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  Yoga

  Emmanuel Carrère

  • Vintage uk
  • 13 Juillet 2023
  • 9781529114324

  This is a book about yoga. Or at least, it was.
  
  January 2015. High on literary success and familial bliss, Emmanuel Carrere embarks on a rigorous ten-day meditative retreat in rural France in search of clarity and material for his next book, which he thinks will be a subtle, upbeat introduction to yoga. But his trip is cut short, and he is brought down to earth with a thud as he returns to a Paris in turmoil in the aftermath of the Charlie Hebdo terrorist attack.
  
  From then on, Carrere''s life begins to unravel, along with his novel-in-progress. He is diagnosed with Bipolar II Disorder and is sectioned to a psychiatric hospital for a four-month stint, where he is subject to electroshock therapy. His marriage crumbles, he is struck by grief at the death of a close friend and is haunted by a love affair with a mysterious woman who disappeared from his life. Pushed to the edge of sanity and forced to reckon with his identity as a man and a writer, Carrere sets out on a life of action instead of meditation.
  
  This is a book that embraces the Yin and Yang of life: the pull between life and death, desire and despair, presence and absence, fight and flight. It is a book about a world and a man in tumult, and about how surprisingly far practising meditation - and writing about it - can take us in life. With raw honesty and humour, YOGA gives us the self-portrait of a man struggling to live with himself and others, by one of our greatest and most surprising international writers. Lire la suite Fermer

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  Beloved

  Toni Morrison

  • Vintage uk
  • 3 Février 2022
  • 9781784876432

  Stunningly-designed new editions of Toni Morrison''s best-known novels, published by Vintage Classics in celebration of her life and work. WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY BOOKER PRIZE WINNING AUTHOR BERNARDINE EVARISTO Sethe is now miles away from Sweet Home - the farm where she was kept as a slave for many years. Unable to forget the unspeakable horrors that took place there, Sethe is haunted by the violent spectre of her dead child, the daughter who died nameless and whose tombstone is etched with a single word, ''Beloved''. A tale of brutality, horror and, above all, love at any cost, Beloved is Toni Morrison''s enduring masterpiece and best-known work.
  

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  Moby Dick

  Herman Melville

  • Vintage uk
  • 2 Août 2007
  • 9780099511182

  When Ishmael sets sail on the whaling ship Pequod one cold Christmas Day, he has no idea of the horrors awaiting him out on the vast and merciless ocean. The ship's strange captain, Ahab, is in the grip of an obsession to hunt down the famous white whale, Moby Dick, and will stop at nothing on his quest to annihilate his nemesis.
  

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  Madame Bovary

  Gustave Flaubert

  • Vintage uk
  • 14 Octobre 2021
  • 9781784877460

  ''She wanted to die, and she wanted to live in Paris.'' This is the story of Emma, trapped in a disappointing marriage with a dull country doctor, she dreams for a life more like the sentimental novels she reads. In an attempt to break from the drab reality of her provincial life in Normandy, Emma takes a lover, and disaster soon follows. Greedy, delusional and selfish, the character of Emma Bovary scandalised readers from the novel''s first publication in 1857, yet her magnetism is undeniable. A landmark work in modern realism, Madame Bovary vibrates with the inner life of a woman hungry for more. Meet ten of literature''s most iconic heroines, jacketed in bold portraits by female photographers from around the world.
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  Eureka street

  Robert Mcliam Wilson

  • Vintage uk
  • 16 Juin 1997
  • 9780749396725

  Eureka Street is a story of Belfast in the 1990s, six months before and after another ceasefire. It is the story of Chuckie Lurgan, fat, Protestant and poor, who suddenly becomes wealthy by various legal but immoral means; Meanwhile the strange letters 'OTG' start appearing on walls and paving stones throughout the city.
  

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  HHhH

  Laurent Binet

  • Vintage uk
  • 2 Mai 2013
  • 9780099555643

  Two men have been enlisted to kill the head of the Gestapo. This is Operation Anthropoid, Prague, 1942: two Czechoslovakian parachutists sent on a daring mission by London to assassinate Reinhard Heydrich - chief of the Nazi secret services, 'the hangman of Prague', 'the blond beast', 'the most dangerous man in the Third Reich'.
  

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  Suite française

  Irène Némirovsky

  • Vintage uk
  • 1 Février 2007
  • 9780099488781

  Modern fictionA major publishing event; the first paperback publication of a lost masterpiece written in France in 1941, telling the story of a group of characters living under the Nazi occupation. The author died in Auschwitz in 1942, and was awarded the prestigious Prix Renaudot in 2005 - the first time that the prize has been awarded posthumously. 'A book of exceptional literary quality, it has the kind of intimacy found in the diary of Anne Frank' TLS. 'One of those rare books that demands to be read' Helen Dunmore Guardian. An audio edition is also published this month.
  

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  Mrs Dalloway

  Virginia Woolf

  • Vintage uk
  • 6 Octobre 2016
  • 9781784870867

  In this vivid portrait of one day in a woman's life, Clarissa Dalloway is preoccupied with the last-minute details of a party she is to give that evening. As she readies her house she is flooded with memories and re-examines the choices she has made over the course of her life.
  

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  Walden

  Henry David Thoreau

  • Vintage uk
  • 6 Juillet 2017
  • 9781784872410

  WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY BENJAMIN MARKOVITS In 1845 Thoreau, a Harvard-educated 28-year-old, went to live by himself in the woods in Massachusetts. He stayed for over two years, living self-sufficiently in a small cabin built with his own hands. Walden is his personal account of the experience, in which he documents the beauty and fulfilment to be found in the wilderness, and his philosophical and political motivations for rejecting the materialism which continues to define our modern world.
  

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  Les misérables

  Victor Hugo

  • Vintage uk
  • 5 Novembre 2009
  • 9780099529965

  General & literary fiction/Classic fictionNew translation.
  

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  Thérèse Raquin

  Emile Zola

  • Vintage uk
  • 2 Octobre 2014
  • 9780099573531

  Mysterious disappearances, domestic cases, noiseless, bloodless snuffings-out... the law can look as deep as it likes, but when the crime itself goes unsuspected... oh yes, there's many a murderer basking in the sun...
  
  When Therese Raquin is forced to marry the sickly Camille, she sees a bare life stretching out before her, leading every evening to the same cold bed and every morning to the same empty day. Escape comes in the form of her husband's friend, Laurent, and Therese throws herself headlong into an affair. There seems only one obstacle to their happiness; Camille. They plot to be rid of him. But in destroying Camille they kill the very desire that connects them...
  
  First published in 1867, Therese Raquin has lost none of its power to enthral. Adam Thorpe's unflinching translation brings Zola's dark and shocking masterwork to life.
  
  
  A NEW TRANSLATION BY ADAM THORPE 'Adam Thorpe's version deserves to become the standard English text' Daily Telegraph
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  Flush

  Virginia Woolf

  • Vintage uk
  • 5 Juillet 2018
  • 9781784875138

  The great modernist writer's biography of Flush, the cocker spaniel of nineteenth century poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning, is available here as part of the }Vintage Lives{series, providing an insight into Woolf at her most playful and accessible.
  

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  Jane Eyre

  Charlotte Brontë

  • Vintage uk
  • 5 Novembre 2015
  • 9781784870737

  A deluxe gift edition of Charlotte Bronte's masterpiece WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY MAGGIE O'FARRELL As an orphan, Jane's childhood is full of trouble, but her stubborn independence and sense of self help her to steer through the miseries inflicted by cruel relatives and a brutal school. A position as governess at the Thornfield Hall promises a kind of freedom. But Thornfield is a house full of secrets, its master a passionate, tormented man, and before long Jane faces her greatest struggle in a choice between love and self-respect.
  
  VINTAGE CLASSICS BRONTE SERIES - beautiful editions, three iconic stories, three extraordinary women.
  

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  Macbeth

  Jo Nesbø

  • Vintage uk
  • 20 Septembre 2018
  • 9780099598060

  THE NO.1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 40 MILLION BOOKS SOLD WORLDWIDE He's the best cop they've got.
  
  When a drug bust turns into a bloodbath it's up to Inspector Macbeth and his team to clean up the mess.
  
  He's also an ex-drug addict with a troubled past.
  
  He's rewarded for his success. Power. Money. Respect. They're all within reach.
  
  But a man like him won't get to the top.
  
  Plagued by hallucinations and paranoia, Macbeth starts to unravel. He's convinced he won't get what is rightfully his.
  
  Unless he kills for it.
  
  'The king of all crime writers' Sunday Express
  

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  Dracula

  Bram Stoker

  • Vintage uk
  • 5 Avril 2018
  • 9781784873844

  HEROES & VILLAINS
  

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  Chéri

  Colette

  • Vintage uk
  • 6 Septembre 2001
  • 9780099422761

  Modern fiction
  

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  Orlando

  Virginia Woolf

  • Vintage uk
  • 6 Octobre 2016
  • 9781784870850

  Virginia Woolf's most unusual and fantastic creation, a funny, exuberant tale that examines the very nature of sexuality.
  
  WITH INTRODUCTIONS BY PETER ACKROYD AND MARGARET REYNOLDS As his tale begins, Orlando is a passionate young nobleman whose days are spent in rowdy revelry, filled with the colourful delights of Queen Elizabeth's court. By the close, he will have transformed into a modern, thirty-six-year-old woman and three centuries will have passed. Orlando will not only witness the making of history from its edge, but will find that his unique position as a woman who knows what it is to be a man will give him insight into matters of the heart.
  
  The Vintage Classics Virginia Woolf series has been curated by Jeanette Winterson and Margaret Reynolds, and the texts used are based on the original Hogarth Press editions published by Leonard and Virginia Woolf.
  
  **One of the BBC's 100 Novels That Shaped Our World**
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  Middlemarch

  George Eliot

  • Vintage uk
  • 2 Août 2007
  • 9780099516231

  Dorothea is beautiful and rebellious and has married the wrong man. Lydgate is an ambitious doctor and has married the wrong woman. They long to make a positive difference in the world. But they and other inhabitants of Middlemarch, must struggle to reconcile themselves to their fates and find their places in the world.
  

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  Black boy

  Richard Wright

  • Vintage uk
  • 1 Octobre 2020
  • 9781784876135

  Richard Wright's memoir of his childhood as a young black boy in the American south of the 1920s and 30s is a stark depiction of African-American life and a powerful exploration of racial tension.
  
  At four years old, Richard Wright set fire to his home in a moment of boredom; at five his father deserted the family; by six Richard was - temporarily - an alcoholic. Moved from home to home, from brick tenement to orphanage, a grandmother in Jackson, an aunt in Arkansas, he had had, by the age of twelve, only one year's formal education. It was in saloons, railroad yards and streets that he learned the facts about life under white subjection, about fear, hunger and hatred, while his mother's long illness taught him about suffering.
  
  The same alertness and independence that made him the 'bad boy' of his family and the victim of endless beatings also lost him numerous jobs. Gradually he learned to play Jim Crow in order to survive in a world of white hostility, secretly satisfying his craving for books and knowledge until the time came when he could follow his dream of justice and opportunity in the north.
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  Némésis

  Philip Roth

  • Vintage uk
  • 6 Octobre 2011
  • 9780099555339

  Focusing on Cantor's dilemmas as polio begins to ravage his playground - and on the everyday realities he faces - this title leads us through various emotions such a pestilence can breed: the fear, the panic, the anger, the bewilderment, the suffering, and the pain.
  

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  Love

  Toni Morrison

  • Vintage uk
  • 29 Juillet 2004
  • 9780099455493

  May, Christine, Heed, Junior, Vida - even L - all are women obsessed by Bill Cosey. More than the wealthy owner of the famous Cosey Hotel and Resort, he shapes their yearnings for a father, husband, lover, guardian, and friend, yearnings that dominate the lives of these women long after his death.
  

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  Oliver Twist

  Charles Dickens

  • Vintage uk
  • 2 Août 2007
  • 9780099511939

  Oliver is an orphan living on the dangerous London streets with no one but himself to rely on. Fleeing from poverty and hardship, he falls in with a criminal street gang who will not let him go, however hard he tries to escape. This work conjures up the capital's underworld, full of prostitutes, thieves and lost and homeless children.
  

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  Frankenstein

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  • Vintage uk
  • 2 Août 2007
  • 9780099512042

  Victor Frankenstein's story is one of ambition, murder and revenge. As a young scientist he pushed moral boundaries in order to cross the final scientific frontier and create life. But his creation is a monster stitched together from grave-robbed body parts who has no place in the world, and his life can only lead to tragedy.
  

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  Fight club

  Chuck Palahniuk

  • Vintage uk
  • 15 Juin 2003
  • 9780099765219

  Every weekend, in basements and parking lots across the country, young men with good white-collar jobs and absent fathers take off their shoes and shirts and fight each other barehanded for as long as they have to. Then they go back to those jobs with blackened eyes and loosened teeth and the sense that they can handle anything.
  

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