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  • Within the Tides

    Joseph Conrad

    (Penguin Classics, Oct. 7, 1993)
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  • Fireflies

    Shiva Naipaul

    Mass Market Paperback (Penguin Classics, Feb. 1, 1996)
    Follows the life of a strong Hindu woman who must adjust to an arranged marriage to a foolish man

  • The Invisible Man

    Ralph Ellison

    Paperback (Penguin, Aug. 16, 1965)
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  • 20th Century Plumed Serpent

    D H Lawrence

    Paperback (Penguin Classic, Oct. 2, 1990)
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  • The Twentieth Century

    C. Hopkinson

    Hardcover (Usborne Publishing Ltd, Nov. 26, 1993)
    A title from the USBORNE HISTORY OF THE MODERN WORLD, with colour photographs and artwork illustrating events from the Boxer Rebellion to the Beat Generation, examining the social, political and artistic aspects of the period, including ventures into space. Also available in papaerback priced at 6.99, ISBN 0 7460 0701 9.

  • Cheri the Last of Cheri

    Colette, Roger Senhouse, Raymond Mortimer

    Mass Market Paperback (Penguin Classics, June 1, 1995)
    Two volumes of Colette's most beloved works, with a new Introduction by Judith Thurman.Chéri, together with The Last of Chéri, is a classic story of a love affair between a very young man and a charming older woman. The amour between Fred Peloux, the beautiful gigolo known as Chéri, and the courtesan Léa de Lonval tenderly depicts the devotion that stems from desire, and is an honest account of the most human preoccupations of youth and middle age. With compassionate insight Colette paints a full-length double portrait using an impressionistic style all her own.

  • Voss

    Patrick White

    Paperback (Penguin Classics, July 6, 1993)
    Set in 19th-century Australia, this is the story of the secret passion between an explorer and a young orphan. Although they have met only a few times, Voss and Laura are joined by overwhelming, obsessive feelings for one another.

  • Look Homeward, Angel

    Thomas Wolfe

    Paperback (Penguin Books Ltd, April 26, 1990)
    None

  • Memoirs of a Midget

    Walter De LA Mare

    Paperback (Oxford University Press, Sept. 27, 1984)
    This is a haunting story, told in the first-person, of a Victorian gentlewoman of diminutive size. In the Introductorian gentlewoman of diminutive size. In the Introduction, Angela Carter calls it "an authentic masterpiece. Lucid, enigmatic, and violent with the terrible violence that leaves behind no physical trace."

  • The Grapes of Wrath

    John Steinbeck

    Paperback (Penguin Classics, Oct. 1, 1992)
    Forced from their home, the Joad family is lured to California to find work; instead they find disillusionment, exploitation, and hunger.

  • 20th Century Good Morning Midnight

    Jean Rhys

    Paperback (Penguin Classic, Dec. 4, 1990)
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  • The Bridge of San Luis Rey

    Thornton Niven Wilder

    Paperback (Penguin, March 15, 1941)
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