This collection, available exclusively in e-book form, brings together the twelve novels (and one novella) of the great Portuguese writer José Saramago, with an introductory essay by Ursula Le Guin.
From Saramago’s early work,...
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In the "brilliant novel" (The New York Times) V.S. Naipaul takes us deeply into the life of one man—an Indian who, uprooted by the bloody tides of Third World history, has come to live in an isolated town at the bend of a great river in a newly...
**From the prizewinning author of *HHhH* , "the most insolent novel of the year" ( *L'Express*** **)**
Paris, 1980. The literary critic Roland Barthes dies — struck by a laundry van — after lunch with the presidential candidate François...
It all begins in the Stone Age, when a talking fish is caught by a fisherman at the very spot where millennia later Grass's home town, Danzig, will arise. Like the fish, the fisherman is immortal, and down through the ages they move together. As...
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The Novels of Alexander the Great: Fire From Heaven, the Persian Boy, and Funeral Games
The Novels of Alexander the Great: Fire From Heaven, the Persian Boy, and Funeral...
The novelist's camera pans from the dome of King Fuad University (now Cairo University) to students streaming out of the campus, focusing on four students in their twenties, each representing a different trend in Egypt in the 1930s. Finally the...
From bestselling historian Adrian Goldsworthy, a profoundly authentic, action-packed adventure set on the northern frontier of the Roman Empire.
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A FORT ON THE EDGE OF THE ROMAN WORLD
Flavius Ferox, Briton turned Roman centurion,...
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is a nearly complete rewrite of the abandoned Stephen Hero novel, the original manuscript of which was partially destroyed in a fit of rage during an argument with Nora. A kunstlerroman, or story of the...