Added by: hamidesigner | Karma: 9.53 | Fiction literature | 10 August 2010
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The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad The novel is set in London in 1886 and follows the life of Mr. Verloc, a secret agent. Verloc is also a businessman who owns a shop which sells pornographic material, contraceptives, and bric-a-brac. He lives with his wife Winnie, his mother-in-law, and his brother-in-law, Stevie.
Added by: Cheramie | Karma: 275.78 | Fiction literature | 20 December 2009
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Porterhouse Blue by Tom Sharpe
To Porterhouse College, Cambridge, famous for rowing, low academic standards and a proud cuisine, comes a new Master, an ex-grammar-school boy, demanding Firsts, women students, a self-service canteen and a slot-machine for contraceptives, to challenge the established order with catastrophic results...