From the moderator of The New York Times philosophy blog "The Stone," a book that argues that if we want to understand…

Tells the story of Frank and April Wheeler, a bright, beautiful, and talented couple whose empty suburban life is held…

• Rok vydání 2008

From a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian--and coiner of one of feminism's most popular slogans--comes the kind of book to…

Awe and exhiliration--along with heartbreak and mordant wit--abound in Lolita, Nabokov's most famous and controversial…

• Rok vydání 2018

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The Washington Post - San Francisco Chronicle - NPR - GQ -…

General Simon Bolivar, "the Liberator" of five South American countries, takes a last melancholy journey down the Magdalena…

From America's most inventive novelist, Jonathan Lethem, comes this compelling and compulsive riff on the classic detective…

• Rok vydání 2014

In teeming Victorian London, where lavish wealth and appalling poverty live side by side, Edward Pierce charms the most…

"A classic."--"The London Times What on earth could have provoked a modern day St. Valentine's Day massacre? On Valentine's…

• Rok vydání 2000

A landmark in American fiction, "Light in August" explores Faulkner's central theme: the nature of evil. Joe Christmas - a…

Tells the story of Neil Klugman and pretty, spirited Brenda Patimkin, he of poor Newark, she of suburban Short Hills, who…

Gripping, terrifying, an unputdownable read - Greene's iconic tale of the razor-wielding Pinkie.Gripping, terrifying, an…

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WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY JAMES WOODOnce close friends, writers Gwyn Barry and Richard Tull now find themselves in fierce…

Vintage Voyages: A world of journeys, from the tallest mountains to the depths of the mind Henry Pulling, a retired bank…

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\nNow she investigates the immense challenges humanity faces as we scramble to reverse, in a matter of decades, the effects…

• Rok vydání 2021

How we search for, make and consume food has defined human history. It transforms our bodies and homes, our politics and our…

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Jake is a werewolf, and after the unfortunate and violent death of his one contemporary, he is now the last of his species.…

The acclaimed author of A Tour of the Calculus and The Infinite Ascent offers an enlightening and enthralling tour of the…

• Rok vydání 2004

The Fortress of Solitude is the story of Dylan Ebdus growing up white and motherless in downtown Brooklyn in the 1970s. It's…

• Rok vydání 2009

National BestsellerOne of the Best Books of the Year: "New York Times," "Washington Post," "Los Angeles Times," "USA Today,"…

• Rok vydání 2008

From the beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning author of EMPIRE FALLS, a new novel about small-town America that expands his widely…

The chronicle of a conspiracy and a novel about the roots and nature of Japanese fanaticism in the years that led to war--an…

Kirino's searing novel tells a story of random violence in the staid Tokyo suburbs, as a young mother who works a night…

In this inspiring, horrifying, and accessible collection of short, entertaining, and vivid life stories, Simon Sebag…

• Rok vydání 2022

\nWhen Olivia meets Francis, a young naturalist rewilding a corner of Sussex, and is reunited with her best friend Lucy,…

• Rok vydání 2004

New editions of these Somerset Maugham novels, with attractive new covers. Kniha 9780099478324 Up At The Villa | W Somerset…

• Rok vydání 2013

No food, no water, no government, no obligation, no order.Discover a chillingly powerful and prescient dystopian vision from…

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On the day that Jacob, an Anglo-Dutch trader, agrees to accept a slave in lieu of payment for a debt from a plantation…

• Rok vydání 2023

'KAREN ARMSTRONG IS A GENIUS' - A.N. Wilson, author of The Victorians and Winnie and WolfIn this hugely powerful book, Karen…

• Rok vydání 2002

A philosophical journey constructed around a walking tour through Suffolk. New to Vintage. Kniha 9780099448921 Rings of…

• Rok vydání 1995

'India has produced a great novelist...a master of perpetual storytelling' V.S. Pritchett, New YorkerBorn at the stroke of…

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• Rok vydání 1999

Saramago's Jesus is the son not of God but of Joseph. In the wilderness he tussles not with the Devil - a kindly and…

• Rok vydání 2005

Peter Ackroyd explores the life of Chaucer, possibly the greatest poet in the English language, with an eclectic choice of…

Fraser brings to the 14 essays in this indispensable volume the sensitivity, freshness of observation, and offhand elegance…

• Rok vydání 1993

From the author of the national bestseller Chaos comes an outstanding biography of one of the most dazzling and flamboyant…

By piecing the lives of selected individuals into a grand mosaic, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Daniel J. Boorstin…

• Rok vydání 2002

With the same passionate scholarship and analytical audacity he brought to his Pulitzer Prize-winning bestseller "God: A…

• Rok vydání 1997

From one of Latin America's finest writers comes a mesmerizing novel about the legendary Eva Peron. Bigger than fiction, Eva…

• Rok vydání 2003

Set against the turbulent British '70s--a decade of industrial strikes, IRA bombings and rising nationalist racism--this…

Subtitled, }The Books That Shaped His Life{. Hitler owned approximately 16,000 volumes, and this deeply resonant study…

Edmund has escaped from his family into a lonely life. Returning for his mother's funeral he finds himself involved in the…

• Rok vydání 2004

A social satire on politics and politicians. Laxness won the Nobel Prize for Literature and his published books span more…

This is the story of a haunted Irish childhood.The setting is Derry in the Northern Ireland of the 40s and 50s, fraught with…

• Rok vydání 2001

At the age of seventeen Claudine is in despair having left her beloved Montigny for a new life in Paris. Comforted by her…

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There are ninety-nine names for God in the Koran, is it possible that there is a secret one-hundredth name? There are…

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From the corner of a darkened room Joy Stone watches herself. As memories of the deaths of her lover and mother surface…

A searing and magnificent picture of Australia at the moment of its foundation, with early settlers staking out their small…

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First published in the US in the 1930s, these classics of American fiction have been rejacketed. Faulkner is "one of the…