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Choose from Stanfords' specially selected range of destination-led fiction from around the world, where the country or city the story is set in plays a major role or appears almost as a character, allowing you to get a vivid impression of what it is like whilst getting caught up in a riveting read. Visit Graham Greene's Vietnam, Haruki Murakami's Japan, Ian McEwan's England or Salman Rushdie's India and allow these novelists to bring a place to life for you.
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    Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

    by Hunter S Thompson
    Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas tells the tale of journalist Hunter S Thompson and his ‘attorney’, the Samoan, driving to Las Vegas to find the dark side of the American dream.

    Roaring down the...
    • Publisher: Harper Perennial

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    The Catcher in the Rye

    by J. D. Salinger
    J.D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye is claimed by many to be the ultimate novel for disaffected youth, although such a simple classification would undermine it’s literary value, as this classic...
    • Publisher: Penguin

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    A Confederacy of Dunces

    by John Kennedy Toole
    John Kennedy Toole’s A Confederacy of Dunces is a bittersweet classic- although bitingly funny, it is bittersweet as it’s one of those novels that has always been in danger of being overshadowed by the...
    • Publisher: Penguin

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    On Beauty

    by Zadie Smith
    On Beauty is Zadie Smith’s wonderful homage to Howard’s End and it provides plenty of parallels for devotees to spot while remaining greatly enjoyable on its own terms. The action has transferred to...
    • Publisher: Penguin

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    Breakfast at Tiffany's

    by Truman Capote
    When anyone says Breakfast at Tiffany’s, the image of Audrey Hepburn and her undeniable elegance always comes to the fore- even the cover of Truman Capote's classic tale is adorned with her delicate vi...
    • Publisher: Penguin

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    On the Road

    by Jack Kerouac
    Regarded as the quintessential work of the Beat Generation’s literary output, Jack Kerouac wrote On the Road in a marathon peyote-fuelled writing session on one long piece of paper, prompting Truman Ca...
    • Publisher: Penguin

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    Brightness Falls

    by Jay McInerney
    Jay McInerney's Brightness Falls takes place in the most iconic location of the 1980s New York and the pulsating heart at its very midst: Wall Street.

    Corrine Calloway is a young stockbroker on...
    • Publisher: Bloomsbury

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    Ghost Town - Tales of Manhattan Then and Now

    by Patrick McGrath
    Ghost Town - Tales of Manhattan Then and Now is Patrick McGrath’s trio of stories weaves together different layers of narrative to give an incredible understanding of New York’s turbulent history:

    A m...
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    Brooklyn

    by Colm Toibin
    “Brooklyn” is another novel from Colm Toibin, author of the Booker shortlisted “The Master” and “The Blackwater Lightship”, this time a moving and authentic portrait of a young Irish girl far from home...
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    Lonely Planet Countries and Regions Guides

    The Countries and Regions series from Lonely Planet are market-leading comprehensive guides aimed at independent travellers and serve a large range of international destinations. Frank and informal...
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    Bill Amberg for Penguin Classic

    Bill Amberg and Penguin Books have collaborated to produce this series of luxury leather Penguin Classics. Bill has chosen six of his favourite modern novels for their enduring and cosmopolitan...
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    New York

    by Edward Rutherfurd
    Edward Rutherfurd has written a novel of the Big Apple, the city that never sleeps and the epitome of the New World - New York. Fact and fiction fuse in four centuries of history as fantasy...
    • Publisher: Arrow
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