Desperate Games (19 page)
Authors: Pierre Boulle
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| Leo Tolstoy | | The Death of Ivan Ilych | | |
| Leo Tolstoy | | Hadji Murat | | Colm Tóibín |
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| Mark Twain | | The Diary of Adam and Eve | | John Updike |
| Mark Twain | | Tom Sawyer, Detective | | |
| Oscar Wilde | | The Portrait of Mr W.H. | | Peter Ackroyd |
| Virginia Woolf | | Carlyle’s House and Other Sketches | | Doris Lessing |
| Virginia Woolf | | Monday or Tuesday | | Scarlett Thomas |
| Emile Zola | | For a Night of Love | | A.N. Wilson |
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Desperate Games
first published in 1971 as
Les jeux de l’espirit
© Estate of Pierre Boulle
English language translation © David Carter, 2014
First published by Hesperus Press Limited, 2014
This ebook edition first published, 2014
Typeset by Sarah Newitt
Cover design by Roland Codd
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ISBN 978–1–78094–371–8
