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ABYSSINIAN CHRONICLES by ISEGAWA MOSES
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage International (Paperback)
Like Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children" "and Gabriel Garcia Marquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude, Moses Isegawa's Abyssinian Chronicles tells a riveting story of twentieth-century Africa that is passionate in vision and breathtaking in scope. At the center of this unforgettable tale is Mugezi, a y ...Show more
Any Human Heart (U.S. Edition) by William Boyd
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage International (Paperback)
The author of "Armadillo, The Blue Afternoon" and "Brazzaville Beach" now pens his most entertaining, sly and compelling novel to date, a novel that evokes the tumult, events and iconic faces of our time, as it tells the story of Logan Mountstuart--writer, lover and man of the world--through his intimat ...Show more
Duino Elegies & The Sonnets To Orpheus by Rainer Maria Rilke
Category: Poetry | Series: Vintage International (Paperback)
Available for the first time in a single volume, Ranier Maria Rilke's two most beloved sequences of poems rendered by his most faithful translator. Rilke is unquestionably the twentieth century's most significant and compelling poet of romantic transformation and spiritual quest. His poems of ecstatic i ...Show more
Eclipse by John Banville
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage International (Paperback)
In this deeply moving and original book, John Banville alloys mystery, fable, and ghost story with poignant psychological acuity to forge the riveting story of a man wary of the future, plagued by the past, and so uncertain in the present that he cannot discern the spectral from the real. When renowned ...Show more
Embers (U.S. ed.) by Sandor Marai
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage International (Paperback)
Already an international bestseller, "Embers"--first published in Budapest in 1942--finds an aristocrat and his friend fighting a duel of words over the now-dead chatelaine of the castle. A "New York Times" Notable Book.
Extinction by Thomas Bernhard
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage International (Paperback)
The last work of fiction by one of the twentieth century's greatest artists, "Extinction "is widely considered Thomas Bernhard's magnum opus. Franz-Josef Murau--the intellectual black sheep of a powerful Austrian land-owning family--lives in Rome in self-imposed exile, surrounded by a coterie of artisti ...Show more
Indignation by Philip Roth
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage International (Paperback)
NATIONAL BESTSELLER In 1951, the second year of the Korean War, a studious, law-abiding, and intense youngster from Newark, New Jersey, Marcus Messner, begins his sophomore year on the pastoral, conservative campus of Ohio's Winesburg College. And why is he there and not at a local college in Newark whe ...Show more
Laughter in the Dark by Vladimir Nabokov
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage International (Paperback)
A comedy of desire, deception and denial played out against the background of the film world of 1930s Berlin.
Master Harold ...and the Boys (Playscript) by Athol Fugard
Category: Literature | Series: Vintage International (Paperback)
This play about a young white boy and two African servants is at once a compelling drama of South African apartheid and a universal coming-of-age story. Originally produced in 1982, it is now an acknowledged classic of the stage, whose themes of injustice, racism, friendship, and reconciliation traverse ...Show more
Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays by Albert Camus
Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: Vintage International (Paperback)
The Myth of Sisyphus First English edition Author Albert Camus Original title Le Mythe de Sisyphe Country France Language French Genre Philosophical essay, Existentialism, Absurdism Publisher French: Gallimard English: Hamish Hamilton Publication date 1942 Published in English 1955 ISBN 0-67 ...Show more
On Green Dolphin Street by Sebastian Faulks
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Vintage International (Paperback)
The bestselling author of Birdsong" "and Charlotte Gray" "delivers an enthralling, vibrantly evocative novel set in America in 1960, when the country stood poised between the paranoia of the Cold War and the ebullience of the New Frontier. Faulks' heroine is Mary Van der Linden, a pretty, reserved Engli ...Show more
On the Beach by Nevil Shute
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage International (Paperback)
Nevil Shute's most powerful novel--a bestseller for decades after its 1957 publication--is an unforgettable vision of a post-apocalyptic world. After a nuclear World War III has destroyed most of the globe, the few remaining survivors in southern Australia await the radioactive cloud that is heading the ...Show more