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Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
The classic Sunday Times bestseller
2004 || Paperback || Mark Haddon || Vintage Publishing
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time is a murder mystery novel like no other. The detective, and narrator, is Christopher Boone. Christopher is fifteen and has Asperger's Syndrome.
He knows a very great deal about maths and very little about human beings. He loves lists, patterns and the truth. He hates the colours yellow and brown and being touched.
He has never gone further than the end of the road on his own, but when he finds a neighbour's dog murdered he sets out on a terrif...
Calculus: Early Transcendentals / 2nd Global Edition
2016 || Paperback || William L. Briggs e.a. || Pearson
For a three-semester or four-quarter calculus course covering single variable and multivariable calculus for mathematics, engineering, and science majors.
This much anticipated second edition of the most successful new calculus text published in the last two decades retains the best of the first edition while introducing important advances and refinements. Authors Briggs, Cochran, and Gillett build from a foundation of meticulously crafted exercise sets, then draw students into the narrative ...
To Kill a Mockingbird
60th Anniversary Edition
2024 || Paperback || Harper Lee || Vintage Publishing
'Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird.'A lawyer's advice to his children as he defends the real mockingbird of Harper Lee's classic novel - a black man charged with the rape of a white girl. Through the young eyes of Scout and Jem Finch, Harper Lee explores with exuberant humour the irrationality of adult attitudes to race and class in the Deep South of the 1930s.
Nadja
2023 || Paperback || Andre Breton || Gallimard
Si déjà, au cours de ce livre, l’acte d’écrire, plus encore de publier toute espèce de livre est mis au rang des vanités, que penser de la complaisance de son auteur à vouloir, tant d’années après, l’améliorer un tant soit peu dans sa forme ! Il convient toutefois de faire la part, en bien ou mal venu dans celui-ci, de ce qui se réfère au clavier affectif et s’en remet tout à lui – c’est, bien entendu, l’essentiel et de ce qui est relation au jour le jour, aussi im...
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
2022 || Paperback || Muriel Spark || Penguin
One of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World''A sublimely funny book ... it is a book to be read by all ... unforgettable and universal' Candia McWilliamRomantic, heroic, comic and tragic, unconventional schoolmistress Jean Brodie has become an iconic figure in post-war fiction.
Her glamour, unconventional ideas and manipulative charm hold dangerous sway over her girls at the Marcia Blaine Academy - 'the creme de la creme' - who become the Brodie 'set', introduced to a privileged world ...
Hernani
2021 || Paperback || Victor Hugo || Librairie Geńeŕale Francaise
" Quelle heure est-il ? " : est-ce là une manière de parler pour un roi ? Et au lieu qu'on lui réponde dignement : " Du haut de ma demeure, Seigneur, l'horloge enfin sonne la douzième " ; voilà qu'il s'entend dire tout bêtement : " Minuit "... il n'en fallait pas plus pour que la bataille s'engageât. Passion racinienne, honneur cornélien, rien ne manquait à Hernani, fors le respect du majestueux alexandrin. Epluchures, balayures, ordures, injures se mirent à voler dans le sacro-sain...
Un Secret
2006 || Paperback || Philippe Grimbert || Le Livre de poche
Souvent les enfants s'inventent une famille, une autre origine, d'autres parents. Le narrateur de ce livre, lui, s'est invent n fr . Un fr a , plus beau, plus fort, qu'il que devant les copains de vacances, les angers, ceux qui ne v fieront pas? Et puis un jour, il d uvre la v t impressionnante, terrifiante presque. Et c'est alors toute une histoire familiale, lourde, complexe, qu'il lui incombe de reconstituer. Une histoire tragique qui le ram aux temps de l'Holocauste, et des millions de di...
To Kill A Mockingbird
1989 || Paperback || Harper Lee || Cornerstone
'Shoot all the Bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a Mockingbird.'Lawyer Atticus Finch gives this advice to his children as he defends the real mockingbird of Harper Lee's classic novel - a black man charged with the rape of a white girl.
Kafka on the Shore
2012 || Paperback || Haruki Murakami || Vintage Publishing
Kafka Tamura runs away from home at fifteen, under the shadow of his father's dark prophesy.
The aging Nakata, tracker of lost cats, who never recovered from a bizarre childhood affliction, finds his pleasantly simplified life suddenly turned upside down.
As their parallel odysseys unravel, cats converse with people; fish tumble from the sky; a ghost-like pimp deploys a Hegel-spouting girl of the night; a forest harbours soldiers apparently un-aged since World War II. There is a savage killin...
The English Novel
An Introduction
2004 || Paperback || Terry Eagleton || John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Written by one of the world's leading literary theorists, this book provides a wide-ranging, accessible and humorous introduction to the English novel from Daniel Defoe to the present day. It covers the works of major authors, including Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, Samuel Richardson, Laurence Sterne, Walter Scott, Jane Austen, the Brontes, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Thomas Hardy, Henry James, Joseph Conrad, Virginia Woolf, D.H. Lawrence and James Joyce.