 | The Abyss by Marguerite Yourcenar
Buy used from: £6.30 Marguerite Yourcenar: a masterly author of great humanity - Zenon's story is a good place to start exploring her...
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 | Fictions by Jorge Borges
Buy new: £5.48 / Used from: £2.23 again, just a starting point for the labyrinthine Argentinian's mind and work...
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 | Zen Flesh, Zen Bones: A Collection of Zen and Pre-Zen Writings by Nyogen Senzaki
Buy new: £5.98 / Used from: £2.09 probably the best compendium of Zen texts around
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 | The Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon by Sei Shonagon
Buy used from: £0.06 Sei Shonagon lived in an age (and world) of great (sexual) freedom and refinement - her book is acutely "modern"
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 | Slowness by Milan Kundera
Buy new: £4.99 / Used from: £1.88 one of the most beautifully crafted of Kundera's tales...
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 | Point De Lendemain (No Tomorrow) by Vivant Denon
Buy new: £21.95 / Used from: £20.95 ... and its 'point of departure'
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 | Love and Garbage by Ivan Klima
Buy new: £8.09 / Used from: £3.39 the 'other' modern Czech writer: less appreciated and well known than Kundera, but equally (though differently) stimuulating
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 | Forty Stories by John Updike
Buy used from: £0.34 an amazing collection: a mind and craft in the same 'family' as the two above...
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 | The Aspern Papers: AND The Turn of the Screw (English Library) by Henry James
Buy used from: £0.01 ...can't leave Henry James out of this list!
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 | Collected Stories (Everyman's Library classics) by Raymond Chandler
Buy new: £13.98 / Used from: £11.97 ... nor Raymond Chandler: the Yourcenar of the "noir"
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 | South Wind Through the Kitchen: The Best of Elizabeth David by Elizabeth David
Buy used from: £9.66 some elegant prose on the joy-of-life!
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 | Skin Lane by Neil Bartlett
Buy new: £5.97 / Used from: £0.22 Neil Bartlett's first novel, "Ready to catch him should he fall", is quite as amazing - but this stays on my mind
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