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Mowgli, Bagheera, Baloo and Shere Khan; the law of the jungle.

A Brahmin's son leaves the Buddha to find his own way, and finds it at a river.

Santiago, a marlin and the sharks; the novella that got Hemingway the Nobel.

Richard Hannay hunted across Scotland by spies in 1914; the chase thriller begins.

A Roman patrician and a Christian girl under Nero; Sienkiewicz's Nobel.

Four generations of a Lubeck merchant family in decline; Mann's Nobel novel at 26.

Seven years in a Davos sanatorium arguing about Europe before 1914.

Expatriates drink through Paris and Pamplona; Hemingway's lost generation.