Vintage Classics
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The Key
Junichiro Tanizaki
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A middle-aged university professor and his younger wife each read one another’s diaries, discovering...
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The Housekeeper and the Professor
Yoko Ogawa
Read more ▸ Order ▸This is one of those books written in such lucid, unpretentious language that reading it...
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The Makioka Sisters
Junichiro Tanizaki
Read more ▸ Order ▸An exquisite novel about four sisters living though a turbulent decade…I’d put it in the...
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The Sailor Who Fell from Grace With the Sea
Yukio Mishima
Read more ▸ Order ▸A band of savage thirteen-year-old boys reject the adult world as illusory, hypocritical, and sentimental,...
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The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Haruki Murakami
Read more ▸ Order ▸Enter the surreal and enchanting world of Haruki Murakami. Toru Okada’s cat has disappeared. His...
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Out
Natsuo Kirino
Read more ▸ Order ▸In the Tokyo suburbs four women work the graveyard shift at a factory. Burdened with...
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Fiesta: The Sun Also Rises
Ernest Hemingway
Read more ▸ Order ▸Discover Ernest Hemingway’s most decadent novel
‘He’s so damned nice and he’s so awful. He’s my...
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Crime and Punishment
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Read more ▸ Order ▸The best translation of Crime and Punishment currently available… An especially faithful re-creation…with a coiled-spring...
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In Praise of Shadows
Junichiro Tanizaki
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In the twentieth century’s foremost meditation on Japanese aesthetics, novelist Junichiro Tanizaki argues for...
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The Story of a Life
Konstantin Paustovsky
Read more ▸ Order ▸Discover one of Twentieth-Century Russia’s most lauded lost classics, now in a remarkable new translation.
In...
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The Man Who Lived Underground
Richard Wright
Read more ▸ Order ▸Fred Daniels, a black man, is picked up randomly by the police after a brutal...
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Brave New World
Aldous Huxley
Read more ▸ Order ▸Brave New World predicts – with eerie clarity – a terrifying vision of the future....