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EnglandDescription:
A hilarious satire about college life and high class manners, this is a classic of postwar English literature. Regarded by many as the finest, and funniest, comic novel of the twentieth century, Lucky Jim remains as trenchant, withering, and eloquently misanthropic as when it first scandalized readers in 1954. This is the story of Jim Dixon, a hapless lecturer in medieval history at a provincial university who knows better than most that “there was no end to the ways in which nice things are nicer than nasty ones.” Kingsley Amis’s scabrous debut leads the reader through a gallery of emphatical... continue
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Luna şi doi bani jumate by William Somerset Maugham RO
Country: Europe / 
United Kingdom
United Kingdom
Description:
Luna si doi bani jumate are ca punct de pornire biografia faimosului pictor francez Paul Gauguin. Personajul principal, Charles Strickland (Gauguin) este un agent de bursa londonez. Isi doreste foarte mult sa picteze, iar aceasta dorinta il determina sa paraseasca Londra, sa plece la Parris, apoi in Tahiti, lasandu-i pe cei apropiati in mizerie. Departe de civilizatie, Strickland picteaza necontenit, devenind unul dintre cei mai mari pictori ai lumii. Chinurile si sfasierea interioara ale agentului de bursa, care isi urmeaza destinul indiferent de consecinte, devin un simbol al blestemului art... continue
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Magic Seeds by V. S. Naipaul EN
Country: North America / 
Trinidad and Tobago
Trinidad and Tobago
Description:
Nobel laureate V. S. Naipaul’s magnificent Magic Seeds continues the story of Willie Chandran, the perennially dissatisfied and self-destructively naive protagonist of his bestselling Half a Life. Having left a wife and a livelihood in Africa, Willie is persuaded to return to his native India to join an underground movement on behalf of its oppressed lower castes. Instead he finds himself in the company of dilettantes and psychopaths, relentlessly hunted by police and spurned by the people he means to liberate. But this is only one stop in a quest for authenticity that takes in all the fanatic... continue
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Maisie Dobbs by Jacqueline Winspear EN
Description:
In her first case, private detective Maisie Dobbs must investigate the reappearance of a dead man who turns up at a cooperative farm called the Retreat that caters to men who are recovering their health after World War I. A first novel. Reprint.
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Man in the Queue by Josephine Tey EN
ScotlandDescription:
A stabbing murder in the midst of a London theatre crowd sends Scotland Yard Inspector Alan Grant on a far-flung investigation.
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Mansfield Park by Jane Austen EN
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Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design. Taken from the poverty of her parents' home in Portsmouth, Fanny Price is brought up with her rich cousins at Mansfield Park, acutely aware of her humble rank and with her cousin Edmund as her sole ally. During her uncle's absence in Antigua, the Crawford's arrive in the neighbourhood bringing with them the glamour of London life and a reckless taste ... continue
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Mary Barton by Elizabeth Gaskell EN
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'It's the masters as has wrought this woe; it's the masters as should pay for it.'Set in Manchester in the 1840s - a period of industrial unrest and extreme deprivation - Mary Barton depicts the effects of economic and physical hardship upon the city's working-class community. Paralleling the novel's treatment of the relationship between masters and men, the suffering of the poor, and the workmen's angry response, is the story of Mary herself: a factory-worker's daughter who attracts the attentions of the mill-owner's son, she becomes caught up in the violence of class conflict when a brutal m... continue
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Millennium People by J. G. Ballard EN
ChinaDescription:
In this novel, an explosion at Heathrow takes the life of psychologist David Markham's ex-wife. In response, he infiltrates the antigovernment group responsible for the bombing--and begins to fall under its sway.--"Library Journal."
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Monk's Hood by Ellis Peters EN
Description:
When a visitor to the abbey dies, Brother Cadfael faces a personal drama. For not only was the man poisoned by monk's hood oil, made in Cadfael's own laboratory, the dead man's widow is also the woman to whom Cadfael was betrothed before he took his vows.