In 1830, Rutherford Calhoun, a newly freed slave leading a dissolute life in New Orleans, finds himself forced into marriage.Charles JohnsonScribnerlunes, 11 de noviembre de 2019
Dr. Bruce Gold, forty-eight-year-old Jewish professor of English, faces the prospects--and perquisites--of a very high State Department position and the prospective satisfaction of...Joseph HellerNew York : Pocket Books, 1980, c1979.sábado, 9 de noviembre de 2019
John Kennedy Toole's hilarious satire, A Confederacy of Dunces is a Don Quixote for the modern age, and this Penguin Modern Classics edition includes a foreword by Walker Percy. Ne...Toole, JohnPenguinsábado, 9 de noviembre de 2019
Harry Angstrom, now middle aged and the chief sales representative of a Toyota dealership, attempts to cope with such problems as inflation, governmental ineffectiveness, the retur...by John UpdikeNew York : Fawcett Crest, 1982, c1981.sábado, 9 de noviembre de 2019
Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction The Counterlife is about people living their dreams of renewal and escape, some of them going so far as to risk their l...Philip RothRandom Housesábado, 9 de noviembre de 2019
When their mother dies, four children living in an isolated house in London find themselves without guidance for the entire summer.McEwan, IanVintagesábado, 9 de noviembre de 2019
In an African country that has suffered revolution and civil war and that is headed by a man of almost insane energy and crudity, one restless, reflective, and isolated villager an...V. S. NaipaulVintage Books, 1980, c1979.sábado, 9 de noviembre de 2019
With an Introduction and Notes by Dr Sally Minogue, Department of English, Canterbury Christ Church University College. Arguably Bronte's most refined and deeply felt work, 'Villet...Bronte, CharlotteWordsworth Editions, Ltdsábado, 9 de noviembre de 2019
On a poor farm near Starkfield in western Massachusetts, Ethan Frome struggles to wrest a living from the land, unassisted by his whining and hypochondriacal wife Zeena. When Zeena...Wharton, EdithWordsworth Editions, Ltdsábado, 9 de noviembre de 2019
Memoirs of a Woman of PleasureFirst published in London in 1749, the story of a country orphan's initiation into the urban world of prostitution offers a remarkably frank portrait of sexual awakening of a young...John Cleland,Wordsworth Editions, Ltdsábado, 9 de noviembre de 2019
It is 1757. Across north-eastern America the armies of Britain and France struggle for ascendancy. Their conflict, however, overlays older struggles between nations of native Ameri...Cooper, James FenimoreWordsworth Editions, Ltdsábado, 9 de noviembre de 2019
This powerful, original, and, above all, unpredictable novel pits Wilfred Barclay, a famous but failing British novelist, against Rick L. Tucker, an obscure American academic whose...Golding, WilliamFaber & Fabersábado, 9 de noviembre de 2019
Familieforholdene hos en berømt fysiker, som er et videnskabeligt geni, men en tåbe hvad menneskelige forhold angårAldous Huxley,Triad Bookssábado, 9 de noviembre de 2019
A NovelA historical novel with portraits of Teddy Roosevelt and William Randolph Hearst illuminates Roosevelt's Washington, America's Gilded Age, and the expanding American empire.Gore VidalNew York : Vintage International, 2000.sábado, 9 de noviembre de 2019
Britain, 1972. Operation Sweet Tooth: Serena Frome, a bishop's daughter now turned spy, is sent on a secret mission to charm Tom Haley, a promising young writer. First she loves hi...McEwan, IanRandom Housesábado, 9 de noviembre de 2019
???Harry Houdini, the greatest escape artist of all time, walks stark naked up six flights of stairs to Murderers??? Row, to be incarcerated as a supreme test of his power . . . In...E. L. DoctorowLondon : Pan Books in association with Macmillan, 1985.sábado, 9 de noviembre de 2019
The story of the Pargiter family - their intimacies and estrangements, anxieties and triumphs - mapped out amongst the bustling rhythms of London's streets during the first decade ...Virginia WoolfPenguin Books Ltdsábado, 9 de noviembre de 2019
The story of young Nanda Brookenham's struggle to preserve her honesty in the brilliant but corrupt world of her parents is a drama of innocence betrayed yet preserved. Written whe...Henry JamesNew York : A.A. Knopf, c1997.sábado, 9 de noviembre de 2019
In a faraway medieval realm, Manfred, an arrogant and evil prince, rules with an iron fist. Banishing his wife to the castle dungeon, he confines ??? and plans to wed ??? the lovel...Horace WalpoleDover Publicationssábado, 9 de noviembre de 2019
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