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Vladimir Nabokov
Lolita (Everyman's Library (Cloth))
by Everyman's Library (Hardcover) (Release Date: 1993-03-09)

V.S. Naipaul
A Bend in the River
by Vintage (Paperback) (Release Date: 1989-03-13)

In the "brilliant novel" (The New York Times) V.S. Naipaul takes us deeply into the life of one man—an Indian who, uprooted by the bloody tides of Third World history, has come to live in an isolated town at the bend of a great river in a newly independent African nation. Naipaul gives us the most convincing and disturbing vision yet of what happens in a place caught between the dangerously alluring modern world and its own tenacious past and traditions.

Vladimir Nabokov, Alfred Appel Jr.
The Annotated Lolita: Revised and Updated
by Vintage (Paperback) (Release Date: 1991-04-23)

V.S. Naipaul
A House for Mr. Biswas
by Vintage (Paperback) (Release Date: 2001-03-13)

The early masterpiece of V. S. Naipaul’s brilliant career, A House for Mr. Biswas is an unforgettable story inspired by Naipaul's father that has been hailed as one of the twentieth century's finest novels.In his forty-six short years, Mr. Mohun Biswas has been fighting against destiny to achieve some semblance of independence, only to face a lifetime of calamity. Shuttled from one residence to another after the drowning death of his father, for which he is inadvertently responsible, Mr. Biswas yearns for a place he can call home. But when he marries into the domineering Tulsi family on whom he indignantly becomes dependent, Mr. Biswas embarks on an arduous–and endless–struggle to weaken their hold over him and purchase a house of his own. A heartrending, dark comedy of manners, A House for Mr. Biswas masterfully evokes a man’s quest for autonomy against an emblematic post-colonial canvas.

Vladimir Nabokov
Pale Fire (Everyman's Library (Cloth))
by Everyman's Library (Hardcover) (Release Date: 1992-03-10)

Pablo Neruda
Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair: Dual Language Edition (Penguin Classics)
by Penguin Classics (Paperback)

The Nobel Prize–winning poet’s most popular work When it appeared in 1924, this work launched into the international spotlight a young and unknown poet whose writings would ignite a generation. W. S. Merwin’s incomparable translation faces the original Spanish text. Now in a black-spine Classics edition, this book stands as an essential collection that continues to inspire lovers and poets around the world.

Vladimir Nabokov, Brian Boyd
Speak, Memory (Everyman's Library (Cloth))
by Everyman's Library (Hardcover) (Release Date: 1999-03-23)

The Best American Essays of the Century (The Best American Series (TM))
by Houghton Mifflin (Audio Cassette)

Robert Louis Stevenson
Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde (Signet Classics)
by Signet Classics (Paperback) (Release Date: 2003-09-02)

The classic nightmare tale in a thrilling new edition Spawned by a nightmare that Stevenson had, this classic tale of the dark, primordial night of the soul remains a masterpiece of the duality of good and evil within us all.

Pablo Neruda
The Essential Neruda: Selected Poems (Bilingual Edition) (Spanish Edition)
by City Lights Publishers (Paperback)

This collection of Neruda's most essential poems will prove indispensable. Selected by a team of poets and prominent Neruda scholars in both Chile and the U.S., this is a definitive selection that draws from the entire breadth and width of Neruda's various styles and themes. An impressive group of translators that includes Alistair Reid, Stephen Mitchell, Robert Haas, Jim Harrison, Stephen Kessler and Jack Hirschman, have come together to revisit or completely retranslate the poems; and a handful of previously untranslated works are included as well. This selection sets the standard for a general, high--quality introduction to Neruda's complete oeuvre.Pablo Neruda was born in Chile in 1904. He received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1971.

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