308 results for '"ANONYMOUS"'

The classic story that inspired the film starring Dev Patel and Alicia Vikander “A medieval romance…but also an outlandish ghost story, a gripping morality tale and a weird thriller.… I couldn’t put...

From the author of the best-selling A Venetian Affair (“A narrative of novelistic resonance . . . Astonishing” —The Washington Post), the story of an Italian Renaissance book editor who introduced...

A rich, wondrous anthology of the Western magical tradition, from the Old Testament to Doctor Faustus and Paradise Lost, now in a Penguin Classics black spine edition   “. . . as when iron is drawn...

WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATUREOne of the New York Times’s 100 Best Books of the 21st CenturyShortlisted for the 2019 Man Booker International PrizeConsidered by many to be the iconic...

A legendary literary figure who initiated a one-man Beat Generation in his native Germany, Wolf Wondratschek “is eccentric, monomaniacal, romantic―his texts are imbued with a wonderful, reckless...

Marit Weisenberg’s This Golden State follows a family on the run, a restless teenage daughter hungry for the truth, and the simple DNA test that threatens their carefully crafted worldThe Winslow...

WINNER OF THE MARK TWAIN AMERICAN VOICE IN LITERATURE AWARDNATIONAL BESTSELLERNamed a Best Book of the Year by the Washington Post, the New Yorker, and the Boston Globe"Ms. Haigh is an expertly...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER “Cool and concise; a talent to watch.” —Jay McInerney author of Bright Lights, Big City “You’re going to get papercuts, you’re going to turn the pages so fast.” —Brad Thor,...

Precious snippets of ancient song. The most important poets writing in Greek in the sixth century BC came from Sicily and southern Italy. Stesichorus was called by ancient writers "most Homeric"--a...

Previously published as Invisible Republic and already considered a classic of modern American cultural criticism, this is an updated edition of Greil Marcus's acclaimed book on the secret music made...

An impulsive young outcast confronts his small town's dark secrets in this atmospheric and haunting debut horror novel from brilliant new voice Jen Julian. "Drenched in dread and yearning, Red...

An anthropologist traces the intimate connections between gambling addiction and casino industry design tacticsRecent decades have seen a dramatic shift away from social forms of gambling played...

New York Times bestselling author Khaled Hosseini says, “Set in post-revolutionary Iran, Sahar Delijani’s gripping novel is a blistering indictment of tyranny, a poignant tribute to those who bear...

"The Republican Aventine and Rome's Social Order is about one hill in particular, the Aventine, and its segregation from and integration into the residential fabric of Rome. My chronological focus is...

"Former detective Carol Jordan and profiler Tony Hill make a welcome return in this whiz-bang brain twister of an investigation into the suspicious deaths of several women that encompasses the ugly...

The essential history of bread baking and sourdough's rise to a global phenomenon. Sourdough bread fueled the labor that built the Egyptian pyramids. The Roman Empire distributed free sourdough...

A passionately urgent call for all of us to unlearn imperialism and repair the violent world we share, from one of our most compelling political theoristsIn this theoretical tour-de-force, renowned...

A pioneer in the commercialization of religion, George Whitefield (1714-1770) is seen by many as the most powerful leader of the Great Awakening in America: through his passionate ministry he united...

Conventional wisdom has it that the concept of individualism was absent in early China. In this uncommon study of the self and human agency in ancient China, Erica Fox Brindley provides an important...

From internationally acclaimed crime writer Deon Meyer, a new thriller featuring superstar detectives Benny Griessel and Vaughn Cupido in the wake of their impulsive pursuit of state corruption that...