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James Joyce's semi-autobiographical novel A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN is the coming of age story of Stephen Dedalus in the turbulent times of late 19th century Ireland

When Adela Quested and her elderly companion Mrs Moore arrive in the Indian town of Chandrapore

the flip side of Mishima's personality - his hidden neuroses and the traumas of his youth - continually pushed him towards a firm rejection of modern Japan and his explosive final act of self-annihilation

The Woman in the Dunes Lewis Carroll His motherDazzlingly original, Kobo Abe's The Woman in the Dunes is one of the premier Japanese novels in the twentieth century, and this Penguin Classics edition contains a new introduction by David Mitchell, author of Cloud Atlas. Niki Jumpei, an amateur entomologist, searches the scorching desert for beetles. As night falls he is forced to seek shelter in an eerie village, half buried by huge sand dunes. He awakes to the terrifying realisation that the