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| 109 | Bret Easton Ellis | American Psycho | Paperback | 399 | Aug 1997 | MacMillan | Literature & Fiction |
American Psycho Bret Easton EllisRating: 3.5 (7 votes) Date Added: 16 Aug 2008 Summary: American Psycho is a harsh commentary upon a society dominated by materialism and devoid of emotion, passion, caring or love.
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| 110 | George Orwell | Animal Farm | Paperback | 128 | Jun 2003 | Penguin Classics | Literature & Fiction |
Animal Farm George OrwellRating: 5.0 (1 votes) Date Added: 16 Aug 2008 Summary: The book is written by Eric Arthur Blair with the pen name of George Orwell. In this novel he speaks of Communism, why it is actually more of a bane than a boon. He got the idea of writting a book from an animals perspective when one day, he saw a little boy of about 10 years of age driving a huge cart-horse along a narrow path, whipping it whenever it tried to turn. It struck him that if only such animals became aware of their strength humans should have no power over them. He felt that humans exploit animals in much the same way as the rich exploit the proletariat. He thus began to analyse Marxism from the animal's point of view. This book is for both the young and old who are interested to know why Communism is said to be bad when it actually seems to act fairly on paper. Readers will enjoy the irony of Marxism when implemented on the animals, at the same time they learn the vital weaknessess that expels Communism from being an viable alternative in anyway. A must read!
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| 111 | Simone De Beauvoir | Blood of Others | Paperback | 240 | Jan 1990 | Penguin Putnam~trade | Literature & Fiction |
Blood of Others Simone De BeauvoirRating: 5.0 (4 votes) Date Added: 18 May 2009 Summary: Through the study of the social ethics of France under German occupation, Simone de Beauvoir describes the true question at the heart of existentialism - 'How much responsibility can one truly have for other peoples' lives?' - and the ethical and moral questions that are raised as a consequence. That said, the book is lively and weaves the philosophical theme into the story seamlessly. Profound and uplifting.
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Classic fiction Modern fiction Fiction / Classics General & Literary Fiction |
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| 112 | Ronald Douglas Gray | Brecht | Paperback | 120 | Dec 1961 | Oliver & Boyd | Literature & Fiction |
| 113 | Charlotte Wood | Children | Paperback | Jan 2007 | Allen & Unwin | Literature & Fiction | |
| 114 | Jonathan Coe | The Closed Circle | Hardcover | 384 | May 2005 | Knopf | Literature & Fiction |
The Closed Circle Jonathan CoeRating: 4.0 (13 votes) Date Added: 16 Aug 2008 Summary:
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Fiction Fiction - General Literary Fiction / Literary Political Adultery Birmingham (England) Brothers Legislators London (England) |
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| 115 | Ken Follett | Code to Zero | Paperback | 480 | Jun 2001 | Pan Books | Literature & Fiction |
Code to Zero Ken FollettRating: 4.5 (3 votes) Date Added: 16 Aug 2008 Summary: He wakes up in the men's room at Union Station. He can not remember who he is or how he got there. One shocking look in the mirror tells him he is a bum however he can not believe it. Now he must find out who he is. Watch answer leads him in a different direction and we are intrigued to find more about what let to this situation.
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| 116 | Truman Capote | The Complete Stories | Paperback | 320 | Jun 2005 | Penguin Classics | Literature & Fiction |
| 117 | Jonathan Franzen | The Corrections | Hardcover | 576 | Nov 2001 | Fourth Estate | Literature & Fiction |
The Corrections Jonathan FranzenRating: 3.5 (66 votes) Date Added: 01 Dec 2007 Summary: Critically lauded and an Oprah Book Club choice, Jonathan Franzen's third novel "The Corrections" is already a huge success in the US, and it's none too difficult to see why. Whereas his earlier novels, "The Twenty-Seventh City" and "StrongMotion" could be seen as single-issue works (on inner city decay and abortion respectively), the long-awaited "The Corrections" is far more grandiose in its ambition and its scale.
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| 118 | Kesey, Ken | Demon Box | Paperback | Apr 1987 | Penguin Group (USA) Incorporat | Literature & Fiction | |
| 119 | Geoffrey Moore | Edgar Allan Poe | Hardcover | 64 | Nov 1988 | Aurum Press Ltd | Literature & Fiction |
Edgar Allan Poe Geoffrey MooreEditor: Geoffrey Moore Rating: 4.0 (11 votes) Date Added: 18 May 2009 Summary: EVERYMAN'S POETRY LIBRARY: This new series of the world's greatest poetry features the hallmarks of Everyman Classics: top-quality production and reader-friendly design along with helpful notes and critiques. Each edition is also a great value, especially for those readers beginning to explore the work of this remarkable poet.
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Literary studies: 19th century Poetry & poets Poetry & poets: 19th century Poetry texts & anthologies Works by individual poets: 19th century American poetry American English English USA LITERARY CRITICISM / European / General LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry Literary Criticism / American / General POETRY / General Literary Criticism |
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| 120 | Hunter S. Thompson | Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas | Paperback | 190 | May 1977 | PALADIN | Literature & Fiction |
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas Hunter S. ThompsonRating: 5.0 (1 votes) Date Added: 18 May 2009 Summary: "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream" by Hunter S. Thompson
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| 121 | Robert Ludlum | The Gemini Contenders | Mass Market Paperback | 416 | Aug 1989 | Bantam | Literature & Fiction |
The Gemini Contenders Robert LudlumRating: 4.0 (25 votes) Date Added: 16 Aug 2008 Summary: Dead of night. Salonika, Greece, December 1939. A clandestine order of monks embarks on a desperate mission: to transport a mysterious vault to a hiding place high in the Italian Alps. Its sinister contents, concealed fro centuries, could rip apart the Christian world. Now, as the Nazi threat marches inexorably closer, good men and evil will be drawn into a violent and deadly hunt, sparking a relentless struggle that could forever change the world as we know it.
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Espionage/Intrigue Fiction / Espionage Thrillers Fiction Fiction - Espionage / Thriller |
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| 122 | Aryn Kyle | The God of Animals | Hardcover | 320 | Apr 2007 | Weidenfeld & Nicolson | Literature & Fiction |
| 123 | Salman Rushdie | Ground Beneath Her Feet, Fiction | Paperback | Aug 2000 | Vintage | Literature & Fiction | |
| 124 | Martin Amis | House of Meetings | Hardcover | 208 | Sep 2006 | Jonathan Cape | Literature & Fiction |
House of Meetings Martin AmisRating: 3.5 (15 votes) Date Added: 01 Dec 2007 Summary: With House of Meetings Martin Amis has at last put down his distorting lens. With the unarguable reality of his subject matter - the Siberian gulag - what is left to distend? Only the faint but imperishable joys of human imagination can grace such a heartless state inspired depravity. And here, at last, Amis serves himself a dish greatly to his relish and taste. Utilising wonderfully subtle hyperbole, he creates a Russian alter-ego whose self-awareness unshackles the author's usual authorial straightjacket.
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| 125 | Kiran Desai | Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard | Paperback | 224 | May 1999 | Anchor | Literature & Fiction |
Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard Kiran DesaiRating: 4.5 (48 votes) Dewey: 813.54 Date Added: 18 May 2009 Summary: Pity the poor Chawla family of Shahkot, India--their son, Sampath causes all kinds of trouble for his family, culminating in a "Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard", but in a village like Shakhot, hullabaloo is a way of life. Indian writer Kiran Desai begins her first novel with Sampath's birth at the tail-end of a terrible drought. His mother, Kulfi, half-maddened by heat and hunger, can think of nothing but food: "Her stomach grew larger. Her dreams of eating more extravagant. The house seemed to shrink. All about her the summer stretched white-hot into an infinite distance. Finally, in desperation for another landscape, she found a box of old crayons in the back of a cupboard and ... began to draw.... As her husband and mother-in-law retreated in horror, not daring to upset her or the baby still inside her, she drew a parade of cooks beheading goats." Sampath's father, Mr. Chawla is a man for whom "oddness, like aches and pains, fits of tears and lethargy" is a source of discomfort; he fears "these uncontrollable, messy puddles of life, the sticky humanness of things." This distaste for sticky humanness will prove problematic for Mr. Chawla later in life when his son grows up to become a young man possessed of a great deal of feeling and very little common sense or ambition.
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Fiction Fiction - General Fiction / Literary Literary India Sadhus |
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| 126 | Richard Bach | Jonathan Livingston Seagull: A Story | Paperback | 96 | Aug 1994 | HarperCollins Publishers Ltd | Literature & Fiction |
Jonathan Livingston Seagull: A Story Richard BachRating: 4.5 (66 votes) Date Added: 01 Dec 2007 Summary: "Most gulls don't bother to learn more than the simplest facts of flight--how to get from shore to food and back again," writes author Richard Bach, in this allegory about a unique bird named Jonathan Livingston Seagull. "For most gulls it is not flying that matters, but eating. For this gull, though, it was not eating that mattered, but flight." Flight is indeed the metaphor that makes the story soar. Ultimately this is a fable about the importance of seeking a higher purpose in life, even if your flock, tribe or neighbourhood finds your ambition threatening. (At one point our beloved gull is even banished from his flock.) By not compromising his higher vision, Jonathan gets the ultimate pay-off: transcendence. Ultimately, he learns the meaning of love and kindness. The dreamy seagull photographs by Russell Munson provide just the right illustrations--although the overall packaging does seem a bit dated (keep in mind that it was first published in 1970). Nonetheless, this is a spirituality classic and an especially engaging parable for adolescents. --"Gail Hudson"
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| 127 | Donna Tartt | The Little Friend | Paperback | 576 | Jun 2005 | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC | Literature & Fiction |
The Little Friend Donna TarttRating: 3.5 (25 votes) Date Added: 05 May 2007 Summary: You know the feeling of sticking your hand in a sack of grain? The engulfing sense of texture that surrounds your fingers, comfortingly close, smooth yet strangely rough, tactile and claustrophobic, and ultimately entirely satisfying. Donna Tartt's prose is like that. Her plots are dense, with so many themes tied together that it can feel as though the events are crowding around you, happening just out of your sight. There is no other author who so easily marries excitement and intrigue with sumptuous description and literary reference. As it was with The Secret History, so it is with The Little Friend. There is something for absolutely everyone here, whether you are looking for the excitement of a murder mystery or the insight and subtle illusions of literary fiction.
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| 128 | Christos Tsiolkas | Loaded | Paperback | 15 | Dec 1996 | Random House USA Inc | Literature & Fiction |
Loaded Christos TsiolkasRating: 5.0 (6 votes) Date Added: 29 Dec 2009 Summary: If you can get hold of this book through Amazon U.K., do so, if you want to read about a realistic portrayal of a young gay Greek-Australian in inner city Melbourne. Not a hint of Kangaroos bounding across the Yarra River, or Crocodile Dundee, Thank God.
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| 129 | Gustave Flaubert | Madame Bovary: A Story of Provincial Life | Paperback | 368 | Apr 1951 | Penguin Books | Literature & Fiction |
Madame Bovary: A Story of Provincial Life Gustave FlaubertRating: 4.5 (25 votes) Date Added: 18 May 2009 Summary: For this novel of French bourgeois life in all its inglorious banality, Flaubert invented a paradoxically original and wholly modern style. His heroine, Emma Bovary, a bored provincial housewife, abandons her husband to pursue the libertine Rodolphe in a desperate love affair. A succès de scandale in its day, "Madame Bovary" remains a powerful and arousing novel.
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19th century fiction Classic fiction Fiction / Classics Fiction / General Fiction / Literary General & Literary Fiction |
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| 130 | Mikhail Bulgakov | The Master and Margarita | Paperback | 384 | Mar 1996 | Vintage | Literature & Fiction |
The Master and Margarita Mikhail BulgakovRating: 4.5 (318 votes) Date Added: 01 Dec 2007 Summary: Surely no stranger work exists in the annals of protest literature than "The Master and Margarita". Written during the Soviet crackdown of the 1930s, when Mikhail Bulgakov's works were effectively banned, it wraps its anti-Stalinist message in a complex allegory of good and evil. Or would that be the other way around? The book's chief character is Satan, who appears in the guise of a foreigner and self-proclaimed black magician named Woland. Accompanied by a talking black tomcat and a "translator" wearing a jockey's cap and cracked pince-nez, Woland wreaks havoc throughout literary Moscow. First he predicts that the head of noted editor Berlioz will be cut off; when it is, he appropriates Berlioz's apartment. (A puzzled relative receives the following telegram: "Have just been run over by streetcar at Patriarch's Ponds funeral Friday three afternoon come Berlioz.") Woland and his minions transport one bureaucrat to Yalta, make another one disappear entirely except for his suit, and frighten several others so badly that they end up in a psychiatric hospital. In fact, it seems half of Moscow shows up in the bin, demanding to be placed in a locked cell for protection.
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| 131 | Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni | The Mistress of Spices | Paperback | 317 | Feb 1998 | Black Swan | Literature & Fiction |
The Mistress of Spices Chitra Banerjee DivakaruniRating: 3.5 (15 votes) Date Added: 01 Dec 2007 Summary: There are books that, although nothing much happens, they still give the impression of many things bubbling under the surface - this is one of them. Not dissimilar to Alice Hoffman's Practical Magic, this is a story of the magic in the mundane, only in this case, rather than trying to fit in and be "normal", the narrator tries desperately to hang onto her mystery and magic, all the while battling her own desires in order to remain a Mistress of Spices. It's a voyage of self-discovery, of living in a foreign land and trying to maintain the elements of home in a new country. It's also, ultimately, a story of hope - that perhaps a woman really can have it all if she dares.
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| 132 | Truman Capote | Other Voices, Other Rooms | Paperback | 192 | May 2004 | Penguin Classics | Literature & Fiction |
| 133 | Jonathan Coe | The Rain Before It Falls | Hardcover | 277 | Jan 2007 | Viking Books | Literature & Fiction |
The Rain Before It Falls Jonathan CoeRating: 4.5 (8 votes) Date Added: 06 Dec 2009 Summary: Following "The Rotters’ Club "and its sequel, "The Closed Circle, "Jonathan Coe now offers his first stand-alone novel in a decade, a story of three generations of women whose destinies reach from the English countryside in World War II to London, Toronto, and southern France at the turn of the new century.
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| 134 | Jonathan Coe | The Rotters' Club | Hardcover | Oct 2004 | E-Penguin | Literature & Fiction | |
| 135 | Omar Khayyam | The Rubaiyat | Paperback | 64 | Mar 1991 | Dover Publications Inc. | Literature & Fiction |
The Rubaiyat Omar KhayyamRating: 4.0 (4 votes) Date Added: 01 Dec 2007 Summary: Intending purchasers of the Rubaiyat with this particular ISBN need to be wary. What I got here was exactly what I wanted, namely FitzGerald's first version, the version familiar to many of us from our schooldays as it is given in the additional poems at the end of Palgrave's Golden Treasury. FitzGerald revised the work no fewer than four times, and so far as I can see there is also a version in circulation with this same ISBN but giving one of the later texts and having a different editor as well as a different picture on the cover.
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| 136 | Donna Tartt | The Secret History | Paperback | 640 | Jul 1993 | Penguin Books Ltd., London | Literature & Fiction |
The Secret History Donna TarttRating: 4.0 (154 votes) Date Added: 01 Dec 2007 Summary: It seems to be a book that either readers love or hated but i am quite in between for me it was a page turner and i loved the fact that greek was inputed here and there but i did find it rather a aint climax and donna tartt not the best writer but by far not the worst. I found the ending depressing; that none of the characters are happy, sure it makes sense that everyone was effected by their murder badly but it seem that if they were willing enogh to do that enventually the should move on and find SOME happiness, (not in a fake fairy tale way) i mean even the dead are unhappy! I was also shocked at how causual (thought it was predictable to the read) the whole twin thing was taken by the rest of the group!
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| 137 | Augusten Burroughs | Sellevision: A Novel | Paperback | 240 | Jun 2003 | Picador | Literature & Fiction |
Sellevision: A Novel Augusten BurroughsRating: 4.0 (137 votes) Dewey: 813.6 Date Added: 18 May 2009 Summary: Light and funny, with a bitter aftertaste, the action of "Sellevision" takes place behind the scenes (and on the set) of a successful television shopping network, where a feminine role model, Peggy Jean Smythe, the married, Christian mother of three, begins receiving suspicious e-mail from a viewer who insists that Peggy's hairy earlobe is obscuring her presentation of jewelry during the broadcast. When Peggy fails to respond to the e-mail, but silently waxes her lobe, the cruel notes escalate, until Peggy believes herself to be suffering from a hormonal crisis that has given her a mustache, a gruff voice, and the manner of a lumberjack. Meanwhile, one of her cohosts, Max Andrews, has been fired for accidentally exposing himself during a children's special, and learns just how undesirable a commodity a penis-baring ex-Sellevision host can be on the job market. The book is an unusually smooth read for a first novel, with six or seven truly inspired lines. "--Regina Marler"
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Modern fiction Television personalities - Fiction. Popular American Fiction Fiction Fiction - General Fiction / General General Humorous Gay men Scandals Teleshopping Television personalities General & Literary Fiction |
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| 138 | Gregory David Roberts | Shantaram | Paperback | 944 | Mar 2005 | Abacus | Literature & Fiction |
Shantaram Gregory David RobertsRating: 4.5 (66 votes) Date Added: 01 Dec 2007 Summary: I can't believe some of the critical reviews of this book that I have just read here. This book is one of the best I have read in a long long time. I really enjoyed it and found it hard to put down. Surely this is an important quality in a book..... The book has also given me a desire to learn more about and possibly even travel to India. All in all I felt the book was well written and gripping and I highly recommend it
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| 139 | Hermann Hesse | Siddhartha | Hardcover | 128 | May 1997 | MacMillan | Literature & Fiction |
Siddhartha Hermann HesseDate Added: 18 May 2009 Summary: In the novel, "Siddhartha," a young man, leaves his family for a contemplative life, then, restless, discards it for one of the flesh. He conceives a son, but bored and sickened by lust and greed, moves on again. Near despair, Siddhartha comes to a river where he hears a unique sound. This sound signals the true beginning of his life -- the beginning of suffering, rejection, peace, and, finally, wisdom. "From the Paperback edition."
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Modern fiction German fiction Literature - Classics / Criticism Classics Fiction / Classics Literary General & Literary Fiction |
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| 140 | Christos Tsiolkas | The Slap | Paperback | 485 | Jan 2008 | Allen & Unwin Australia | Literature & Fiction |
The Slap Christos TsiolkasRating: 3.0 (5 votes) Date Added: 29 Dec 2009 Summary: Winner of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize 2009, this title is an international bestseller. At a suburban barbecue, a man slaps a child who is not his own...The reverberations call into question the relationships between all those who witness it. At a suburban barbecue one afternoon, a man slaps an unruly 3-year-old boy. The boy is not his son. It is a single act of violence, but this one slap reverberates through the lives of everyone who witnesses it happen. In his controversial, award-winning novel, Christos Tsiolkas presents an apparently harmless domestic incident as seen from eight very different perspectives. The result is an unflinching interrogation of our lives today; of the modern family and domestic life in the twenty-first century, a deeply thought-provoking novel about boundaries and their limits...
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| 141 | Bruce Chatwin | Songlines | Paperback | 304 | Nov 1998 | Random House UK | Literature & Fiction |
Songlines Bruce ChatwinRating: 4.0 (54 votes) Dewey: 910 Date Added: 18 May 2009 Summary: The late Bruce Chatwin carved out a literary career as unique as any writer's in this century: his books included "In Patagonia", a fabulist travel narrative, "The Viceroy of Ouidah", a mock-historical tale of a Brazilian slave-trader in 19th century Africa, and "The Songlines", his beautiful, elegiac, comic account of following the invisible pathways traced by the Australian aborigines. Chatwin was nothing if not erudite, and the vast, eclectic body of literature that underlies this tale of trekking across the outback gives it a resonance found in few other recent travel books. A poignancy, as well, since Chatwin's untimely death made "The Songlines" one of his last books.
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Cultural studies Modern fiction Social & cultural anthropology Australian aborigines English Travel Australia FICTION / General SOCIAL SCIENCE / General TRAVEL / Essays & Travelogues Travel / Australia & Oceania Travel Writing |
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| 142 | Douglas Kennedy | Special Relationship, A | Paperback | 416 | Aug 2004 | Arrow | Literature & Fiction |
Special Relationship, A Douglas KennedyRating: 5.0 (4 votes) Date Added: 16 Aug 2008 Summary: This is serious popular fiction -- a true page-turner -- about an American woman in London whose entire life is turned upside down, and London becomes a very foreign place.
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| 143 | Lewis Carroll | The Story of Sylvie and Bruno | Paperback | 340 | Jun 2005 | Kessinger Publishing, LLC | Literature & Fiction |
The Story of Sylvie and Bruno Lewis CarrollDewey: 813 Date Added: 18 May 2009 Summary: 1926. From the author of the Alice books, The Story of Sylvie and Bruno follows the adventures of two young children in such places as Dogland, Outland and Elfland. It combines Carrollian nonsense, linguistic play and philosophical reflection.
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Classic fiction Fiction Literature - Classics / Criticism Literature: Classics Classics Fiction / Classics General & Literary Fiction |
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| 144 | Terence Haw Ed) | Structuralism and Semiotics | Paperback | 192 | Sep 1977 | Routledge | Literature & Fiction |
Structuralism and Semiotics Terence Haw Ed)Dewey: 401 Date Added: 18 May 2009 Summary: Intended for those with no prior knowledege of the subject, this book discuses the nature and development of structure and semiotics. It answers questions raised by the whole `science of signs' considering what `reading' and `writing' involves.
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Linguistic semiotics Semantics (meaning) Literary Criticism Literature - Classics / Criticism Literary Criticism / Semiotics & Theory Semiotics & Theory Literary Theory |
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| 145 | Rohinton Mistry | Such a Long Journey | Paperback | 352 | Mar 1992 | Faber and Faber | Literature & Fiction |
Such a Long Journey Rohinton MistryRating: 4.0 (46 votes) Dewey: 813 Date Added: 18 May 2009 Summary: Mistry does something that only the really natural writers can do: without apparent effort, manipulation or contrivance, he creates characters you like instantly and will gladly follow for as long as the novel leads. The book is about an Indian family during the years of Indira Ganhdi's rule; it's also a study of the times, its politics and corruption, and was especially interesting for me, who knows so little about life in the rest of the world. It had to be a good book: after I read Such a Long Journey, I wanted to go right out and buy a plane ticket and see India for myself.
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Modern fiction Indic fiction (English) Fiction Fiction / General General & Literary Fiction |
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| 147 | Franz Kafka | The Trial | Paperback | 304 | May 1988 | Picador Classics | Literature & Fiction |
The Trial Franz KafkaRating: 4.5 (40 votes) Date Added: 16 Aug 2008 Summary: The story of "The Trial"'s publication is almost as fascinating as the novel itself. Kafka intended his parable of alienation in a mysterious bureaucracy to be burned, along with the rest of his diaries and manuscripts, after his death in 1924. Yet his friend Max Brod pressed forward to prepare "The Trial" and the rest of his papers for publication. When the Nazis came to power, publication of Jewish writers such as Kafka was forbidden; Kafka's writings, many of which have distinctively Jewish themes, did not find a broad audience until after World War II. (Hannah Arendt once observed that although "during his lifetime he could not make a decent living, [Kafka] will now keep generations of intellectuals both gainfully employed and well-fed.") Among the current crop of Kafka heirs is Breon Mitchell, the translator of this edition of "The Trial". Rather than tidying up Kafka's unconventional grammar and punctuation (as previous translators have done), Mitchell captures the loose, uneasy, even uncomfortable constructions of Kafka's original story. His translation technique is the only way to convey the comedy and confusion of this narrative, in which Josef K., "without having done anything truly wrong," is arrested, tried, convicted and executed--on a charge that is never disclosed to him. --"Michael Joseph Gross"
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Modern fiction Fiction Literature - Classics / Criticism Literature: Classics Classics Literary Fiction / Literary |
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| 148 | Anais Nin | Under a Glass Bell | Paperback | 112 | Apr 1986 | Penguin Books Ltd | Literature & Fiction |
Under a Glass Bell Anais NinRating: 4.0 (5 votes) Date Added: 18 May 2009 Summary: Anais Nin did not adhere to the traditions of story-telling. Formulaic plots, character arcs, and realistic descriptions didn't interest her. She was a master of character analysis and description -- instead of watching her characters move through the story, you, as the reader, move through the characters. This was because Nin was experimenting with a new artistic movement called surrealism and she ended up being one of its brightest stars.
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| 149 | Thomas Hardy | Under the Greenwood Tree | Paperback | 192 | Nov 1994 | Wordsworth Editions Ltd | Literature & Fiction |
Under the Greenwood Tree Thomas HardyRating: 5.0 (5 votes) Date Added: 01 Dec 2007 Summary: I borrow the title of Poussin's painting to add my appreciation. Hardy view his rustics through the prism of music: the old church string choir is to be replaced with the spanking new organ. Added to this is the story of young Dave and his love for the organist, Fancy Day.
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