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The Soldier's Art - Anthony Powell
The Soldier's Art has been described as among the best novels about the British experience in the Second World War.[3]
The Soldier’s Art opens in 1941. Nick Jenkins’ Division is still in Northern Ire ...
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The Sheltering Sky - Bowles, Paul
The Sheltering Sky is a 1949 novel of alienation and existential despair by American writer and composer Paul Bowles.
Plot
The story centers on Port Moresby and his wife Kit, a married couple origina ...
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The Secret Agent - Joseph Conrad
The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale is a novel by Joseph Conrad, first published in 1907.[1] The story is set in London in 1886 and deals with Mr. Adolf Verloc and his work as a spy for an unnamed country ...
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The Rainbow - D. H. Lawrence
The Rainbow is a novel by British author D. H. Lawrence, first published by Methuen & Co. in 1915. It follows three generations of the Brangwen family living in Nottinghamshire,[2] focusing particular ...
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The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie - Muriel Spark
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie is a novel by Muriel Spark, the best known of her works.[1] It was first published in The New Yorker magazine and was published as a book by Macmillan in 1961. The charac ...