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Claudia Hampton is dying. As memories crowd in, she re-creates the mosiac of her life, her own story enmeshed with those of her brother, her lover and father of her daughter, and the centre of her life, Tom, her one great love both found and lost in the mad fairyland of war-torn Egypt.

Recounts the authors childhood struggle to learn to read, write, paint and finally type, with the toe of his left foot.

The story of the title deals with a little boy named Larry and his feelings towards his father. When his father returns home from World War II, Larry is resentful and jealous of losing his mothers undivided attention, and finds himself in a constant struggle to win back her affections.

Alexander MacDonald tells the story of his family from the vantage point of the 1980s. In 1779, driven from his home, Calum MacDonald sets sail from the Scottish Highlands for Canada. Reaching the land of trees, he settles his extensive family until they become a separate Nova Scotian clan.

A novel from an American writer.

The destructive effects of jealousy underlie this tale. Othello, a man of quailty and superior intelligence, is brought down by his suspicions of his wife, Desdemona.

A popular soldier and newly married man, Othello seems to be in an enviable position. And yet, when his supposed friend sows doubts in his mind about his wifes fidelity, he is gradually consumed by suspicion.

Tells the story of an American family in the Congo during a time of tremendous political and social upheaval. This is the story told by the wife and four daughters of Nathan Price, a fierce evangelical Baptist who takes his family and mission to the Belgian Congo in 1959.

This novel charts the intellectual, moral and sexual development of Stephen Dedalus, from his childhood to the brink of adulthood and his awakening as an artist. Stephens consciousness is forged by Irish history and politics, by Catholicism and culture, language and art.

An autobiographical novel that portrays Stephen Dedalus childhood and youth in Dublin as he struggles to rid himself of the religious, political and moral constraints of his background and forge his own identity as an artist and as a man.