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Belles-lettres (texts) bibliography Fiction. Horror fiction. Reviews. short story Translations.Natsume, Sōseki
Summary: "Natsume Soseki's Kusamakura follows its nameless young artist-narrator on a meandering walking tour of the mountains. At the inn at a hot spring resort, he has a series of mysterious encounters with Nami, the lovely young daughter of the establishment. Nami, or 'beauty, ' is the center of this elegant novel, the still point around which the artist moves and the enigmatic subject of Soseki's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NATAzuela, Mariano
Summary: "The Underdogs is the first great novel about the first great revolution of the twentieth century. Demetrio Mac©Ưas, a poor, illiterate Indian, must join the rebels to save his family. Courageous and charismatic, he earns a generalship in Pancho Villa's army, only to become discouraged with the cause after it becomes hopelessly factionalized. At once a spare, moving depiction of the limits of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2008
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Azuela 2008Tolstoy, Leo
Summary: Annotation In 1851, at the age of twenty-two, Tolstoy joined the Russian army and travelled to the Caucasus as a soldier. The four years that followed were among the most significant in his life, and deeply influenced the stories collected here. Begun in 1852 but unfinished for a decade, The Cossacks describes the experiences of Olenin, a young cultured Russian who comes to despise civilization...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TOLPoe, Edgar Allan
Summary: Presents a selection of critical writings, short fiction, and poetry by American author Edgar Allan Poe, including the title story in which a visitor to a gloomy mansion finds a childhood friend dying under the spell of a family curse.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin 2003