Allegories
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Waiting for the Barbarians
$16.00 Add to cartA modern classic by Nobel Laureate J.M. Coetzee. His latest novel, The Schooldays of Jesus, is now available from Viking. Late Essays: 2006-2016 will be available January 2018.
For decades the Magist- Author: Coetzee, J. M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: April 29 1982
- ISBN10: 014006110X
- Language: English
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The Lives of Animals
$16.95 Add to cartThe idea of human cruelty to animals so consumes novelist Elizabeth Costello in her later years that she can no longer look another person in the eye: humans, especially meat-eating ones, seem to her
- Author: Coetzee, J. M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: October 04 2016
- ISBN10: 0691173907
- Language: English
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The Pilgrim’s Progress in Modern Language
$18.99 Add to cartA Timeless Tale of Adventure and Courage
Acclaimed as one of the greatest literary masterpieces in the world, John Bunyan’s beloved allegory has captivated reader’s attention for centuries while prov- Author: Bunyan, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: July 02 2019
- ISBN10: 1641232412
- Language: English
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Terrible Things: An Allegory of the Holocaust
$11.95 Add to cartThe animals in the clearing were content until the Terrible Things came, capturing all creatures with feathers.
Little Rabbit wondered what was wrong with feathers, but his fellow animals silenced hi- Author: Bunting, Eve
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: September 01 1989
- ISBN10: 0827605072
- Language: English
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The Pilgrim’s Regress
$17.99 Add to cartThe first book written by C. S. Lewis after his conversion to Christianity, The Pilgrim’s Regress is, in a sense, a record of Lewis’s own search for meaning and spiritual satisfaction, a search that e… [more below]
- Author: Lewis, C. S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 22 2014
- ISBN10: 0802872174
- Language: English
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The Decameron
$15.00 Add to cart“The Decameron reads in some ways as a guide to social distancing and self-isolation.” —The New York Times
“The 14th-century Italian book that shows us how to survive coronavirus.” —New Statesman A- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Boccaccio, Giovanni
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1072
- Publish Date: April 29 2003
- ISBN10: 0140449302
- Language: English
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Keeper of the Light
$16.99 Add to cartDr. Olivia Simon is on duty in the emergency room of North Carolina’s Outer Banks Hospital when a gunshot victim is brought in. Midway through the desperate effort to save the young woman’s life, Oliv… [more below]
- Series: Keeper Trilogy #1
- Author: Chamberlain, Diane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: March 29 2011
- ISBN10: 0778329542
- Language: English
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Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
$5.95 Add to cartRobert Louis Stevenson originally wrote Dr. Jekyll And Mr Hyde as a “chilling shocker.” He then burned the draft and, upon his wife’s advice, rewrote it as the darkly complex tale it is today. Stark, … [more below]
- Series: Bantam Classics
- Author: Stevenson, Robert Louis
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: March 01 1982
- ISBN10: 055321277X
- Language: English
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Fifteen Dogs
$17.95 Read moreWinner of Canada Reads 2017
Winner of the 2015 Scotiabank Giller Prize
Finalist for the 2015 Toronto Book Awards
Winner of the 2015 Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize
“[Alexis] devises an inventive romp
- Author: Alexis, André
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: April 14 2015
- ISBN10: 1552453057
- Language: English
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The Trial
$13.95 Add to cartOne of the great works of the twentieth century, Kafka’s The Trial has been read as a study of political power, a pessimistic religious parable, or a crime novel where the accused man is himself the p
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Kafka, Franz
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 04, 2009
- ISBN10: 0199238294
- Language: English
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Immortality
$18.99 Add to cartNew York Times Bestseller
“Inspired. . . . Kundera’s most brilliantly imagined novel. . . . A book that entrances, beguiles and charms us from first page to last.” — Cleveland Plain Dealer
Milan Kunder
- Series: Perennial Classics
- Author: Kundera, Milan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 20, 1999
- ISBN10: 0060932384
- Language: English
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The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
$18.99 Add to cart“An absolutely dazzling entertainment. . . . Arousing on every level–political, erotic, intellectual, and above all, humorous.” —Newsweek
“The Book of Laughter and Forgetting calls itself a novel, al
- Series: Perennial Classics
- Author: Kundera, Milan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: 7-Apr-99
- ISBN10: 0060932147
- Language: English
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The Master and Margarita
$19.00 Add to cartA “soaring, dazzling novel” (The New York Times), Mirra Ginsburg’s critically-acclaimed translation of one of the most important and best-loved modern classics in world literature
The Master and Margar
- Author: Bulgakov, Mikhail
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 402
- Publish Date: 13-Jan-94
- ISBN10: 0802130119
- Language: English
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Siddhartha
$16.00 Add to cartThe classic novel of a quest for knowledge that has delighted, inspired, and influenced generations of readers, writers, and thinkers.
Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great… [more below]- Series: Modern Library Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Hesse, Hermann
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: December 04 2007
- ISBN10: 0812974786
- Language: English
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Little Pilgrim’s Progress: From John Bunyan’s Classic
$12.99 Add to cartFifty-five years ago, Helen L. Taylor took John Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress and simplified the vocabulary and concepts for young readers while keeping the storyline intact. The result was a classic in
- Author: Taylor, Helen L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: January 01, 2013
- ISBN10: 0802447996
- Language: English
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The Pilgrim’s Progress
$9.94 Add to cartThe Pilgrim’s Progress has inspired readers for over three centuries. It is one of the best-loved and most widely read books in English literature and is a classic of the heroic Puritan tradition and … [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Bunyan, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: April 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0199538131
- Language: English
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Blindness
$18.99 Add to cartA stunningly powerful novel of humanity’s will to survive against all odds during an epidemic by a winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature.
An International Bestseller – “This is a shattering work b- Series: Harvest Book
- Author: Saramago, Jos?
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 04 1999
- ISBN10: 0156007754
- Language: English
