Category: Fiction

By James Joyce

ISBN-10: 1466307625

ISBN-13: 9781466307629

Dubliners is a set of 15 brief tales via James Joyce, first released in 1914. They have been intended to be a naturalistic depiction of Irish center classification lifestyles in and round Dublin within the early years of the twentieth century. The tales have been written while Irish nationalism was once at its top, and a look for a countrywide id and goal was once raging; at a crossroads of background and tradition, eire was once jolted by way of a variety of converging principles and affects. They centre on Joyce's thought of an epiphany: a second the place a personality stories self-understanding or illumination. a few of the characters in Dubliners later look in minor roles in Joyce's novel Ulysses. The preliminary tales within the assortment are narrated through baby protagonists, and because the tales proceed, they care for the lives and matters of steadily older humans. this can be according to Joyce's tripartite department of the gathering into formative years, youth, and adulthood.

By Grace Metalious

ISBN-10: 1555534007

ISBN-13: 9781555534004

Whilst Grace Metalious's debut novel in regards to the darkish underside of a small, good New England city was once released in 1956, it fast soared to the head of the bestseller lists. A landmark in twentieth-century American pop culture, Peyton position spawned a profitable characteristic movie and a long-running tv series-the first prime-time cleaning soap opera.

Contemporary readers of Peyton position can be captivated via its vibrant characters, earthy prose, and surprising incidents. via her riveting, uninhibited narrative, Metalious skillfully exposes the tricky social anatomy of a small group, analyzing the lives of its humans -- their passions and vices, their targets and defeats, their passivity or violence, their mystery hopes and kindnesses, their cohesiveness and pressure, their struggles, and infrequently their courage.

This new paperback version of Peyton position gains an insightful advent by means of Ardis Cameron that completely examines the novel's remedy of sophistication, gender, race, ethnicity, and gear, and considers the book's influential position in American and New England literary background.

By Joseph Roth

ISBN-10: 1585673277

ISBN-13: 9781585673278

The Emperor's Tomb is a nostalgic, haunting elegy for the top of teenage and the final days of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. A continuation of the saga of the von Trotta relatives from The Radetzky March, it really is either a strong and relocating examine a decaying society and its trip in the course of the struggle and its devastating aftermath, and the tale of the erosion of 1 man's determined religion within the virtues of an easy life.

By Junot Díaz

The so much talked about—and praised—first novel of 2007, and winner of the Pulitzer Prize.

Oscar is a candy yet disastrously obese ghetto nerd who—from the hot Jersey domestic he stocks along with his previous international mom and rebellious sister— goals of changing into the Dominican J.R.R. Tolkien and, so much of all, discovering love. yet Oscar could by no means get what he wishes. Blame the fukú—a curse that has haunted Oscar’s kin for generations, following them on their epic trip from Santo Domingo to the us. Encapsulating Dominican-American background, The short Wondrous lifetime of Oscar Wao opens our eyes to an striking imaginative and prescient of the modern American event and explores the never-ending human skill to persevere—and threat it all—in the identify of affection.

By Betsy Cornwell

When highschool senior Noah Gallagher and his followed teenage sister, Lo, visit stay with their grandmother in her island cottage for the summer season, they don’t count on a lot within the means of experience. Noah has landed a marine biology internship, and Lo desires to draw and paint, even perhaps to conquer her struggles with bulimia. yet then issues take a dramatic flip for them either while Noah mistakenly attempts to avoid wasting a mysterious lady from drowning. This dreamlike, suspenseful story—deftly instructed from a number of issues of view—dives deeply into selkie folklore whereas interpreting the fluid nature of affection and family.

By Brian Moore

The Lonely ardour of Judith Hearne is an unflinching and deeply sympathetic portrait of a girl destroyed through self and condition. First released in 1955, it marked Brian Moore as a massive determine in English literature (he might pass directly to be short-listed thrice for the Booker Prize) and proven him as an astute chronicler of the human soul.

Judith Hearne is an single girl of a undeniable age who has come down in society. She has few talents and is stuffed with the prejudices and pieties of her genteel Belfast upbringing. yet Judith has a mystery existence. and he or she is only one heartbreak clear of revealing it to the realm.

By J. R. Roberts

ISBN-10: 1101182229

ISBN-13: 9781101182222

THE GUNSMITH is plagued with a royal ache.

Clint Adams and a spunky girl deputy needs to convey a self-proclaimed 'bandit princess' the best way to behave like a formal younger girl.

By Carlos Ruiz Zafón

From grasp storyteller Carlos Ruiz Zafon, writer of the overseas phenomenon The Shadow of the Wind, comes The Angel’s Game — a blinding new page-turner in regards to the perilous nature of obsession, in literature and in love.

The entire of Barcelona stretched out at my ft and that i desired to think that once I opened these home windows — my new home windows — each night its streets could whisper tales to me, secrets and techniques in my ear, that i may seize on paper and narrate to whomever cared to listen…

In an deserted mansion on the middle of Barcelona, a tender guy, David Martin, makes his residing through writing sensationalist novels below a pseudonym. The survivor of a stricken early life, he has taken shelter on the earth of books and spends his nights spinning baroque stories in regards to the city’s underworld. yet possibly his darkish imaginings usually are not as unusual as they appear, for in a locked room deep in the apartment lie pictures and letters hinting on the mysterious dying of the former proprietor.

Like a sluggish poison, the historical past of where seeps into his bones as he struggles with an very unlikely love. as regards to depression, David gets a letter from a reclusive French editor, Andreas Corelli, who makes him the provide of an entire life. he's to write down a publication not like something that has ever existed — a publication with the facility to alter hearts and minds. In go back, he'll obtain a fortune, and maybe extra. yet as David starts the paintings, he realizes that there's a connection among his haunting e-book and the shadows that encompass his home.

Once back, Zafon takes us right into a darkish, gothic universe first noticeable in The Shadow of the Wind and creates a wide ranging event of intrigue, romance, and tragedy. via a dizzyingly built labyrinth of secrets and techniques, the magic of books, ardour, and friendship combination right into a masterful tale.

By Peter Hobbs

ISBN-10: 1770892117

ISBN-13: 9781770892118

Within the foothills of a mountain diversity in northern Pakistan is a gorgeous orchard. Swallows wheel and dive silently over the branches, and the odor of jasmine threads in the course of the air. Pomegranates hold heavy, their skins darkening to a deep purple. overlooked now, the timber are starting to develop wild, their fruit left to destroy at the branches. Many miles away, a frail younger guy is flung out of criminal gates. having a look up, scanning the horizon for swallows in flight, he stumbles and collapses within the roadside airborne dirt and dust. His ravaged physique tells the tale of fifteen years of brutality. only one photograph has held and sustained him in the course of the darkish occasions - the concept of the younger lady who had left him dumbstruck with ask yourself all these years in the past, whose eyes have been lit up with existence. A story of tenderness within the face of serious and corrupt strength, "In The Orchard, The Swallows" is a heartbreaking novel written in prose of beautiful stillness and sweetness.

By Günter Grass

ISBN-10: 015626112X

ISBN-13: 9780156261128

Book III of Danzig Trilogy
A novel set in 3 components, starting within the Nineteen Twenties and finishing within the Nineteen Fifties, that follows the lives of 2 neighbors from the prewar years in Germany via an apocalyptic interval and its startling aftermath. Translated by way of Ralph Manheim. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book.