Sun 2/8 @ 11:00AMThe Princeton Public Library
The author presents and discusses her novel And the Ancestors Sing. Doors open at 10:45 a.m. for coffee & pastries. B
A History Today Best Book of the YearA Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the YearVirgil, Ovid, Cicero, Horace, and other authors of ancient Rome are so firmly established in the Western canon...
With a historian's thoroughness and a novelist's skill, Jean-Denis Bredin presents here the most comprehensive, sensitive, and balanced account to date of the Dreyfus Affair, the celebrated scandal...
Twenty-five years after Jesus’ Son, a haunting new collection of short stories on mortality and transcendence, from National Book Award winner and two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist Denis...
A New York Times Notable Book of the Year
An Economist Book of the Year
An NPR Best Novel of the Year
From the National Book Award–winning author Denis Johnson (Tree of Smoke) comes Train Dreams,...
A literary thriller and love story set during the Nicaraguan revolution, from the National Book Award winner and two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist. • Now the basis for a major motion pictureSet in...
“A fast-paced look at white personalities in Africa, a few well-knowns from the past and a few collected by the author in recent years . . . Denis Boyles knows the territory well.”—The New York Times...
Recent reevaluations of Roman religion by ancient historians have stressed the vitality and creativity of the Romans' religious system throughout its long history of continual adaptation to new...
Jimmy Luntz is an innocent man, more or less. He's just leaving a barbershop chorus contest in Bakersfield, California, thinking about placing a few bets at the track, when he gets picked up by a...
Turn your book into a working bird feeder for your backyard feathered friends with the help of this kid's hands-on guide to understanding the world of birds. Fly, flutter, and flap into the...
The voice that speaks to us in Lithium is that of a woman in her late twenties, compulsively determined to understand everything that's happening around her: a miscarriage, an absent lover, a bad...
This lucid and elegantly written book is a sustained conversation about the nature and importance of literary interpretation. Distinguished critic Denis Donoghue argues that we must read texts...
Winner of the Association of American Publishers Professional and Scholarly Publishing Award in Geography & Earth Sciences"Earthbound humans are unable to embrace more than a tiny part of the...
Denis Johnson's New York Times bestseller, The Laughing Monsters, is a high-suspense tale of kaleidoscoping loyalties in the post-9/11 world that shows one of our great novelists at the top of his...
Product Description Paradoxe sur le comédien est un essai sur le théâtre rédigé sous forme de dialogue par Denis Diderot entre 1773 et 1777 et publié à titre posthume en 1830. Selon Diderot, qui...
A New York Times Notable Book for 2011One of The Economist's 2011 Books of the YearOne of NPR's 10 Best Novels of 2011From the National Book Award-winning author Denis Johnson (Tree of Smoke) comes...
Fascinant à son époque et jusqu'aujourd'hui (prince violent et tourmenté, assassin de sa femme...), Gesualdo a laissé une œuvre énigmatique, dont l'écoute surprend l'auditeur contemporain par son...
Denis Lacorne identifies two competing narratives defining the American identity. The first narrative, derived from the philosophy of the Enlightenment, is essentially secular. Associated with the...
The modern notion of tolerance―the welcoming of diversity as a force for the common good―emerged in the Enlightenment in the wake of centuries of religious wars. First elaborated by philosophers such...
Jesus' Son, the first collection of stories by Denis Johnson, presents a unique, hallucinatory vision of contemporary American life unmatched in power and immediacy, and marks a new level of...
The ancient Romans changed more than the map of the world when they conquered so much of it; they altered the way historical time itself is marked and understood. In this brilliant, erudite, and...