Modern Classics
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Unwitting Street
Sigizmund Krzhizhavovsky
Read more ▸ Order ▸Eighteen strange, whimsical, and philosophical tales by the Russian master of the weird, all now...
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The Progress of a Crime: A Fireworks Night Mystery
Julian Symons
Read more ▸ Order ▸The murder, a brutal stabbing, definitely took place on Guy Fawkes’ night. It was definitely...
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The Door
Magda Szabo
Read more ▸ Order ▸Emerence is a domestic servant – strong, fierce, eccentric, and with a reputation for being...
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Distant Star
Roberto Bolano
Read more ▸ Order ▸Alberto Ruiz-Tagle was once the quiet, unknowable, unpromising member of Chile’s young poetry scene. But...
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The Search Warrant
Patrick Modiano
Read more ▸ Order ▸Haunted by the fate of Dora Bruder – a fifteen-year-old girl listed as missing in...
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Revenge
Yoko Ogawa
Read more ▸ Order ▸Murderers and mourners, mothers and children, lovers and innocent bystanders – locked in the embrace...
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In the Absence of Men
Philippe Besson
Read more ▸ Order ▸It is the summer of 1916 and, with German Zeppelins on the skyline, the men...
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The Last Resort
Alison Lurie
Read more ▸ Order ▸Jenny has devoted her life to her husband, the famous naturalist Wilkie Walker. But this...
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The War Between the Tates
Alison Lurie
Read more ▸ Order ▸Brian and Erica Tate appear to have every advantage in life: academic careers, two children,...
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Foreign Affairs
Alison Lurie
Read more ▸ Order ▸Vinnie Miner is an American professor of children’s literature on her way to London for...
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Nada
Edith Grossman
Read more ▸ Order ▸Eighteen-year old orphan Andrea moves to battle-scarred Barcelona to take up a scholarship at the...
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Class Trip
Emmanuel Carrere
Read more ▸ Order ▸Little Nicolas is a delicate, timid schoolboy, with an excitable, if morbid imagination – the...