Modern Classics
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The Diviners
Margaret Laurence
Read more ▸ Pre-order ▸Morag Gunn is a writer in her mid-forties who lives in a riverside farm in...
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The Years
Virginia Woolf
Read more ▸ Order ▸‘There must be another life, here and now, she repeated. This is too short, too...
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The Waves
Virginia Woolf
Read more ▸ Order ▸‘Let us pretend that we can make out a plain and logical story, so that...
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The Train Was on Time
Heinrich Boll
Read more ▸ Order ▸Twenty-four-year-old Andreas, a disillusioned German soldier, is travelling on a troop train to the Eastern...
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To the Lighthouse
Virginia Woolf
Read more ▸ Order ▸‘Life, from being made up of little separate incidents which one lived one by one,...
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Territory of Light
Yuko Tsushima
Read more ▸ Order ▸‘Territory of Light’ is the radiant story of a young woman, living alone in Tokyo...
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Surrender to Night: Collected Poems of Georg Trakl
Georg Trakl
Read more ▸ Order ▸In Georg Trakl’s brief, tragic life he produced a body of work of intense visual...
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Star
Yukio Mishima
Read more ▸ Order ▸A haunting novella of fame and disillusionment by a Japanese literary icon
All eyes are upon...
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Rumpole of the Bailey
John Mortimer
Read more ▸ Order ▸Horace Rumpole – dishevelled barrister at law, drinker of claret and smoker of cigars, inveterate...
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Now And Then
Gil Scott-Heron
Read more ▸ Order ▸‘Now And Then’ is not merely a collection of a songwriter’s lyrics; the song-poems of...
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Mrs Dalloway
Virginia Woolf
Read more ▸ Order ▸‘She had the perpetual sense, as she watched the taxi cabs, of being out, out,...
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The Garden of Evening Mists
Tan Twan Eng
Read more ▸ Order ▸Teoh Yun Ling was seventeen years old when she first heard about Aritomo and the...