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 …
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1. The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)
By: Marcel Proust , None , Terence Kilmartin , D.J. Enright
4.39
Format: 957 pages, Paperback
The Modern Library’s fifth volume of In Search of Lost Time contains both The Captive (1923) and Th… read more
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"...every social class has its own pathology..."-Marcel Proust, The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)
"Let us leave pretty women to men with no imagination."-Marcel Proust, The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)
"Love is space and time made perceptible to the heart."-Marcel Proust, The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)
"There are optical errors in time as there are in space."-Marcel Proust, The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)
2. La Prisonnière
By: Marcel Proust
4.29
Format: 496 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Albertine a renoncé à faire une croisière et lorsque, à la fin de l’été, elle rentre de Balbec avec… read more
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3. Mémoires d'Outre-Tombe
By: François-René de Chateaubriand
3.96
Format: 1504 pages, Paperback
The only available edition in English of the greatest of all French autobiographies By the time … read more
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"It is a long way from these strict parents to the child-spoilers of today."-François-René de Chateaubriand, Mémoires d'Outre-Tombe
"Purgatory surpasses heaven and hell in poetry, because it represents a future and the others do not."-François-René de Chateaubriand, Mémoires d'Outre-Tombe
"There are only two true things: intelligent religion and youthful love, which is to say the future and the present. The rest is not worth the trouble"-François-René de Chateaubriand, Mémoires d'Outre-Tombe
"Life is spent hovering round our tomb. Our various sicknesses are but the winds which carry us more or less near to the haven. … Death is our friend, nevertheless we do not recognise it as such, beca…"-François-René de Chateaubriand, Mémoires d'Outre-Tombe
4. The Recognitions
By: William H. Gass , William Gaddis
4.20
Format: 976 pages, Paperback
The book Jonathan Franzen dubbed the "ur-text of postwar fiction" and the "first great cultural cri… read more
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"Women get desperate, but they don't understand despair."-William H. Gass, The Recognitions
"That fever had passed; but for the rest of his life it never left his eyes."-William H. Gass, The Recognitions
"Reading Proust isn't just reading a book, it's an experience and you can't reject an experience."-William H. Gass, The Recognitions
"Most people are clever because they don't know how to be honest." William Gaddis, The Recognitions."-William H. Gass, The Recognitions
5. Less Than Angels
By: Barbara Pym
3.92
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
It is surely appropriate that anthropologists, who spend their time studying life and behavior in v… read more
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"Of course it's alright for librarians to smell of drink."-Barbara Pym, Less Than Angels
"What was the point of living in a suburb if one couldn’t show a healthy curiosity about one’s neighbours?"-Barbara Pym, Less Than Angels
"Not that the making of tea can ever really be regarded as a petty or trivial matter and Miss Clovis did seem to have been seriously at fault."-Barbara Pym, Less Than Angels
"Like so many men, he needed a woman stronger than himself, for behind the harsh cragginess of the Easter Island façade cowered the small boy, uncertain of himself."-Barbara Pym, Less Than Angels
6. The Provincial Lady in London
By: E.M. Delafield
3.96
Format: 344 pages, Paperback
These highly acclaimed, delightful novels are written in diary form by the Provincial Lady, who liv… read more
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7. Dog Soldiers
By: Robert Stone
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
In Saigon during the waning days of the Vietnam War, a small-time journalist named John Converse th… read more
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8. Henry VIII
By: William Shakespeare , Barbara A. Mowat , Paul Werstine
3.50
Format: None pages,
Henry VIII is a history play generally believed to be a collaboration between William Shakespeare a… read more
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10. Death in Venice
By: Thomas Mann , Michael Cunningham , Michael Henry Heim
3.74
Format: 142 pages, Paperback
The world-famous masterpiece by Nobel laureate Thomas Mann -- here in a new translation by Michael … read more
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"Nothing gladdens a writer more than a thought that can become pure feeling and a feeling that can become pure thought."-Thomas Mann, Death in Venice
"Forbearance in the face of fate, beauty constant under torture, are not merely passive. They are a positive achievement, an explicit triumph."-Thomas Mann, Death in Venice
"Denn der Mensch liebt und ehrt den Menschen , solange er ihn nicht zu beurteilen vermag, und die Sehnsucht ist ein Erzeunis mangelhafter Erkenntnis."-Thomas Mann, Death in Venice
"Solitude produces originality, bold and astonishing beauty, poetry. But solitude also produces perverseness, the disproportianate, the absurd and the forbidden."-Thomas Mann, Death in Venice
11. The Man in the Wooden Hat (Old Filth, #2)
By: Jane Gardam
4.10
Format: 233 pages, Paperback
The New York Times called Sir Edward Feathers one of the most memorable characters in modern litera… read more
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12. To Let
By: John Galsworthy
4.11
Format: None pages,
To Let,the final volume of the Forsyte trilogy, chronicles the continuing feuds of the two factions… read more
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14. 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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15. In Chancery (The Forsyte Saga)
By: John Galsworthy
4.79
Format: None pages,
The three novels which make up The Forsyte Saga chronicle the ebbing social power of the commercial… read more
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16. Love in a Cold Climate
By: Nancy Mitford
4.40
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
Librarian's note: An alternate cover edition can be found One of Nancy Mitford's most beloved nov… read more
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17. Ian Fleming: The Complete Man
By: Nicholas Shakespeare
4.09
Format: 839 pages, Kindle Edition
A fresh portrait of the man behind James Bond, and his enduring impact, by an award-winning biograp… read more
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18. Macbeth
By: William Shakespeare
3.89
Format: None pages, Paperback
What he hears will change everything. Egged on by his wife, he decides to kill in order to gain the… read more
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"What, you egg?"-William Shakespeare, Macbeth
"What's done, is done"-William Shakespeare, Macbeth
"What's done cannot be undone."-William Shakespeare, Macbeth
"What, you egg? / [He stabs him.]"-William Shakespeare, Macbeth
19. Parade
By: Rachel Cusk
3.70
Format: 198 pages, Hardcover
From the exhilarating mind of Rachel Cusk, author of the Outline trilogy, Parade disturbs and defin… read more
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"He knew that [his work] embodied change, and he wasn’t interested in change. He was interested in the fragments that change leaves behind in its storming passage toward the future."-Rachel Cusk, Parade
"Not to be understood is effectively to be silenced, but not understanding can in its turn legitimise that silence, can illuminate one’s own unknowability. Art is the pact of individuals denying socie…"-Rachel Cusk, Parade
"Sanity and insanity were not opposites but rather were the two faces of inanimate matter, the point at which the existence of consciousness can get no further in breaking down the existence of substa…"-Rachel Cusk, Parade
"The impulse to have a child is very often a response to the woman’s own childhood, as though her childhood has left her incomplete, or has taken a part of her that she is driven to find again. The st…"-Rachel Cusk, Parade
20. Anthony Powell: Dancing to the Music of Time
By: Hilary Spurling
4.16
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
The author of the award-winning, two-volume Matisse: A Life, now gives us the long-awaited, definit… read more
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"Already a connoisseur of boredom, Tony extended his acquaintance with Salisbury's furnished lodgings and the cheap residential hotels of Andover."-Hilary Spurling, Anthony Powell: Dancing to the Music of Time
"Much of his time at Oxford passed by his own account under a dark cloud of listlessness and depression. He was dismayed by the undergraduates' relentless snobbery and unremitting emphasis on money."-Hilary Spurling, Anthony Powell: Dancing to the Music of Time
"Small, inquisitive and solitary, the only child of an only son, growing up in rented lodgings or hotel rooms, constantly on the move as a boy, Anthony Powell needed an energetic imagination to people…"-Hilary Spurling, Anthony Powell: Dancing to the Music of Time
