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Mark Haddon: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (Paperback, 2004, Vintage Contemporaries)

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

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Christopher John Francis Boone knows all the countries of the world and their capitals and every prime number up to 7,057. He relates well to animals but has no understanding of human emotions. He cannot stand to be touched. And he detests the color yellow.

This improbable story of …

Joseph Conrad: Heart of darkness (1996, Bedford Books of St. Martin's Press)

Heart of darkness

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Written several years after Conrad's grueling sojourn in the Belgian Congo, the novel tells the story of Marlow, a seaman who undertakes his own journey into the African jungle to find the tormented white trader Kurtz.