Penguin USA. 12/01/1991. Reprint. 320 pgs. Durrell's monumental four-novel exploration of love, character, friendship, and death includes JUSTINE, CLEA, BALTHAZAR, and MOUNTOLIVE. Published between 1957 and 1960, the quartet, which follows the romantic and political fortunes of a group of friends in Egypt, was an international success, and marked Durrell as an important writer. Originally published at $15.00 You save 89% off the cover price!

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Penguin USA. 10/01/1994. Reprint. Annette Horrocks has finally succeeded in getting pregnant, after 10 year of trying, and is also about to have a first novel published. Then she discovers that her husband is having an affair. Originally published at $14.00 You save 93% off the cover price!

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Penguin USA. 10/01/1982. Reprint. Parson Primrose and his wife, Deborah, must manage the lives of their children--scholars George and Moses, the attractive and sensual Olivia and Sophia, as well as two younger sons. Betrothals, betrayals, loss and gain of fortune, catastrophe, vanity, pretension, and providence pepper this novel that Henry James called "the spoiled child of our literature." Originally perceived as a sentimental pastoral account, it is now regarded as a satire on that very type of novel. Originally published at $9.00 You save 83% off the cover price!

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Penguin USA. 03/01/1988. Reissue. 126 pgs. DAISY MILLER is often thought of as the quintessential James novel: the story of the innocent abroad who is corrupted by contact with an older, more sophisticated society. Daisy, a delightfully uninhibited young American, scandalizes the European community in which she is a visitor with her high spirits and disregard of ancient conventions. After an innocent but unwise tryst with an Italian admirer to see the Colosseum in Rome by moonlight, Daisy contracts malaria and dies. The pathos of her death is compounded by the fact that another admirer, Winterbourne, is never entirely convinced that Daisy is merely the frank, innocent girl she seems. Originally published at $7.00 You save 72% off the cover price!

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St Martins Pr. 01/01/1996. 357 pgs. Kate Sherridan recognizes the bad state of her marriage and the deteriorating condition of her family's cohesiveness. She decides that a visit to her childhood vacation spot in Cornwall might help everyone reconnect. While there she learns that her husband has been unfaithful and that her children are falling in with the wrong crowd. Meanwhile, an old murder mystery resurfaces. Originally published at $23.95 You save 96% off the cover price!

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St Martins Pr. 05/01/2004. Reprint. 256 pgs. Beautiful, feisty Lady Rose and Captian Harry Cathcart join forces to find the murderer when a guest is found dead at a house party. Originally published at $6.50 You save 85% off the cover price!

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Tor Books. 05/02/2005. Reprint. 347 pgs. In an alternate 18th-century London, Queen Charlotte is Regent for mad King George III. But although Britain's ruling hand is feminine, there are few employment opportunities for a woman who has soiled her reputation by running away with her father's fencing master. Refusing to accept the classic profession for such a woman--prostitution--Sarah Tolerance has become an "investigative agent." When a client employs Miss Tolerance to trace the whereabouts of an antique fan, all of her considerable intelligence and her skill with the sword will be required to get to the bottom of the mystery. If Jane Austen had written a P.I. novel, this book would be the result. Originally published at $6.99 You save 83% off the cover price!

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Trafalgar Square. 09/01/1995. 316 pgs. The Dean of a venerable English cathedral attempts to requisition the money necessary to repair it by doing away with its popular choir. Originally published at $14.95 You save 93% off the cover price!

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W W Norton & Co Inc. 05/01/1976. This novel about two American families vacationing together on a package tour of Sicily was nominated for the National Book Award in 1976. Originally published at $7.95 You save 87% off the cover price!

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Random House Inc. 03/01/1979. This novel of love and denial tells the story of an unhappy love affair carried on between Jerry Conant and Sally Mathias, both already married, in Greenwood, Connecticut during the summer of 1962. Originally published at $29.95 You save 94% off the cover price!

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Random House Inc. 04/01/1968. In the Boston suburb of Tarbox live a group of well-to-do married couples whose lives intersect through mutual infidelities and shared sexual obsessions. John Updike charts the links and fissures in this intricate and hedonistic social network with his usual grace and wit. Sexually candid, even shocking at the time it was published, this 1968 novel--an international bestseller--is an unsparing look at the "sexual revolution" in America and its consequences, and at Updike's own generation as they approached middle age in the 1970s. Originally published at $35.00 You save 94% off the cover price!

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Univ of Virginia Pr. 05/01/1995. Reprint. In "The Romantic Comedians," Glasgow takes the familiar story of the cuckold and raises it to a new level. With its play on ideas about gender and power through sexual alignments, this comedy of manners offers rare feminist insight into relations between the sexes in Richmond society during the 1920s. Originally published at $16.95 You save 94% off the cover price!

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Berkley Pub Group. 06/01/1996. A humorous and satirical look at sexual mores and romantic education in the 1990s. Centered on the exploits, and lack thereof, of a young man hired by a women's fashion magazine to answer the question: What do men want? Originally published at $6.99 You save 80% off the cover price!

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Ballantine Books. 05/01/1995. Reprint. A wealthy middle-aged law professor reflects on his friendship with a famous architect and the architect's young male lover, who dies of an agonizing disease (not identified as AIDS but bearing its characteristics). Originally published at $10.00 You save 80% off the cover price!

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Penguin USA. 11/01/1996. Reprint. A satirical novel about Mitchell Sayer, a gay lawyer whose rigid life is disrupted when his mother confesses that he was adopted, and that he has an identical twin--who turns out to be Kitten Kaboodle, the star of the Tam-Tam Club's "all-girl" review. Originally published at $12.95 You save 85% off the cover price!

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Tuttle Pub. 08/01/1995. The composition of this novel in verse occupied a substantial portion of Pushkin's most productive years, from 1823 to 1831. His subject matter, genre, and even the meter he chose, were all influenced by Lord Byron and, in particular, "Childe Harold" (1812-1818). Eugene Onegin is an educated dandy in Petersburg society, an archetype for the "superfluous man" in Russian literature who suffers from melancholy and an aching but willful detachment from the conventional aristocratic lifestyle. These very qualities make him the object of Tatyana Lavin's love when he decides to accompany his friend Lensky on an excursion to court Olga Lavin. Tatyana soon declares herself in a letter to Onegin, but he believes that his temperament is beyond the possibility of love, that he could never be happy, and he tells her so. A few weeks later Onegin reluctantly accepts an invitation to Tatyana's name-day party and, feeling spiteful about the whole affair, provokes Lensky by dancing with Olga. Thinking his good friend will not go through with it, Lensky challenges Onegin to a duel. Mechanically, Onegin accepts the challenge and the following day Lensky is killed. Olga is inconsolable and Tatyana is taken away to Moscow by her family to find a suitable husband. Years pass, and when Onegin next sees Tatyana at a Petersburg ball she has married a wealthy prince and is a prominent member of society. He now finds himself consumed with desire for her and writes her a letter that mirrors the one he received from her years earlier. Onegin waits in vain for her reply until finally he visits her at home. Tatyana admits that her love for him has not diminished, but her position in society, her duty towards her husband, outweigh his unwelcome, belated, and tactless emotions. Originally published at $7.95 You save 75% off the cover price!

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St Martins Pr. 09/30/2004. 782 pgs. Both the publisher and critics have attempted to pigeonhole this charming fantasy, winner of the 2005 Hugo Award for best novel and a New York Times Notable Book for 2004, as "Harry Potter for Adults." However, their only point of similarity is that both books feature British magicians. Set in an alternate early 19th-century England and written in the prose of that time, the book is constructed as a heavily footnoted academic work concerning the careers of two magicians who helped the British win the war against Napoleon. The plot and tone are a satiric mix of a scholarly tome, an old-fashioned fairy tale, and a comedy of manners. In this version of England, everyone knows that fairies exist and that magicians actively employed their craft during the Middle Ages. However, practical magic has currently fallen into disuse, and all the people claiming to be magicians are theoretical ones, writing about magic, but not actually casting any spells. Therefore, it's quite astonishing when Mr. Gilbert Norrell, a pedantic, book-hoarding recluse, enters London society as a fully practicing magician. Not long after, the dashing dilettante Jonathan Strange discovers an unexpected aptitude for magic and also arrives in London, to act both as pupil and rival to Mr. Norrell. The book contains several black-and-white illustrations, again in an early 19th-century style. Originally published at $27.95 You save 96% off the cover price!

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