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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
Para leer al Pato Donald	Ariel Dorfmann,Armand Mattelart,Ariel Dorfman,Ariel Dorfman	First published in 1971 in Chile, where the entire third printing was dumped into the ocean by the Chilean Navy and bonfires were held to destroy earlier editions, How to Read Donald Duck reveals the…	OL1003890W
Zadig	Voltaire	One of Voltaire's earliest tales, Zadig is set in the exotic East and is told in the comic spirit of Candide; L'Ingenu, written after Candide, is a darker tale in which an American Indian records his…	OL100665W
Korean Film Directors - "IM Kwon-taek"	Chung Sung-ill	"The history of modern Korea consists of many fetters, in which different generations live with very different experiences. Many artists left records rof their generations but Im Kwon-Taek is the onl…	OL10076879W
Dead Air	Iain M. Banks	Ken Nott is a devoutly contrarian, vaguely left-wing radio shock-jock living in London. After a wedding breakfast, people start dropping fruit from a balcony on to a deserted car park below. As they …	OL100778W
Masumiyet müzesi	Rafael Carpintero;,Orhan Pamuk	"It was the happiest moment of my life, though I didn't know it." So begins the new novel, his first since winning the Nobel Prize, from the universally acclaimed author of Snow and My Name Is Red.It…	OL1019581W
The outsider	Colin Wilson	The Outsider is a non-fiction book by Colin Wilson first published in 1956. Through the works and lives of various artists - including H. G. Wells (Mind at the End of its Tether), Franz Kafka, Alb…	OL102108W
The Shakespearean stage, 1574-1642	Andrew Gurr	"For almost forty years The Shakespearean Stage has been considered the liveliest, most reliable and most entertaining overview of Shakespearean theatre in its own time. It is the only authoritative …	OL102630W
David Copperfield	Charles Dickens	David Copperfield is the eighth novel by Charles Dickens. The novel's full title is The Personal History, Adventures, Experience and Observation of David Copperfield the Younger of Blunderstone Rooke…	OL10322056W
Schindler's list	Thomas Keneally	Winner of the Booker Prize Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Award for Fiction Schindler's List is a remarkable work of fiction based on the true story of German industrialist and war profitee…	OL103688W
Répertoire	Michel Butor	447 p., [10] leaves of plates : 23 cm	OL10423693W
Why read the classics?	Italo Calvino	Italo Calvino was not only a prolific master of fiction, he was also an uncanny reader of literature, a keen critic of astonishing range. Why Read the Classics? is the most comprehensive collection o…	OL10423748W
The reader's encyclopedia	William Rose Bene t	This is Volume 4 only, S to Z, from page 962 forward.	OL10429545W
Summer's lease	John Mortimer	It's high summer when Molly Pargeter drags her amiably bickering family to a rented Tuscan villa for the holidays. Molly is sure that the house is the perfect setting for their three-week getaway, bu…	OL10464514W
Covergirl	Maura Moynihan	Maura Moynihan's first novel, Covergirl, blends reality and fiction in a brilliant and exciting roman a clef that draws richly from the author's own adventures as a Warhol Girl and from her many year…	OL1050973W
Sky in the pie	Roger McGough	Waiter, there's a sky in my pie!Roger McGough has cooked up a delicious feast of poems. This spicy collection contains only the finest ingredients - wit, sparkle and thought-provoking insight from a …	OL10520351W
The Glass Palace	Amitav Ghosh	Set in Burma during the British invasion of 1885, this masterly novel by Amitav Ghosh tells the story of Rajkumar, a poor boy lifted on the tides of political and social chaos, who goes on to create …	OL1054090W
A Shine of Rainbows	Lillian Beckwith	*Mairi and Sandy live on a lonely Hebridean island, content with each other, despite their lack of children.* When Mairi brings home Thomas, a child from the orphanage, Sandy is jealous of Mai…	OL10591088W
The Quiet American	Graham Greene	One of Graham Greene's best works. The story is set at the time of the French war against the Viet Cong and tells the story of liberal British journalist Thomas Fowler, his mistress Phuong, and their…	OL106081W
Les Misérables	Victor Hugo	In this story of the trials of the peasant Jean Valjean--a man unjustly imprisoned, baffled by destiny, and hounded by his nemesis, the magnificently realized, ambiguously malevolent police detective…	OL1063588W
If Tomorrow Comes	Sidney Sheldon	*She's Tracy Whitney. Sidney Sheldon's most exciting heroine ever.* Lovely, idealistic, she's soon to enter into a dazzling world of sumptuous wealth, audacious exploits, and narrow escapes--***a…	OL10640705W