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The Dharma Bums is the story of a group of men enganged in a passionate search for dharma or truth. Their search takes them to the High Sierras to seek the lesson of solitude. In the end the wild life in San Francisco proves too attractive for them.
Inspired by Jane Eyre, Wild Sargasso Sea is Jean Rhys’s powerful and compassionate story of Antoinette Cosway who is haunted by her brother’s death and the madness of her mother and who is trapped in an unstable marriage.
In interwar Paris, Marya is trying to make something of her life, but after losing her Polish husband and meeting an English couple reality starts to crumble. This novel was originally published in 1928 under the title Postures.
Immortalised in the film starring Audrey Hepburn, Truman Capote’s classic Breakfast at Tiffany’s is full of sharp wit. Its exuberant cast of characters vividly captures the restless, slightly madcap era of early 1940s New York.
The ordinary folk of New Orleans seem to think he is unhinged as well. Ignatius ignores them as he heaves his vast bulk through the city’s fleshpots in a noble crusade against vice, modernity and ignorance. But his momma has a nasty surprise in store for him.
Written at the end of the World War II, this novel mourns the passing of the aristocratic world which Waugh knew in his youth and recalls the sensuous pleasures denied him by the austerities of war.
Having got rid of their human masters, the animals of Manor Farm look forward to a life of freedom and plenty. Orwell’s allegoric story of the betrayal of idealism through tyranny and corruption is as fresh today as when it was first published in 1945.
In a cult classic that rivals ‘Pulp Fiction’ for its portrayal of violence in the postmodern society, Anthony Burgess’s novel is part horror farce, part social prophecy and part penetrating study of human choice between good and evil.
On the Road swings to the rhythms of 1950s underground America, jazz, sex, generosity, chill dawns and drugs, with Sal Paradise and his hero Dean Moriarty, traveller and mystic, the living epitome of Beat.
A masterpiece, a dazzling social satire, and a milestone in twentieth century literature, The Great Gatsby peels away the layers of the glamorous twenties in the U.S. to display the coldness and cruelty at its heart.
Agent Al Dewey of the Kansas Bureau of Investigation has a horrific murder to solve – and precious few clues. Capote’s reconstruction of the slaughter of an entire family shows a gripping mix of journalistic skills and imaginative power.
A collection of short stories concerned with the subject of racial conflict. The title story is of a man whose hatred has its origins in a scene from his childhood, where his parents and others watch with jubilation, the mutilation and lynching of a black ‘criminal’.
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