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After The Banquet by Yukio Mishima
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Category: No Category | Series: Vintage classics
For years Kazu has run her fashionable restaurant with a combination of charm and shrewdness. But when the she falls in love with one of her clients, an aristocratic retired politician, she renounces her business in order to become his wife. But it is not so easy to renounce her independent spirit, and ...Show more
Claudine and Annie by Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette
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Category: General Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
In this final novel in Colette's famous series it is Claudine's friend Annie who tells the story in the form of a private diary. Claudine is happily settled with her adored husband Renaud, spending her time giving wide and worldly advice to despairing Annie whose life with the boring and dominating Alai ...Show more
Claudine at School (Claudine #1) by Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette
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Category: No Category | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
Claudine is a head strong, clever and extremely mischievous schoolgirl. Along with her friends the lanky Anais, the cheerful Marie and the prim Joubert twins Claudine wreaks havoc on her small school. Always clever, witty and charming Claudine is more than a match for her formidable headmistress as they ...Show more
Claudine in Paris (Claudine #2) by Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette
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Category: General Fiction | Series: Vintage classics
Claudine is in despair, having left her beloved Montigny for a new life in Paris. But her instinctive curiosity gradually leads to an awakened interest in the city. She records her witty observations and adventures amongst the intriguing characters that surround her.
Collected Stories Of Tenessee Williams by Tennessee Williams
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Category: Gay & Bi Male Fiction | Series: Vintage classics
"Disturbing, moving, and funny; these stories help amplify Williams' tragic vision, for like the plays, they underline his preoccupation and insight into the conflicts of the human heart". ("New York Times"). Acclaimed as one of America's most successful playwrights, Tennessee Williams also published fo ...Show more
Death In Venice And Other Stories by Thomas Mann
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Category: Gay & Bi Male Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics | Reading Level: near fine
Death in Venice is a story of obsession. Gustave von Aschenbach is a successful but ageing writer who travels to Venice for a holiday. One day, he notices an exceptionally beautiful young boy who is staying with his family in the same hotel. Soon Aschenbach’s days begin to revolve around seeing this boy ...Show more
Ghost Stories: Selected and Introduced by Mark Gatiss by E F Benson
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Category: No Category | Series: Vintage Classics
"Mark Gatiss (Sherlock, Doctor Who, Game of Thrones) selects and introduces chilling tales by the unsung master of the classic ghost story". (E.F. Benson). There's nothing sinister about a London bus. Nothing supernatural could occur on a busy Tube platform. There's nothing terrifying about a little cat ...Show more
Love Letters: Vita and Virginia by Vita Sackville-West; Virginia Woolf
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Category: Lesbian & Bi Biography / Memoir | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
I am reduced to a thing that wants Virginia. I composed a beautiful letter to you in the sleepless nightmare hours of the night, and it has all gone. I just miss you... At a dinner party in 1922, Virginia Woolf met the renowned author, aristocrat - and sapphist - Vita Sackville-West. Virginia wrote in ...Show more
Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
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Category: No Category | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
Mrs Dalloway Virginia Woolf Mrs Dalloway (published on 14 May 1925) is a novel by Virginia Woolf that details a day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway in post-World War I England. Mrs Dalloway continues to be one of Woolf's best-known novels. Created from two short stories, "Mrs Dalloway in Bond Street" a ...Show more
My Antonia by Willa Cather, Jane Smiley (Introduction)
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Category: Lesbian & Bi Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics
his 100th Anniversary Edition of Willa Cather’s masterpiece includes the original illustrations by W. T. Benda and a new introduction by Pulitzer Prize–winning novelist Jane Smiley. In this symphonically powerful and magnificently observed novel, Cather created one of the most winning heroines in Ameri ...Show more
Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham
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Category: No Category | Series: Vintage classics
After a few months studying in Heidelberg, and a brief spell in Paris as would-be artist, Philip Carey settles in London to train as a doctor. And that is where he meets Mildred, the loud but irresistible waitress with whom he plunges into a formative, tortured and masochistic affair which very nearly r ...Show more
Pharmacopoeia - A Dungeness Notebook by Derek Jarman
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Category: Gay Male & Bi Biography/Memoir | Series: Vintage Classics | Reading Level: very good
'I planted a dog rose. Then I found a curious piece of driftwood and used this, and one of the necklaces of holey stones on the wall, to stake the rose. The garden had begun. I saw it as a therapy and a pharmacopoeia.' In 1986 artist and filmmaker, Derek Jarman, bought Prospect Cottage, a Victorian fish ...Show more