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Fahrenheit 451
Ray Bradbury • 2013
"Sixty years after the original publication, Ray Bradbury's internationally acclaimed novel 'Fahrenheit 451' stands as a classic of world literature set in a bleak, dystopian future. Today its message has grown more relevant than ever before. Guy Montag is a fireman. His job is to destroy the most illegal of commodities, the printed book, along with the houses in which they are hidden. Montag never questions the destruction and ruin his actions produce, returning each day to his bland life and wife, Mildred, who spends all day with her television "family." But when he meets an eccentric young neighbor, Clarisse, who introduces him to a past where people didn't live in fear and to a present where one sees the world through the ideas in books instead of the mindless chatter of television, Montag begins to question everything he has ever known. This sixtieth-anniversary edition commemorates Ray Bradbury's masterpiece with a new introduction by Neil Gaiman ; personal essays on the genesis of the novel by the author ; a wealth of critical essays and reviews by Nelson Algren, Harold Bloom, Margaret Atwood, and others ; rare manuscript pages and sketches from Ray Bradbury's personal archive ; and much more. Here, at last, is the definitive edition of a classic of world literature."--taken from back cover.
The Virgin Suicides
Jeffrey Eugenides • 1994
Juxtaposing the most common and the most gothic, the humorous and the tragic, author Jeffrey Eugenides creates a vivid and compelling portrait of youth and lost innocence. He takes us back to the elm-lined streets of suburbia in the seventies, and introduces us to the men whose lives have been forever changed by their fierce, awkward obsession with five doomed sisters: brainy Therese, fastidious Mary, ascetic Bonnie, libertine Lux, and pale, saintly Cecilia, whose spectacular demise inaugurates "the year of the suicides." This is the debut novel that caused a sensation and won immediate acclaim from the critics-a tender, wickedly funny tale of love and terror, sex and suicide, memory and imagination.
My Year of Rest and Relaxation: A Novel
Ottessa Moshfegh • 2018
The Bell Jar (Modern Classics)
Sylvia Plath • 2005
<p><i>The Bell Jar</i> chronicles the crack-up of Esther Greenwood: brilliant, beautiful, enormously talented, and successful, but slowly going under -- maybe for the last time. Sylvia Plath masterfully draws the reader into Esther's breakdown with such intensity that Esther's insanity becomes completely real and even rational, as probable and accessible an experience as going to the movies. Such deep penetration into the dark and harrowing corners of the psyche is an extraordinary accomplishment and has made <i>The Bell Jar</i> a haunting American classic.</p> <p>This P.S. edition features an extra 16 pages of insights into the book, including author interviews, recommended reading, and more.</p>
Sociopath
Patric Gagne • 2025
The Diary of a Young Girl
Anne Frank • 2023
The Metamorphosis Franz Kafka
Franz Kafka • 2024
The Metamorphosis" by Franz Kafka delves into the surreal and harrowing transformation of Gregor Samsa, a man who awakens one morning to find himself inexplicably transformed into a monstrous insect. In this starkly symbolic tale, Gregor's newfound form exposes him to the alienation and absurdity of existence, as he grapples with society's rejection, family betrayal, and the dissolution of his former identity. Kafka weaves a darkly comic narrative that reveals the fragility of human connection and the haunting depths of isolation, inviting readers to confront their own perceptions of self and the merciless demands of a conformist world.
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White Oleander A Novel
Janet Fitch • 2000
American Psycho
Bret Easton Ellis • 1991
Paradise Rot: A Novel
Jenny Hval • 2018
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The Moon Over Edgar
Ian Felice • 2022
The Odyssey
Homer • 2018
