A House for Mr Biswas
By: V.S. Naipaul
4.06
Format: 344 pages, Paperback
Mohun Biswas has spent his 46 years of life striving for independence. Shuttled from one residence …
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1. The Dragon Can't Dance
By: Earl Lovelace
4.03
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Lovelace's classic novel of Carnival. Carnival takes on social and political importance in this rec… read more
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- literature
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"All his life he had managed in such ways to disconnect himself from things which he couldn't escape and which threatened to define him in a way in which he didn't want to be defined, and go on untouc…"-Earl Lovelace, The Dragon Can't Dance
2. Kanthapura
By: Raja Rao
3.39
Format: 244 pages, Paperback
This is the story of how Mahatma Gandhi's struggle for independence from the British came to a typi… read more
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"Seenu rang the gong, and the eyes shut themselves in silence, and the brahmin heart and the weaver heart and pariah heart seemed to beat the one beat of Siva dancing"-Raja Rao, Kanthapura
"There is but one force in life and that is Truth, and there is but one love in life and that is love of mankind, and there is but one God in life and that is the God of all"-Raja Rao, Kanthapura
"O fire, O soul Give us the spark of God-eternal, That friend to friend and friend to foe, One shall we stand before HIM. And the flame of Jatin, And the fire of Bhagath, And the love of the Mahatma i…"-Raja Rao, Kanthapura
"And the police got nervous and they began to kick us in our backs and stomachs, and the crowd shouted 'Mahatma Gandhi ki jai!' and someone took a kerosene tin and began to beat it, and someone took a…"-Raja Rao, Kanthapura
3. A Passage to India
By: E.M. Forster , Pankaj Mishra , Oliver Stallybrass
3.68
Format: 376 pages, Paperback
When Adela Quested and her elderly companion Mrs Moore arrive in the Indian town of Chandrapore, th… read more
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"Adventures do occur, but not punctually."-E.M. Forster, A Passage to India
"There are different ways of evil and I prefer mine to yours."-E.M. Forster, A Passage to India
"A friendliness, as of dwarfs shaking hands, was in the air..."-E.M. Forster, A Passage to India
"I think everyone fails, but there are so many kinds of failure."-E.M. Forster, A Passage to India
4. The Adventures of Augie March
By: Christopher Hitchens , Saul Bellow
3.84
Format: 586 pages, Paperback
Augie comes on stage with one of literature’s most famous opening lines. “I am an American, Chicago… read more
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"God may save all, but human rescue is only for a few."-Christopher Hitchens, The Adventures of Augie March
"Boredom is the conviction that you can't change ... the shriek of unused capacities."-Christopher Hitchens, The Adventures of Augie March
"Many common lies and hypocrisies are like that, just out of the harmony of the moment."-Christopher Hitchens, The Adventures of Augie March
"The lesson of an American life like my father's... is that achievements are compatible with decency (112)."-Christopher Hitchens, The Adventures of Augie March
5. The Magnificent Ambersons (The Growth Trilogy, #2)
By: Booth Tarkington
3.76
Format: None pages, Paperback
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize when it was first published in 1918, The Magnificent Ambersonschronicl… read more
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6. The Old Wives' Tale
By: Arnold Bennett
3.23
Format: 403 pages, Paperback
H.G. Wells described The Old Wives' Tale as "by far the finest long novel written in English and in… read more
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7. Lucky Jim
By: Kingsley Amis , David Lodge
4.73
Format: None pages, Paperback
Regarded by many as the finest, and funniest, comic novel of the twentieth century, Lucky Jimremain… read more
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8. A House for Mr Biswas
By: V.S. Naipaul
4.06
Format: 344 pages, Paperback
Mohun Biswas has spent his 46 years of life striving for independence. Shuttled from one residence … read more
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9. The Heart of the Matter
By: Graham Greene
3.13
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Scobie is a highly principled officer in a war-torn West African state. When he is passed over for … read more
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10. Midnight’s Children
By: Salman Rushdie
3.98
Format: 647 pages, Paperback
An alternative cover edition for this ISBN can be found here. Saleem Sinai is born at the stroke… read more
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"Life again refused to remain lifesized"-Salman Rushdie, Midnight’s Children
"What grows best in the heat: fantasy; unreason; lust."-Salman Rushdie, Midnight’s Children
"For every snake, there is a ladder; for every ladder,a snake"-Salman Rushdie, Midnight’s Children
"Most of what matters in our lives takes place in our absence."-Salman Rushdie, Midnight’s Children
11. An American Tragedy
By: Richard R. Lingeman , Theodore Dreiser
3.92
Format: None pages, Paperback
On one level, An American Tragedyis the story of the corruption and destruction of one man, Clyde G… read more
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12. Appointment in Samarra
By: John O'Hara
3.36
Format: None pages, Paperback
O'Hara did for fictional Gibbsville, Pennsylvania what Faulkner did for Yoknapatawpha County, Missi… read more
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13. A Fable
By: William Faulkner
3.87
Format: None pages, Paperback
This novel won both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award in 1955. An allegorical story of… read more
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14. The Way of All Flesh
By: Samuel Butler
3.71
Format: 435 pages, Paperback
Written between 1873 and 1884 and published posthumously in 1903, The Way of All Fleshis regarded b… read more
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15. The Death of the Heart
By: Elizabeth Bowen
3.00
Format: 81 pages, Paperback
The Death of the Heartis perhaps Elizabeth Bowen's best-known book. As she deftly and delicately ex… read more
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16. Staying On
By: Paul Scott
3.78
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Tusker and Lily Smalley stayed on in India. Given the chance to return 'home' when Tusker, once a C… read more
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17. Lord Jim
By: Joseph Conrad
5.00
Format: 30 pages, Paperback
Haunted by the memory of a moment of lost nerve during a disastrous voyage, Jim submits to condemna… read more
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18. Zuleika Dobson
By: Max Beerbohm
3.43
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
"Zuleika Dobson is a highly accomplished and superbly written book whose spirit is farcical," said … read more
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19. The Kindly Ones (A Dance to the Music of Time, #6)
By: Anthony Powell
4.23
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
A Dance to the Music of Time – his brilliant 12-novel sequence, which chronicles the lives of over … read more
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20. A Question of Upbringing (A Dance to the Music of Time, #1)
By: Anthony Powell
3.07
Format: None pages,
Who is Widmerpool? The question that is to dog Nicholas Jenkins crystallizes as he sees the gawky f… read more
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21. Omeros
By: Derek Walcott
4.38
Format: 83 pages,
A poem in five books, of circular narrative design, titled with the Greek name for Homer, which sim… read more
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