 | Marie Antoinette: The Portrait of an Average Woman (Grove Great Lives) by Stefan Zweig
Buy new: £10.59 / Used from: £4.15 A wry, honest portrait of a figure too often obscured by glamor and legend-Zweig is sympathetic but not always impressed by his subject.
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 | Pnin (Penguin Modern Classics) by Vladimir Nabokov
Buy new: £5.73 / Used from: £3.72 Professor Pnin vs. well, the rest of the world. He emerges with his dignity battered but his basic goodness intact. One of Nabokov's least-known and most touching novels.
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 | A Reconstructed Corpse: A Charles Paris Mystery by Simon Brett
Buy new: £15.95 / Used from: £0.10 As much a withering media satire as a murder mystery-the ever-unemployed actor Charles Paris is hired to play a murdered man for a true crime show and all concerned are on their worst behavior.
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 | Death Comes for the Archbishop (Willa Cather Scholarly Edition) by Willa Cather
Buy new: £42.50 / Used from: £55.30 Death does come to the Archbishop, but so does life, with its' many trials and joys and the challenged of living in a tough but beautiful part of the world. Unforgettable.
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 | My Antonia by Willa Cather
Buy new: £1.90 / Used from: £0.01 A successful New York lawyer recalls his tough Nebraska childhood and the friend who made it special. Touching, a little melancholy, but ultimately inspiring.
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