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Hawking takes readers on a journey through the history of cosmology, from ancient Greek philosophers to modern scientific theories.

Piketty argues that the rate of return on capital tends to be higher than the rate of economic growth.

Genly Ai visits the planet of Gethen as an envoy of the Ekumen, a loose confederation of planets. Ai's mission is to persuade the nations of Gethen to join the Ekumen…

Set in America in 1951, during the Korean War, _Indignation_ is narrated

Set in an addicts' halfway house and a tennis academy, and featuring the most endearingly screwed-up family to come along in recent fiction…

The protagonist, who remains unnamed throughout the novel, is a solitary and introspective man who has never been in love.

Homage to Catalonia begins with Orwell's arrival in Barcelona in 1936, shortly after the outbreak of the civil war.

In a garden sit the aged Kublai Khan and the young Marco Polo—Mongol emperor and Venetian traveler. Kublai Khan sensed the end of his empire…

The story revolves around the people living there, including Lee Chong, the local grocer. Doc, a marine biologist. And Mack, the leader of a group of derelicts.

Theater of the absurd. Throughout three acts, the inhabitants of a provincial French town turn into rhinoceroses.

Sebald weaves together topics and historical events, ranging from the decline

A somewhat privileged man confined to a room in a house as punishment for taking part in a duel. How to pass the hours? He takes a journey around his room, of course. As one does. And writes about it creatively, of course.

A comprehensive and influential account of the life of one of the most prominent figures in 18th-century English literature…

The Night of Wenceslas is the debut novel of British thriller and crime writer Lionel Davidson.

Beckett expressed the anguish and isolation of the individual consciousness

The narrative is set against the backdrop of the Beat Generation's counter-cultural lifestyle and the exploration of Eastern philosophy.

In Graham Greene's _The Quiet American_ it's 1955 and British journalist Thomas Fowler has been in Vietnam for two years covering the insurgency against French colonial rule.

Miss Lonelyhearts by Nathanael West is set in New York during the Great Depression, a time of economic hardship and social upheaval.

Final story in Joyce's collection of short stories, The Dubliners.

Jake Barnes, a journalist and World War I veteran narrates _The Sun Also Rises_.

In Hawthorne's The Marble Faun, a carefree Italian count commits murder to protect a mysterious painter, shattering their friends' innocence and proving sin is a catalyst for maturity.

…revolves around the complex and transformative friendship between two contrasting characters. Narcissus, an intellectual and monk, and Goldmund, a restless and artistic wanderer.

The narrative of the novel _Trainspotting_ by Irvine Welsh is presented through a series of interconnected short stories, each focusing on different characters within the group.

Dana, a young Black American, and her white husband, Kevin, moving into their new home. Suddenly, Dana is yanked back in time to a Maryland plantation in the early 19th century.

A collection of essays divided into two sections - Life Styles in the Golden Land and Personals.

The story of Fox8, a clever and curious fox living in a suburban landscape impacted by human development.

Jeffrey Lockhart’s father, Ross, is a billionaire in his sixties, with a

The story follows Charles Marlow, a sailor and narrator, as he recounts his journey into the heart of Africa to find the enigmatic ivory trader Kurtz.

The peregrine J.A. Baker’s The Peregrine (1967) is a deeply immersive account of his observations of peregrine falcons in the British countryside. If he does not turn into a peregrine falcone, it seems he’s only one step away in his soaring prose. Baker divides the book into diary entries spanning several years. During this time, he meticulously documents his encounters with these birds of prey. His observations focus on a particular pair of peregrines and their hunting expeditions. The evocative...

The story of Oedipa Maas and her investigations into a world of wild conspiracies.