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The idea of human cruelty to animals so consumes novelist Elizabeth Costello in her later years that she can no longer look another person in the eye: humans, especially meat-eating ones, seem to her to be conspirators in a crime of stupefying magnitude...List Price $16.95Our Price $7.98List Price $16.95Our Price $7.98 -
Presented in one volume for the very first time, and updated with new archival discoveries, Early Auden, Later Auden reintroduces Edward Mendelson's acclaimed, two-part biography of W. H. Auden (1907–73), one of the greatest literary figures of the...List Price $38.00List Price $38.00 -
A mesmerizing novel by Nobel Laureate Patrick Modiano, now superbly translated for English-language readers For long standing admirers of Modiano's luminous writing as well as those readers encountering his work for the first time, Little Jewel will be...List Price $16.00List Price $16.00 -
This richly evocative novel-in-letters tells the story of two Persian noblemen who have left their country—the modern Iran—to journey to Europe in search in wisdom. As they travel, they write home to wives and eunuchs in the harem and to friends in...List Price $15.00Our Price $11.25List Price $15.00Our Price $11.25 -
What happens when small-time reporter Matthew Prior quits his job to gamble everything on a quixotic notion: a Web site devoted to financial journalism in the form of blank verse? Before long, he wakes up to find himself jobless, hobbled with debt,...List Price $16.99List Price $16.99 -
Known as “one of the most complex and unusual texts in Arabic literature” (Banipal Magazine), The Epistle of Forgiveness is the lengthy reply by the prolific Syrian poet and prose writer, Abu l-'Ala' al-Ma'arri (d. 449/1057), to a letter by an obscure...List Price $20.00List Price $20.00 -
Winner, 2017 Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist, 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry Winner, NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work in the Poetry category Winner, 2018 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award Winner, 2018 BCALA Best Poetry Award Winner, Abel...List Price $22.00List Price $22.00 -
Career of Evil is the third in the highly acclaimed series featuring private detective Cormoran Strike and his assistant Robin Ellacott. When a mysterious package is delivered to Robin Ellacott, she is horrified to discover that it contains a woman's...List Price $17.99Our Price $13.50List Price $17.99Our Price $13.50 -
“A luminous, Marquez-esque tale” (O, The Oprah Magazine) from the New York Times bestselling author of The Museum of Extraordinary Things: a forbidden love story set on a tropical island about the extraordinary woman who gave birth to painter Camille...List Price $18.99List Price $18.99 -
'Was her life to be always like this? - always bringing some new source of inward strife?' When the miller Mr Tulliver becomes entangled in lawsuits, he sets off a chain of events that will profoundly affect the lives of his family and bring into...List Price $10.95List Price $10.95 -
"Ahmed Taroudant, jeune marginal, ne lit que des polars. Quand il trouve sa voisine pendue à son balcon, un rôti de porc à ses côtés, il sort de sa léthargie. Est-ce le meurtre symbolique d'un fou de Dieu? Avec Rachel Kupferstein et Jean Hamelot, flics...List Price $15.95Our Price $11.96List Price $15.95Our Price $11.96 -
"Taking place mere hours following the dramatic events seen in The Gunslinger, The Drawing of the Three continues with Roland of Gilead on his solitary quest for the Dark Tower, leading him to a seemingly endless stretch of beach along the Western Sea--a...List Price $20.00List Price $20.00 -
From the reign of the Tsars in the early nineteenth century to the collapse of the Soviet Union and beyond, the short story has long occupied a central place in Russian culture. Included here are pieces from many of the acknowledged masters of Russian...List Price $20.00Our Price $15.00List Price $20.00Our Price $15.00 -
A classic that revolutionized the way children are taught to read and write poetry. The celebrated poet Kenneth Koch conveys the imaginative splendor of great poetry—by Blake, Donne, Stevens, Lorca, and others—and then shows how it maybe taught so as to...List Price $16.00Our Price $7.00List Price $16.00Our Price $7.00 -
AN APPLE ORIGINAL SERIES FROM APPLE TV+ STARRING JUSTIN THEROUX, SEASON 2 STREAMING NOW“An Impressive and disturbing vision of the American psyche.”—Washington Post Book WorldFrom legendary writer Paul Theroux, an international bestseller that is a...List Price $15.99List Price $15.99 -
Long out of print, Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s novel The Crux is an important early feminist work that brings to the fore complicated issues of gender, citizenship, eugenics, and frontier nationalism. First published serially in the feminist journal The...List Price $24.95Our Price $6.98List Price $24.95Our Price $6.98 -
Winner of the Somerset Maugham AwardOne of Granta’s Best Young British NovelistsFrom the acclaimed author of What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours, Gingerbread, and PeacesThere’s something strange about the Silver family house in the closed-off town of Dover,...List Price $18.00List Price $18.00 -
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This book of three novellas was first published in Paris in 1982, where it was hailed as the finest book of novellas since Flaubert's Trois Contes.List Price $8.00List Price $8.00 -
A hardcover edition of this book was published in 2015... First William Morrow paperback edition published 2016. Second William Morrow paperback edition published 2021."--Title page verso./ Includes the novella How the marquis got his coat back./...List Price $19.99List Price $19.99