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1	The Elegance of the Hedgehog more books like this by Muriel Barbery, Alison Anderson (Translator) add to wishlist In this enthralling international bestseller, two girls live inconspicuous lives in the center of an elegant Paris apartment building. It is only when a stranger moves into their building--and sees through the girls' disguises--that Paloma and Rene discover their kindred spirits. see all copies from £5.02! new only from £6.28!
2	Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress more books like this by Sijie Dai, Ina Rilke (Translator) add to wishlist In this novella, set in 1971 China at the height of the Cultural Revolution, two young men have been sent away to the mountains for "reeducation" through hard labor. There they encounter a novel by Balzac--a Western book forbidden under the Mao regime--and it changes their lives and the life of the seamstress with whom one of them falls in love. ... see all copies from £1.25! new only from £6.16! \| first editions
3	The Land of Green Plums more books like this by Herta Mueller, Michael Hofmann (Translator) add to wishlist Mueller takes an unflinching look at the alienation and complexity of a rapidly changing Eastern Europe, focusing on a group of young friends in Ceaucescu's Romania. see all copies from £12.01! new only from £12.01! \| first editions
4	The Diving Bell and the Butterfly: A Memoir of Life in Death more books like this by Jean-Dominique Bauby, Jeremy Leggatt (Translator) add to wishlist At the age of 44, after a catastrophic stroke and several weeks in a coma, Jean-Dominique Bauby, editor of "Elle" magazine, became a victim of what is known as ''locked-in syndrome.'' Unable to move or speak, though he continued to feel pain, Bauby found eventually that he could move only his left eyelid. Using a specially constructed alphabet ... see all copies from £1.24! new only from £7.74! \| first editions
5	A Little History of the World more books like this by Professor E H Gombrich, Ralph Cosham (Read by) add to wishlist In 1935, with a doctorate in art history and no prospect of a job, the 26-year-old Ernst Gombrich was invited to attempt a history of the world for younger readers. Amazingly, he completed the task in an intense six weeks, and "Eine kurze Weltgeschichte fur junge Leser" was published in Vienna to immediate success, and is now available in twenty ... see all copies from £3.69! new only from £6.24! \| first editions
6	The City of God more books like this by Saint Augustine of Hippo add to wishlist Saint Augustine, who spent 14 years composing this Christian and literary classic, wrote "City of God" as a defense of Christianity in the wake of the fall of the Roman Empire. "City of God" functions as a history of early Christianity, a critique of Roman polytheism, and a philosophy of history. Its central theme is the duality of good and evil. ... see all copies from £4.93! new only from £7.46! \| first editions
7	Inkdeath more books like this by Cornelia Funke, Allan Corduner (Read by) add to wishlist The Adderhead--his immortality bound in a book by Meggie's father, Mo--has ordered his henchmen to plunder the villages. The peasants' only defense is a band of outlaws led by the Bluejay--Mo's fictitious double, whose identity he has reluctantly adopted. But the Book of Immortality is unraveling, and the Adderhead again fears the White Women of ... see all copies from £5.57! new only from £5.57! \| signed copies \| first editions
8	The Savage Detectives more books like this by Roberto Bolano add to wishlist This book is set during new year's eve, 1975. Arturo Belano and Ulises Lima, poets and leaders of a movement they call visceral realism, leave Mexico City in a borrowed white Impala. Their mission: to track down the poet Cesarea Tinajero, who disappeared into the Sonora desert - and obscurity - decades before. But the detectives are themselves ... see all copies from £1.79! new only from £6.19! \| first editions
9	The Iliad: Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition more books like this by Homer, Robert(translator) Homer Fagles, Professor Robert Fagles (Translator) add to wishlist One of the greatest epics in Western literature, "The Iliad" recounts the story of the Trojan wars. This timeless poem still vividly conveys the horror and heroism of men and gods battling amidst devastation and destruction, as it moves to its tragic conclusion. In his introduction, Bernard Knox observes that although the violence of the Iliad is ... see all copies from £7.27! new only from £9.60!
10	By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept: A Novel of Forgiveness / more books like this by Paulo Coelho add to wishlist Paulo Coelho, author of "The Alchemist", has crafted another gem of romance, adventure and spiritual insight in this bestselling story of a woman and her lover facing life's most difficult choices on a trip through the French Pyrenees that becomes a passionate journey of the heart. see all copies from £1.24! new only from £8.02! \| first editions
11 view cover	The Alchemist - 10th Anniversary Edition more books like this by Paulo Coelho, Alan R Clarke (Translator) add to wishlist A fable about undauntingly following one's dreams, listening to one's heart, and reading life's omens features dialogue between a boy and an unnamed being. Reissue. see all copies from £5.57! new only from £8.48! \| signed copies \| first editions
12 view cover	Out more books like this by Natsuo Kirino, Stephen Snyder (Translator) add to wishlist This brutal crime thriller, translated from the Japanese, exposes the daily misery of Tokyo's working class. Four women work together on the night shift at a boxed-lunch factory. Their desperate, cash-strapped existences become dangerously complicated when one of them, Yayoi, strangles her gambling-addicted, abusive husband, and her co-workers ... see all copies from £1.24! new only from £5.57! \| first editions
13 view cover	The Appointment more books like this by Herta Mueller, Michael Hulse (Translator), Philip Boehm (Translator) add to wishlist "I've been summoned. Thursday, ten sharp". Thus begins a day in the life of a young factory worker in totalitarian Romania. Her crime? Sewing notes into the linings of men's suits bound for Italy. "Marry me" the notes say, with her name and address. As she rides the tram to her interrogation, she thinks over the events and people of her life under ... see all copies from £6.19! new only from £9.73! \| first editions
14 view cover	Poetics of Space more books like this by Gaston Bachelard, Maria Jolas (Translator) add to wishlist Bachelard's work is as much a phenomenology of house, home, and poetry as it is of mind, the two intimately engendering one another. see all copies from £7.65! new only from £9.97! \| first editions
15 view cover	The Odyssey of Homer more books like this by Richmond Lattimore (Translator) add to wishlist Perhaps the most celebrated of all Western narratives, the Odyssey tells the story of Odysseus's roundabout voyage home to Ithaca where his beloved Penelope awaits. In stories along the way, he famously encounters Circe, the Sirens, the Cyclops, and many, many others. This translation renders the classic more economically than others. see all copies from £2.27! new only from £5.67! \| first editions
16 view cover	The Gift more books like this by Hafiz, Daniel Ladinsky (Translator) add to wishlist With this stunning gift edition of 250 of Hafiz's most intimate poems, Ladinsky has succeeded brilliantly in translating the essence of one of Islam's greatest poetic and religious voices. see all copies from £8.76! new only from £9.29!
17 view cover	The Housekeeper and the Professor more books like this by Yoko Ogawa add to wishlist He is a brilliant math professor, with a peculiar problem--since a traumatic head injury, he has lived with only 80 minutes of short-term memory. She is an astute young housekeeper with a 10-year-old son who is hired to care for the professor. Between them, a strange, beautiful relationship blossoms. see all copies from £9.16! new only from £9.21! \| first editions
18 view cover	The Qur'an more books like this by M A S Abdel Haleem (Translator) add to wishlist 'Read! Your Lord is the Most Bountiful one who taught by the pen, who taught man what he did not know.' The Qur'an, believed by Muslims to be the word of God, was revealed to the Prophet Muhammad 1400 years ago. It is the supreme authority in Islam and the living source of all Islamic teaching; it is a sacred text and a book of guidance, that sets ... see all copies from £3.93! new only from £6.09!
19 view cover	The Qur'an: A Translation more books like this by Abdullah Yusuf Ali (Translator) add to wishlist This English translation of the Qur'an is a compilation of the Muslim faith's Final Revelation from God to mankind through the last Prophet Muhammad, Peace be upon Him. The Qur'an has a wealth of information--both worldly wisdom and intellectual concepts--providing a code of life for humankind generally and Muslims in particular. Indeed, the Qur ... see all copies from £5.57! new only from £7.28! \| first editions
20 view cover	The Sorrow of War: A Novel of North Vietnam more books like this by Bao Ninh, Phan T Hao (Translator) add to wishlist The first novel of the Vietnam War written from the point of view of the North Vietnamese, The Sorrow of War has been hailed by critics not only as the best novel to emerge from the Vietnam experience, but as one of the greatest war novels of the century. National ads, media. see all copies from £6.60! new only from £8.98! \| first editions
21 view cover	Capital: Volume 1: A Critique of Political Economy more books like this by Karl Marx, Ben Fowkes (Translator), J M Cohen (Introduction by) add to wishlist One of the most notorious works of modern times, as well as one of the most influential, "Capital" is an incisive critique of private property and the social relations it generates. Living in exile in England, where this work was largely written, Marx drew on a wide-ranging knowledge of its society to support his analysis and generate fresh ... see all copies from £4.92! new only from £9.91!
22 view cover	I, Rigoberta Menchu: An Indian Woman in Guatemala more books like this by Rigoberta Menchu, Elizabeth Burgos-Debray (Editor), Ann Wright (Translator) add to wishlist This book recounts the remarkable life of Rigoberta Menchu, a young Guatemalan peasant woman. Her story reflects the experiences common to many Indian communities in Latin America today. Rigoberta suffered gross injustice and hardship in her early life: her brother, father and mother were murdered by the Guatemalan military. She learned Spanish ... see all copies from £2.05! new only from £16.71! \| signed copies \| first editions
23 view cover	Oedipus Cycle of Sophocles more books like this by Sophocles, Robert Fitzgerald (Translator), Dudley Fitts (Translator) add to wishlist English versions of Sophocles' three great tragedies based on the myth of Oedipus, translated for a modern audience by two gifted poets. Index. see all copies from £5.57! new only from £6.78!
24 view cover	On the Genealogy of Morals and Ecce Homo more books like this by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Walter Kaufmann (Translator) add to wishlist The great philosophers major work on ethics, along with ECCE HOMO, Nietzche's remarkable review of his life and works. Translated by Walter Kaufmann. see all copies from £5.57! new only from £8.31!
25 view cover	The Inferno more books like this by John Ciardi (Translator), Archibald T MacAllister (Introduction by), Dante Alighieri add to wishlist "The Divine Comedy" is the story of a pilgrim's journey to God. A man named Dante is lost in dark wood; through the intervention of his beloved Beatrice in Heaven, the Roman poet Virgil appears in the forest to lead Dante to her. In order to reach heaven, however, they must first pass through Hell and Purgatory. After journeying through Hell ... see all copies from £1.25! new only from £8.67! \| first editions

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