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Jonathan Swift

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Simon Cadell

This classic book of English literature is an insightful satire on human nature, probing the corruption of man. It's also a parody on traveller's tales, as Jonathan Swift chronicles the voyages to Lilliput, Brobingnag, and other fantastical destinations in this powerful 18th-century masterpiece. Simon Cadell reads with a sure touch and great understanding of his subject.

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Simon Swift

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Routledge Critical Thinkers

Hannah Arendt's work offers a powerful critical engagement with the cultural and philosophical crises of mid-twentieth-century Europe. Her idea of the banality of evil, made famous after her report on the trial of the Nazi war criminal, Adolf Eichmann, remains controversial to this day.In the face of 9/11 and the 'war on terror', Arendt's work on the politics of freedom and the rights of man in a democratic state are especially relevant. Her impassioned plea for the creation of a p...

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Graham Swift

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Gigi Marceau Clarke, Simon Prebble, Ian Stewart, Jenny Sterlin, Gerard Doyle, Simon Jones, Dominic Hawksley

Set in Southeast England, friendship and love among a group of men whose lives have been intertwined since World War II. When one dies, the survivors are brought together and are forced to take stock of the paths their lives have taken, by choice and by accident, since the war. Winner of the 1996 Booker Prize.

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Graham Swift

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Gigi Marceau Clarke, Simon Prebble, Ian Stewart, Jenny Sterlin, Gerard Doyle, Simon Jones, Dominic Hawksley

Set in Southeast England, friendship and love among a group of men whose lives have been intertwined since World War II. When one dies, the survivors are brought together and are forced to take stock of the paths their lives have taken, by choice and by accident, since the war. Winner of the 1996 Booker Prize.

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Josiah R. Baker, Eric S. See, Christopher M. Bellas, Sarah A. See, Joseph Binns, Kayla Birmingham, Mikaela Brosh, Christopher Lee Cronin, Matthew Dobra, Steve Downs, Michelle L. Foster, Mark Kline, Paul Knudson, Sabrina Koncaba, Haley Lapcevich, J. Scott Lewis, Bertha Llamas, Lisa G. Long, David A. Mackey, Monica Merrill, Amanda Moreschi, Deborah Morris, Courtney Platt, Michael Potts, Mark R. Regensburger, Justin Shaughnessy, Nicole A. Shoenberger, Jason Simon, Kevin Swift, Robert Szewczyk, Dan Trigoboff, Mark Vecellio, Karla Weinbrenner, Mary G. Wilson, David Wulff, Madeline Yeung

Guns 360 takes a comprehensive and common-sense approach to some of the most difficult issues facing not only the criminal justice system but also society as a whole: firearm possession, regulation, and control. Issues related to firearms cut across all dimensions of society and are a concern to everyone from the members of the general public, law enforcement, academics, politicians, public health agencies, and the media. An interdisciplinary approach is needed to fully understand...

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Graham Swift

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Phil Davis

It’s the summer of 1959, and something magical can be witnessed at the end of the pier in beach town Brighton, England. Jack Robbins, Ronnie Deane, and Evie White are performing in a seaside variety show, starring as Jack Robinson, the compere comedian, and The Great Pablo and Eve, a magic act. By the end of the summer, Evie’s glinting engagement ring will be flung to the bottom of the ocean, and one of the trifecta will vanish forever. All three friends begin their path toward the end of ...

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Jonathan Escoffery

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Torian Brackett

**Shortlisted for the 2023 Booker PrizeLonglisted for the 2024 Dublin Literary AwardLonglisted for the 2022 National Book Award for FictionA September 2022 IndieNext PickA major debut, blazing with style and heart, that follows a Jamaican family striving for more in Miami, and introduces a generational storyteller.**In the 1970s, Topper and Sanya flee to Miami as political violence consumes their native Kingston. But America, as the couple and their two...

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Leanda de Lisle

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Daphne Kouma

Brought to you by Penguin.A myth-busting biography of Henrietta Maria, wife of Charles I, which retells the dramatic story of the civil war from her perspectiveHenrietta Maria is the most reviled consort to have worn the crown of Britain's Three Kingdoms. Condemned as that 'Popish brat of France', a 'notorious whore' and traitor, she remains in popular memory the wife who wore the breeches and turned her husband Catholic ? so causing a civi...

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Penelope Lively

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Daniel Gerroll, Patricia Kalember

The Photography is a literary, psychologically complex novel of suspense that brings acclaimed author Penelope Lively's talents to a whole new level.

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Leo Tolstoy, Richard F. Gustafson

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Kevin R. Free, George Guidall, T. Ryder Smith, Suzanne Toren

This collection of eleven stories spans virtually the whole of Tolstoy's creative life. While each is unique in form, as a group they are representative of his style, and touch on the central themes that surface in War and Peace and Anna Karenina. Stories as different as "The Snowstorm", "Lucerne", "The Diary of a Madman", and "The Devil" are grounded in autobiographical experience. They deal with journeys of self-discovery and the moral and religious thought that characterizes Tolstoy's w...

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Anton Chekhov

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Adam Grupper, T. Ryder Smith, Henry Strozier

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Rosamund Bartlett

Raymond Carver called Anton Chekhov 'the greatest short story writer who has ever lived.' This unequivocal verdict on Chekhov's genius has been echoed many times by writers as diverse as Katherine Mansfield, Somerset Maugham, John Cheever and Tobias Wolf. While his popularity as a playwright has sometimes overshadowed his achievements in prose, the importance of Chekhov's stories is now recognized by readers as well as by fellow authors. Their themes--alienation, the absurdity and tragedy ...