Hakutulokset: Sarja vintage classics
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Cider with Rosie
Cider with Rosie is a wonderfully vivid memoir of childhood in a remote Cotswold village, a village before electricity or cars, a timeless place on the verge of change. Growing up …
The Physiology of Taste
A delightful and hilarious classic about the joys of the table, The Physiology of Taste is the most famous book about food ever written. First published in France in 1825 and …
Earthly Powers
Don Carlo Campanati is a man of God, a shrewd manipulator who rises through the Vatican to become the architect of church revolution and a candidate for sainthood. In this epic …
Lost Honour of Katharina Blum
FROM THE WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE FOR LITERATURE KKatharina Blum is pretty, bright, hard-working and at the centre of a big city scandal when she falls in love with a young …
Power and the Glory
During a vicious persecution of the clergy in Mexico, a worldly priest, the 'whisky priest', is on the run. With the police closing in, his routes of escape are being shut off, his …
The Double and The Gambler
Dead Souls
Since its publication in 1842, Dead Souls has been celebrated as a supremely realistic portrait of provincial Russian life and as a splendidly exaggerated tale; as a paean to the …
Last September
Read Elizabeth Bowen's accessible feminist take on the Irish aristocracyWITH AN INTRODUCTION BY VICTORIA GLENDINNINGThe Irish troubles rage, but up at the 'Big House', tennis …
Heat of the Day
It is wartime London, and the carelessness of people with no future flows through the evening air. Harrison, the British intelligence agent on his trail, wants to bargain, the …
Mr Palomar
Mr Palomar is a delightful eccentric whose chief activity is looking at things. Whether contemplating a fine cheese, a hungry gecko, a woman sunbathing topless or a flight of …
Wild Palms
'Between grief and nothing I will take grief'In New Orleans in 1937, a man and woman embark on a headlong flight into the wilderness of illicit passion, fleeing her husband and the …
Moveable Feast
Looking back not only at his own much younger self, but also at the other writers who shared Paris with him - James Joyce, Wyndham Lewis, Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald - he recalls …