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Fang Tang

Metaphors of Illness in Chinese North American Literature

By exploring various representations of illness and disability in Chinese American literature, Sarah Tang argues that narratives of ailments transcend the boundaries of medical therapy to become essential…

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Carson McCullers

The Heart is a Lonely Hunter

"The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" was Carson McCullers' first novel, written in 1940. Set in a small town in the American South, it is the story of a group of people who have little in common except that the…

Shirley Jackson

Hangsaman

Natalie Waite, daughter of a mediocre writer and a neurotic housewife, is increasingly unsure of her place in the world. In the midst of adolescence she senses a creeping darkness in her life, which will …

Tove Ditlevsen

Childhood, Youth, Dependency

'Utterly, agonisingly compulsive ... a masterpiece' Liz Jensen, Guardian Following one woman's journey from a troubled girlhood in working-class Copenhagen through her struggle to live on her own terms, T…

Henry Miller

Plexus

Explores a mans desperate desire for freedom. It finds him in the midst of his stormy marriage to the volatile, duplicitous Mona, and joyfully quitting his dreary job for a hand-to-mouth existence in Broo…

James Joyce

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Joyce's lyrical, poetic, semi-autobiographical novel in a new annotated edition, with an introduction by Joseph Brooker The portrayal of Stephen Dedalus's Dublin childhood and youth, his quest for identit…

Daphne Du Maurier

The Parasites

FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF REBECCA'Wickedly readable . . . every woman instinctively wants to read her'NEW YORK TIM ES BOOK REVIEW'A tale of dramatic longings . . . unexpected and fun' MARGARET DRABBL…

Rachel Carson

Silent Spring

Rachel Carson (1907-64) wanted to be a writer for as long as she could remember. Her first book,Under the Sea Wind , appeared in 1941. Silent Spring , which alerted the world to the dangers of the misuse …

Barbara Pym

Excellent Women

INTRODUCED BY ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITHMildred Lathbury is one of those excellent women who are often taken for granted. She is a godsend, 'capable of dealing with most of the stock situations or even the gr…

Angélica Gorodischer

Kalpa Imperial

In city squares and golden palaces, a series of storytellers recount the history of the greatest Empire that never was: a history in which orphans rise from the underworld to the throne, mad emperors raze…

John le Carré

A Perfect Spy

John le Carr/b>was born in 1931 and attended the universities of Bern and Oxford. He taught at Eton and served briefly in British Intelligence during the Cold War. For more than fifty years he has live…

Saul Bellow

More Die of Heartbreak

Kenneth Trachtenberg has left his native Paris for the Midwest. He has come to be near his beloved uncle, the world-renowned botanist Benn Crader, self-described 'plant visionary.' While his studies take …

John le Carré

Single & Single

'An adventure that takes us to the ends of the earth via the rich but often barren landscape of the human heart' The TimesWhy was an English lawyer shot dead in Turkey by his firm's top client? How can a …

John le Carré

The Russia House

Barley Blair is not a Service man: he is a small-time publisher, a self-destructive soul. But it was Barley who, one drunken night at a dacha in Peredelkino during the Moscow Book Fair, was befriended by …

George Orwell

Nineteen Eighty-Four. Anniversary Edition

Versteckt in der Dokumentationsabteilung des weitläufigen Wahrheitsministeriums arbeitet Winston Smith an der Fälschung der Geschichte, damit sie den Erfordernissen der Partei genügt. Dabei wird er - wie …

C. L. R. James

The Black Jacobins

'James is a titan of twentieth-century politics and culture' Sunday Times'The Black Jacobins is not only a groundbreaking historical work; it is a masterpiece in storytelling and analysis' Gary Younge The…

Vera Brittain

Testament of Youth

'Remains one of the most powerful and widely read war memoirs of all time' GUARDIAN 'Vera Brittain's heart-rending account of the way her generation's lives changed is still as shocking and moving as ever…

Muriel Spark

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

Muriel Spark has written poetry, stories, and biographies as well as her remarkable series of novels. She is an honorary member of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters and in 1993 was cr…