Famine (Modern Plays)
By: Tom Murphy
3.44
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
Famine portrays the Great Hunger of the Irish in 1840s, with fresh pathos and insight. "The macabre…
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1. Mrs. Dalloway
By: Virginia Woolf , Maureen Howard
3.79
Format: 194 pages, Hardcover
Heralded as Virginia Woolf's greatest novel, this is a vivid portrait of a single day in a woman's … read more
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"Life stand still here."-Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway
"What a lark! What a plunge!"-Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway
"To love makes one solitary."-Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway
"What does the brain matter compared with the heart?"-Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway
2. The Waste Land
By: T.S. Eliot , Michael North
3.80
Format: 245 pages, Paperback
The text of Eliot's 1922 masterpiece is accompanied by thorough explanatory annotations as well as … read more
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3. Between the Acts
By: Virginia Woolf
4.06
Format: None pages, Paperback
In Woolf's last novel, the action takes place on one summer's day at a country house in the heart o… read more
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4. Harvest
By: Manjula Padmanabhan
3.64
Format: None pages, Paperback
Om, a young man, is driven by unemployment to sell his body parts for cash. Guards arrive to make h… read more
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5. A Small Place
By: Jamaica Kincaid
4.02
Format: None pages,
Lyrical, sardonic, and forthright, A Small Placemagnifies our vision of one small place with Swifti… read more
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6. If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
By: Italo Calvino , William Weaver
3.90
Format: 216 pages,
If on a Winter's Night a Traveleris a marvel of ingenuity, an experimental text that looks longingl… read more
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7. Burmese Days
By: George Orwell
3.97
Format: 68 pages, Hardcover
Set in the days of the Empire, with the British ruling in Burma, this book describes corruption and… read more
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8. Sea of Poppies (Ibis Trilogy, #1)
By: Amitav Ghosh
3.89
Format: 440 pages, Paperback
At the heart of this vibrant saga is a vast ship, the Ibis. Her destiny is a tumultuous voyage acro… read more
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9. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
By: James Joyce , Seamus Deane
3.64
Format: 329 pages, Paperback
The portrayal of Stephen Dedalus's Dublin childhood and youth, his quest for identity through art a… read more
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"My heart is quite calm now. I will go back."-James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
"God spoke to you by so many voices but you would not hear."-James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
"Are you not weary of ardent ways? Tell no more of enchanted days."-James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
"He thought that he was sick in his heart if you could be sick in that place."-James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
10. Ruined
By: Lynn Nottage
3.76
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
Winner of the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Drama "A powerhouse drama. . . . Lynn Nottage's beautiful, hi… read more
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11. Nightwood
By: T.S. Eliot , Jeanette Winterson , Djuna Barnes
4.07
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
Nightwood, Djuna Barnes' strange and sinuous tour de force, "belongs to that small class of books t… read more
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12. Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor
By: None
3.55
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The violence wrought by climate change, toxic drift, deforestation, oil spills, and the environment… read more
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13. One Hundred Years of Solitude
By: Gabriel García Márquez , Gregory Rabassa
4.12
Format: 417 pages, Mass Market Paperback
The brilliant, bestselling, landmark novel that tells the story of the Buendia family, and chronicl… read more
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14. Beloved
By: Toni Morrison
4.24
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
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15. The Museum
By: Leila Aboulela
3.53
Format: 19 pages, None
A Scottish student falls for a Sudanese girl, but not everything goes smoothly. read more
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16. undercurrent
By: Rita Wong
3.65
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
The water belongs to itself. undercurrent reflects on the power and sacredness of water--largely un… read more
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17. The Oil Lamp: Poems
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4.38
Format: 82 pages, Paperback
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18. Famine (Modern Plays)
By: Tom Murphy
3.44
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
Famine portrays the Great Hunger of the Irish in 1840s, with fresh pathos and insight. "The macabre… read more
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