Amor Towles is an American bestselling author. After years spent working as an investment professional, he now devotes himself completely to writing. His novels, Rules of Civility (2011) and A Gentleman in Moscow (2016), were both New York Times bestsellers and have been translated into over thirty languages. He has also written essays and short stories published in Paris Review, Granta, and British Vogue.
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A Gentleman In Moscow
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A Gentleman In Moscow
Moscow, 1922. Count Alexander Rostov is escorted out of the Bolshevik tribunal held in the Kremlin and into the grand Metropol Hotel. An unrepentant aristocrat, he is sentenced to live the rest of his life on the sixth floor of the historic establishment under penalty of death. While a tumultuous era for Russia is unfolding, behind the doors of the Metropol Hotel the Count will undergo his own journey of emotional discovery.
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Publish Date: 1967
An epic tale which spans a hundred years of tumult and unrest in Latin America, One Hundred Years of Solitude tells the story of the Buendía family, whose patriarch built the once flourishing city of Macondo, now dilapidated and in…
Swann’s Way
By Marcel Proust
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Publish Date: 1913
In the first volume in Proust’s monumental novel In Search of Lost Time, the narrator recounts his childhood, telling the love story between Swann and Odette, which took place before his own birth and yet forsees his future relationships. The…
If On A Winter’s Night A Traveler
By Italo Calvino
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Publish Date: 1979
A man realises that, in the copy of the book he recently purchased, a Polish novel has been mistakenly printed on its pages. As he returns to the bookshop the following day, he finds out that a woman is there…