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1. Marguerite Duras

The Lover, Wartime Notebooks, Practicalities

Marguerite Duras was one of the leading intellectuals and novelist of post-war France, but her wartime writings were not published in full until after her death.

1. Daniel , Defoe

Robinson Crusoe

'I walk'd about on the shore, lifting up my hands, and my whole being, as I may say, wrapt up in the contemplation of my deliverance ... reflecting upon all my comrades that were drown'd, and that there should not be one soul sav'd but my self ... 'Who has not dreamed of life on an exotic isle, far away from civilization? Here is the novel which has inspired countless imitations by lesser writers, none of which equal the power and originality of Defoe's famous book. Robinson Crusoe, set ashore on an island after a terrible storm at sea, is forced to make do with only a knife, some tobacco, and a pipe. He learns how to build a canoe, make bread, and endure endless solitude. That is, until, twenty-four years later, when he confronts another human being. First published in 1719, Robinson Crusoe has been praised by such writers as James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, and Samuel Johnson as one of the greatest novels in the English language.The Penguin English Library - 100 editions of the best fiction in English, from the eighteenth century and the very first novels to the beginning of the First World War.

1. Charles , Dickens

David Copperfield

In a book that is part fairy tale and part thinly veiled autobiography, Dickens transmutes his life experience into a brilliant series of comic and sentimental adventures in the spirit of the great eighteenth-century novelists he so much admired. Few readers can fail to be touched by David's fate, and fewer still to be delighted by his story. The cruel Murdstone, the feckless Micawber, the unctuous and sinister Uriah Heep, and David Copperfield himself, into whose portrait Dickens puts so much of his own early life, form a central part of our literary legacy.This edition reprints the original Everyman preface by G. K. Chesterton and includes thirty-nine illustrations by Phiz.

1. Detlev , Marschall

Die stille Wehmut der Vernunft

Ende des 15. Jahrhunderts prallen zwei Welten aufeinander: Paola, Tochter eines Fürsten und im Geist des Humanismus erzogen, wird mit dem um viele Jahre älteren, tief religiösen Grafen Leonhard verheiratet.Zerrissen zwischen ihrer Rolle als Gräfin und ihrem freien Denken versucht sie, in der fremden Welt Fuß zu fassen - und fügt sich nach vielen Konflikten den Erwartungen ihres neuen Lebens. Doch ein schwerer Verlust führt sie zurück auf den Weg, den sie einst einschlagen wollte.Wie weit ist sie bereit zu gehen, um ihr eigenes Schicksal zu bestimmen?

1. Jules Verne

Keraban der Starrkopf

1. Jules Verne

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