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Katherine Anne Porter's Ship of Fools by Thomas Austenfeld

Robert Penn Warren's All the King's men by Harold Bloom (Modern critical interpretations)

Summary, A collection of critical essays on Warren's novel "All the King's Men" arranged in chronological order of publication.

The tale of genji by Murasaki Shikibu

The most famous work of Japanese literature and the world's first novel—written a thousand years ago and one of the …

Discourse on method ; and by René Descartes

The Western canon by Harold Bloom

The cello suites by Eric Siblin

Siblin weaves together three dramatic narratives: Bach's composition of the Cello Suites and the manuscript's subsequent disappearance in the eighteenth …

Maigret: A Man's Head by Georges Simenon

The cider house rules by John Irving

Strange Library by Haruki Murakami, Ted Goossen

In a fantastical illustrated short novel, three people imprisoned in a nightmarish library plot their escape.

Murakami Haruki, senki by Kazunari Suzumura

A natural history of the piano by Stuart Isacoff

Unfolds the ongoing history and evolution of the piano and all its myriad wonders: how its very sound provides the …

After Dark by Haruki Murakami

Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami

Grand Banks Café, The by Georges Simenon, Gareth Armstrong

Maigret in Holland by Georges Simenon

Maigret had only a faint idea of what it was all about when he arrived one May afternoon in Delfzijl, …