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Title	Author	Description
Tyrant Banderas Tyrant Banderas	Ramón del Valle-Inclán	The first great twentieth-century novel of dictatorship, and an inspiration to García Márquez and Roa Bastos, Tyrant Banderas is a dark and dazzling portrayal of a mythical Latin American Republic at last revolting against the ruthless monster that has ruled it for so long. Contributors: Alberto Manguel , Peter Bush
Hindoo Holiday Hindoo Holiday	J. R. Ackerley Ackerley	Hindoo Holiday is an intimate and very funny account of an exceedingly strange place, and one of the masterpieces of twentieth-century travel literature. Contributors: Eliot Weinberger
Great Granny Webster Great Granny Webster	Caroline Blackwood Blackwood	This macabre, mordantly funny, partly auto-biographical novel reveals the gothic craziness behind the scenes in the great houses of the aristocracy, as witnessed through the unsparing eyes of an orphaned teenage girl. Contributors: Honor Moore
Corrigan Corrigan	Caroline Blackwood Blackwood	With Corrigan Caroline Blackwood takes a long, hard look at our dearly beloved notions of saints and sinners, victims and villains, patrimony and present pleasure?and winks. Contributors: Andrew Solomon
On the Yard On the Yard	Malcolm Braly Braly	A major American novel, and arguably the finest work of literature ever to emerge from a US prison, On the Yard is a book of penetrating psychological realism. Contributors: Jonathan Lethem
Hard Rain Falling Hard Rain Falling	Don Carpenter Carpenter	A gripping novel of being down and out, but never down for good—a Dostoyevskian tale of crime, punishment, and the pursuit of an ever-elusive redemption. Contributors: George Pelecanos
A Month in the Country Month in the Country	J. L. Carr Carr	In J. L. Carr's deeply charged poetic novel, Tom Birkin, a veteran of the Great War and a broken marriage, arrives in the remote Yorkshire village of Oxgodby where he is to restore a recently discovered medieval mural in the local church. Contributors: Michael Holroyd
Pinocchio Pinocchio	Carlo Collodi Collodi	This new translation of Pinocchio will forever banish the saucer-eyed Disney character from your mind (not to mention the advice-spouting Talking Cricket, whom Pinocchio squashes with a mallet in chapter 4). In his place is Collodi's greedy, charming, subversive boy-puppet and a dreamlike story that flaunts its commedia dell'arte roots. Contributors: Umberto Eco , Rebecca West , Geoffrey Brock
Letters from Russia Letters from Russia	Astolphe de Custine Custine	The Marquis de Custine's record of his trip to Russia in 1839 is a brilliantly perceptive, even prophetic, account of one of the world's most fascinating and troubled countries. Contributors: Anka Muhlstein
Grief Lessons (Paperback): Four Plays by Euripides Grief Lessons	Euripides Euripides	"Why does tragedy exist? Because you are full of rage. Why are you full of rage? Because you are full of grief." Celebrated contemporary poet and classicist Anne Carson presents new translations of four plays by Euripides. Contributors: Anne Carson