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 Master Harold . . . And The Boys (Penguin Plays)Best Price: $5.99 Our theater group decided to do this play this season. I'm ashamed to say I had not heard of it... |  Waiting for the Barbarians (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century)Best Price: $7.88 Shipping time was great but unlike all other used books rated as in very good condition that I... |  The ConservationistBest Price: $4.69 guess I did expect some more...on what grounds have no idea.. anyways.. after reading the book... |  Curse Of The Black Gold: 50 Years of Oil in the Niger DeltaBest Price: $28.21 I just returned from working in Port Harcourt for several months. This is a very graphic book... |  Diary of a Bad YearBest Price: $11.94 Very interesting writing style and format. While the plot was very basic the substance of the... |
 Diamonds Are Forever (James Bond Novels)Best Price: $3.09 It's been said that Ian Fleming was a brilliant travel writer trapped in the body of a... |  July's PeopleBest Price: $2.60 In July's People Nadine Gordimer presents a scenario laden with fears. Written in 1981, the book... |  Arrow of GodBest Price: $7.22 "Arrow of God" is another excellent novel by the world renowned Chinua Achebe. I have... |  The PickupBest Price: $7.49 I'm so aggravated right now. Like, why? Why didn't the author speak English? Why the short,... |  Cultural Amnesia: Necessary Memories from History and the ArtsBest Price: $17.50 Although intended as a work of literature, "Cultural Amnesia" has more in common with... |
 Foe: A Novel (King Penguin)Best Price: $7.00 In Daniel Defoe's classic novel "Robinson Crusoe," the island is a boys' playhouse... |  The Lives of Animals (The University Center for Human Values Series)Best Price: $10.77 This small book provides a wonderfully insightful perspective on the issues surrounding... |  The Famished RoadBest Price: $7.89 And like the title, it will take you on a long and strange (for Western eyes) journey. I liked... |  The Poems, Short Fiction, and Criticism of Samuel Beckett: Volume IV of The Grove Centenary EditionsBest Price: $12.94 An inspiration for my writing and my creativity, and I could never dare emulate him well enough.... |  A Man of the PeopleBest Price: $3.85 very fascinating to read how the writer has captured situations forty years ago that are still... |
 A Story Like the WindBest Price: $3.94 This book is terrible. People will tell you that its spiritual or beautifully written but its... |  Age of IronBest Price: $7.22 In this violent text, an old woman learns that she has an incurable cancer. She meets her `angel... |  A Grain of Wheat (African Writers Series)Best Price: $11.97 There is no one storyline to follow throughout, and there is no one protagonist to embrace.... |  Brighton RockBest Price: $3.59 This is a gangster novel set in the sea-side, tourist town of Brighton in the 1930s. There are 3... |  Petals of BloodBest Price: $8.46 Primary schoolteacher Godfrey Munira requests a posting at a far-away, rural location, hoping to... |
 The Joys of Motherhood (AWS African Writers Series)Best Price: $8.95 The title is ironic, the subject matter is often disturbing and the story is riveting. While... |  Ake: The Years of ChildhoodBest Price: $8.44 The novel is quite good, however certain words and phrases do not add much meaning to the trend... |  Three Novels of Ancient Egypt: Khufu's Wisdom, Rhadopis of Nubia, Thebes at War (Everyman's Library)Best Price: $16.05 Apparently these are the first three of the author's novels. This is a beautiful edition and it... |  Cry, the Beloved Country (Scribner Library Books)Best Price: $12.00 |  A Far-Off PlaceBest Price: $2.73 The novels of Laurens van der Post were based in the deeper reality of the African bush of the... |
 Weep Not, Child (African Writers)Best Price: $8.41 The story concerns itself with an important period in the life of the author's tribe in Kenya in... |  Elizabeth CostelloBest Price: $3.50 I have read Mr. Coetzee's literary criticism and found it worth the effort. He should stick to... |  Slow ManBest Price: $3.57 I won't deny that "Slow Man" can be considered a... weird read. There's no doubt about... |  Measuring Time: A NovelBest Price: $8.33 This book was told in such a 'peaceful' tempo that you are immediately and suddenly pulled in. ... |  Song for NightBest Price: $4.32 Well-written story of an Igbo child soldier in West Africa, a mine diffuser separated from his... |
 Cry, the Beloved Country: Classic CollectionBest Price: $16.94 Set in the troubled South Africa of the 1940s, this is the deeply moving story of a Zulu pastor,... |  Jump and Other Short StoriesBest Price: $2.99 This is a different kind of book for the average one's out their. But I needed it for my English... |  Becoming AbigailBest Price: $2.89 The life of a woman-child who could have been any one of us is exactly what Becoming Abigail... |  Girls at WarBest Price: $6.91 Very impressed. I am glad I read it again after all these years. The story of the Mad Man is... |  Burger's DaughterBest Price: $2.64 This is a masterful work for two specific reasons: 1. It very realistically displays the depths... |
 FireBest Price: $0.81 This book is a collection of Junger's articles. As such, it feels a little disjointed. The... |  Boyhood: Scenes From Provincial LifeBest Price: $8.21 In this youth memories, J.M. Coetzee defines himself as `twice-born: `born from woman and born... |  Under African Skies: Modern African StoriesBest Price: $8.99 This book was published in 1997 and contains 26 works by as many writers, from 16 countries.... |  Devil on the Cross (African Writers Series)Best Price: $8.86 Amazing book by an amazing author! The seller sent my item quickly after i purchased it at a... |  Ancient Egyptian Literature: An AnthologyBest Price: $14.06 I have enjoyed reading this anthology of ancient Egyptian literature translated by John Foster.... |
 The Threepenny Opera (Penguin Classics)Best Price: $6.03 Brutal, scandalous, perverted, yet humorous, hummable, and with a happy ending?Bertolt Brecht?s... |  The Man-Eaters Of Tsavo And Other East African AdventuresBest Price: $7.99 I purchased this book after watching the movie "The Ghost and the Darkness". The book... |  The Master of Petersburg: A NovelBest Price: $5.95 In most of the literary journals they tell us that Dostoyevsky use a lot of its own sufferings... |  Favorite African FolktalesBest Price: $8.13 "It is my wish that the voice of the storyteller never die in Africa."—Nelson... |  Decolonising the Mind: The Politics of Language in African Literature (Studies in African Literature Series)Best Price: $11.00 The book arrived a lot earlier than the estimated delivery date and in good condition. My only... |
 When Rain Clouds Gather (AWS African Writers Series)Best Price: $8.75 A story about a black refugee from South Africa who finds a new home and the meaning of life in... |  The Confusions of Young Torless (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)Best Price: $7.10 As the specialized critics have established this short novel was a preparation for Musil's tour... |  Too Late The PhalaropeBest Price: $2.88 Until I read "Too Late the Phalarope," I could not imagine a novel richer and more... | ||
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