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20 Fragments of a Ravenous Youth by Xiaolu Guo
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Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Heroines
Meet ten of literature's most iconic heroines, jacketed in bold portraits by female photographers from around the world 'She's no good, that girl. Much too individualistic' This is the story of Fenfang who, determined to carve out a life more independent than her provincial roots, gets a job as a film e ...Show more
Gigi by Colette
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Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Heroines
Meet ten of literature's most iconic heroines, jacketed in bold portraits by female photographers from around the world 'He must know by now, I should think, that I can give as good as I get!' This is the story of Gigi, educated as a future courtesan in Paris, her days are filled with cigars, lobster, l ...Show more
I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith
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Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Heroines
Meet ten of literature's most iconic heroines, jacketed in bold portraits by female photographers from around the world 'I write this sitting in the kitchen sink...' This is the story of Cassandra, precocious and charming, who begins a journal detailing her life with her bohemian family in a crumbling o ...Show more
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
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Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Heroines
"At the end we are steeped through and through with the genius, the vehemence, the indignation of Charlotte Bront '"-Virginia Woolf "Given the action of Jane Eyre, which is in every sense dramatic, there is a pull, all the same, between action and consciousness." -Raymond Williams "Teaching the true s ...Show more
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
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Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Heroines
One of the acknowledged masterpieces of 19th century realism, Madame Bovary is revered by writers and readers around the world, a mandatory stop on any pilgrimage through modern literature. Flaubert's legendary style, his intense care over the selection of words and the shaping of sentences, his unmatch ...Show more
My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh
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Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Heroines
'When I'd slept enough, I'd be okay. I'd be renewed, reborn.' This is the story of a woman with no name. Young, thin, pretty, a recent Columbia graduate, she lives in an apartment on the Upper East Side of Manhattan paid for, like everything else, by her inheritance. Yet she longs to lose herself compl ...Show more
Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson
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Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Heroines
This is the story of Jeanette, adopted and brought up by working-class evangelists in the North of England to be one of God's elect. Passionate, headstrong and shielded by her mother's grand disapproval of a sinful world, she seems destined for life as a missionary. And then she meets Melanie. At sixtee ...Show more
We Need New Names by NoViolet Bulawayo
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Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Heroines
Meet ten of literature's most iconic heroines, jacketed in bold portraits by female photographers from around the world 'There are times, though, that no matter how much food I eat, I find the food does nothing for me, like I am hungry for my country and nothing is going to fix that' This is the story o ...Show more
White Chrysanthemum by Mary Lynn Bracht
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Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Heroines
Meet ten of literature's most iconic heroines, jacketed in bold portraits by female photographers from around the world 'Look for your sister after each dive. Never forget. If you see her, you are safe.' This is the story of Hana and her little sister Emi, who are part of an island community of haenyo, ...Show more
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