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( newly updated TOC ) The Harvard Universal Classics, originally known as Dr. Eliot's Five Foot Shelf, is a 51-volume anthology of classic works from world literature, compiled and edited by Harvard……続きを見る

**A NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE SELECTION * A MALALA BOOK CLUB PICK * AN INDIE NEXT PICK * A FAVORITE BOOK OF 2022 BY NPR AND BOOK RIOT * A MUST-READ MARCH 2022 BOOK BY TIME, VANITY FAIR, EW AND ……続きを見る

A sweeping and sensuous novel of a son’s quest to recover his family’s lost masterpieces, looted by the Nazis during the occupation. Max Berenzon’s father is the most successful art dealer in Paris,……続きを見る

Fall Love tells the intertwined stories of four twenties-something artists and professionals adrift in the bad old pre-AIDS New York of 1980. From a summer of love through an autumn of deceit and re……続きを見る

Snow Mountain Passage is a powerful retelling of the most dramatic of our pioneer storiesーthe ordeal of the Donner Party, with its cast of young and old risking all, its imprisoning snows, its rumo……続きを見る

“A tale so vivid, intricate, and intimate that it puts high-def TV to shame.”ーElle Pam Houston’s latest takes us from one breathtaking precipice to the next as we unravel the story of Pam (a charac……続きを見る

Evidence of a violent crime is found in the basement of an Italian palazzo. A missing American student appears to be the victim, two mysterious brothers the main suspects. The strangest thing: the m……続きを見る

'Among the few great writers of our time' Independent 'An exceptionally talented novelist' Sunday Times 'Remarkable for the deep and unwavering insight it gives into child behaviour' The Times Seen ……続きを見る

"Los Angeles has Joan Didion and Raymond Chandler, and Istanbul, Orhan Pamuk. The beautiful, resilient city of Beirut belongs to Khoury."--Laila Lalami, Los Angeles Times From the author of Gate of ……続きを見る

Young Alaskans Series by Emerson Hough This Series contains 3 existing novels: The Young Alaskans The Young Alaskans in the Rockies The Young Alaskans on the Missouri About the Author: Emerson Hou……続きを見る

The most celebrated and controversial French novelist of our time now delivers his magnum opusーabout art and money, love and friendship and death, fathers and sons. The Map and the Territory is the……続きを見る

Now it can be told. The biggest majority of the Debra Chase by Herself series in the Sunday Shocker, which I am sposed to of written, was a load of rubbish, a virago of lies from start to finish.' T……続きを見る

Poor Bertie is in the soup again, and throughout this latest omnibus it is only Jeeves who keeps him from being the fish and the main course as well. In these delightful pages you will encounter all……続きを見る

Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2013. Shortlisted for the South Bank Sky Arts Awards 2014. Book of the Year in the Guardian, Spectator, Independent and Daily Mail. The Kills is an epic novel of ……続きを見る

Set in a blue-collar Long Island suburb in the 1970's, this is a story of the awkwardness and agony of childhood. An eleven-year-old Catholic school student writes a Passion play, ends up in the rol……続きを見る

"Will thrill fans of The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo and bears comparison to Fatherland" The Sun. After the Silence is an utterly gripping crime thriller you won't be able to put down. A body is fou……続きを見る

Mord an der Piazza Vittorio! Ein Verbrechen soll aufgeklärt werden, aber vor allem entfaltet sich zwischen den Marktständen und in den Treppenhäusern der Palazzi ein vielstimmiges Portrait des römis……続きを見る

Meelya's dreams are her refuge from events that threaten her or escape her understanding. She leaves her home in Lebanon to live in Nazareth with her Palestinian husband, but Mansour - an older man ……続きを見る

'The work of a master' Sunday Times 'Effortlessly brilliant...a comedy of London life' Sunday Telegraph No London neighbourhood more resmbles the restless downstream tide of the Thames than the ragg……続きを見る

A worldwide phenomenon and the most important French novelist since Camus, Michel Houellebecq now delivers his magnum opus–a tale of our present circumstances told from the future, when humanity as ……続きを見る

"Self-assured and self-revealing, Waltzing the Cat will gratify Pam Houston’s many admirers, and it will lure plenty of new readers into her wild rivers" ーPortland Oregonian In this remarkable foll……続きを見る

'The funniest book I've read for years' - The Times (London) 'Among the few great writers of our time' - Auberon Waugh, The Independent 'Well written and amusing' - Library Journal Keith Waterhouse'……続きを見る

1930-something: a professional hunter is passing through an unnamed Central European country that is in the thrall of a vicious dictator. The hunter wonders whether he can penetrate undetected into ……続きを見る

"Claude Houghton's novels are always interesting . . . Julian Grant Loses His Way is the best book of his that I have read . . . Houghton's talent is at its best." - Graham Greene, The Spectator "Fa……続きを見る

Великий ирландский писатель Джордж Бернард Шоу (1856 – 1950) – драматург, прозаик, эссеист, один из реформаторов театра XX века, пропагандист драмы идей, внесший яркий вклад в создание «фундамента» ……続きを見る

C. L. Jubb is thirty-six, married, gainfully employed, and active in his community, both in local government and as a volunteer youth leader working with disadvantaged boys. But as he narrates the s……続きを見る

"So remarkable in truth is this novel that I cannot understand why it is not universally known and admired." - Hugh Walpole "I Am Jonathan Scrivener remains a tantalizing, highly diverting philosoph……続きを見る

Gordon Rutherford, a young writer, finds himself in a dangerous dilemma when he is the only witness to the accidental death of an acquaintance. Because of the strange circumstances of the case, Ruth……続きを見る

In Frankreich gab es zum Erscheinen der Gedichte Spekulationen darüber, ob dies der Schwanengesang des meistgelesenen, aber auch umstrittensten Autors des Landes sei. Doch wenngleich es in ihnen auc……続きを見る

Personnages en quête d'identité, Eliott le Noir et Elio le Juif partent en Afrique rechercher celle qu'ils aiment. Mais l'Afrique, c'est grand... Elliott Marie-Rose est Antillais, Elio Della Valle, ……続きを見る