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Classics from the finest writers of North America.
The Beautiful and Damned
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Anthony Patch, young, spoilt and cynical, still hopes that one day he will ‘accomplish some subtle thing that the elect would deem worthy’, but then he meets feted jazz-baby, Gloria Gilbert.
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Death Comes for the Archbishop
Willa Cather
Willa Cather’s celebrated novel about missionaries attempting to win converts in 19th-century New Mexico is a beautiful evocation of frontier landscape and a profound meditation on spirituality and the clash of cultures.
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The Golden Bowl
Henry James
First published in 1904, The Golden Bowl is James’s final major work of fiction. Intense, complex and allusive, it demonstrates his approach in dazzling style, remaining a testament to James’s power as a novelist and skill in exploring his characters’ consciousnesses.
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The Grapes of Wrath
John Steinbeck
When landowners force them off the land, the Joad family heads for the fruitful land of California. This extraordinary chronicle of the plight of America's migrant poor won Steinbeck the Pulitzer Prize
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Hemingway Short Stories
Ernest Hemingway
Twenty-six tales taken from every stage of Hemingway's career make up this short stories collection - an ideal companion to the Great Novels Set.
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Catch-22
Joseph Heller
Terry Gilliam’s Desert Island Companion
Captain Yossarian is a rebel with a cause: to avoid flying the bombing missions over Italy and France that sooner or later will almost certainly result in his own death.
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Life on the Mississippi
Mark Twain
Written at the peak of his powers, this is Mark Twain's most personal, compelling and informed reflections on the culture, enduring mythology and destructive power of America's 'lawless stream'.
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A Treasury of Mark Twain
Mark Twain
Mark Twain's reputation grew ever larger as the rest of the world caught up with his wickedly dry wit.
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Moby Dick
Herman Melville
Widely and with good reason regarded as 'The Great American Novel', Moby Dick is the dramatic story of one man's obsessional quest to slay his bete noire (or in this case bete blanche).
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The New York Trilogy
Paul Auster
Set in a distinctly noir New York, in these three hugely influential and ground-breaking stories fiction and reality meet and identities meld unnervingly. This is the very first illustrated edition.
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The Scarlet Letter
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Hester Prynne gives birth to a child while her husband is away, and in the harsh moral climate of Puritan New England, she is forced to wear a scarlet 'A' for 'adulteress' embroidered on her breast
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Slaughterhouse-Five
Kurt Vonnegut
Chosen by Richard Curtis.
Kurt Vonnegut's black satiric voice exposes the cruelties and aberrations of the human condition in a book that takes its place alongside All Quiet on the Western Front and Catch-22 as one of the greatest anti-war novels ever written.
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Tender is the Night
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Of all his novels, Tender is the Night, which Fitzgerald called ‘a confession of faith’, is perhaps the closest to his heart, reflecting the turmoil of his own life.
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This Side of Paradise
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Published in 1920, when he was just 23, This Side of Paradise brilliantly captures the petulant, flamboyant cadence of youth – the handsome slickers and irrepressible flappers, petting parties, drinking and fast cars that epitomised the Jazz Age.
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To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee
For eight-year-old tomboy Scout and her older brother Jem - growing up in the 1930s in a sleepy Alabama town under the percipient eye of their lawyer father, Atticus - a favourite pastime is fantasising about local bogeyman, Boo Radley (who 'dines on raw squirrels').
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