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Voltaire: Candide

POCKET, 2019

Comme disait parfois son précepteur Pangloss, si Candide n'avait pas été chassé d'un beau château a grands coups de pied au derriere pour l'amour de mademoiselle Cunégonde,

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Voltaire: La princesse de Babylone

LIBRIO, 2000

Formosante est princesse de Babylone. Son pere veut trouver un époux digne d'elle. Toute la noblesse de l'époque défile au palais : le pharaon d'Egypte et son bouf Apis, le roi des Indes, le grand khan des Scythes...

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W. G. Sebald: Austerlitz

PENGUIN BOOKS, 2011

In 1939, five-year-old Jacques Austerlitz is sent to England on a Kindertransport and placed with foster parents. This childless couple promptly erase from the boy all knowledge of his identity and he grows up ignorant of his past.

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W. Somerset Maugham: Collected Short Stories Volume 1

VINTAGE BOOKS, 2002

This classic collection of stories moves from England, France and Spain to the silver sands of the South Pacific. It includes the famous story 'Rain', the tragedy of a narrow-minded and overzealous missionary and a prostitute,...

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W. Somerset Maugham: Collected Short Stories Volume 2

RANDOM HOUSE, 2002

The stories in this collection move from Malaya to America and England, and include some of Maugham's most famous tales; 'Flotsam and Jetsam', the story of an old woman trapped for years in a loveless marriage in the remote rubber plantations; ...

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W. Somerset Maugham: Collected Short Stories Volume 3

RANDOM HOUSE, 2002

The third volume of Somerset Maugham's Collected Short Stories, introduced by the author, contains the celebrated series about Ashenden, a secret service agent in World War I.

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W. Somerset Maugham: Don Fernando

RANDOM HOUSE, 2000

Considered by Graham Greene to be Maugham's best work, Don Fernando is a paean to a golden age of enormous creative energy. It discusses the writings of St. Teresa and the paintings of El Greco, and comments with sagacity and...

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W. Somerset Maugham: Of Human Bondage

VINTAGE BOOKS, 2000

Of Human Bondage is the first and most autobiographical of Maugham's masterpieces. It is the story of Philip Carey, an orphan eager for life, love and adventure.

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W. Somerset Maugham: The Moon and Sixpence

RANDOM HOUSE, 2000

Charles Strickland, a conventional stockbroker, abandons his wife and children for Paris and Tahiti, to live his life as a painter. Whilst his betrayal of family, duty and honour gives him the freedom to achieve greatness,,....

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W. Somerset Maugham: The Painted Veil

VINTAGE BOOKS, 2001

Kitty Fane is the beautiful but shallow wife of Walter, a bacteriologist stationed in Hong Kong. Unsatisfied by her marriage, she starts an affair with charming, attractive and exciting Charles Townsend.

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W. Somerset Maugham: Then and Now

RANDOM HOUSE, 2001

Maugham found a parallel to the turmoil of our own times in the duplicity, intrigue and sensuality of the Italian Renaissance.

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W. Somerset Maugham: Up at the Villa

RANDOM HOUSE, 2005

Mary Panton walls up her desires in a beautiful villa high up in the hills above Florence, as she calmly contemplates her disastrous marriage. But a single act of compassion begins a nightmare of violence that shatters her serenity.

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Walter Scott: Waverley - Penguin Classics

PENGUIN BOOKS, 1985

Set against the backdrop of the Jacobite Rebellion of 1745, Waverley depicts the story of Edward Waverley, an idealistic daydreamer whose loyalty to his regiment is threatened when they are sent to the Scottish Highlands.

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Washington Irving: Sleepy Hollow und andere unheimliche Geschichten

INSEL VERLAG, 2009

Washington Irving ist der »Erfinder« und erster Vertreter der amerikanischen Short story. Vor allem seine unheimlichen Geschichten wie Die Legende von Sleepy Hollow und Rip van Winkle sind bis heute äußerst populär und wurden mehrfach verfilmt.

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Wilbur Smith: A Sparrow Falls

PANMACMILLAN, 2009

Sean Courtney, who made and lost ?5 million on the goldfields of the Witwatersrand and fought his way through the bloody battlefields of the Anglo-Boer War, now makes his final appearance as soldier, statesman and power in the land.

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Wilbur Smith: The Angels Weep

PAN BOOKS, 2015

The Angels Weep is the third bestselling book in Wilbur Smith's Ballantyne Novels - an epic exploration into the dark past of colonial Africa.

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William Boyd: A Good Man in Africa

PENGUIN BOOKS, 2010

Escapee from suburbia, overweight, oversexed ... Morgan Leafy isn't overburdened with worldly success. Actually, he is refreshingly free from it. But then, as a representative of Her Britannic Majesty in tropical Kinjanja, it was not very constructive ..

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William Boyd: Fascination

PENGUIN BOOKS, 2011

This is William Boyd's third volume of short stories following his acclaimed collections On the Yankee Station (1981) and The Destiny of Nathalie X (1995).

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William Boyd: On the Yankee Station

PENGUIN BOOKS, 1988

Adolescent sex in a Scottish boys' public school, oddballs on the seedy side of America, murder in a quiet Devon cottage...

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William Boyd: Stars and Bars

PENGUIN BOOKS, 2010

Stars and Bars will be loved by fans of Any Human Heart and A Good Man in Africa, as well as readers of David Nicholls, Sebastian Faulks, Nick Hornby and Hilary Mantel.

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William Boyd: The Dream Lover - Short Stories

BLOOMSBURY, 2008

Funny, moving and sharply observed, these stories are confirmation of Boyd's status as one of English fiction's finest writers. Here are twenty-four gripping tales told in bold, distinct voices from Brazil to Africa and from Nice to Hollywood.

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William Boyd: Trio

PENGUIN BOOKS, 2021

It is summer in 1968, the year of the assassinations of Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy. There are riots in Paris and the Vietnam War is out of control.

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William Boyd: Waiting for Sunrise

BLOOMSBURY, 2012

Vienna, 1913. Lysander Rief, a young English actor, sits in the waiting room of the city's preeminent psychiatrist as he anxiously ponders the particularly intimate nature of his neurosis.

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William Dean Howells: The Rise of Silas Lapham

PENGUIN BOOKS, 1986

William Dean Howells' richly humorous characterization of a self-made millionaire in Boston society provides a paradigm of American culture in the Gilded Age.

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William Faulkner: Absalom, Absalom!

RANDOM HOUSE, 1995

Narrated by Quentin Compson, the suicide in "The Sound and the Fury", this is the tale of Thomas Sutpen, a poor White who dreams of founding a dynasty.

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William Faulkner: As I Lay Dying

RANDOM HOUSE, 1996

Successive episodes in the death and burial of Addie Bundren are recounted by various members of the family circle, principally as they are carting their mother's coffin to Jefferson, Mississippi, in order to bury her among her people.

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William Faulkner: Intruder in the Dust

RANDOM HOUSE, 1996

Set in the deep south that provided the backdrop for all of Faulkner's finest fiction, INTRUDER IN THE DUST is the novel that marks the final phase of its author's outstanding creative period.

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William Faulkner: Light in August

RANDOM HOUSE, 2000

A landmark in American fiction, Light in August explores Faulkner's central theme: the nature of evil.

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William Faulkner: Soldier's Pay

RANDOM HOUSE, 2000

SOLDIER'S PAY was Faulkner's first novel. In the Summer of 1925, working in New Orleans, Faulkner met Sherwood Anderson, who encouraged him to write a novel.

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-30% William Gaddis: Letzte Instanz

William Gaddis: Letzte Instanz

ROWOHLT TASCHENBUCH VERLAG, 2003

Gerechtigkeit? Gerechtigkeit gibt's im Jenseits. Hier auf Erden gibt's das Recht. Mit diesen Worten beginnt Gaddis' kafkaesk anmutender Roman, der in einem Amerika spielt, in dem jeder gegen jeden prozessiert.

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William Gaddis: The Recognitions

THE NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS, 2020

The Recognitions is a sweeping depiction of a world in which everything that anyone recognizes as beautiful or true or good emerges as anything but: our world.

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William Golding: El senor de las moscas

ALIANZA EDITORIAL, 2013

Urdida en torno a la situación límite de una treintena de muchachos en una isla desierta, El Senor de las Moscas es una magnífica novela que admite lecturas diferentes e incluso opuestas.

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William Golding: Free Fall

FABER & FABER, 2022

Sammy Mountjoy is an artist who has risen from poverty to see his pictures hung in the Tate Gallery.

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William Golding: Herr der Fliegen

FISCHER TASCHENBUCH VERLAG, 2017

William Goldings erster und erfolgreichster Roman beschreibt das Ende der Unschuld und ist eine dunkle Parabel auf die verborgene Barbarei zivilisierter Gesellschaften.

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William Golding: Lord of the Flies

PENGUIN BOOKS (USA), 2006

The classic study of human nature which depicts the degeneration of a group of schoolboys marooned on a desert island.

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William Golding: Lord of the Flies (Deluxe Edition)

PENGUIN BOOKS, 2016

As provocative today as when it was first published in 1954, Lord of the Flies continues to ignite passionate debate with its startling, brutal portrait of human nature.

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William P. Young: The Cross Roads

HODDER & STOUGHTON, 2013

Multi-millionaire Anthony Spencer is trapped in a coma and finds himself in a surreal world that reflects the skewed priorities of the life he's lived on earth where he meets a stranger who turns out to be Jesus and a grandmother who is the Holy Spirit.

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William P. Young: The Shack

WINDBLOWN MEDIA, 2007

Mackenzie Allen Philips' youngest daughter, Missy, has been abducted during a family vacation and evidence that she may have been brutally murdered is found in an abandoned shack deep in the Oregon wilderness.

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William P. Young: The Shack

HODDER PAPERBACK, 2007

Mackenzie Allen Philips' youngest daughter, Missy, has been abducted during a family vacation and evidence that she may have been brutally murdered is found in an abandoned shack deep in the Oregon wilderness.

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William S. Burroughs: Cities of the Red Night

PENGUIN BOOKS, 2010

An opium addict is lost in the jungle; young men wage war against an empire of mutants; a handsome young pirate faces his execution; and the world's population is infected with a radioactive epidemic.

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William S. Burroughs: Junky

PENGUIN, 2012

Junk is not, like alcohol or weed, a means to increased enjoyment of life. Junk is not a kick. It is a way of life'

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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 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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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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-30% Wolfgang Koeppen: Tauben im Gras

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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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: 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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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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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: 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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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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