Modern Classics
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The Siege
Ismail Kadare
Read more ▸ Order ▸It is the fifteenth century and war looms. The people of Albania have refused to...
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Lady Sings the Blues
Billie Holiday
Read more ▸ Order ▸“I’ve been told that no one sings the word ‘hunger’ like I do. Or the...
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Chronicle In Stone
Ismail Kadare
Read more ▸ Order ▸In a seamless mosaic of dreams and games, a young boy reflects on events as...
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Apricot Jam and Other Stories
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Read more ▸ Order ▸In this, his atmospheric final work of fiction, the Nobel Prize-winning author of ‘One Day...
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Tobermory and Other Stories
Saki
Read more ▸ Order ▸`Tobermory’ – the title story of this collection – is widely considered one of Saki’s...
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Dandelion Wine
Ray Bradbury
Read more ▸ Order ▸In the backwaters of Illinois, Douglas Spaulding’s grandfather makes an intoxicating brew from harvested dandelions....
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Anniversaries
Uwe Johnson
Read more ▸ Order ▸Late in 1967, Uwe Johnson set out to write a book that would take the...
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Wait Until Spring, Bandini
John Fante
Read more ▸ Order ▸Staff Pick
A classic of the angry American-man-largely-writing-about-his-own-life genre. Except, not really.
Yes, it is a classic. But this...
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The Blizzard
Vladimir Sorokin
Read more ▸ Order ▸A darkly comic dystopian odyssey, from one of Russia’s leading contemporary novelists.
Garin, a country doctor,...
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Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters & Seymour – an Introduction
J D Sallinger
Read more ▸ Order ▸The two long pieces in this book originally came out in The New Yorker –...
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The Penguin Classics Book
Henry Eliot
Read more ▸ Order ▸‘The Penguin Classics Book’ is a reader’s companion to the largest library of classic literature...
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The Mystery of the Blue Train
Agatha Christie
Read more ▸ Order ▸Agatha Christie’s classic Hercule Poirot railway mystery, reissued in a beautiful new classic hardcover edition...
