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Bridge on the Drina by ANDRIC
Category: Fiction | Series: Phoenix Fiction Ser.
A vivid depiction of the suffering history has imposed upon the people of Bosnia from the late 16th century to the beginning of World War I, "The Bridge on the Drina" was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1961. As we seek to make sense of the current nightmare in this region, this remarkable, ti ...Show more
Old Masters: A Comedy by Thomas Bernhard
Category: Classics | Series: Phoenix Fiction Ser.
In this exuberantly satirical novel, the tutor Atzbacher has been summoned by his friend Reger to meet him in a Viennese museum. While Reger gazes at a Tintoretto portrait, Atzbacher--who fears Reger's plans to kill himself--gives us a portrait of the musicologist: his wisdom, his devotion to his wife, ...Show more
Pictures from an Institution: A Comedy by Randall Jarrell
Category: Classics | Series: Phoenix Fiction Series PF Ser.
Beneath the unassuming surface of a progressive women's college lurks a world of intellectual pride and pomposity awaiting devastation by the pens of two brilliant and appalling wits. Randall Jarrell's classic novel was originally published to overwhelming critical acclaim in 1954, forging a new standar ...Show more
Staying On by Paul Scott
Category: Fiction | Series: Phoenix Fiction Ser.
Tusker and Lily Smalley stayed on in India. Given the chance to return'home' when Tusker, once a Colonel in the British Army, retired, theychose instead to remain in the small hill town of Pangkot. with itseccentric inhabitants and archaic rituals left over from the days of theEmpire. Only the tyranny o ...Show more
THE YOUNG LIONS by SHAW IRWIN
Category: History | Series: Phoenix Fiction Series PF (CHUP) Ser.
One of the great World War II novels, this New York Times-bestselling "masterpiece" captures the experiences of three very different soldiers (The Boston Globe). Standing alongside Norman Mailer's The Naked and the Dead and James Jones's From Here to Eternity, The Young Lions is one of the most powe ...Show more
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