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The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Writings
"The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Writings" is a collection that displays the full force of Edgar Allen Poe's mastery of both...
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Madame Bovary
‘Oh, why, dear God, did I marry him?’
Emma Bovary is beautiful and bored, trapped in her marriage to a mediocre doctor and stifled by the...
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Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors
Sontag wrote "Illness as Metaphor" in 1978, while suffering from breast cancer herself. In her study, she reveals that the metaphors and myths...
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The Essential Works of Michel Foucault 1954-1984, Volume 3
This book covers the topics Foucault helped make the core agenda of Western political culture - medicine, prisons, psychiatry, government and...
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The Psychopathology of Everyday Life
This collection of writings is famous for giving us the phrase 'Freudian slip'. It also builds up a strong social history of Vienna and the...
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Civilization and Its Discontents
In what remains one of his most seminal papers, Freud considers the incompatibility of civilisation and individual happiness, and the tensions...
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No Easy Walk to Freedom
‘There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we...
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Down and out in Paris and London
Written when Orwell was a struggling writer in his twenties, it documents his 'first contact with poverty'. Here, he painstakingly documents a world...
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The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
A fascinating insight into the vibrant culture of Modernism, and the rich artistic world of Paris's Left Bank, Gertrude Stein's The Autobiography of...
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Story of the Eye: By Lord Auch
Bataille's first novel, published under the pseudonym 'Lord Auch', is still his most notorious work. In this explicit pornographic...
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Disobedience
Alice Notley has earned a reputation as one of the most challenging and engaging radical female poets at work today. Her last collection, Mysteries...
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The Captive Mind
Written in Paris in the early 1950s, this book created instant controversy in its analysis of modern society that had allowed itself to be hypnotized...
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Another Country
'A masterwork... an almost unbearable, tumultuous, blood-pounding experience' Washinton Post
When Another Country appeared in 1962, it caused a...
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Go Tell it on the Mountain
James Baldwin's electrifying first novel.
'I had to deal with what hurt me most. I had to deal with my father.'
Drawing on James Baldwin's own...
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Seize the Day
Fading charmer Tommy Wilhelm has reached his day of reckoning and is scared. In his forties, he still retains a boyish impetuousness that has brought...
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Tender is the Night
F. Scott Fitzgerald's last completed novel, Tender is the Night is edited by Arnold Goldman with an introduction and notes by Richard Godden in...
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A Spy In The House Of Love
Sabrina is a firebird blazing through 1950s New York: she is a woman daring to enjoy the sexual licence that men have always known. Wearing...
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A Spy In The House Of Love
Beautiful, bored and bourgeoise, Sabina leads a double life inspired by her relentless desire for brief encounters with near-strangers. Fired into...
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The Wretched of the Earth
Frantz Fanon's seminal work on the trauma of colonization, The Wretched of the Earth made him the leading anti-colonialist thinker of the twentieth...
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Burmese Days
Eric Arthur Blair (1903-1950), better known by his pen-name, George Orwell, was born in India, where his father worked for the Civil Service. An...
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Book Of Sand And Shakespeare’s Memory
The Book of Sand was the last of Borges' major collections to be published. He described them as variations on favourite themes...combining a plain...
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Blue of Noon
Set against the backdrop of Europe's slide into Fascism, "Blue of Noon" is a blackly compelling account of depravity and violence. As...
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