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ORLANDO: A BIOGRAPHY-PMC (OM) by WOOLF VIRGINIA
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Fiction Ser.
A gorgeous clothbound edition of Woolf's fantastical and enchanting novel, designed by the acclaimed Coralie-Bickford Smith. Orlando has always been an outsider... His longing for passion, adventure and fulfilment takes him out of his own time. Chasing a dream through the centuries, he bounds from Eliz ...Show more
The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
Category: Audio Books | Series: Modern Fiction
Elegiac, bittersweet and profoundly moving, "The Leopard" chronicles the turbulent transformation of the Risorgimento, in the period of Italian Unification. The waning feudal authority of the elegant and stately Prince of Salina is pitted against the materialistic cunning of Don Calogero, in Tomasi's ma ...Show more
The Lighthouse by Alison Moore
Category: Fiction | Series: Salt Modern Fiction
"The Lighthouse" begins on a North Sea ferry, on whose blustery outer deck stands Futh, a middle-aged, recently separated man heading to Germany for a restorative walking holiday. Spending his first night in Hellhaus at a small, family-run hotel, he finds the landlady hospitable but is troubled by an e ...Show more
The Source of the Sound by Patrick Holland
Category: Fiction | Series: Salt Modern Fiction S.
"The Source of the Sound" traces the journeys of exiles in search of home, through the terrestrial infernos and purgatories of supermodernity. In almost every story there is some elemental contact with light and sound; the characters' longing for simple, uncorrupted signs that would render life in the 2 ...Show more
Ulysses by James Joyce
Category: Audio | Series: Modern Fiction
Leopold Bloom wanders through Dublin, talking, observing, musing -- and always remembering Molly, his passionate, wayward wife. Set in the shadow of Homer's Odyssey, internal thoughts give physical reality extra color and perspective.
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