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Harper. One hundred years of solitude tells the story of the rise and fall, birth and death of the mythical town of Macondo through the history of the Buendia family. Inventive, compassion, sad, amusing, and alive with unforgettable men and women—brimming with truth, magnetic, and a lyrical magic that strikes the soul—this novel is a masterpiece in the art of fiction.

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Love in the Time of Cholera Oprah's Book Club

A love story of astonishing power. Newsweek the international bestseller and modern literary classic by Nobel Prize-winning author Gabriel Garcia MarquezIn their youth, Florentino Ariza and Fermina Daza fall passionately in love. Fifty years, and four days after he first declared his love for Fermina, nine months, he will do so again.

First vintage Publishing Edition. Oprah's Book Club. When fermina eventually chooses to marry a wealthy, Florentino is devastated, well-born doctor, but he is a romantic. Her husband dies at last, and Florentino purposefully attends the funeral. As he rises in his business career he whiles away the years in 622 affairs--yet he reserves his heart for Fermina.

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Cien años de soledad Spanish Edition

Vintage Books USA. Oprah's Book Club. First vintage Publishing Edition. Muchos años después, frente al pelotón de fusilamiento, el coronel Aureliano Buendía había de recordar aquella tarde remota en que su padre lo llevó a conocer el hielo”. Con estas palabras empieza una novela ya legendaria en los anales de la literatura universal, una de las aventuras literarias más fascinantes del siglo xx.

Millones de ejemplares de cien años de soledad leídos en todas las lenguas y el premio nobel de literatura coronando una obra que se había abierto paso a “boca a boca” —como gusta decir el escritor— son la más palpable demostración de que la aventura fabulosa de la familia Buendía-Iguarán, con sus milagros, descubrimientos y condenas, adulterios, obsesiones, tragedias, representaba al mismo tiempo el mito y la historia, incestos, rebeldías, fantasías, la tragedia y el amor del mundo entero.

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The House of the Spirits: A Novel

When their daughter blanca embarks on a forbidden love affair in defiance of her implacable father, the result is an unexpected gift to Esteban: his adored granddaughter Alba, a beautiful and strong-willed child who will lead her family and her country into a revolutionary future. Atria Books. Spectacular.

. An absorbing and distinguished work. The house of the spirits with its all-informing, both personal witness and possible allegory of the past, and humane sensibility, present, is a unique achievement, generous, and future of Latin America. The new york times book reviewthe house of the spirits, the unforgettable first novel that established Isabel Allende as one of the world’s most gifted storytellers, brings to life the triumphs and tragedies of three generations of the Trueba family.

Oprah's Book Club. One of the most important novels of the twentieth century, The House of the Spirits is an enthralling epic that spans decades and lives, weaving the personal and the political into a universal story of love, magic, and fate. Vintage Books USA. First vintage Publishing Edition. The patriarch esteban is a volatile, proud man whose voracious pursuit of political power is tempered only by his love for his delicate wife Clara, a woman with a mystical connection to the spirit world.

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Chronicle of a Death Foretold

Tracking provided on most orders. Just hours after marrying the beautiful Angela Vicario, everyone agrees, Bayardo San Roman returned his bride in disgrace to her parents. Yet if everyone knew the murder was going to happen, and as the story races to its inexplicable conclusion, the less is understood, why did no one intervene to stop it? The more that is learned, an entire society--not just a pair of murderers—is put on trial.

Notes: brand new from publisher! 100% satisfaction guarantee. Her distraught family forced her to name her first lover; and her twin brothers announced their intention to murder Santiago Nasar for dishonoring their sister. A man returns to the town where a baffling murder took place 27 years earlier, determined to get to the bottom of the story.

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Cien años de soledad 50 Aniversario: Illustrated Fiftieth Anniversary edition of One Hundred Years of Solitude Spanish Edition

Tracking provided on most orders. Condition: New. Buy with confidence! Millions of books sold! Isbn13: 9781400034710 En ocasión del 50 aniversario de la publicación de cien años de soledad, llega una edición con ilustraciones inéditas de la artista chilena Luisa Rivera y con una tipografía creada por el hijo del autor, Gonzalo García Barcha.

Una edición conmemorativa de una novela clave en la historia de la literatura, una obra que todos deberíamos tener en nuestras estanterías. Muchos años después, frente al pelotón de fusilamiento, el coronel Aureliano Buendía había de recordar aquella tarde remota en que su padre lo llevó a conocer el hielo”.

Con estas palabras empieza una novela ya legendaria en los anales de la literatura universal, una de las aventuras literarias más fascinantes del siglo xx. Atria Books. Vintage Books USA. Oprah's Book Club. First vintage Publishing Edition. Millones de ejemplares de cien años de soledad leídos en todas las lenguas y el premio nobel de literatura coronando una obra que se había abierto paso a “boca a boca” —como gusta decir el escritor— son la más palpable demostración de que la aventura fabulosa de la familia Buendía-Iguarán, representaba al mismo tiempo el mito y la historia, fantasías, rebeldías, descubrimientos y condenas, tragedias, incestos, con sus milagros, obsesiones, adulterios, la tragedia y el amor del mundo entero.

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Of Love and Other Demons Vintage International

Notes: brand new from publisher! 100% satisfaction guarantee. Unsettling and indelible, of Love and Other Demons is an evocative, majestic tale of the most universal experiences known to woman and man. He has fallen in love – and it is not long until Sierva Maria joins him in his fevered misery. Vintage. Atria Books.

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Believed to be possessed, she is brought to a convent for observation. On her twelfth birthday, sierva maria – the only child of a decaying noble family in an eighteenth-century South American seaport – is bitten by a rabid dog. Condition: New. Oprah's Book Club.


The Sound and the Fury: The Corrected Text

Notes: brand new from publisher! 100% satisfaction guarantee. Vintage. Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. First vintage Publishing Edition. Tracking provided on most orders. Isbn13: 9781400034710 Vintage. Vintage Books USA. Atria Books. Their lives fragmented and harrowed by history and legacy, the character’s voices and actions mesh to create what is arguably Faulkner’s masterpiece and  one of the greatest novels of the twentieth century.

I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools. From the sound and the Fury Oprah's Book Club. The sound and the fury is the tragedy of the compson family, the brutal cynic; and Dilsey, rebellious Caddy; the manchild Benjy; haunted, featuring some of the most memorable characters in literature: beautiful, neurotic Quentin; Jason, their black servant.

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Midnight's Children: A Novel Modern Library 100 Best Novels

Notes: brand new from publisher! 100% satisfaction guarantee. His every act is mirrored and magnified in events that sway the course of national affairs; his health and well-being are inextricably bound to those of his nation; his life is inseparable, at times indistinguishable, from the history of his country.

The iconic masterpiece of india that introduced the world to “a glittering novelist—one with startling imaginative and intellectual resources, 1947, a master of perpetual storytelling” the New YorkerWINNER OF THE BEST OF THE BOOKERS • SOON TO BE A NETFLIX ORIGINAL SERIES Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time • The twenty-fifth anniversary edition, featuring a new introduction by the author Saleem Sinai is born at the stroke of midnight on August 15, the very moment of India’s independence.

First vintage Publishing Edition. Tracking provided on most orders. Vintage Books USA. Greeted by fireworks displays, cheering crowds, and Prime Minister Nehru himself, Saleem grows up to learn the ominous consequences of this coincidence. Condition: New. Perhaps most remarkable are the telepathic powers linking him with India’s 1, 000 other “midnight’s children, ” all born in that initial hour and endowed with magical gifts.

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The Unbearable Lightness of Being: A Novel Harper Perennial Modern Classics

Tracking provided on most orders. This magnificent novel juxtaposes geographically distant places; brilliant and playful reflections; and a variety of styles to take its place as perhaps the major achievement of one of the world’s truly great writers. Buy with confidence! Millions of books sold! Harper Perennial.

Isbn13: 9781400034710 Vintage. Atria Books. Vintage. In the unbearable lightness of being, milan kundera tells the story of a young woman in love with a man torn between his love for her and his incorrigible womanizing and one of his mistresses and her humbly faithful lover. Vintage Books USA. Oprah's Book Club.

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To the Lighthouse

Condition: New. Buy with confidence! Millions of books sold! Tracking provided on most orders. First vintage Publishing Edition. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. Great product! Notes: brand new from publisher! 100% satisfaction guarantee. I think that beyond being about the very nature of reality, it is itself a vision of reality.

Eudora welty, from the Introduction. The serene and maternal Mrs. Ramsay, and their children and assorted guests are on holiday on the Isle of Skye. Atria Books. Isbn13: 9781400034710 Harper Perennial. Oprah's Book Club. Radiant as to the lighthouse is in its beauty, there could never be a mistake about it: here is a novel to the last degree severe and uncompromising.

From the seemingly trivial postponement of a visit to a nearby lighthouse, Woolf constructs a remarkable, moving examination of the complex tensions and allegiances of family life and the conflict between men and women. Vintage Books USA. Ramsay, the tragic yet absurd Mr. Vintage. Vintage.