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The Finnish book publisher Tammi started publishing world literature novels back in 1954. They still publish books in this series, about 5-10 each year, and now there's more than 500 books in the list.
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Too Late the Phalarope
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Zorba the Greek
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And Never Said a Word
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The Sun Also Rises
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For Whom the Bell Tolls
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The Go-Between
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Freedom or Death
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A High Wind in Jamaica
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The Quiet American
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Contempt
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The Grapes of Wrath
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Il prete bello
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The Last Temptation of Christ
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The Old Man and the Sea
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In Love
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Snow Country
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The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories
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Two Women
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The Devil in the Flesh
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Doctor Zhivago
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Threepenny Novel
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The Eighth Day of the Week
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Some Prefer Nettles
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In Hazard (New York Review Books Classics)
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The Last Summer
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Agostino
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Night Flight
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L'Empire céleste
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The Baron in the Trees
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Next Stop, Paradise
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The Bridge on the Drina (Bosnian Trilogy, #1)
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Green Hills of Africa
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The Catcher in the Rye
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To Have and Have Not
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A Burnt-Out Case
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Saint Francis
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The Winter of Our Discontent
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The Key
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The Woman from Sarajevo
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Brave New World
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Franny and Zooey
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The Nonexistent Knight
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The Pearl
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The Days of the Consuls
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The Empty Canvas
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The Wild Palms
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The Long Valley
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Man's Fate
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Warrior's Rest
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One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
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Of Mice and Men
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The Man Outside
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Kananjumala
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A Sense of Reality: Stories
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The Flanders Road
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Seven Japanese Tales
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
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The Woman of Rome
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In Dubious Battle
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Ulysses
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The Fox in the Attic (The Human Predicament, #1)
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Nausea
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In the Labyrinth
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Dubliners
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The Sound and the Fury
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Amerika
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The Power and the Glory
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Herzog
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The Palace
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Thousand Cranes
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Nine Stories
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The Reivers
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The End of the Affair
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The Comedians
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The Lie
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Journey to the End of the Night
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The Third Book About Achim
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Absalom, Absalom!
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The Fratricides
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Breakfast at Tiffany's
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The Victim
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Light in August
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A Farewell to Arms
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The Radetzky March (Von Trotta Family, #1)
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As I Lay Dying
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Cancer Ward
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The Old Capital
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L'automa
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Tortilla Flat
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Invisible Man
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Seize the Day
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Cosmicomics
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Karhu ja muita novelleja
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Across the River and into the Trees
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The Cloven Viscount
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Odessa Stories
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Slaughterhouse-Five
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Mr. Sammler's Planet
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In the First Circle
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Mr. Theodore Mundstock
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