Six Memos for the Next Millennium (Vintage International)
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“A book of remarkable beauty and strength, the work of a master in perfect command of his medium.” —Washington Post Book World
Winner of the National Book Award for Fiction
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DEATH IN VENICE
AND SEVEN OTHER STORIES
by Thomas Mann
In addition to “Death in Venice” (“A story,” Mann said, “of death…of the voluptuousness of doom”), this volume includes “Mario the Magician,” “Disorder and Early Sorrow,” “A Man and His Dog,” “Felix Krull,” “The Blood of the Walsungs,” “Tristan,” and “Tonio Kroger.”
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LOLITA
by Vladimir Nabokov
The famous and controversial novel that tells the story of the aging Humbert Humbert's obsessive, devouring, and doomed passion for the nymphet Dolores Haze.
“The only convincing love story of our century.” —Vanity Fair
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THE ENGLISH PATIENT
by Michael Ondaatje
During the final moments of World War II, four damaged people come together in a deserted Italian villa. As their stories unfold, a complex tapestry of image and emotion, recollection and observation is woven, leaving them inextricably connected by the brutal, improbable circumstances of war.
“It seduces and beguiles us with its many-layered mysteries, its brilliantly taut and lyrical prose, its tender regard for its characters.” —Newsday
Winner of the Booker Prize
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MATING
by Norman Rush
A female American anthropologist of high intellect and grand passion, at loose ends in Botswana, finds love with Nelson Denoon, a charismatic intellectual who is rumored to have founded a Utopian society in the Kalahari Desert.
“A complex and moving love story…breathtaking in its cunningly intertwined intellectual sweep and brio…a major novel.” —Chicago Tribune
Winner of the National Book Award for Fiction
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SOPHIE'S CHOICE
by William Styron
A young Southerner who yearns to become a writer befriends Nathan, a tortured, brilliant Jew, and his beautiful lover, Sophie, becoming a witness to their turbulent love-hate affair and to the burdens of Sophie's unbearable secret.
“Styron's most impressive performance…. It belongs on that small shelf reserved for American masterpieces.” —Washington Post Book World
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WATERLAND
by Graham Swift
Set in the bleak Fen country of East Anglia and spanning some 240 years, Waterland is “a gothic family saga, a detective story and a philosophical meditation on the nature and uses of history” (The New York Times).
“Teems with energy, fertility, violence, madness…demonstrates the irrepressible, wide-ranging talent of this young British writer.”
—Washington Post Book World
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THE PASSION
by Jeanette Winterson
Intertwining the destinies of two remarkable people—the soldier Henri, for eight years Napoleon's faithful cook, and Villanelle, the red-haired daughter of a Venetian boatman—The Passion is “a deeply imagined and beautiful book, often arrestingly so” (The New York Times Book Review).
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Copyright © 1988 by the Estate of halo Calvino
All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Com entions. Published in the United States by Vintage Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Calvino, Italo.
[Essays. English. Selections]
Six memos for the next millennium / Italo Calvino. — 1st Vintage international ed. p. cm.
Collects five of six lectures Italo Calvino was about to deliver at the time of his death in 1985.
Originally published: Cambridge, Mass.: Hanard University Press, 1988.
eISBN: 978-0-307-54611-1
1. Literature — Philosophy. 2. Style, Literary. 3. Literature
— History and criticism. I. Title.
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