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John Irving
A Prayer for Owen Meany (Modern Library)
by Modern Library (Hardcover) (Release Date: 2002-06-04)

Kazuo Ishiguro
Never Let Me Go
by Vintage (Paperback) (Release Date: 2006-03-14)

From the Booker Prize-winning author of The Remains of the Day comes a devastating new novel of innocence, knowledge, and loss. As children Kathy, Ruth, and Tommy were students at Hailsham, an exclusive boarding school secluded in the English countryside. It was a place of mercurial cliques and mysterious rules where teachers were constantly reminding their charges of how special they were. Now, years later, Kathy is a young woman. Ruth and Tommy have reentered her life. And for the first time she is beginning to look back at their shared past and understand just what it is that makes them special–and how that gift will shape the rest of their time together. Suspenseful, moving, beautifully atmospheric, Never Let Me Go is another classic by the author of The Remains of the Day

Kazuo Ishiguro
The Remains of the Day
by Vintage (Paperback) (Release Date: 1990-09-12)

John Irving
The World According to Garp
by Ballantine Books (Mass Market Paperback) (Release Date: 1990-11-03)

Henrik Ibsen
A Doll's House
by Filiquarian (Paperback) (Release Date: 2007-11-07)

A Doll's House is a play written in 1879 by Norweigian playwright Henrik Ibsen. This play, being Ibsen's most famous, is a required reading in many high schools and colleges around the world. Although the play was considered controversial when it was originally published, it's critical view of victorian marriage is now seen as being educational. This work is known for its unconventional ending, which ends in a discussion instead of an unraveling, which are common in most plays.

Christopher Isherwood
The Berlin Stories: The Last of Mr. Norris
by Bentley Publishers (Hardcover)

Eugene Ionesco
Four Plays: The Bald Soprano; The Lesson; Jack, or the Submission; The Chairs
by Grove Press (Paperback)

The leading figure of absurdist theater and one of the great innovators of the modern stage, Eugene Ionesco did not write his first play, The Bald Soprano, until 1950. He went on to become an internationally renowned master of modern drama, famous for the comic proportions and bizarre effects that allow his work to be simultaneously hilarious, tragic, and profound.

Bhagavad-Gita:: The Song of God
by Signet Classics (Paperback) (Release Date: 2002-07-02)

The Bhagavad-Gita is the Gospel of Hinduism, and one of the great religious classics of the world. Its simple, vivid message is a daily inspiration in the lives of millions throughout the world and has been so for countless generations. Here is a distinguished translation that can be read by every person, not as an archaic monument to an ancient culture, but as a living contemporary message that touches the most urgent personal and social problems.

Kazuo Ishiguro
Never Let Me Go
by Knopf (Hardcover) (Release Date: 2005-04-05)

John Irving
The Hotel New Hampshire
by E. P. Dutton (Hardcover)

"The first of my father's illusions was that bears could survive the life lived by human beings, and the second was that human beings could survive a life led in hotels."So says John Berry, son of a hapless dreamer, brother to a cadre of eccentric siblings, and chronicler of the lives lived, the loves experienced, the deaths met, and the myriad strange and wonderful times encountered by the family Berry. Hoteliers, pet-bear owners, friends of Freud (the animal trainer and vaudevillian, that is), and playthings of mad fate, they "dream on" in a funny, sad, outrageous, and moving novel by the remarkable author of A Son of the Circus and A Prayer for Owen Meany."Like Garp, [THE HOTEL NEW HAMPSHIRE] is a startlingly original family saga that combines macabre humor with Dickensian sentiment and outrage at cruelty, dogmatism and injustice."--Time"Rejoice! John Irving has written another book according to your world....You must read this book."--Los Angeles ...

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