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  The Remains of the Day

  by Kazuo Ishiguro

  The Remains of the Day is a profoundly compelling portrait of the perfect English butler and his fading, insular world in postwar England. At the end of his three decades of service at Darlington Hall, Stevens embarks on a country drive, during which he looks back over his career to reassure himself that he has served humanity by serving “a great gentleman.” But lurking in his memory are doubts about the true... (more)
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  The Unconsoled

  by Kazuo Ishiguro

  Only the Booker Prize-winning author of The Remains of the Day could have created this daring and stunningly inventive new novel. The Unconsoled gives readers what is at once a riveting psychological mystery, an acute satire of the cult of art, and a poignant character study of a man whose public self has taken on a life of its own. "Ishiguro writes with his characteristic grace and off-beat pungency."--Los... (more)
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  The Berlin Stories

  The Last of Mr. Norris / Goodbye to Berlin

  by Christopher Isherwood

  A classic of 20th-century fiction, Berlin Stories inspired the Broadway musical and Oscar-winning film Cabaret. First published in the 1930s, The Berlin Stories contains two astonishing related novels, The Last of Mr. Norris and Goodbye to Berlin, which are recognized today as classics of modern fiction. Isherwood magnificently captures 1931 Berlin: charming, with its avenues and cafés; marvelously grotesque, with... (more)
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  Under the Volcano

  by Malcolm Lowry

  Geoffrey Firmin, a former British consul, has come to Quauhnahuac, Mexico. Here the consul's debilitating malaise is drinking, and activity that has overshadowed his life. Under the Volcano is set during the most fateful day of the consul's life--the Day of the Dead, 1938. His wife, Yvonne, arrives in Quauhnahuac to rescue him and their failing marriage, inspired by a vision of life together away from Mexico... (more)
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  Ultramarine (Tusk Ivories)

  by Malcolm Lowry

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  Hear Us O Lord from Heaven Thy Dwelling Place (Picador Classics)

  by Malcolm Lowry

  Malcolm Lowry was a rare talent whose ambition was equaled only by his problems. Struggling with alcoholism and singularly unable to manage his own life, he "believed himself to be hopelessly unlucky"; and as volume editor Nicholas Bradley points out, "the evidence suggests that he was right." This collection of short stories reveals a world of crashing prose in which Lowry draws heavily from his turbulent life... (more)
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  An Error of Judgement

  by Pamela Hansford Johnson

  Setter, an eminent Harley Street consultant, is trusted and admired by his circle of friends, devoting himself to the rehabilitation of the lonely and the misunderstood. But deep within himself Setter recognizes a latent streak of sadistic cruelty which enables him to perceive the truth about a delinquent youth whom he suspects of having taken part in a particularly repellent and senseless crime. It is for Setter... (more)
• OCTOBER FERRY TO GABRIOLA.Malcolm. Lowry

  

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  OCTOBER FERRY TO GABRIOLA.

  by Malcolm. Lowry

• Three Men in a BoatJerome K. Jerome

  

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  Three Men in a Boat

  by Jerome K. Jerome

• A Breed of HeroesAlan Judd

  

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  A Breed of Heroes

  by Alan Judd

• THE DEBT TO PLEASURE

  

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  The Naïve and Sentimental Lover

  by John le Carré

  When first published, The Naïve and Sentimental Lover came as a bolt from the blue -- an abrupt departure for the world's grandmaster of spy thrillers. Nearly thirty years later, an increasing number of le Carré fans have come to applaud his versatility, and treasure this tale for the qualities they have discerned in all his novels: a constant pulse of humor, great humanity, and a page-turning way of... (more)
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  The Memorial

  by Christopher Isherwood

  With The Memorial, Christopher Isherwood began his lifelong work of rewriting his own experiences into witty yet almost forensic portraits of modern society. Set in the aftermath of World War I, The Memorial portrays the dissolution of a tradition-bound English family. Cambridge student Eric Vernon finds himself torn between his desire to emulate his heroic father, who led a life of quiet sacrifice before dying in... (more)
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  Whale

  by Jeremy Lucas

  Same ISBN as hardcover...