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  The Brothers Karamazov

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  The Hour of the Star

  The Hour of the Star, Clarice Lispector's consummate final novel, may well be her masterpiece. Narrated by the cosmopolitan Rodrigo S.M., this brief, strange, and haunting tale is the story of Macabéa…

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  The Waves

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  The Castle

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  Left unfinished by Kafka in 1922 and not published until 1926, two years after his death, The Castle is the haunting tale of K.’s relentless, unavailing str…

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  The Hearing Trumpet

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  Someone Who Will Love You in All Your Damaged Glory

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  Novelist as a Vocation

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  The Devil and Miss Prym

  A stranger arrives at the remote village of Viscos, carrying with him a backpack containing a notebook and eleven gold bars. He comes searching for the answer to a question that torments him: Are huma…

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  Nadja

  Nadja, originally published in France in 1928, is the first and perhaps best Surrealist romance ever written, a book which defined that movement's attitude toward everyday life.
  
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  Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation

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  The Collector

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  Simple Passion

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  Prozac Nation

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  The Fifth Mountain

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  Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine and the Foundations of a Movement

  In these newly collected essays, interviews, and speeches, world-renowned activist and scholar Angela Y. Davis illuminates the connections between struggles against state violence and oppression throu…

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  Candide

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