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Ham On Rye by Charles Bukowski
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Category: Classics | Series: Canons Ser.
INTRODUCTION BY RODDY DOYLE'He brought everyone down to earth, even the angels' LEONARD COHENCharles Bukowski is one of the greatest authors of the twentieth century. The autobiographical Ham on Rye is widely considered his finest novel. A classic of American literature, it offers powerful insight into ...Show more
Hope In The Dark - Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities by Rebecca Solnit
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Category: Politics and Current Affairs | Series: Canons Ser. | Reading Level: good
With Hope in the Dark, Rebecca Solnit makes a radical case for hope as a commitment to act in a world whose future remains uncertain and unknowable. Drawing on her decades of activism and a wide reading of environmental, cultural, and political history, Solnit argued that radicals have a long, neglected ...Show more
If the War Goes On ... - Reflections on War and Politics by Hermann Hesse; Ralph Manheim (Translator)
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Category: Short Stories & Essays | Series: Canons Ser.
Herman Hesse remained clear-sighted and consistent in his political views and his passionate espousal of pacifism and the bloody absurdity of war from the start of the First World War to the end of his life. He wrote the earliest essay in this book in September 1914, before he cemented his fame with the ...Show more
Jerusalem the Golden by Margaret Drabble
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Category: Fiction | Series: Canons Ser.
Winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, an intimate novel about human desire against the backdrop of the sexual liberation movement of the Sixties.
Let Us Compare Mythologies by Leonard Cohen
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Category: Poetry | Series: Canons Ser.
First published in 1956 when he was twenty-two years old, Let Us Compare Mythologies is Leonard Cohen's first collection of poetry. It is an accomplished and passionate collection which demonstrates Cohen's remarkably assured voice, even as a young man.An unprecedented debut published to immediate accla ...Show more
Life Of Pi by Yann Martel
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Category: Fiction | Series: Canons Ser.
One boy, one boat, one tiger . . .After the tragic sinking of a cargo ship, a solitary lifeboat remains bobbing on the wild, blue Pacific. The only survivors from the wreck are a sixteen-year-old boy named Pi, a hyena, a zebra (with a broken leg), a female orang-utan - and a 450-pound Royal Bengal tiger ...Show more
Looking Into the Distance: Human Sear... by Richard Holloway
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Category: Philosophy | Series: Canons Ser.
Spirituality, like morality, has historically been tied to religion - and yet it is possible for one to exist without the other. In this meditative and highly personal account, Richard Holloway considers the nature of the spiritual, and what it means to live with the inevitability of death.Both celebrat ...Show more
Mauve by Simon Garfield
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Category: History | Series: Canons Ser.
1856. Eighteen-year-old chemistry student William Perkin's experiment has gone horribly wrong. But the deep brown sludge his botched project has produced has an unexpected power: the power to dye everything it touches a brilliant purple. Perkin has discovered mauve, the world's first synthetic dye, brid ...Show more
Misadventures by Sylvia Smith
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Category: Biography and Memoir | Series: Canons Ser.
Misadventures is a unique ensemble of mishaps and anecdotes revealing the ups and downs of one woman's life in twentieth-century London. Sylvia Smith's deadpan patter belies the startling complexities, humour and darkness at the heart of this remarkable memoir.
Neither Wolf Nor Dog: On Forgotten Roads with an Indian Elder by Kent Nerburn
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Category: Biography and Memoir | Series: Canons Ser.
Against an unflinching backdrop of 90s reservation life in the western Dakotas, Neither Wolf Nor Dog tells the story of two men, one white and one Native American, connected by their own understandings of life yet struggling to find a common voice. As they journey together through small Indian towns and ...Show more
Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky; Natasha Randall (Translator)
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Category: Classics | Series: Canons Ser.
'I am a sick person. I am a spiteful person. An unattractive person, too . . .'In the depths of a cellar in St. Petersburg, a retired civil servant spews forth a passionate and furious note on the ills of society. The underground man's manifesto reveals his erratic, self-contradictory and even sadistic ...Show more
Ocean Sea by Alessandro Baricco; Alastair McEwen (Translator)
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Category: Fiction | Series: Canons Ser.
A handful of disparate lives converge at a remote seaside inn: a lovelorn professor, a renowned painter, an inscrutable seductress - and a beautiful young girl, fatally ill, brought to the sea by a desperate father's last hope. An intricate web of destinies and associations begins to reveal itself, but ...Show more