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- Translated by
- David McDuff
2003
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'Dostoyevsky's finest masterpiece' John BayleyDostoyevsky's great novel of damnation and redemption evokes a world where the lines between innocence and corruption, good and evil, blur. It tells the story of Raskolnikov, a destitute and desperate former student, who wanders through the slums of St Petersburg and commits a random murder without remorse or regret. He imagines himself to be beyond conventional moral laws. But as he embarks on a dangerous game of cat a...
Morphant, The
Gabriel Grant and The Ringmaster
- Narrated by
- Douggie McMeekin
Unabridged
5 hours 38 min
2017
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Gabriel Grant thinks he's an ordinary 13-year old Londoner. But one day, something happens that leaves him with extraordinary abilities... Suddenly, there are people who want to use him for his powers. What is Gabriel's connection with a monastery in the distant Himalayas? Who is the mysterious Searcher, and can he be trusted? Who or what is spying on Gabriel? Why have his parents suddenly disappeared? And what does all this have to do with a visiting circus? In an adventure based in the h...
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Anna Karenina
(Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
- Translated by
- Richard PevearLarissa Volokhonsky
- Series -
- Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition
2004
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The must-have Pevear and Volokhonsky translation of one of the greatest Russian novels ever writtenDescribed by William Faulkner as the best novel ever written and by Fyodor Dostoevsky as “flawless,” Anna Karenina tells of the doomed love affair between the sensuous and rebellious Anna and the dashing officer, Count Vronsky. Tragedy unfolds as Anna rejects her passionless marriage and thereby exposes herself to the hypocrisies of society. Set against a vas...
Underworld
A Novel
2007
EN
Finalist for the Pulitzer PrizeFinalist for the National Book AwardFinalist for the National Book Critics Circle AwardWinner of the Howell’s Medal of the American Academy of Arts and Letters“A great American novel” (San Francisco Chronicle) that spans five decades of American history, following the intimate lives of the men and women who lived through them.It b...
2007
EN
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WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE • The bestselling author of The Handmaid's Tale and The Testamentsweaves together strands of gothic suspense, romance, and science fiction into one utterly spellbinding narrative, beginning with the mysterious death of a young woman named Laura Chase in 1945.Decades later, Laura’s sister Iris recounts her memories of their childhood, and of the dramatic deaths that have punctuated their wealthy, eccentric family’s histor...
- Series -
- Vintage International
2014
EN
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**NATIONAL BESTSELLER • MAN BOOKER PRIZE WINNER • A magisterial novel of love and war that traces the life of one man from World War II to the present.Available now on Prime Video: Justin Kurzel’s highly anticipated series based on this Booker Prize–winning novel by Richard Flanagan; starring Jacob Elordi, Ciarán Hinds, Odessa Young, Olivia DeJonge and Simon Baker."Magnificent." —*The New York Times Book Review"Nothing short of a masterpiece.
The Sun Also Rises
Ernest Hemingway's Masterpiece of Love, Loss, and the Lost Generation
2025
EN
Love. Disillusionment. The search for meaning in a world forever changed. The Sun Also Rises is Ernest Hemingway's brilliant first novel—an evocative, emotionally restrained portrait of the post–World War I generation. Set across the cafés of Paris and the bullfighting arenas of Spain, it follows American expatriate Jake Barnes and a group of aimless friends as they seek connection and purpose amid moral decay and spiritual emptiness. Hemingway's spare, muscular prose and philosophical ins...
2009
EN
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The 30th anniversary edition of the virtuosic, wickedly comic modern classic about the pursuit of happiness in America, with a new foreword by Michelle Zauner, author of the New York Times bestselling sensation Crying in H Mart.“To my mind, there have been two great American novels in the past fifty years. Catch-22 is one; this is the other.” —Stephen King, Entertainment WeeklySet in an addicts’ halfway h...
The Goldfinch
A Novel (Pulitzer Prize for Fiction)
2013
EN
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A young New Yorker grieving his mother's death is pulled into a gritty underworld of art and wealth in this “extraordinary” and beloved novel that "connects with the heart as well as the mind" (Stephen King, New York Times Book Review), named a New York Times Best Book of the 21st Century.Theo Decker, a 13-year-old New Yorker, miraculously survives an accident that kills his mother. Abandoned by his father, Theo is taken in by the family of a weal...
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
A Novel
- Series -
- Vintage International
2010
EN
**A "dreamlike and compelling” tour de force (Chicago Tribune)—an astonishingly imaginative detective story, an account of a disintegrating marriage, and an excavation of the buried secrets from Japan’s forgotten campaign in Manchuria during World War II.Now with a new introduction by the author.**In a Tokyo suburb, a young man named Toru Okada searches for his wife’s missing cat—and then for his wife as well—in a netherworld beneath the city’s placid surface. As t...
The Sellout
A Novel
2015
EN
Winner of the Man Booker PrizeWinner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in FictionNamed one of the best books of by The New York Times Book Review and the Wall Street JournalA biting satire about a young man's isolated upbringing and the race trial that sends him to the Supreme Court, Paul Beatty's The Sellout showcases a comic genius at the top of his game. It challenges the...
2013
EN
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The bestselling, Man Booker Prize-winning novel, a breathtaking feat of storytelling where everything is connected, but nothing is as it seems ...**"A true achievement. Catton has built a lively parody of a 19th-century novel, and in so doing created a novel for the 21st, something utterly new. The pages fly." —**New York Times Book ReviewIt is 1866, and Walter Moody has come to stake his claim in New Zealand's booming gold rush. O...











