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Moby Dick
The Floating Press 2008; US$ 3.95The itinerant sailor Ishmael begins a voyage on the whaling ship Pequod whose captain, Ahab, wishes to exact revenge upon the whale Moby-Dick, who destroyed his last ship and took his leg. As they search for the savage white whale, Ishmael questions all aspects of life. The story is woven in complex, lyrical language and uses many theatrical forms,... more...
David Copperfield
The Floating Press 2008; US$ 3.95David Copperfield is considered to be Charles Dickens's most autobiographical novel. He said of it: "Like many fond parents, I have in my heart of hearts a favourite child. And his name is David Copperfield." It is a Bildungsroman, a tale which follows the development into maturity of its narrator, David Copperfield. The Russian greats... more...
Don Quixote
The Floating Press 2008; US$ 3.95Brimming with romance and adventure, Miguel de Cervantes Don Quixote is considered by many to be the greatest work in the Spanish literary canon. Both humane and humorous, the two volume oeuvre centres on the adventures of the self-styled knight errant Don Quixote and Sancho Panza, Quixote's credulous and chubby squire. Together the unlikely pair... more...
No Country for Old Men
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2007; US$ 15.00In his blistering new novel, Cormac McCarthy returns to the Texas-Mexico border, setting of his famed Border Trilogy . The time is our own, when rustlers have given way to drug-runners and small towns have become free-fire zones. One day, a good old boy named Llewellyn Moss finds a pickup truck surrounded by a bodyguard of dead men. A load of heroin... more...
Emma
The Floating Press 2008; US$ 3.95Emma stands a little apart from Jane Austen's other novels. It is perhaps the most self-aware, socially critical and ironic of all her works. Her protagonist, Emma Woodhouse, is a beautiful, rich girl who is also spoiled, proud and blinded by her own situation in life. She begins to understand herself and life a little better when her romantic... more...
Once on a Moonless Night
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2009; US$ 14.95A precious scroll inscribed with a lost Buddhist sutra?once owned by Pu Yi, the last emperor of China?is illicitly sold to an eccentric French linguist, Paul d?Ampere, who is imprisoned as a result. In jail, he devotes himself to studying its ancient text. A young Western scholar in China hears this account from the grocer Toomchooq, whose name... more...
The Midwife's Tale
Random House Publishing Group 2008; US$ 15.00?I come from a long line of midwives,? narrates Elizabeth Whitely. ?I was expected to follow Mama, follow Granny, follow Great-granny. In the end, I didn?t disappoint them. Or perhaps I did. After all, there were no more midwives after me.?For generations, the women in Elizabeth?s family have brought life to Kettle Valley, West Virginia, heeding... more...
Notes from the Underground
The Floating Press 2009; US$ 5.95Notes from the Underground is Fyodor Dostoevsky's 1864 masterpiece following the ranting, slightly unhinged memoir of an isolated, anonymous civil servant. A dramatic monologue in which the narrator leaves himself open to ridicule and reveals more of his weaknesses than he intends, this influential short novel lays the ground work for the political,... more...
A Room with a View
The Floating Press 1908; US$ 4.99A Room with a View is a romance and a social critique of Edwardian society. A young woman is chaperoned to Italy by her bitter aunt. There she meets an intriguing, but eccentric young man. Back in England she finds herself respectably engaged to a proper gentleman, but is thrown into a muddle when her young man from Italy moves to her English town.... more...
Major Pettigrew's Last Stand
Random House Publishing Group 2010; US$ 15.00BONUS: This edition contains a Major Pettigrew's Last Stand discussion guide. You are about to travel to Edgecombe St. Mary, a small village in the English countryside filled with rolling hills, thatched cottages, and a cast of characters both hilariously original and as familiar as the members of your own family. Among them is Major Ernest Pettigrew... more...









