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Experience the definitive portrait of the Roaring Twenties. "Jay Gatsby’s lavish, champagne-drenched parties on Long Island glitter with wealth, yet Gatsby himself stands alone in the crowd, hiding an intense, consuming passion for a woman from his past. F. Scott Fitzgerald’s legendary novel captures the dazzling glamor and the underlying disillusionment of a generation desperate for reinvention."

Author: F Scott Fitzgerald

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A monumental achievement in 20th-century literature. "Through the four fractured voices of the Compson family, William Faulkner weaves a story of decline, memory, and the inexorable passage of time. The Sound and the Fury remains one of the most challenging and rewarding novels ever written, a breathtaking display of stream-of-consciousness prose that redefined the possibilities of the novel."

Author: William Faulkner

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In his first novel since The Corrections, Jonathan Franzen has given us an epic of contemporary love and marriage. Freedom comically and tragically captures the temptations and burdens of too much liberty: the thrills of teenage lust; the shaken compromises of middle age; the wages of suburban sprawl; the heavy weight of empire. In charting the mistakes and joys of Freedom's intensely realized characters, as they struggle to learn how to live in an ever more confusing world, Franzen has produced an indelible and deeply moving portrait of our time.

Author: Jonathan Franzen

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In 1942, against the backdrop of a world at war, a volatile but determined young woman leaves Edinburgh for London. Caught in a dangerous passion for an English airman, Charlotte Gray finds her life irrevocably altered when he disappears. With the shadow of war looming, she travels to occupied France—not just on an errand for a British organisation, but for her own private purposes.

Author: Sebastian Faulks

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"My name is Mike Engleby, and I'm in my second year at an ancient university."

With this brief introduction, the author introduces one of the most mesmerizing, singular voices in a long tradition of disturbing narrators. Despite Mike Engleby's obvious intelligence and compelling voice, it is clear that something about him is not quite right. When a classmate he is fixated on vanishes, the reader is left with a looming question: Is Mike Engleby involved? Engleby is a chilling and unforgettable novel that leads the reader down a darkly humorous path where you are never completely comfortable or confident about what is true.

Author: Sebastian Faulks

Extra Note: First US Edition 2007

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Where Keith and Stephen live the only signs of World War II are the blackout at night and a single random bomb-site. But the two boys suspect that their neighbors are not what they seem. As Keith authoritatively informs the trusting Stephen, the whole district is riddled with secret passages and underground laboratories — hideaways for any number of murderers, unsung war heroes and secret agents.  Then one day Keith announces that the Germans have infiltrated his own family. And when the secret underground world they have dreamed up emerges from the shadows they find themselves engulfed in mysteries far deeper and more painful than they had bargained for.

Author: Michael Frayn

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Set against the sun-drenched, intoxicating landscapes of Provence on the brink of World War II, the story follows a tightly knit circle of Oxford intellectuals spending a final, idyllic summer together before the gathering storm of European fascism changes their lives forever. At the dark heart of the novel is the enigmatic, fiercely independent Livia—a woman who disrupts hearts, weaponizes secrets, and eventually aligns herself with the dark historical tides of the era.

Author: Lawrence Durrell

1978 First Edition - Rare find in South Africa!

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A highly acclaimed historical novel by the Irish author Sebastian Barry. It is widely regarded as one of the most poignant and powerful depictions of the Irish experience during the First World War.

Author: Sebastian Barry

Extra Note: The bottom/middle of the first and last few pages have very light/feint water stains. The book is otherwise in very good overall condition.

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The Lamberts - Enid and Alfred and their three grown-up children are a troubled family living in a troubled age. Alfred is slowly losing his mind to Parkinson's disease. As his condition worsens, and the Lamberts are forced to face the secrets and failures that haunt them, Enid sets her heart on gathering everyone together for one last family Christmas.

Author: Jonathan Franzen

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The Lamberts - Enid and Alfred and their three grown-up children are a troubled family living in a troubled age. Alfred is slowly losing his mind to Parkinson's disease. As his condition worsens, and the Lamberts are forced to face the secrets and failures that haunt them, Enid sets her heart on gathering everyone together for one last family Christmas.

Author: Jonathan Franzen

Extra Note: Listed as worn because the last few pages have moisture damage. No obvious visible stains, slight ripple and a slight tight feel to the pages. Otherwise the book is in a good overall condition. 

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It is the story of a shepherd boy from the Spanish region of Andalusia who dreams of travelling the world in search of a treasure as desirable as any ever found. From his home he journeys to the exotic markets of North Africa and then into the Egyptian desert, where a fateful encounter with the alchemist awaits him...

Author: Paulo Coelho

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A masterfully atmospheric classic from the award-winning author of The Lover. Originally published in 1950, The Sea Wall is the celebrated third novel by French literary icon Marguerite Duras. Lured by colonial Indo-China, a French widow invests her life savings into a worthless tract of coastal Vietnamese land. Every year, the relentless flood tides of the Pacific Ocean destroy her crops, proving no wall can keep the sea at bay. Battered by natural forces, the widow and her two children refuse to surrender, struggling against the elemental absurdity of their existence.

Author: Marguerite Duras

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