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American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
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Category: Classics | Series: Picador Classic Ser. | Reading Level: General Adult
The modern classic, the basis of a Broadway musical, and major motion picture from Lion's Gate Films starring Christian Bale, Chloe Sevigny, Jared Leto, and Reese Witherspoon, and directed by Mary Harron. In American Psycho, Bret Easton Ellis imaginatively explores the incomprehensible depths of madne ...Show more
Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
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Category: Literary Ficton | Series: Picador Classic Ser.
With an introduction by Philipp MeyerThe wrath of God lies sleeping. It was hid a million years before men were and only men have power to wake it. Hell aint half full.Set in the anarchic world opened up by America's westward expansion, Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy is an epic and potent account of ...Show more
How Proust Can Change Your Life by Alain De Botton
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Category: No Category | Series: Picador Classic Ser.
With an introduction by comedian and novelist David Baddiel A novel in seven volumes, Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time is considered a major literary work of the twentieth century. And even more crucially, one that you should have read by now. However, as one of its most distinguishing features i ...Show more
In The Skin of a Lion by Michael Ondaatje
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Category: Literary Ficton | Series: Picador Classic Ser.
With an introduction by Anne EnrightBefore the real city could be seen it had to be imagined, the way rumours and tall tales were a kind of charting.It is the 1920s, and Patrick Lewis has arrived in the bustling city of Toronto, leaving behind his Canadian wilderness home. Immersed in the lives of the p ...Show more
Less Than Zero by Bret Easton Ellis
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Category: No Category | Series: Picador Classic Ser.
In 1985, Bret Easton Ellis shocked, stunned and disturbed with his debut novel, Less Than Zero. Published when he was just twenty-one, this extraordinary and instantly infamous work has done more than simply define a genre, it has become a rare thing: a cult classic and a timeless embodiment of the zeit ...Show more
Oreo by Fran Ross
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Category: Classics | Series: Picador Classic Ser.
With an introduction by the Man Booker Prize-winning author of A Brief History of Seven Killings, Marlon James 'A rollicking little masterpiece . . . one of the most delightful, hilarious, intelligent novels I've stumbled across in recent years' Paul Auster Oreo has been raised by her maternal grandpare ...Show more
The Little Prince (Picador Classic) by Antoine De Saint-Exupéry
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Category: Classics | Series: Picador Classic Ser.
With an introduction by Kate MosseTranslated by Ros SchwartzAll grown-ups were children once (but most of them have forgotten).A pilot who has crash landed in the desert awakes to see an extraordinary little boy. 'Please,' asks the stranger, 'will you draw me a little lamb!' Baffled by the little prince ...Show more
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat by Oliver Sacks
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Category: Non Ficton | Series: Picador Classic Ser. | Reading Level: very good
'Oliver Sacks has become the world's best-known neurologist. His case studies of broken minds offer brilliant insight into the mysteries of consciousness' Guardian In his most extraordinary book, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Oliver Sacks recounts the stories of patients lost in the bizarre, a ...Show more
The Master by Colm Tóibín (Toibin)
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Category: Contemporary Fiction | Series: Picador Classic Ser.
With an introduction by award-winning novelist Tessa Hadley In January 1895 Henry James anticipates the opening of his first play, Guy Domville, in London. The production fails, and he returns, chastened and humiliated, to his writing desk. The result is a string of masterpieces, but they are produced ...Show more
The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov; Diana Lewis Burgin & Katherine Tiernan O'Connor (Translators)
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Category: No Category | Series: Picador Classic Ser.
Mikhail Bulgakov's devastating satire of Soviet life was written during the darkest period of Stalin's regime. Combining two distinct yet interwoven parts—one set in ancient Jerusalem, one in contemporary Moscow—the novel veers from moods of wild theatricality with violent storms, vampire attacks, and a ...Show more
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
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Category: Crime and Thriller | Series: Picador Classic Ser. | Reading Level: good
The first great masterpiece of the globally warmed generation. Here is an American classic which, at a stroke, makes McCarthy a contender for the Nobel Prize for Literature. Andrew O'Hagan - a father - and his young son walk alone through burned America, heading slowly for the coast. Nothing moves in th ...Show more
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