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8 best books like Justine (Lawrence Durrell): Scoop, A High Wind in Jamaica, The Ambassadors, To a Mountain in Tibet, The Virgin in the Garden, A Dance to the Music of Time: 1st Movement, A Dance to the Music of Time: 3rd Movement, Carpenter's Gothic

Scoop
AuthorEvelyn Waugh
ISBN0141187492
Lord Copper, newspaper magnate and proprietor of the "Daily Beast", has always prided himself on his intuitive flair for spotting ace reporters. That is not to say he has not made the odd blunder, however, and may in a moment of weakness make another. Acting on a dinner-party tip from Mrs Algernon Smith,...
A High Wind in Jamaica
AuthorRichard Hughes
ISBN0940322153
New edition of a classic adventure novel and one of the most startling, highly praised stories in English literature - a brilliant chronicle of two sensitive children's violent voyage from innocence to experience.

After a terrible hurricane levels their Jamaican estate, the Bas-Thorntons...
The Ambassadors
AuthorHenry James
ISBN0140432337
Graham Greene and E.M. Forster marvelled at it, but F.R. Leavis considered it to be 'not only not one of his great books, but to be a bad one.' As for the author, he held The Ambassadors as the favorite among all his novels.

Sent from Massachusetts by the formidable Mrs. Newsome to recall her son,...
To a Mountain in Tibet
AuthorColin Thubron
The mountain path is the road of the dead,� writes Thubron (Shadow of the Silk Road) in this engrossing and affecting travel memoir that transcends the mere physical journey. In the wake of his mother's death, Thubron sets off to Mount Kailas in Tibet, a peak sacred to one-fifth of the world's population...
The Virgin in the Garden
AuthorA.S. Byatt
ISBN0679738290


http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b007jsfz


In 1950s Yorkshire, Frederica Potter, still living at home, senses that something exciting is beginning. Stars Hannah Watkins.

A wealthy theatre director is producing a play and Frederica Potter is desperate to secure...
A Dance to the Music of Time: 1st Movement
AuthorAnthony Powell
ISBN0226677141
Anthony Powell's universally acclaimed epic encompasses a four-volume panorama of twentieth century London. Hailed by Time as "brilliant literary comedy as well as a brilliant sketch of the times," A Dance to the Music of Time opens just after World War I. Amid the fever of the 1920s and the first chill...
A Dance to the Music of Time: 3rd Movement
AuthorAnthony Powell
ISBN0226677176
Anthony Powell's universally acclaimed epic encompasses a four-volume panorama of twentieth century London. Hailed by Time as "brilliant literary comedy as well as a brilliant sketch of the times," A Dance to the Music of Time opens just after World War I. Amid the fever of the 1920s and the first chill...
Carpenter's Gothic
AuthorWilliam Gaddis
This story of raging comedy and despair centers on the tempestuous marriage of an heiress and a Vietnam veteran. From their "carpenter gothic" rented house, Paul sets himself up as a media consultant for Reverend Ude, an evangelist mounting a grand crusade that conveniently suits a mining combine...
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