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William S. Burroughs: The Finger

PENGUIN, 2018

Fifty new books, celebrating the pioneering spirit of the Penguin Modern Classics series, from inspiring essays to groundbreaking fiction and poetry.

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William S. Burroughs: The Western Lands

PENGUIN BOOKS, 2010

A fascinating mix of autobiographical episodes and extraordinary Egyptian theology, Burroughs's final novel is poignant and melancholic.

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William Shakespeare: Twelfth Night (Collins Classrom Classics)

COLLINS, 2020

This edition of Twelfth Night is perfect for GCSE-level and A-level students, with the complete play in an accessible format, on-page notes, introduction setting the context, timeline, character and theme indexes.

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William Styron: Havanas in Camelot

RANDOM HOUSE, 2009

After the great success in 1990 of Darkness Visible, his memoir of depression and recovery, William Styron wrote more frequently in an introspective, autobiographical mode.

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William Thackeray: Vanity Fair

PENGUIN BOOKS, 2003

William Makepeace Thackeray's Vanity Fair depicts the anarchic anti-heroine Beky Sharpe cutting a swathe through the eligible young men of Europe, set against a lucid backdrop of war and international chaos.

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William Wharton: Birdy

VINTAGE BOOKS, 1992

Birdy is an inventive, hypnotic novel about friendship and family, dreaming and surviving, love and war, madness and beauty, and, above all, "birdness."

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Willy Russell: Educating Rita

PEARSON LONGMAN, 1995

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Witold Gombrowicz: Bacacay

ARCHIPELAGO BOOKS, 2006

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Wolfgang Borchert: Das Gesamtwerk

ROWOHLT TASCHENBUCH VERLAG, 2011

Das Gesamtwerk Borcherts in erweiterter und revidierter Neuausgabe. Mit nur zwei Dutzend Kurzgeschichten, einer Handvoll Gedichte und dem Theaterstück „Draußen vor der Tür“ wurde Wolfgang Borchert zur wichtigsten Stimme der deutschen Nachkriegsliteratur.

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Wolfgang Herrndorf: Sand

ROWOHLT TASCHENBUCH VERLAG, 2013

«Er aß und trank, bürstete seine Kleider ab, leerte den Sand aus seinen Taschen und überprüfte noch einmal die Innentasche des Blazers.

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Wolfgang Koeppen: Tauben im Gras

SUHRKAMP, 1980

Tauben im Gras, 1951 erstmals erschienen, ist der erste Roman jener "Trilogie des Scheiterns", mit der Wolfgang Koeppen eine erste kritische Bestandsaufnahme der sich formierenden Bundesrepublik Deutschland gab.

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Women & Fiction - Short Stories By and About Women (Signet Classics)

SIGNET, 2002

From Kate Chopin’s turn-of-the-century Lousiana, to Gertrude Stein’s war-time Paris, to Alice Walker’s modern-day America, here are twenty-six short stories by the finest women writers of the twentieth century.

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Won-pyung Sohn: Almond

HARPERVIA, 2021

This story is, in short, about a monster meeting another monster. One of the monsters is me.

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WORLD'S FAIR

BERKLEY, 1996

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Yamamoto Tsunetomo: Hagakure

NIKOL VERLAG, 2018

Entstanden zu Beginn des 18. Jahrhunderts, erfreut sich das Hagakure des Yamamoto Tsunetomo auch heute noch großer Beliebtheit.

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Yan Lianke: The Years, Months, Days

RANDOM HOUSE, 2018

A universal story, an homage to all that is good in mankind. A bestseller in China and now available in English for the first time, this is a powerful, moving fable by ‘one of China’s greatest living authors’. Coming in April 2018!

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Yann Martel: Life Of Pi

CANONGATE, 2018

After the tragic sinking of a cargo ship, a solitary lifeboat remains bobbing on the wild, blue Pacific.

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Yann Martel: Life of Pi (Film Tie-In)

CANONGATE, 2012

One boy, one boat, one tiger ...After the tragic sinking of a cargo ship, a solitary lifeboat remains bobbing on the wild, blue Pacific. ...

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Yann Martel: Schiffbruch mit Tiger

FISCHER TASCHENBUCH VERLAG, 2004

Schiffbruch mit Tiger? Diese Geschichte würden Sie nicht glauben? Kein Wunder. Fantastisch. Verwegen. Atemberaubend. Wahnsinnig komisch. Eine Geschichte, die Sie an Gott glauben lässt.

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Yann Martel: Self

FABER & FABER, 2003

A fictional autobiography of a young writer which takes the reader to Canada, Portugal, Greece, Turkey and elsewhere.

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Yann Martel: The Facts Behind the Helsinki Roccamations

CANONGATE, 2005

This memorable debut, originally published in 1993, was hailed for its power and elegance on both sides of the Atlantic.

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Yann Martel: Vysokie Gory Portugalii

EKSMO, 2017

Kazhdyj spravljaetsja s bolju utraty po-svoemu. Kto-to nachinaet khodit zadom napered, kto-to - zapoem chitat Agatu Kristi, a kto-to zavodit neobychnogo druga.

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Yashar Kemal: Memed, My Hawk

VINTAGE BOOKS, 2016

Memed grows up a serf to a vicious overlord on the thistle-clad plains of Turkey’s Taurus region.

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Yasmina Khadra: L'attentat

POCKET, 2011

Yasmina Khadra, de son vrai nom Mohammed Moulessehoul, est né en 1955 dans le Sahara algérien. Écrivain de langue française, son ouvre est connue et saluée dans le monde entier.

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Yasmina Khadra: La Derniere Nuit du Rais

POCKET, 2016

Il fallait un culot monstre pour oser se glisser dans la peau de l'un des tyrans les plus sanguinaires de notre époque. Yasmina Khadra releve le défi et signe un roman aussi passionnant que dérangeant.

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Yasmina Reza: Glücklich die Glüchklichen

FISCHER TASCHENBUCH VERLAG, 2015

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Yasunari Kawabata: Snow Country (Little Clothbound Classics)

PENGUIN CLASSICS, 2022

Tired of the bustling city, a man takes the train through the snow to Japan's mountains, to meet with a geisha he believes he loves.

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Yevgeny Zamyatin: We

VINTAGE BOOKS, 2007

As relevant today as when it was first published, We is the first modern dystopian novel which inspired both Nineteen Eighty-Four and Brave New World.

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Yoko Ogawa: The Housekeeper and the Professor

VINTAGE CLASSICS, 2019

He is a brilliant math professor, with a peculiar problem--since a traumatic head injury, he has lived with only eighty minutes of short-term memory. She is an astute young housekeeper with a ten-year-old son who is hired to care for him.

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Yolanda Cruz: Cristales en el cielo de Manhattan

BOOKET, 2017

La mayor equivocación de Sara fue casarse con Leo, un mafioso que huye a Nueva York y la arrastra como una mercancía más de las que lleva en el Andrea Doria. Allí conocerá a Paul Slater, que marcará un antes y un des­pués en su vida.

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Yukio Mishima: Death in Midsummer (Little Clothbound Classics)

PENGUIN CLASSICS, 2023

Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith

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Yukio Mishima: Sound of Waves

VINTAGE BOOKS, 2000

Set in a remote fishing village in Japan, The Sound of Waves is a timeless story of first love. It tells of Shinji, a young fisherman and Hatsue, the beautiful daughter of the wealthiest man in the village.

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Yukio Mishima: The Sailor Who Fell from Grace With the Sea: Vintage Classics Japanese Series

VINTAGE BOOKS, 2019

VINTAGE JAPANESE CLASSICS – five masterpieces of Japanese fiction in gorgeous new gift editions.

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Yuko Tsushima: Territory of Light (Little Clothbound Classics)

PENGUIN CLASSICS, 2023

Territory of Light is the radiant story of a young woman, living alone in Tokyo with her two-year-old daughter, in her first year of separation from her husband.

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Yuri Tynjanov: Aliluutnantti Taas

SILBERFELDT, 2015

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Yves Simon: La Compagnie des femmes

LIVRE DE POCHE, LE, 2012

A l'instant ou il sortait de ma voiture, le vieil autostoppeur que j'avais embarqué a la sortie de Mâcon-Nord se retourna et dit : - Ou allez-vous ? - Je n'sais pas. - Comment saurez-vous que vous etes arrivé ? Y. S.

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Yves Simon: Les Novices

GRASSET, 2006

Yves Simon est auteur-compositeur et romancier. Il a obtenu, pour Le Voyageurmagnifique, le Prix des libraires (1988), et pour La Dérive des sentiments, le prix Médicis (1991).

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Zadie Smith: Feel Free Essays

PENGUIN BOOKS, 2019

This electrifying new collection showcases its author as a true literary powerhouse, demonstrating once again her credentials as an essential voice of her generation.

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Zadie Smith: Grand Union

HAMISH HAMILTON, 2019

The first ever collection of stories from the Man Booker Prize-shortlisted author of Swing Time and White Teeth

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Zadie Smith: Grand Union

PENGUIN, 2020

The first ever collection of stories from the bestselling and beloved author of Swing Time and White Teeth

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Zadie Smith: NW

PENGUIN BOOKS, 2013

Zadie Smith's brilliant tragi-comic NW follows four Londoners - Leah, Natalie, Felix and Nathan - after they've left their childhood council estate, grown up and moved on to different lives.

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Zadie Smith: On Beauty

PENGUIN BOOKS, 2006

Set in New England mainly and London partly, On Beauty concerns a pair of feuding families - the Belseys and the Kippses - and a clutch of doomed affairs.

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Zadie Smith: Over schoonheid

UITGEVERIJ PROMETHEUS, 2007

De Engelsman Howard Belsey is hoogleraar aan een Amerikaanse universiteit. Nadat Howard een desastreuze affaire heeft gehad met een collega, vertrekt zijn oudste zoon Jerome naar Engeland en verloochent zijn vader door te gaan werken voor diens...

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Zadie Smith: Swing Time

PENGUIN BOOKS, 2017

A dazzlingly exuberant new novel moving from north west London to West Africa, from the multi-award-winning author of White Teeth and On Beauty

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Zadie Smith: Von der Schönheit

KIWI TASCHENBUCH, 2017

Komisch, rasant, mit liebenswerten und unvergesslichen Charakteren erzählt Zadie Smiths dritter Roman von zwei mehr als turbulenten Familien zwischen England und Amerika, schwarz und weiß, Hässlichkeit und Schönheit, Liberalismus und Konservativismus.

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Zadie Smith: White Teeth

PENGUIN BOOKS, 2001

The international bestseller and modern classic of multicultural Britain - an unforgettable portrait of London

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Zakhar Prilepin: Obitel

AST, 2015

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Zeruya Shalev: Ce qui reste de nos vies

GALLIMARD, 2014

Hemda Horowich vit sans doute ses derniers jours, mais l’image de ce lac, pres du kibboutz ou elle est née, s’impose encore avec force a sa conscience. Les souvenirs plus douloureux de sa longue vie se glissent eux aussi dans sa mémoire, ...

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Zoé Valdes: La eternidad del instante

DEBOLSILLO, 2005

Desde los confines de China hasta las costas cubanas transcurre el viaje del joven Mo Ying en busca de su padre, el cantante de ópera Li Ying, que anos antes decidió emigrar en busca de fortuna.

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Zora Neale Hurston: Their Eyes Were Watching God

VIRAGO PRESS, 2020

When sixteen-year-old Janie is caught kissing shiftless Johnny Taylor, her grandmother swiftly marries her off to an old man with sixty acres.

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Zsuzsa Bánk: Der Schwimmer

FISCHER TASCHENBUCH VERLAG, 2005

Wie sie sich drehte, die Welt, vor unserem Fenster Ungarn 1956: Die Panzer rollen, der Aufstand schlägt fehl, die Hoffnung scheitert, daß die Welt eine andere hätte werden können.

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