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Home to Harlem
CLAUDE McKAY was born in Jamaica, and moved to the U.S. in 1912 to study at the Tuskgee Institute. In 1928, he published his most famous novel, Home to Harlem, which won the Harmon Gold Award for Literature. His Selected Poems was published posthumously, and in 1977 he was named the national poet of Jamaica.
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Summer
Edith Wharton was born into a wealthy New York family in 1862, during the American Civil War. She married at twenty-three, and subsequently divided her time between homes in New York, Rhode Island and Massachusetts. The House of Mirth, perhaps her most famous work, appeared in 1905, and was followed by Ethan Frome, The Custom of the Country, Summer and The Age of Innocence. Wharton was the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. She died in 1937.
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Strangers
'No one writes with more skill and honesty about the human condition and this book is possibly her finest' ObserverTHE MESMERISING FINAL NOVEL BY THE BOOKER PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF HOTEL DU LAC, NOW WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY TESSA HADLEY'He was haunted by a feeling of invisibility, as if he were a mere spectator of his own life, with no one to identify him in the barren circumstances of the here and now'Paul Sturgis - unmarried, retired, and coming towards the end of his life - lives alone in a small dark flat which has never felt like home. Each day, he walks the streets of London, passing brightly lit windows into other people's lives and finding pleasure in fleeting exchanges with strangers: the cheerful hairdresser, the lady at the drycleaners, a café stop for a cup of coffee. When he longs for light and warmth, he takes short trips to the continent, but it is to London that he always returns.Fearing that his destiny may be to live and die among strangers, and longing for companionship or simply conversation, Paul finds himself drawn back to memories of his own failed relationships. But when a chance encounter with a recently divorced younger woman shakes up his routine, and an old girlfriend appears on the scene, he is forced to make a decision about how - and with whom - he wants to spend the rest of his days.'A novel of sober brilliance, and the unerring, unflinching Brookner is still a much underestimated novelist' Helen Dunmore, The Times'Nothing less than brilliant, often highly amusing and, ultimately life affirming' Sunday Telegraph
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Summer
A Summer in rural Massachusetts: Seventeen-year-old Charity Royall lives with her hard-drinking adoptive father. She dreams of escaping the sleepy little town for a more exciting and fulfilling life. Her chance comes when a young architect from the city arrives one day. She starts a passionate love affair.- Englischsprachige Ausgabe- Klein, praktisch, günstig: Ideal für unterwegs- Mit einer englischen Biographie der Autorin
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The Princess of 72nd Street
Bold, challenging, beautiful and charming... Kraf balances Ellen’s account beautifully, keeping us simultaneously intimate and detached from her as Ellen’s crowded surroundings make her seem all the lonelier, and her antic enthusiasm shields a sadness... Insofar as comparison is possible with such an idiosyncratic book, Princess recalls two other New York novels of the 1970s – Elizabeth Hardwick’s Sleepless Nights and Renata Adler’s Speedboat
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Timeless Love
Poems, Stories, and LettersThis beautiful, giftable collection celebrates and explores both the beauty and the anguish of love through classic poems, stories, and letters from some of literature’s most beloved writers.
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Ethan Frome
Annotated EditionA marked contrast to the mordantly satirical novels of manners set among New York high society for which she is best known, this story set in rural Massachusetts is considered by many to be Edith Wharton's highest achievement, and is unsurpassed as a study of forbidden love and thwarted desire. Here presented in a new annotated edition.
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The Painted Veil
'She was a fool and he knew it and because he loved her it had made no difference'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. But when Walter discovers her deception, he exacts a strange and terrible vengeance: Kitty must accompany him to his new posting in remote mainland China, where a cholera epidemic rages...VINTAGE DECO: Nine blazing, daring novels to celebrate the 1920s - 100 years on.
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The Age of Innocence
'We can't behave like people in novels, though, can we?'Newland Archer and May Welland are the perfect couple. He is a wealthy young lawyer and she is a lovely and sweet-natured girl. All seems set for success until the arrival of May's unconventional cousin Ellen Olenska, who returns from Europe without her husband and proceeds to shake up polite New York society. To Newland, she is a breath of fresh air and a free spirit, but the bond that develops between them throws his values into confusion and threatens his relationship with May.VINTAGE DECO: Nine blazing, daring novels to celebrate the 1920s - 100 years on.
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The Blacker the Berry
'Thurman's novel presents some of the most layered portrayals of New York City life...from seedy employment agency waiting rooms to swank Harlem hot spots'
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Treue
Hernan Diaz' vielschichtiger Roman dekonstruiert den amerikanischen Mythos von Männern, Macht und Reichtum und gipfelt in einer provokanten Geschichte der Emanzipation. Ausgezeichnet mit dem Pulitzer-Preis 2023Am Anfang steht das Geld. Und ein Mann, der es zu vermehren versteht wie kein Zweiter. In der schillernden New Yorker Finanzwelt der 20er-Jahre wächst Benjamin Rasks Vermögen ins Unermessliche. Aber erst seine Ehe mit der geheimnisvollen Helen gibt seinem Leben Sinn. Bald vibriert die ganze Stadt vor Gerüchten um das enigmatische Paar, und mit der Zeit beginnen die vielen Erzählungen die Wahrheit über die Eheleute zu verschleiern. Bis sich eine unerwartete Stimme in dem Gewirr Gehör verschafft."Treue" ist ein fulminantes Spiel mit dem Leser, eine vierteilige Matroschka, deren Kern den großen amerikanischen Mythos des Kapitals für immer verändert. Was als klassischer Roman über Macht und Männer beginnt, gipfelt in einer provokanten und hochmodernen Geschichte der Emanzipation.
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The House of Mirth
Annotated Edition (Alma Classics Evergreens)Published in 1905 to immediate critical and commercial success, Edith Wharton’s enduringly popular novel of manners is a brilliant evocation of the economic and social changes wrought by the Gilded Age, as well as a universal satire on the constraints and follies of upper-crust conventions.
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