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The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage International Ser.
Michael Ondaatje's three previous novels have each been met with the highest praise: for their startling narrative inventiveness, the richness of their imagery and emotion, and the spellbinding quality of their language. When "In the Skin of a Lion" was published in 1987, Carolyn Kizer, writing in "The ...Show more
The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
Category: Culture | Series: Vintage International Ser.
A national bestseller when it first appeared in 1963, The Fire Next Time galvanized the nation and gave passionate voice to the emerging civil rights movement. At once a powerful evocation of James Baldwin's early life in Harlem and a disturbing examination of the consequences of racial injustice, the b ...Show more
The First Man by Albert Camus
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Vintage International Ser.
Camus tells the story of Jacques Cormery, a boy who lived a life much like his own. Camus summons up the sights, sounds and textures of a childhood circumscribed by poverty and a father's death yet redeemed by the austere beauty of Algeria and the boy's attachment to his nearly deaf-mute mother. Publish ...Show more
The Golden Age: A Novel by Gore Vidal
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage International Ser.
The Golden Age is Vidal's crowning achievement, a vibrant tapestry of American political and cultural life from 1939 to 1954, when the epochal events of World War II and the Cold War transformed America, once and for all, for good or ill, from a republic into an empire. The sharp-eyed and sympathetic wi ...Show more
The Grass Harp by Truman Capote
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage International Ser.
Set on the outskirts of a small Southern town, The Grass Harp tells the story of three endearing misfits-an orphaned boy and two whimsical old ladies-who one day take up residence in a tree house. As they pass sweet yet hazardous hours in a china tree, The Grass Harp manages to convey all the pleasures ...Show more
The Light of Day by Graham Swift
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage International Ser.
This novel from the Booker Prize-winning author of Last Orders is a luminous and gripping tale of love, murder, and redemption.
The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage International Ser.
'Manuscripts don't burn' This ribald, carnivalesque satire - featuring the Devil, true love and a gun-toting cat - was written in the darkest days of the Soviet Union and became an underground sensation.A new series of twenty distinctive, unforgettable Penguin Classics in a beautiful new design and pock ...Show more
The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus
Category: Languages and Reference | Series: Vintage International Ser.
Influenced by Don Juanand the novels of Kafka, The Myth of Sisyphuspresents a meditation on suicide; the question of living or not living in a universe devoid of order or meaning. With lyrical eloquence, Albert Camus, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, brilliantly posits a way out of despair, reaf ...Show more
The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard Flanagan
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage International Ser.
Winner of the Man Booker Prize“Nothing since Cormac McCarthy's The Road has shaken me like this.” —The Washington PostFrom the author of the acclaimed Gould's Book of Fish, a magisterial novel of love and war that traces the life of one man from World War II to the present.August, 1943: Australian surge ...Show more
The Optimist's Daughter by Eudora Welty
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage International Ser.
A young woman who has left the South, returns to New Orleans several years later when her father is dying. After his death, she and her young stepmother go back to the small Mississippi town where she grew up. Alone in the old house, Laurel finally comes to an understanding of the past and herself.
The Painted Veil by W. Somerset Maugham
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage International Ser.
She did not know what to say. She was undecided whether indignantly to assert her innocence or to break out into angry reproaches. He seemed to read her thoughts. 'I've got all the proof necessary.'Kitty Fane is the beautiful but shallow wife of Waiter, a bacteriologist stationed in Hong Kong. Unsatisfi ...Show more
The Plot Against America by Philip Roth
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage International Ser.
"When the renowned aviation hero and rabid isolationist Charles A. Lindbergh defeated Franklin Roosevelt by a landslide in the 1940 presidential election, fear invaded every Jewish household in America. Lindbergh had publicly blamed the Jews for pushing America towards a pointless war with Nazi Germany. ...Show more