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The Rum Diary

Hunter S. Thompson

Hilarious, real and tragic novel from the author of "Fear & Loathing In Las Vegas".

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Oliver Twist

Charles Dickens

The Penguin English Library Edition of Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens 'A parish child - the orphan of a workhouse - the humble, half-starved drudge - to be cuffed and buffeted through the world, despised…

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Hollywood

Charles Bukowski

Hank and his wife, Sarah, agree to write a screenplay, and encounter the strange world of the movie industry.

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The Reluctant Fundamentalist

Mohsin Hamid

This powerful and original novel explores timely themes through a moving love story with a heart-stopping ending. It follows a young Pakistani man settled in New York who finds himself caught between…

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The Namesake

Jhumpa Lahiri

"Charts the story of a boy brought up as an Indian in suburban America. Chosen as a "New York Times" Notable Book of 2003. "A joy to read" "Sunday Telegraph""

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The Schopenhauer Cure

Irvin D. Yalom

Suddenly confronted with his own mortality after a routine checkup, eminent psychotherapist Julius Hertzfeld is forced to reexamine his life and work -- and seeks out Philip Slate, a sex addict whom…

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The Ballad of the Sad Cafe

Carson McCullers

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The Bricks that Built the Houses

Kate Tempest

Becky, Harry and Leon are leaving town in a fourth-hand Ford Cortina with a suitcase full of money. They are running from jealous boyfriends, dead-end jobs, violent maniacs and disgruntled drug dealers…

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The House on Mango Street

Sandra Cisneros

Told in a series of vignettes stunning for their eloquence, The House on Mango Street is Sandra Cisneros's greatly admired novel of a young girl growing up in the Latino section of Chicago. Acclaimed…

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Cannery Row

John Steinbeck

New-cover edition with introduction by Susan Shillinglaw.

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Tender is the Night

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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Grief is the Thing with Feathers

Max Porter

An extraordinary debut, part novella, part polyphonic fable, part essay on grief. A pair of motherless children are visited by Crow, attracted to the grieving family and threatening to stay until…

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Brooklyn

Colm Toibin

It is Ireland in the 1950s and for Eilis Lacey, as for so many young Irish girls, opportunities are scare. So when her sister arranges for her to emigrate to New York, Eilis knows she must go, leaving…

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The Lonely City

Olivia Laing

Olivia Laing moved to New York in her mid-thirties. This incredibly personal account details the daily loneliness she felt and how she began to explore this lonely city through art. 'Triumphant... a brave…

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We Need New Names

NoViolet Bulawayo

Darling and her friends live in a Zimbabwe shanty town called Paradise and dream of the luxuries of America, Dubai and Europe, where all the stars live. But when Darling does try to carve out a life…

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Christmas at Tiffany's

Karen Swan

A Christmas stocking filler for those who love a sharply written romance. Cassie settled down too young, and now finds herself single again. So begins a year long trial in each of 3 glamorous cities…

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The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay

Michael Chabon

The acclaimed novel from the author of "The Mysteries Of Pittsburgh" and "Wonder Boys". A heart-wrenching story of escape, love and comic-book heroes set in Prague, New York and the Arctic, which has…

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Catch-22

Joseph Heller

Hilarious and tragic, at the heart of Catch-22 is a savage indictment of twentieth-century madness, and a desire of the ordinary man to survive it.

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305 Kč

The Hours

Michael Cunningham

Strong literary fiction which is inspired by the life and work of Virginia Woolf. The novel weaves three separate plot strands centred around the writing and reading of "Mrs Dalloway" and is a meditation…

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262 Kč

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Jonathan Safran Foer

Nine-year-old Oskar Schell is an inventor, amateur entomologist, Francophile, letter writer, pacifist, natural historian, percussionist, romantic, Great Explorer, jeweller, detective, vegan…

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A Month in the Country

J. L. Carr

One summer, just after the Great War, Tom Birkin, a demobbed soldier, arrives in the village of Oxgodby. He has been invited to uncover and restore a medieval wall painting in the local church. At…

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A Passage to India

E. M. Forster

Exploring issues of colonialism, faith and the limits of comprehension, E.M. Forster's A Passage to India is published as a Penguin Essential for the first time.When Adela Quested and her elderly companion…

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Sophie's World

Jostein Gaarder

A page-turning novel that is also an exploration of the great philosophical concepts of Western thought. In order to answer two existential questions, Sophie must use the philosophy she is learning--but…

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458 Kč

Heart of Darkness and the Congo Diary

Joseph Conrad

Penguin inaugurates a series of revised editions of Conrad's finest works, with new introductions Exploring the workings of consciousness as well as the grim realities of imperialism, "Heart of Darkness"…

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225 Kč