Fiction

   

 Considered by many to be his greatest book, Michel Butor's Mobile is the result of the six months the author spent traveling across America. The text is composed from a wide range of materials, including city names, road signs, advertising slogans, catalog listings, newspaper accounts of the 1893 World's Fair,...

   

  Brand: Random House Books for Young Readers Color: White Edition: 1 Binding: Paperback Format: Import Number Of Pages: 295 Release Date: 14-02-2002 Part Number: RKC2008501843 EAN: 9781564783066 Package Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.6 x 0.8 inches Languages: English

  Ordered by two mysterious men to write a statement of about 100 pages, the narrator of Chinese Letter--who's not sure of his name, but calls himself Fritz--faithfully records the bizarre occurrences of his daily life: his absurd conversations with his mother who is abducted by slave traders, his visits...

   

   

   Ben Flesh is one of the men “who made America look like America, who made America famous.” He collects franchises, traveling from state to state, acquiring the brand-name establishments that shape the American landscape. But both the nation and Ben are running out of energy. As blackouts roll through...

   

  Details: "It takes so long to see you are a slave," muses one character in these lyrical, sometimes bitingly funny chronicles of women breaking out of imposed roles.?"Jack Kerouac Is Pregnant "chronicles the dreams of misplaced waitresses, prostitutes and other working girls, the survival techniques of secretaries too smart...

  Details: "A man called Berg, who changed his name to Greb, came to a seaside town intending to kill his father...."So begins Ann Quin's first novel, which has been compared to the fiction of Samuel Beckett and Nathalie Sarraute. Against the backdrop of this gritty seaside town, an absurd...

   

  Details: Product Description Best known for her Gothic language handbooks (reissued recently as The New Well-Tempered Sentence and The Deluxe Transitive Vampire), Karen Elizabeth Gordon here turns her extraordinary talents to fiction, and the result is as unconventional as her seductive grammar dramas. The Red Shoes consists of tatters...

Author: Kristeva, JuliaBrand: Columbia University PressBinding: hardcoverNumber Of Pages: 220Release Date: 27-01-1998Part Number: 9780231109987Details: Product Description This sequel to Kristeva's celebrated allegory The Old Man and the Wolves returns to the corrupt, seaside resort of a mythical town, where the boundaries between East and West, civilization and barbarism, and good...

  Details: Jawaharlal Nehru wrote the book ‘The Discovery of India’, during his imprisonment at Ahmednagar fort for participating in the Quit India Movement (1942 – 1946). The book was written during Nehru’s four years of confinement to solitude in prison and is his way of paying an homage to...

  Details: The #1 Sunday Times from 'the most influential public intellectual in the Western world right now' (New York Times)What are the most valuable things that everyone should know?Acclaimed clinical psychologist Jordan Peterson has influenced the modern understanding of personality, and now he has become one of the world's...

      Details: The third and final volume of the essential works of Foucault series, power brings together his writings on the issues that he helped make the core agenda of Western political culture: medicine, prisons, psychiatry, government and sexuality, in particular showing his concerns with human rights, discrimination...

  Details: 'A fabulous journey through thirty years of political and intellectual ferment ... will reorient our reading of Foucault's major works' Didier EribonThe Essential Works of Michel Foucault offers the definitive collection of his articles, interviews and seminars from across thirty years of his extraordinary career. This first volume,...

  Brand: Penguin Color: Blue Edition: Latest Edition Features: VIKING, A great option for a Book Lover It comes with proper packaging It's a great choice for a book person Binding: Paperback Number Of Pages: 368 Release Date: 01-12-2015 Part Number: 9780241972939 Details: *The international bestseller from the author of...

  Details: The Trial by Franz Kafka is a haunting exploration of bureaucracy, isolation, and the absurdity of modern life. This iconic novel follows Josef K., an ordinary man who is suddenly arrested and thrust into a nightmarish, surreal legal system with no explanation or understanding of the charges against...

  In Heart Lamp In Heart Lamp, Banu Mushtaq exquisitely captures the everyday lives of women and girls in Muslim communities in southern India. Published originally in the Kannada, these portraits of family and community tensions testify to Mushtaq’s years as a journalist and lawyer, in which she tirelessly championed...

    Details: ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA (THE NEW CAMBRIDGE SHAKESPEARE) 2ND EDITION SHAKESPEARE 9781107653245 0 CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS  

   

    Raymond Chandler was America's preeminent writer of detective fiction, and this Penguin Modern Classics edition of The Big Sleep and Other Novels collects three of the best novels to feature his hard-drinking, philosophising PI, Philip Marlowe. Raymond Chandler created the fast talking, trouble seeking Californian private eye Philip...

  A Showtime/Paramount+ series starring Ewan McGregor as Count Alexander RostovFrom the number one New York Times-bestselling author, a beautifully transporting novel about a man who is ordered to spend the rest of his life inside a luxury hotel'A wonderful book' - Tana French'This novel is astonishing, uplifting and wise....

  Details: Having sold more than fifty million copies, it is among one of the best-selling books of all time. The novel—originally intended for adults—was written in the last years of Sewell’s life while she was housebound, being published just five months before her death. While the primary theme of...

    Details: Agatha Christie was born in Torquay in 1890 and became, quite simply, the bestselling novelist in history. Her first novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, written towards the end of the First World War, introduced us to Hercule Poirot, who was to become the most popular detective...

      Details: Christopher Marlowe wrote this spectacularly subversive play in 1589/1590. The setting is the island of Malta as a bone of contention between Spain and the Ottoman Empire in their struggle for supremacy in the Mediterranean. The ghost of Machiavelli appropriately introduces this tale of murder and...

    Dickens's best novel, humble, orphaned Pip is apprenticed to the dirty work of the forge but dares to dream of becoming a gentleman — and one day, under sudden and enigmatic circumstances, he finds himself in possession of "great expectations." In this gripping tale of crime and guilt,...

    Details: Murder in the Cathedral, written for the Canterbury Festival on 1935, was the first high point on T. S. Eliot's dramatic achievement. It remains one of the great plays of the century. Like Greek drama, its theme and form are rooted in religion and ritual purgation and...

     

   

  Details: Raja Rao’s Kanthapura is one of the finest novels to come out of mid-twentieth century India. Kanthapura is the story of how Gandhi's struggle for independence from the British came to a typical village, Kanthapura, in South India. Young Moorthy, back from the city with new ideas, cuts...

    Details: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man represents the transitional stage between the realism of Joyce's 'Dubliners' and the symbolism of 'Ulysses', and is essential to the understanding of the later work.  

   

    Details: In this study of sexual and political intrigue, a fascinating but dangerous woman consents to the murder of her ineffectual husband. Her defence against the charge of adultery transforms the lurid tale of crime into high tragedy.

  Details: THE MARRIAGE OF CADMUS AND HARMONY is a book without any modern parallel. Forming an active link in a chain that reaches back through Ovid's METAMORPHOSES directly to Homer, Roberto Calasso's re-exploration of the fantastic fables and mysteries we may only think we know explodes the entire world...

  Details: Providing an overview of current ideas about the brain, this book includes current physiological and anatomical understanding as well as cognitive and behavioural understanding. Starting with an account of neural activity, physiology and brain anatomy, discussions of structural organization lead into questions about localization of function. The relationship...