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The Quiet American by Graham Greene
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Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage classics
Into the intrigue and violence of Indo-China comes Pyle, a young idealistic American sent to promote democracy through a mysterious 'Third Force'. As his nanve optimism starts to cause bloodshed, his friend Fowler, a cynical foreign correspondent, finds it hard to stand aside and watch. But even as he i ...Show more
The Razor's Edge by W. Somerset Maugham
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Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
Larry Darrell is a young American in search of the absolute. The progress of his spiritual odyssey involves him with some of Maugham's most brilliant characters - his fiance Isabel whose choice between love and wealth have lifelong repercussions, and Elliott Templeton, her uncle, a classic expatriate Am ...Show more
The Red and the Green by Iris Murdoch
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Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage classics
The scene is Ireland. The time, 1916, is the eve of the famous, tragic Easter Rebellion in Dublin, which startled Europe even in the midst of the First World War. A single Anglo Irish family provides the extremely diverse characters. Pat Dumay is a Catholic and an Irish patriot. His relentlessly pious m ...Show more
The Road to San Giovanni by Tim (TRN) Italo; Parks Calvino
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Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics
The Sea, The Sea by Iris Murdoch
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Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Ser. | Reading Level: good
When Charles Arrowby retires from his glittering career in the London theatre, he buys a remote house on the rocks by the sea. He hopes to escape from his tumultuous love affairs but unexpectedly bumps into his childhood sweetheart and sets his heart on destroying her marriage.
The Snow Leopard by Peter Matthiessen
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Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
'In 1973 (Matthiessen) joined with George Schaller, a field biologist, to Crystal Mountain in the Himalayas, to study the wild blue sheep of the region called bharal. They also hoped to see the rare snow leopard, an almost mythical creature which Schaller once glimpsed on a previous visit. Matthiessen i ...Show more
The Songlines by Bruce Chatwin
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Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
For its twenty-fifth anniversary, a new edition of Bruce Chatwin's classic work with a new introduction by Rory Stewart Part adventure, part novel of ideas, part spiritual autobiography, The Songlines is one of Bruce Chatwin's most famous books. This singular book, which was a New York Times bestseller ...Show more
The True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey
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Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
'I lost my own father at 12 yr. of age and know what it is to be raised on lies and silences my dear daughter you are presently too young to understand a word I write but this history is for you and will contain no single lie may I burn in Hell if I speak false.' In TRUE HISTORY OF THE KELLY GANG, the l ...Show more
The Twyborn Affair by Patrick White
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Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
With the androgynous hero - Eudoxia/Eddie/Eadith Twyborn - and through his search for identity, for self-affirmation and love in its many forms, this title takes us into the ambiguous landscapes, sexual, psychological and spiritual, of the human condition.
The Viceroy of Ouidah by Bruce Chatwin
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Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
In 1812, Francisco Manoel da Silva, escaping a life of poverty in Brazil, sailed to the African kingdom of Dahomey, determined to make his fortune in the slave trade. Armed with nothing but an iron will, he became a man of substance in Ouidah and the founder of a remarkable dynasty. His one remaining am ...Show more
The Wapshot Scandal by John Cheever
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Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
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Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage classics | Reading Level: good-very good
The Pulitzer Prize-winning story of the violent, intolerant, eccentric, humorous and prejudiced Deep South, seen through the eyes of children in the 1930s. Scout and Jem Finch lose their innocence when their lawyer father defends a Negro charged with the rape of a white girl.