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Villette
By Charlotte Brontë, A.S. Byatt (Introduction), Μαρία Λαϊνά (Translator), Ignes Sodre (Introduction)
With her final novel, Villette, Charlotte Brontë reached the height of her artistic power. First published in 1853, Villette is Brontë's most...
Wuthering Heights
By Emily Brontë, Baruch Hochman (Notes by)
"My greatest thought in living is Heathcliff. If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be... Nelly, I am Heathcliff! He's...
Naked Lunch
By William S. Burroughs, James Grauerholz (Editor), Barry Miles (Editor)
The book is structured as a series of loosely connected vignettes. Burroughs stated that the chapters are intended to be read in any order. The...
Choke
By Chuck Palahniuk
Victor Mancini, a medical-school dropout, is an antihero for our deranged times. Needing to pay elder care for his mother, Victor has devised an...
Atonement
By Ian McEwan
Ian McEwan’s symphonic novel of love and war, childhood and class, guilt and forgiveness provides all the satisfaction of a brilliant narrative and...
The World According to Garp
By John Irving
This is the life of T.S. Garp, the bastard son of Jenny Fields--a feminist leader ahead of her time. This is the life and death of a famous mother...
Dolores Claiborne
By Stephen King
"Everything I did, I did for love..."For thirty years, folks on Little Tall Island have been waiting to find out just what happened on the eerie dark...
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
By Rebecca Skloot
From the back cover: Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor black tobacco farmer whose cells--taken without...
If I Stay
By Gayle Forman
Librarian note: an alternate cover for this edition can be found here.On a day that started like any other…Mia had everything: a loving family, a...
The Goldfinch
By Donna Tartt
It begins with a boy. Theo Decker, a thirteen-year-old New Yorker, miraculously survives an accident that kills his mother. Abandoned by his father,...