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Churchill - Paul Johnson
EDITORIAL REVIEW: **An elegant, concise, and revealing portrait of the inimitable leader. ** Paul Johnson's books are acknowledged as masterpieces of historical analysis. In *Churc... -
Billy Budd & Other Stories - Herman Melville; Frederick Busc
Product DescriptionMelville's short stories are masterpieces. The best are to be appreciated on more than one level and those presented here are rich with symbolism and spiritual d... -
Beyond Good and Evil_ Prelude t - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
SUMMARY: Nietzsche's mature masterpiece, Beyond Good and Evil considers the origins and nature of Judeo-Christian morality; the end of philosophical dogmatism and beginning of pers... -
Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand
SUMMARY:At last, Ayn Rand's masterpiece is available to her millions of loyal readers in trade paperback. With this acclaimed work and its immortal query, "Who is John Galt?... -
Agape Agape - William Gaddis
"Either the last true masterpiece of the 20th century or the first of our new millenium" —San Francisco ChronicleWilliam Gaddis published four novels during his lifetime, immense a... -
Ada, Or, Ardor, a Family Chroni - Vladimir Nabokov
Published two weeks after his seventieth birthday, Ada, or Ardor is one of Nabokov's greatest masterpieces, the glorious culmination of his career as a novelist. It tells a love st... -
A Writer at War_ Vasily Grossma - Vasily Grossman; Antony Beevor;
EDITORIAL REVIEW: Edited and translated from the Russian by Antony Beevor and Luba Vinogradova Knopf Canada is proud to present a masterpiece of the Second World War, never before ... -
A House for Mr. Biswas - Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul
The early masterpiece of V. S. Naipaul’s brilliant career, A House for Mr. Biswas is an unforgettable story inspired by Naipaul's father that has been hailed as one of the twentiet... -
A Christmas Homecoming - Anne Perry
Among the brilliant array of Anne Perry's New York Times bestselling novels, her Christmas stories occupy perhaps the warmest spot in the hearts of readers. Each one is a masterpie... -
30 Days in Sydney_ A Wildly Dis - Peter Carey
SUMMARY: “This is a fabulously idiosyncratic small masterpiece ... it’s so good it takes your breath away.”—Times (UK)After living abroad for years, novelist Peter Carey returns ho...