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The Man Who was Thursday
Published: 2010-09-21
Paperback: 120 pages
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The Man Who Was Thursday is a novel sometimes referred to as a metaphysical thriller. The story takes place in a surreal turn-of-the-century London, where Gabriel Syme is recruited to a secret anti-anarchist taskforce at Scotland Yard.
The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare (Modern Library Classics)
Published: 2001-10-09
Paperback: 0 pages
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G. K. Chesterton's surreal masterpiece is a psychological thriller that centers on seven anarchists in turn-of-the-century London who call themselves by the names of the days of the week. Chesterton explores the meanings of their disguised identities in what is a fascinating mystery and, ultimately,...
The Man Who Would Be King
Published: 2013-01-31
Paperback: 38 pages
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"The Man Who Would Be King" (1888) is a novella by Rudyard Kipling. It is about two British adventurers in British India who become kings of Kafiristan, a remote part of Afghanistan. The story was inspired by the exploits of James Brooke, an Englishman who became the first White Rajah of Sarawak in Borneo;...
The Man with a Load of Mischief
Published: 2003-02-04
Mass Market Paperback: 288 pages
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Two pubs in Long Piddleton are the sights of two murders. Scotland Yard's Richard Jury gets some help from Long Piddleton's own Melrose Plant to root out evil in the heart of the village.
A Man Without a Country
Published: 2007-01-16
Paperback: 160 pages
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The Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin
Published: 2013-03-05
Paperback: 352 pages
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National Book Award winner Masha Gessen's biography of a ruthless man's ascent to near-absolute power.The Man Without a Face is the chilling account of how a low- level, small-minded KGB operative ascended to the Russian presidency and, in an astonishingly short time, destroyed years of pr...
The Man
Published: 1999-12-01
Paperback: 768 pages
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The time is 1964. The place is the Cabinet Room of the Where House. An unexpected accident and the law of succession have just made Douglass Dilman the first black President of the United States. This is the theme of what was surely one of the most provocative novels of the 1960s. It...
Manalive: A Novel
Published: 2011-07-18
Paperback: 140 pages
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This anthology is a thorough introduction to classic literature for those who have not yet experienced these literary masterworks. For those who have known and loved these works in the past, this is an invitation to reunite with old friends in a fresh new format. From Shakespeare's finesse to Oscar...
ManBug
Published: 2006-06-01
Paperback: 256 pages
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The first novel by George K. Ilsley, whose first story collection, Random Acts of Hatred, was published to acclaim in 2003. Told in dreamlike fragments, ManBug unfolds as a love story between Sebastian, an entomologist with Asperger's Syndrome (similar to autism), and Tom, a spiritual bise...
Manchild in the Promised Land
Published: 2011-12-27
Paperback: 416 pages
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With more than two million copies in print, Manchild in the Promised Land is one of the most remarkable autobiographies of our time—the definitive account of African-American youth in Harlem of the 1940s and 1950s, and a seminal work of modern literature.Published during a literary era m...
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