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The Lover, Wartime Notebooks, Practicalities by Marguerite Duras
Category: No Category | Series: Everyman's Library CLASSICS Ser.
Marguerite Duras was one of the leading intellectuals and novelist of post-war France, but her wartime writings were not published in full until after her death. The Wartime Notebooks trace Duras's formative experiences - including her difficult childhood in Indochina and her harrowing wait for her husb ...Show more
The Social Contract and the Discourses by Jean-Jacques Rousseau; G.D.H. Cole (Translator)
Category: Reference | Series: Everyman's Library Classics Ser.
"THE SOCIAL CONTRACT is one of three most influential treatises ever written (the others being PLato's REPUBLIC and Marx's DAS KAPITAL) Of the three it is safe to say that only THE SOCIAL CONTRACT is much read in its entirety today, and it continues to exert a direct influence on contemporary political ...Show more
The Susan Effect by Peter Hoeg
Category: No Category | Series: Everyman's Library Classics | Reading Level: very good
Susan Svendsen has a special talent: she has a unique ability to make people confide in her and tell her their innermost secrets. She has exploited that talent, and now has a prison sentence hanging over her head for punching a Bollywood actor in an Indian casino. To make matters worse, her husband is o ...Show more
The Travels of Marco Polo by Peter Harris (Editor); Colin Thubron (Introduction by); Marco Polo; William Marsden (Translator)
Category: History | Series: Everyman's Library Classics Ser.
Now in a handsome and newly revised hardcover edition: the extraordinary travelogue that has enthralled readers for more than seven centuries. Marco Polo's vivid descriptions of the splendid cities and people he encountered on his journey along the Silk Road through the Middle East, South Asia, and Chin ...Show more
Women in Love by D. H. Lawrence; David Ellis (Introduction by)
Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Ser.
With an Introduction by Joyce Carol Oatesforeword by the authorCommentary by Carl van Doren, Rebecca West,Aldous Huxley, and Henry MillerIt is . . . the world of the poets and the preponderance of the poet in Lawrence that is the key to his work. He magnified and deepened experience in the manner of a p ...Show more
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë; Katherine Frank (Introduction by)
Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library Classics Ser.
Wuthering Heights a novel by Emily Bront , first published in 1847 under the pseudonym Ellis Bell. It was her first and only published novel: she died the following year, at age 30. The decision to publish came after the success of her sister Charlotte's novel, Jane Eyre. After Emily's death, Charlotte ...Show more