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One of the 20th century's enduring works, One Hundred Years of Solitude is a widely beloved and acclaimed novel known throughout the world, and the ultimate achievement in a Nobel Prize–winning career. The novel tells the story of the rise and fall of the mythical town of Macondo through the history of the Buendía family. It is a rich and brilliant chronicle of life and death, and the tragicomedy of humankind.... (more)

FOLIO SOCIETY 3 Volumes: Fellowship of the Ring; The Two Towers; The Return of the KingJRR Tolkien

FOLIO SOCIETY 3 Volumes: Fellowship of the Ring; The Two Towers; The Return of the King

by JRR Tolkien

The Autumn of the Patriarch

by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

One of Gabriel García Márquez's most intricate and ambitious works, The Autumn of the Patriarch is a brilliant tale of a Caribbean tyrant and the corruption of power. From charity to deceit, benevolence to violence, fear of God to extreme cruelty, the dictator of The Autumn of the Patriarch embodies the best and the worst of human nature. Gabriel García Márquez, the renowned master of magical realism, vividly... (more)

Peter the Great

His Life and World

by Robert K. Massie

"Enthralling...As fascinating as any novel and more so than most!" THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW Against the monumental canvas of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Europe and Russia, unfolds the magnificent story of Peter the Great. He brought Russia from the darkness of its own Middle Ages into the Enlightenment and transformed it into the power that has its legacy in the Russia of our own century.

The Little Drummer Girl

by John Le Carre

John le Carré's classic novels deftly navigate readers through the intricate shadow world's of international espionage with unsurpassed skill and knowledge, and have earned him unprecedented worldwide acclaim. In this thrilling and though-provoking novel of Middle Eastern intrigue, Charlie, a brilliant and beautiful young English actress, is lured into "the theatre of the real" by an Israeli intelligence... (more)

The Quest for Karla

by John Le Carre

Order Out of Chaos

by I. Prigogine

The Story of English

by Robert McCrum, Robert MacNeil, William Cran

Now revised, The Story of English is the first book to tell the whole story of the English language. Originally paired with a major PBS miniseries, this book presents a stimulating and comprehensive record of spoken and written English-from its Anglo-Saxon origins some two thousand years ago to the present day, when English is the dominant language of commerce and culture with more than one billion English... (more)

The Nine Nations of North AmericaJoel Garreau

The Nine Nations of North America

by Joel Garreau, John Garreau

Roughing it,: By Mark Twain [pseud.] With an introd. by Henry Nash Smith (Harper's modern classics)Mark Twain

Roughing it,: By Mark Twain [pseud.] With an introd. by Henry Nash Smith (Harper's modern classics)

by Mark Twain

Disraeli (Lost Treasures Series)

by Robert Blake

Robert Blake's masterly biography of Benjamin Disraeli, the great British Prime Minister, Conservative leader, and man of letters. Benjamin Disraeli (1804-81), Earl of Beaconsfield, Prime Minister of England (1868 and 1874-80), and Conservative leader, was one of the greatest and most colorful political figures in British history. A confidante of Queen Victoria, tireless champion of England, ... (more)

The White-Boned Demon: A Biography of Madame Mao ZedongRoss Terrill

The White-Boned Demon: A Biography of Madame Mao Zedong

by Ross Terrill

Native Tongues

by Charles Berlitz

Introduction to Poetry: British, American, Canadian. Ed by Jack DavidDavid

Introduction to Poetry: British, American, Canadian. Ed by Jack David

by David

Women in Early Modern England 1550-1720

by Sara Heller Mendelson

This is an original, accessible, and comprehensive survey of life as it was experienced by most Englishwomen during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The authors examine virtually all aspects of women's lives: female life-stages from birth to death; the separate culture of women, including female friendship and feminist consciousness; the diverse roles of women in the religious and political movements of... (more)

Dr. Fischer of Geneva or the Bomb Party

by Graham Greene

Mr Jones, a quiet unprepossessing man who works as a translator in a Swiss chocolate factory, meets and falls in love with Anna-Luise, many years his junior and the daughter of Doctor Fischer, the notorious toothpaste millionaire.

Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages.