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Book DescriptionKunal Basu"s panoramic first novel follows the life of a young man as he encounters the flow of the opium trade, from Calcutta to Canton. He gets a job in an "auction house", only to discover that the "merchandise" being traded is opium. Disguised as a...

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Преступники и сыщики – необычная тема для Ч. Диккенса, по-репортерски точно он изображает и полицейских, и лондонское дно.

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Book DescriptionThese poetic prose pieces-neither stories nor essays nor poems-display humor, imagination, and a sense of the absurd to explore a range of topics and ideas. Four great artists are explored in very different ways: an interior monologue by the 17th-century Spanish painter...

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Book DescriptionThe first English edition of the work of one of Mexico"s most admired women writers.

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Book DescriptionTranslated from the Tamil, Seasons of the Palm tells the story of an "untouchable" lad in bondage to a paternal yet powerful landlord. He struggles to keep a fragile happiness, but endless work and a stubborn hunger are never too far away. Relentless in its portrayal of...

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Book DescriptionEmpress Anna Ivanova decrees that Danish-born Captain-Commander Vitus Jonassen Bering is to spearhead an ambitious Imperial Great Northern Expedition to explore and map the coastal waters off Siberia, chart a northern sea route to Japan and Cathay, and prove or disprove once and for...

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Book DescriptionThe Victorian period saw some of the most important developments in Britain"s history. Rapid industrialisation, social and welfare reform, ground-breaking scientific discoveries, and an unprecedented rise in literacy, all had their impact on fiction of the time. Mapping the...

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Book DescriptionThis classic selection of writings by Goethe reflects the author"s philosophy of love and death.

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Book DescriptionNot since Mary Karr"s The Liar"s Club has a mother-daughter story captured so piercingly the mysteries of childhood. In 1959, when Sandra Scofield was fifteen, she came home to stay in West Texas after years in Catholic boarding schools. She believed her presence would...

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Book DescriptionA nameless, eccentric old man, sitting in the corner of a cozy London tea shop, uses pure deduction to solve a series of baffling crimes--from gruesome murders and cases of deadly blackmail, to daring thefts and brilliant deceptions.For devotees of Sherlock Holmes: ingenious...