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Free Download Morning and Evening (Dalkey Archive Essentials) by Jon Fosse, translated by Damion Searls
English | May 21, 2024 | ISBN: 1628975520 | True EPUB | 107 pages | 0.8 MB
Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature for 2023

Free Download Miss MacIntosh, My Darling (Dalkey Archive Essentials) by Marguerite Young
English | April 9, 2024 | ISBN: 1628973951 | True EPUB | 1340 pages | 1.9 MB
This novel is one of the most ambitious and remarkable literary achievements of our time. It is a picaresque, psychological novel―a novel of the road, a journey or voyage of the human spirit in its search for reality in a world of illusion and nightmare. It is an epic of what might be called the Arabian Nights of American life. Marguerite Young’s method is poetic, imagistic, incantatory; in prose of extraordinary richness she tests the nature of her characters―and the nature of reality.

Free Download The Sot-Weed Factor (Dalkey Archive Essentials) by John Barth
English | September 19, 2023 | ISBN: 1628973943 | True EPUB | 806 pages | 1.6 MB
This is Barth’s most distinguished masterpiece. This modern classic is a hilarious tribute to all the most insidious human vices, with a hero who is "one of the most diverting . . . to roam the world since Candide."

Free Download Point Counter Point (Dalkey Archive Essentials) by Aldous Huxley
English | September 19, 2023 | ISBN: 1628974494 | True EPUB | 535 pages | 1.1 MB
Aldous Huxley’s lifelong concern with the dichotomy between passion and reason finds its fullest expression both thematically and formally in his masterpiece Point Counter Point. By presenting a vision of life in which diverse aspects of experience are observed simultaneously, Huxley characterizes the symptoms of "the disease of modern man’ in the manner of a composer-themes and characters are repeated, altered slightly, and played off one another in a tone that is at once critical and sympathetic.

Free Download Pierrot Mon Ami (Dalkey Archive Essentials) by Raymond Queneau, translated by Barbara Wright
English | September 26, 2023 | ISBN: 1628974613 | True EPUB | 204 pages | 0.7 MB
Pierrot Mon Ami, considered by many to be one of Raymond Queneau’s finest achievements, is a quirky coming-of-age novel concerning a young man’s initiation into a world filled with deceit, fraud, and manipulation. From his short-lived job at a Paris amusement park where he helps to raise women’s skirts to the delight of an unruly audience, to his frustrated and unsuccessful love of Yvonne, to his failed assignment to care for the tomb of the shadowy Prince Luigi of Poldevia, Pierrot stumbles about, nearly immune to the effects of duplicity.

Free Download Phosphor in Dreamland (Dalkey Archive Essentials) by Rikki Ducornet
English | June 27, 2023 | ISBN: 1628974435 | True EPUB | 192 pages | 5.3 MB
Wildly comic, erotic, and perverse, Rikki Ducornet’s dazzling novel, Phosphor in Dreamland, explores the relationship between power and madness, nature and its exploitation, pornography and art, innocence and depravity.

Free Download Family of Pascual Duarte (Dalkey Archive Essentials) by Camilo Jose Cela, translated by Anthony Kerrigan
English | October 31, 2023 | ISBN: 1628975059 | True EPUB | 166 pages | 0.6 MB
Confined to a prison cell, thrice-murderer Pascual Duarte recounts his journey from a violent childhood to a life of pain and misfortune; juxtaposing tableaus of country poverty against scenes of bare brutality, Nobel laureate Camilo José Cela crafts a powerful meditation on cruelty and anomie.