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The Known World by Edward P. JonesISBN: 9780007195305 HarperCollins Publishers, 20 March 2012 Soft cover, 400 pages Masterful, Pulitzer prize winning literary epic about the painful and complex realities of slave life on a Southern plantation. An utterly original exploration of race, trust and the cruel truths of human nature, this is a landmark in modern American literature. Henry Townsend, a black farmer, boot maker, and former slave, becomes proprietor of his own plantation as well

in translation by Richard Miller

Nick finds himself able to pursue his own private obsession

shape and colour which power can take' Sunday Times After decades of British rule Kenya has declared its independence

Set in the mid-19th century

matey and tight

It presupposes no previous knowledge and terms are defined as they are introduced

ISBN: 9781431425860

young Frodo Baggins finds himself faced with an immense task

and the historical allusions Byron wove into his poem

this volume offers a broad

Rousseau's account of the life of Marais begins in the early days of Pretoria (1871) and ends three years after Hitler's rise to power

and includes discussion of Chaucer's life