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Hermann Hesse ,
Ursule Molinaro
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This is the story of a passionate yet uneasy friendship between two men of opposite character who set each other on different paths in life. "Narcissus and Goldmund "is the story of a passionate yet uneasy friendship between two men of opposite character. Narcissus, an ascetic instructor at a cloister... more
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Robert Liddell
[Paperback 1996]
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Set in a preparatory school after the end of WWI, this is a brilliant tragi-comedy about children at the mercy of adults. Based on Liddell's own experiences, it is a classic tale of childhood comparable to L.P. Hartley's The Go-Between. Set in a preparatory school after the end of WWI,... more
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Cora Sandel
[Paperback 2009]
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By one of Norway's most distinguished twentieth century novelists. Alberta, now mistress to Sivert, a Norwegian artist, is living in Paris with their small son. While Sivert is involved in a liaison with a Swedish painter, Alberta falls in love with Pierre, a writer who has just returned from WWI.... more
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Jeremy Reed
[Paperback 1996]
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A recondite exercise in deconstructing the future."" - The New York Times Book Review. ""Ardent admirers of Bowie, Warhol, and Ballard ...may find much to ponder in Reed's wild reverie on the mutation and reconstitution of their heroes."" - Publishers Weekly.... more
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Atle Naess
[Paperback 2002]
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Centering on 1606, when the artist killed a man in a duel and was forced to flee into exile, the narrative mixes history and biographical data into a lush fiction with the suspense of a mystery novel""-Publishers Weekly. ""Naess's novel retrieves Caravaggio from the dust of history-while avoiding the pitfalls... more
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Barbara Hardy
[Paperback 1997]
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Hardy's light touch and her effortless rendering of characters who naturally weave literature into their romances make her novel a bright, intelligent read."" Publishers Weekly ""Above and beyond its ambitious structure, this polished novel of sex, love, and literature is poignant and engagingly romantic."" Kirkus Reviews London Lovers is an... more
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Peter Vansittart
[Paperback 1996]
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A Safe Conduct is set in a decaying German principality, on the brink of the Reformation and when Renaissance ideas are filtering through to a governing class still largely medieval. The Graf, in his Castle, is entrusted with political and social responsibilities; but it is an age in which new... more
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Noel Virtue
[Paperback 1993]
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This new novel by Noel Virtue is set in an isolated township of jerry-built houses in North Island, New Zealand - 'only a smudge of fly dirt on the map'. In true black-comedy fashion, it seethes with mayhem and skulduggery. When Norrie and Kezia leave Sandspit Crossing to seek their... more
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Shusaku Endo
[Paperback 2009]
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Endo's books, which include "Silence" and "Scandal", have been published in 25 countries and won several major awards. The three thematically linked narratives in this novel all involve Japanese scholars, who journey to France in the 1950s and 1960s and 17th century Rome, respectively. In the early 1950s, Shusaku Endo... more
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Alfred Hayes
[Paperback 2007]
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A powerful novel, telling of a middle-aged man who falls in love with a young divorce who lives alone in a tiny, untidy apartment in the New York of the 1940s. Here, he visits her, erratically and not always happily. All is soon inexorably overturned when a rich interloper comes... more
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Anna Kavan
[Paperback 2009]
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Rejection, betrayal and a girl's discovery of evil penetrate this strange, haunting novel by the author of Ice. Kavan discards such aids to realism as geography and mundane physical facts - even time seems to have halted in a menacing country of emotions where the very ground is uneasy with... more
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Shusaku Endo
[Paperback 2008, 3rd Edition]
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Endo was runner-up for the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1994. Here we meet the gentle, self-sacrificing French youth Gaston, whose trusting love of both people and animals makes all who meet him change their lives for the better. Gaston's adventures in modern Japan are presented as a kind of... more
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Marquis De Sade
[Paperback 2002]
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A man makes his daughter his mistress in Euge+a7nie de Franval, a libertine corrupts an innocent girl in Miss Henrietta Stralson, and, in Florville and Courval, a man unwittingly marries his own daughter. Reissue. Who but the Marquis de Sade would write not of the pain, tragedy, and joy of... more
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Machado De Assis
[Paperback 2005]
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Set in Rio de Janeiro on the eve of the abolition of slavery in 1888, this tells the poignant story of an elderly diplomat captivated by a beautiful young widow. Imbued with autumnal sadness, it shrewdly and ironically portrays a man coming to terms with the passing of the world... more
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Cesare Pavese
[Paperback 2004]
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This novel is written by the author of "The Political Prisoner", which he wrote when he was arrested in 1935 for anti-fascist activities and sentenced to preventive detention at the prison of Brancaleone. He also translated Defoe, Dickens, Joyce, Melville Stein and Faulkner. Published just months before the author's suicide... more
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Hesse Hermann
[Paperback 2005]
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With "Gertrude," Herman Hesse continues his lifelong exploration of the irreconcilable elements of human existence. In this fictional memoir, the renowned composer Kuhn recounts his tangled relationships with two artists--his friend Heinrich Muoth, a brooding, self-destructive opera singer, and the gentle, self-assured Gertrude Imthor. Kuhn is drawn to Gertrude upon... more
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Marquis De Sade
[Paperback 2010]
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Short stories and a novella by the infamous French pornographic writer Classic erotic stories from the original sadist, translated by Margaret Crosland.... more
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Shusaku Endo ,
R A Schuchert
[Paperback 2012]
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This novel is by the author of "The Sea and Poison", "Wonderful Fool", "Science", "When I Whistle", "The Samurai" and "Stained Glass Elegies".... more
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Gertrude Stein
[Paperback 2003]
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"America is my country and Paris is my home town." "Gertrude Stein The American writer Gertrude Stein (1874-1946), known for her innovative literary style, settled in Paris in 1903, where she supported the work of a number of artists and writers. Paris France (1940) is a witty, anecdotal account of... more
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Shusaku Endo
[Paperback 2004]
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Considered one of the late Shusaku Endo's finest works, The Samurai seamlessly combines historical fact with a novelist's imaginings. Set in the period preceding the Christian persecutions in Japan recorded so memorably in Endo's Silence , this book traces the steps of some of the first Japanese to set foot... more
