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Slow Reading Take your time with these long but engrossing tales |
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The wind-up bird chronicle
by Haruki Murakami
The saga of a mysteriously disintegrating marriage, suppressed memories of the tragedies of war, and a young man's search for his personal and national identity is set against the turbulent backdrop of twentieth-century Japan.
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Buddenbrooks : the decline of a family
by Thomas Mann
The story of four generations of a wealthy bourgeois family in northern Germany captures the triumphs and tragedies, successes and failures, relationships, loves, and ordinary events of everyday middle-class life.
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Invisible man
by Ralph Ellison
A Black man's search for success and the American dream leads him out of college to Harlem and a growing sense of personal rejection and social invisibility.
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A distant mirror : the calamitous 14th century
by Barbara Wertheim Tuchman
The prize-winning historian traces the major currents of the fourteenth century, revealing the century's great historical rhythms and events and the texture of daily life at all levels of European society
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David Copperfield
by Charles Dickens
A young boy endures hardships as a child laborer in this partly autobiographical classic reflecting social conditions in nineteenth-century England
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Ada, or, Ardor, a family chronicle
by Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov
Published two weeks after his seventieth birthday, Ada, or Ardor is one of Nabokov's greatest masterpieces, the glorious culmination of his career as a novelist. It tells a love story troubled by incest. But more: it is also at once a fairy tale, epic, philosophical treatise on the nature of time, parody of the history of the novel, and erotic catalogue. Ada, or Ardor is no less than the supreme work of an imagination at white heat.
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Citizens : a chronicle of the French Revolution
by Simon Schama
Explores the French Revolution in terms of the vitality and infatuation with technology that motivated French citizenry toward change and the conflicting, strained economics frustrating their visions for France
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Les misérables
by Victor Hugo
After nineteen years in prison, Jean Valjean has difficulty adjusting to the outside world, which scorns and shuns him
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