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Waiting for the Barbarians

by J. M. Coetzee

Allegory of the war between oppressor and oppressed.
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The Book of Daniel

by E. L. Doctorow

Doctorow's stunning novel about the children of famous "spies" now repackagedwas first published in mass market paper by Bantam.
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coming plague

 

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Hopscotch

by Julio Cortazar

"Cortazar's masterpiece ... The first great novel of Spanish America" (The Times Literary Supplement) • Winner of the National Book Award for Translation in 1967, …
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Madame Bovary

 

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Stalingrad

by Antony Beevor

The Battle of Stalingrad was not only the psychological turning point of World War II: it also changed the face of modern warfare. From Antony …
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The First World War

by John Keegan

The definitive account of the Great War and national bestseller from one of our most eminent military historians, John Keegan. The First World War created …
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Silence

by Shūsaku Endō

Translation, from the Japanese, of Chinmoku.
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One Hundred Years of Solitude

by Gabriel García Márquez

The rise and fall, birth and death, of the mythical town of Macondo through the history of the BuendĂ­a family.
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War and Peace

by graf Leo Tolstoy

War and Peace broadly focuses on Napoleon's invasion of Russia in 1812 and follows three of the most well-known characters in literature: Pierre Bezukhov, the …
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The Black book of communism

 

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The Brothers Karamazov

by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Dostoyevskys masterpiece introduces a world filled with greed, passion, depravity, and complex moral issues, as three brothers become involved in the brutal murder of their …
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A Wizard of Earthsea

by Ursula K. Le Guin

A boy grows to manhood while attempting to subdue the evil he unleashed on the world as an apprentice to a Master Wizard.
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The Ax

 

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