve, summoned to the church tower by…

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Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Dream of a Ridiculous Man

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I am a ridiculous man. They call me mad now. That would be a promotion in rank A delusional man whose strange dream changes his life; a self-justifying husband who causes his wife's suicide; a witness to…

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Isak Dinesen
The Dreaming Child

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'As for me I have one ambition only: to invent stories, very beautiful stories'Gothic, expansive and truly spellbinding, Karen Blixen's short stories offer incisive psychological portraits and imaginative…

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Muriel Spark
The Driver's Seat

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Muriel Spark claimed The Driver's Seat to be her best and creepiest novel. Once you have met her heroine Lise - heading for the holiday of a lifetime in an extraordinarily garish dress and with violence o…

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James Baldwin
The Fire Next Time

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'It demands great spiritual resilience not to hate the hater whose foot is on your neck, and an even greater miracle of perception and charity not to teach your child to hate' Told in the form of two int…

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Jane Austen
The History of England by a Partial, Prejudiced and Ignorant Historian

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During his reign, Lord Cobham was burnt alive, but I forget what for. In Jane Austen's breezy and entirely biased telling of English history, Mary, Queen of Scots is a scandalously wronged victim, Elizab…

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Emilia Pardo Bazán
The Lady Bandit

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90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin BooksPriests with shotguns, scheming lovers and a necrophiliac gravedigger haunt the fables of Emilia Pardo Bazán, the formidable Spanish aristocrat, inte…

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Søren Kierkegaard
The Seducer's Diary

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'What does love fear? Limitation.'Johannes stealthily pursues Cordelia through the streets of Copenhagen, and through an intricate, manipulative courtship contrives to possess her. Motivated not by love o…

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Stanislaw Lem
The Seventh Voyage

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Journey into space with Polish scifi master Stanislaw Lem. The whimsical time-loops of Ijon Tichy's cosmic adventure 'The Seventh Voyage' are reminiscent of Douglas Adams, while the spectral whispers haun…

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M. R. James
The Stalls of Barchester Cathedral

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There are many great English ghost stories, but they appear flimsy and emotionally spectral compared to the works of M.R. James. This selection gives the reader a flavour of his strange gifts. Often, the …

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Kate Chopin
The Story of an Hour

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There was something coming to her and she was waiting for it, fearfully. What was it? She did not know; it was too subtle and elusive to name Nuns, maidens, adventurers - with electricity, The Story of a…

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H. G. Wells
The Time Machine

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The Time Machine is the great, gleeful anarchist novel of the 1890s. It is both a thrilling adventure story and a satire on religion, evolution and human hopes. With this book, Wells invented an entirely …

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Tove Ditlevsen
The Umbrella

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'Then she would feel exposed and cry, as if her life and happiness were ruined for all time, even though she could still hide it from those she only came in contact with by chance or infrequently.' Longi…

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Homer
The Wrath of Achilles

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On the fields of Troy, war is raging. At its centre is Achilles: godlike, swift-footed, the greatest champion of the Greeks. But when his pride is wounded and he refuses to fight, the thread of fate begin…

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Yasunari Kawabata
Thousand Cranes

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Kikuji has been invited to a tea ceremony by a mistress of his dead father, only to find that the mistress' rival and successor is also present. He falls for her, with devastating consequences. By 1949 Ya…

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Mary Shelley
Transformation

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'He stretched out his two long, lank arms, that looked like spider's claws, and seemed to embrace with them the expanse before him'His inheritance squandered and engagement severed, Guido di Cortese stalk…

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Italo Calvino
Under the Jaguar Sun

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I went down, I climbed back up into the light of the jaguar sun - into the sea of the green sap of the leaves. The world spun, I plunged down, my throat cut by the knife of the king-priest ... The solar e…

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Rumi
Where Everything is Music

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Rumi's verses have been a balm for readers' souls for over eight centuries. This exquisite selection brings together some of the Persian mystic's most profound, evocative and transcendent works. Exploring…

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