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The Avignon Quintet

Monsieur, Livia, Constance, Sebastian, and Quinx

by Lawrence Durrell
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2012

 From the visionary author of the Alexandria Quartet comes a landmark five-part series hailed by the Sunday Times as “one of the great novels of our time.” One of the most celebrated English writers ever, Lawrence Durrell was a bestselling author whose vivid metafictions pushed the boundaries...
by Voltaire
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2015

Voltaire’s satire of eighteenth-century Europe, hailed as one of the most influential works in the Western canon Candide’s misfortunes begin when his uncle, a German baron, banishes him for kissing the baron’s daughter, Cunégonde. Forced to make his own way in the world, Candide goes...
by Graham Greene
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2018

A hapless salesman in Cuba is recruited into Cold War spy games in Greene’s classic “comical, satirical, atmospherical” novel (The Daily Telegraph).   James Wormold, a cash-strapped vacuum cleaner salesman in Havana, finds the answer to his prayers when British Intelligence offers him a lucrative...
by Elizabeth Gaskell
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017

A tale of love, class, and murder during the era of the trade-union movement in nineteenth-century England, from the author of North and South. In Manchester, long-suffering John Barton and his daughter, Mary, both want a better future for each other.  John toils away with the trades’ union...
by James Joyce
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2014

The debut of Ireland’s greatest author and one of the most influential voices in modern literature It took nine years for James Joyce to find a publisher for this vivid, uncompromising, and altogether brilliant portrait of Dublin at the turn of the twentieth century. Now regarded as one of...

The Vampyre

A Tale

by John William Polidori
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2017

This classic vampire story has inspired generations of authors, from Bram Stoker to Charlaine Harris. A young English gentleman of means, Aubrey is immediately intrigued by Lord Ruthven, the mysterious newcomer among society’s elite. His unknown origin and curious behavior tantalizes Aubrey’s...
by Rudyard Kipling
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2016

This dramatic nineteenth-century nautical adventure and classic coming-of-age story is one of Rudyard Kipling’s most enduringly popular works. Harvey Cheyne Jr., the teenage son of a millionaire American railroad tycoon, is sailing to Europe on a luxury liner when he falls overboard off the...
by Pearl S. Buck
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012

Pearl S. Buck’s timeless masterpiece, the Pulitzer Prize–winning story of a farmer’s journey through China in the 1920s The Good Earth is Buck’s classic story of Wang Lung, a Chinese peasant farmer, and his wife, O-lan, a former slave. With luck and hard work, the couple’s fortunes...
by Bruce Chatwin
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2016

Whitbread Award Winner: A novel by the author of In Patagonia, about a pair of twins and their long, remarkable lives in the farmlands of Wales. For forty-two years, identical twins Lewis and Benjamin Jones have shared a bed, a farm, and a life. But the world has scarred and warped them each...
by Rumer Godden
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2016

Following World War II, a British widow joins a Benedictine monastery in this poignant New York Times bestseller from the author of Black Narcissus. For most of her adult life, Philippa Talbot has been a successful British professional. Now in her forties, the World War II–widow has made...
by Lawrence Durrell
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2012

Who will survive the Labyrinth of Crete? A group of English cruise-ship tourists debark to visit the isle of Crete’s famed labyrinth, the City in the Rock. The motley gathering includes a painter, a poet, a soldier, an elderly married couple, a medium, a convalescent girl, and the mysterious...
by E. R. Eddison
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2014

Demonland and Witchland wage war in this massively influential fantasy classic With the arrival of a Witchland envoy making demands of Demonland’s chief lords, peace between the two lands is irrevocably shattered. The chief lords Juss and Spitfire send their brother Goldry to defeat the witch...

The Good Earth Trilogy

The Good Earth, Sons, and A House Divided

by Pearl S. Buck
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2013

The Pulitzer Prize–winning classic novel of China, together with its two sequels—by the Nobel Prize winner.   *The Good Earth *is Buck’s classic, Pulitzer Prize–winning story of Wang Lung, a Chinese peasant farmer, and his wife, O-lan, a former slave. With luck and hard work, the...
by H. G. Wells
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2017

Modern warfare takes to the skies in this novel by a master of science fiction and fantasy.   In 1907, young Bert Smallways, a brilliant mechanist and accidental aeronaut, finds himself a reluctant stowaway upon the very same airship that will begin the Great War. Soon, Smallways is swept away aboard...
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