Modern Classics
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Tsotsi
Athol Fugard
Read more ▸ Order ▸Tsotsi is an angry young gang leader in the South African township of Sophiatown. A...
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Don’t Look At Me Like That
Diana Athill (Y)
Read more ▸ Order ▸England, in the mid-fifties. Meg Bailey has always aspired to live a respectable life. With...
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Beloved
Toni Morrison
Read more ▸ Order ▸A stunning gift package of prize-winning Beloved to commemorate Toni Morrison.
It is the mid-1800s and...
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Gilgi, One of Us
Irmgard Keun
Read more ▸ Order ▸A brilliant, bestselling feminist novel from Weimar Germany, from the author of ‘Child of All...
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The Gashlycrumb Tinies: Collector’s Edition
Edward Gorey
Read more ▸ Order ▸The perfectly creepy, amusing book that inspired Tim Burton, Neil Gaiman and Guillermo Del Toro.
A is...
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And the Earth Will Sit on the Moon: Essential Stories
Nikolai Gogol
Read more ▸ Order ▸Admired by writers from Nabokov to Bulgakov to George Saunders, Gogol is considered one of...
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The Chandelier
Clarice Lispector
Read more ▸ Order ▸Clarice Lispector’s masterly second novel, now available in English for the first time.
‘She found the...
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Ocean Sea
Alessandro Baricco
Read more ▸ Order ▸A handful of disparate lives converge at a remote seaside inn: a lovelorn professor, a...
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The Minotaur Takes A Cigarette Break
Steven Sherrill
Read more ▸ Order ▸Five thousand years after leaving the Cretan Labyrinth, the Minotaur – or M as he...
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Kilvert’s Diary
William Plomer & Francis Kilvert
Read more ▸ Order ▸Few have written more beautifully about the British countryside than Francis Kilvert. A country clergyman...
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In Praise of Shadows
Jun'ichiro Tanizaki
Read more ▸ Order ▸A fully illustrated, beautifully produced edition of Junichiro Tanizaki’s wise and evocative essay on Japanese...
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Tales of the Tattooed: An Anthology of Ink
John Miller
Read more ▸ Order ▸Uncovering the history of the tattoo in classic fiction for the first time, this original...