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The Collected Plays of Edward Albee

The Collected Plays of Edward Albee by Edward Albee

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The collected plays of one of the few genuinely great living American dramatists Three-time Pulitzer Prize-winner and recipient of three Tony Awards, Edward Albee was awarded the gold Medal in Drama from the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1980, and in 1996 he received both the Kennedy Center Honors and the...
 
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead

Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead by Tom Stoppard

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Long Day's Journey into Night

Long Day's Journey into Night by Eugene O'neill

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Eugene O'Neill's autobiographical play Long Day's Journey into Night is regarded as his finest work. First published by Yale University Press in 1956, it won the Pulitzer Prize in 1957 and has since sold more than one million copies. This edition, which includes a new foreword by Harold Bloom, coincides with a new...
 
Welcome to the Monkey House

Welcome to the Monkey House by Kurt Vonnegut

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The Complete Stories

The Complete Stories by John Updike, Franz Kafka

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Factotum: A Novel

Factotum: A Novel by Charles Bukowski

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Women

Women by Charles Bukowski

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Low life writer and alcoholic Henry Chinaski was born to survive. Now, at the age of fifty, he is living the life of a rock star, running three hundred hangovers a year and a sex life that would cripple Casanova. "Women" is a riotous and uncompromisingly vivid account of life on the edge.
 
The Dark Half

The Dark Half by Stephen King

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Thad Beumont would like to say he is innocent.
 
Blue Castle

Blue Castle by L. M. Montgomery

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Valancy lives a drab life with her overbearing mother and prying aunt. Then a shocking diagnosis from Dr. Trent prompts her to make a fresh start. For the first time, she does and says exactly what she feels. As she expands her limited horizons, Valancy undergoes a transformation, discovering a new world of love...
 
Running with Scissors: A Memoir

Running with Scissors: A Memoir by Augusten Burroughs

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The author describes his bizarre coming-of-age years after his adoption by his mother's psychiatrist, during which he witnessed such misadventures as a fake suicide attempt and front-lawn family/patient sleepovers.
 
The Foretelling

The Foretelling by Alice Hoffman

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A tribe of warrior women battle for their survival in a harsh environment. Rain, the daughter of their queen, Alina, struggles against her destiny to become queen, to fight and to kill. Followed by a strange prophesy, Rain finds her life will take a new path. The warriors have always maintained their power through...
 
Lasher

Lasher by Anne Rice

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At the centre of Anne Rice's brilliant novel, the beautiful Rowan Mayfair, queen of the coven, must flee from the darkly brutal, yet irresistible demon known as Lasher. With a dreamlike power, this wickedly seductive entity draws us through twilight paths, telling a chillingly hypnotic story of spiritual...
 
Fingersmith

Fingersmith by Sarah Waters

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'We were all more or less thieves at Lant Street. But we were that kind of thief that rather eased the dodgy deed along, than did it . We could pass anything, anything at all, at speeds which would astonish you. There was only one thing, in fact, that had come and got stuck - one thing that had somehow withstood...
 
Still Life with Woodpecker

Still Life with Woodpecker by Tom Robbins

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This is a sort of a love story that takes place inside a pack of Camel cigarettes. It reveals the purpose of the moon, and paints a portrait of contemporary society that includes powerful Arabs, exiled royalty and pregnant cheerleaders. It also deals with the problem of redheads.
 
This Book Does Not Exist: Adventures in the Paradoxical

This Book Does Not Exist: Adventures in the Paradoxical by Michael Picard, G. ; Picard, M. Hayden

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Welcome to the perplexing world of the paradoxical. Prepare to stretch your mind and challenge everything you think. This Book Does Not Exist unveils how weird a world of thought can be. Filled with philosophical and mathematical problems to baffle and delight you, it is packed with thought experiments, real-life...
 
Thinner

Thinner by Stephen King, Richard Bachman

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'Thinner' - the old gypsy man barely whispers the word. Billy feels the touch of a withered hand on his cheek. 'Thinner' - the word, the old man's curse, has lodged in Billy's mind like a fattening worm, eating at his flesh, at his reason. And with his despair, comes violence.
 
The Last Night of the Earth Poems

The Last Night of the Earth Poems by Charles Bukowski

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Poems deal with writing, death and immortality, literature, city life, illness, war, and the past.
 
J. D. Salinger's "Catcher in the Rye"

J. D. Salinger's "Catcher in the Rye" by J. D. Salinger, Harold Bloom

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-- Presents the most important 20th-century criticism on major works from The Odyssey through modern literature -- The critical essays reflect a variety of schools of criticism -- Contains critical biographies, notes on the contributing critics, a chronology of the author's life, and an index
 
Bright Young Things

Bright Young Things by Scarlett Thomas

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Bright young things required for big project...Six young people respond to the advert in The Times - all clever, all disaffected with their lives, all looking for an escape. What they least expect is to find themselves prisoners on an island, at the mercy of...who? Their needs are well provided for with a...
 
Let's Get Invisible

Let's Get Invisible by R. L. Stine

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On Max's birthday, he finds a kind of magic mirror in the attic. It can make make him become invisible. So Max and his friends start playing "now you see me, now you don't." Until Max realizes that he's losing control. Staying invisible a little too long. Having a harder and harder time coming back. Getting...
 
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