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Written in an encrypted notebook while incarcerated in a Nazi insane asylum and discovered after his death, The Drinker may be Hans Fallada's most breathtaking piece of craftsmanship. It is an intense yet absorbing study of the descent into drunkenness by an intelligent man who fears he's lost it all.***This is aHybrid Book.Melville...

There is no explanation.Written eight years after the publication of Anna Kareninaa time during which, despite the global success of his novels, Leo Tolstoy renounced fiction in favor of religious and philosophical tractsThe Death of Ivan Ilych represents perhaps the most keenly realized melding of Tolstoy's spirituality with his artistic...

"e;My gord, Carnehan,"e; says Daniel, "e;This is a tremenjus business, and we've got the whole country as far as it's worth having."e;Literature's most famous adventure story, this stirring tale of two happy-go-lucky British ne're-do-wells trying to carve out their own kingdom in the remote mountains of Afghanistan...

...perhaps I was not living as I ought.Renowned as the greatest short story writer ever, Anton Chekhov was also a master of the novella, and perhaps his most overlooked is this gem, My Lifethe tale of a rebellious young man so disgusted with bourgeois society that he drops out to live amongst the working classes, only to find...

A classic work of literature by ';the greatest author ever produced in Latin America.' (Susan Sontag)  Brilliant physician Simo Bacamarte sacrifices a prestigious career to return home and dedicate himself to the budding field of psychology. Bacamarte opens the first asylum in Brazil hoping to crown himself and his hometown with ';imperishable...

Back from the dead: the first ever zombie story Before there was Dracula, there was The Castle in Transylvania. In its first new translation in over 100 years, this is the first book to set a gothic horror story, featuring people who may or may not be dead, in Transylvania. In a remote village cut off from the outside world by the dark mountains of...