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Anna Karenina
Leo Tolstoy
Bored by her calculating husband and eager to live life, Anna falls in love, but her grand passion is doomed to end unhappily. Against this ruinous affair are set the stories of other loves, other marriages and an unsurpassed portrait of Russia in the latter part of the 19th century.
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The Brothers Karamazov
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Chosen by Hew Strachan
One of the greatest novels of all time in a brand new Folio edition. Dostoyevsky tells the gripping and unsettling story of the murder of dissolute landlord Karamazov and the involvement of his flawed sons in his death.
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The Shooting Party
Anton Chekhov
When a 'piercing, heartrending' scream rings out across the grounds of a Russian country estate, it brings to a shuddering halt not just a convivial shooting party but an entire summer of debauchery.
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The Deptford Trilogy
Robertson Davies
Deptford is a fictional, small town in rural Canada, and at the centre of its tight-knit community are three boys whose lives are entwined from the moment one throws a stone hidden in a snowball.
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Dr Zhivago
Boris Pasternak
Set during the Russian revolution of 1917 and the civil war which followed it, Dr Zhivago remains one of the greatest love-stories of all time, yet for thirty years it was banned in its own land
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Excellent Women
Barbara Pym
Penned with such sharpness of wit that she could have stepped straight from the pages of a Jane Austen novel,
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The Iliad
Homer
Blazing palaces. Blood running through the streets. Men and women, young and old, dying in agony. Rape, humiliation and defeat. Never has the all-consuming power of war been more forcefully conveyed than in Homer’s spine-chilling epic, The Iliad.
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The Odyssey
Homer
After the battle of Troy, Odysseus, the mythological king of the island of Ithaca, sets sail for home, where his wife Penelope and young son Telemachus await him.
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Le Grand Meaulnes
Alain - Fournier
One of France's top 10 books of the century. When 17-year old schoolboy Augustin Meaulnes becomes separated from his fellow classmates in the forest, he stumbles upon a mysterious house in the country where he encounters the beautiful Yvonne de Galais.
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Les Liaisons Dangereuses
Pierre-Ambroise-François Choderlos de Laclos
Considered shocking at the time because no authorial intervention condemns the amorality of the characters, it is now widely acknowledged as one of the greatest of epistolary novels.
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Madame Bovary
Gustave Flaubert
Louis de Bernières's Desert Island Companion
Unhappily married to a dull-witted country doctor, Emma Bovary is desperate to escape from her stifling, lonely existence.
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The Mandarins
Simone de Beauvoir
Chosen by Kirsty Wark.
When it was first published, The Mandarins was praised for its depiction of the heady mix of excitement and despair that ran through Paris after The Liberation. But even more noted, perhaps, was the insight it gave into some of most brilliant minds of the day.
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One Hundred Years of Solitude
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Blending myth, allegory and folklore with powerful storytelling, One Hundred Years of Solitude is indisputably one of the greatest books of the 20th century.
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Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
Patrick Suskind
Perfume is an immensely seductive, disquieting, yet compulsively readable story, combining a gripping murder plot with a twisted eroticism. Jean-Baptiste Grenouille is ‘one of the most gifted and abominable personages in an era that knew no lack’, endowed with an extraordinary sense of smell, Grenouille becomes obsessed with the world of fragrance.
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The Scarlet Pimpernel
Baroness Orczy
Set during the height of the French Revolution – Can the Scarlet Pimpernel keep identity a secret, even from his wife. But can he escape the cold eyes of the French agent, Monsieur Chauvelin?
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