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Humphry Clinker - Tobias Smollett
The eighteenth-century picaresque masterpiece- now in a new editionA triumph of English satire, Humphry Clinker was published just three months prior to its author's death in 1771.... -
Holder of the World - Bharati Mukherjee
"An amazing literary feat and a masterpiece of storytelling. Once again, Bharati Mukherjee proveshe is one of our foremost writers, with the literary muscles to weave both the futu... -
Hannibal - Thomas Harris
Amazon.com ReviewHorror lit's head chef Harris serves up another course in his Hannibal "The Cannibal" Lecter trilogy, and it's a pièce de résistance for those with strong stomachs... -
Half a Life - V. S. Naipaul
1. The novel begins with Willie’s question to his father about why he was named after the English novelist W. Somerset Maugham. If a name is a crucial piece of a person’s identity,... -
God Hates Us All - Hank Moody; Jonathan Grotenstei
Product DescriptionA wry literary masterpiece, God Hates Us All is a coming-of-age tale for the apathetic generation. Hank Moody's self-loathing yet darkly likeable narrator ... -
Fugitive pieces - Anne Michaels
SUMMARY: A New York Times Notable Book of the YearWinner of the Lannan Literary Fiction AwardWinner of the Guardian Fiction AwardIn 1940 a boy bursts from the mud of a war-torn Pol... -
Everything Flows - Vasily Grossman
A New York Review Books OriginalEverything Flows is Vasily Grossman's final testament, written after the Soviet authorities suppressed his masterpiece, Life and Fate. The main... -
Even Cowgirls Get the Blues - Tom Robbins
Review"This is one of those special novels--a piece of working magic, warm, funny, and san--that you just want to ride off into the sunset with."–Thomas Pynchon "The best fiction, ... -
Eating the Dinosaur - Chuck Klosterman
SUMMARY: A Book of All-New Pop Culture Pieces by Chuck KlostermanChuck Klosterman has chronicled rock music, film, and sports for almost fifteen years. He's covered extreme metal, ... -
Doctor Who_ Set Piece - Kate Orman
SUMMARY:The Doctor and Ace set out to discover how passenger ship's are disappearing from the interstellar traffic lanes - only things don't work out as planned.