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Motherless Brooklyn; The Fortress of Solitude
Jonathan Lethem


Classical stories about women who wield power, from the Amazons to Dido to Cleopatra. These tales testify to the long history of women in power and help us forge new paths for female empowerment.

In honor of the 25th anniversary of Motherless Brooklyn — a hardcover omnibus edition of two of the most acclaimed novels by one of America’s most inventive novelists.

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Clay Walls
Clay Walls
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The Penguin Book of Korean Short Stories
The Penguin Book of Korean Short Stories
End of the World and Hard-Boiled Wonderland
End of the World and Hard-Boiled Wonderland
Haruki Murakami
Lolly Willowes
Lolly Willowes
Sylvia Townsend Warner
The Brothers Karamazov
The Brothers Karamazov
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
Robert Louis Stevenson
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
Laurence Sterne
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
John le Carré
White Nights
White Nights
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Chess
Chess
Stefan Zweig
Street Haunting
Street Haunting
Virginia Woolf
About Love
About Love
Anton Chekhov
Cold Mountain Poems
Cold Mountain Poems
Hanshan
Dogeaters
Dogeaters
Jessica Hagedorn
Bambi
Bambi
Felix Salten
The Wizard of Oz
The Wizard of Oz
L. Frank Baum
The Picture of Dorian Gray
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde
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The Penguin Book of Demons
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Virginia Woolf
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Wuthering Heights
Wuthering Heights
Emily Bronte
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All Quiet on the Western Front
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A Room of One’s Own
Virginia Woolf
A Room of One's Own
A Room of One’s Own
Virginia Woolf
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A Farewell to Arms
Ernest Hemingway
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Home to Harlem
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The Patrick Melrose Novels
Edward St Aubyn
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The Portable Feminist Reader
African Stories
African Stories
Ben Okri
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Lolly Willowes
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Steppenwolf
Steppenwolf
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The Firework-Maker's Daughter; Clockwork or All Wound Up
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Dorothy Parker: Poems
Dorothy Parker: Poems
Dorothy Parker
In a Yellow Wood
In a Yellow Wood
Cynthia Ozick
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Waiting
Waiting
Ha Jin
The Bridge of San Luis Rey
The Bridge of San Luis Rey
Thornton Wilder
The Transit of Venus
The Transit of Venus
Shirley Hazzard
The Famished Road
The Famished Road
Ben Okri
Independent People
Independent People
Halldor Laxness
Beloved
Beloved
Toni Morrison
A Thousand Acres
A Thousand Acres
Jane Smiley
Possession
Possession
A. S. Byatt
The Age of Innocence
The Age of Innocence
Edith Wharton
The Remains of the Day
The Remains of the Day
Kazuo Ishiguro
Doctor Zhivago
Doctor Zhivago
Boris Pasternak
The English Patient
The English Patient
Michael Ondaatje
The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt
The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt
Edmund Morris
My Name Is Red
My Name Is Red
Orhan Pamuk
Stories
Stories
Doris Lessing
Shadow Country
Shadow Country
Peter Matthiessen
Love in the Time of Cholera
Love in the Time of Cholera
Gabriel García Márquez
The Letters of Sacco and Vanzetti
The Letters of Sacco and Vanzetti
Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti
Carried Away
Carried Away
Alice Munro
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