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This classic, begun as a novel concerned with the psychology of a crime and the process of guilt, surpasses itself to take on the tragic force of myth.

'Dance Dance Dance' continues the life of the hero of 'A Wild Sheep Chase' who is now in his mid-thirties. This is a witty satire on the loss of an individual's identity.

This novel is part of the 'Rougon-Macquart' series about two branches of a French family traced through several generations. The behaviour of the two families is shown to be conditioned by environment and inherited characteristics, chiefly drunkenness and mental instability.

'In Search of Lost Time' is Proust's masterpiece and was described by Somerset Maugham as the greatest novel of the 20th century.

The satirical romance of an eccentric knight-errant in La Mancha, central Spain. The novel follows the adventures of Don Quixote and his rustic companion, Sancho Panza.

The final episode in the saga of The Three Musketeers finds Artemis attempting a royal coup. Artemis attempts to install Phillipe in Louis' place, in turn imprisoning the King of France. D'Artagnan must defend his king, even if it means killing a musketeer.

Toru Watanabe is looking back on the love and passions of his life and trying to make sense of it all. As his first love, Naoko, sinks deeper and deeper into mental despair, he is inexorably pushed to find new meanings and new love to survive.

'The Summer Book' is a fresh, vivid and magical novel about seemingly endless summers of discovery. An elderly artist and her six-year-old granddaughter while away the summer together, on a tiny island in the Gulf of Finland, their solitude disturbed only by migrating birds and sudden storms.

First published in Urdu in 1963 and a bestseller throughout the Indian sub-continent, this novel is the story of love between people of different backgrounds, set against the history of the struggle of the people of India against the British Raj.

Okada is apparently a happy man - his domestic life seems familiar and comfortable, but admittedly he has just quit his job, the cat has disappeared and a strange woman is bothering him with explicit phone calls.