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Adam Gopnik is the author of Paris to the Moon and Through the Children's Gate and is a contributor to The New Yorker. He lives in New York City with his wife and two children. His most recent book is Angels and Ages: A Short Book About Darwin, Lincoln and Modern Life.
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The Wrong Side of Paris
Written by Honore De Balzac
Translated by Jordan Stump
Introduction by Adam Gopnik
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
Publisher: Modern Library
On Sale: April 12, 2005
Price: $13.95
The Wrong Side of Paris, the final novel in Balzac’s The Human Comedy, is the compelling story of Godefroid, an abject failure at thirty, who seeks refuge from materialism by moving into a monastery-like lodging house in the shadows of Notre-Dame. Presided over by Madame de La Chanterie, a noblewoman with... Read more >
Written by Honore De Balzac
Translated by Jordan Stump
Introduction by Adam Gopnik
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
Publisher: Modern Library
On Sale: April 12, 2005
Price: $13.95
The Wrong Side of Paris, the final novel in Balzac’s The Human Comedy, is the compelling story of Godefroid, an abject failure at thirty, who seeks refuge from materialism by moving into a monastery-like lodging house in the shadows of Notre-Dame. Presided over by Madame de La Chanterie, a noblewoman with... Read more >
The Wrong Side of Paris
Written by Honore De Balzac
Translated by Jordan Stump
Introduction by Adam Gopnik
Format: eBook
Publisher: Modern Library
On Sale: December 30, 2003
Price: $13.95
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Written by Honore De Balzac
Translated by Jordan Stump
Introduction by Adam Gopnik
Format: eBook
Publisher: Modern Library
On Sale: December 30, 2003
Price: $13.95
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The Necklace and Other Tales
Written by Guy De Maupassant
Translated by Joachim Neugroschel
Introduction by Adam Gopnik
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
Publisher: Modern Library
On Sale: November 11, 2003
Price: $10.95
These stories—poignant scrutinies of social pretension, wicked tales of lust and love, and harrowing examinations of terror and madness—display the full genius of Guy de Maupassant in an enthralling new translation by Joachim Neugroschel. They reveal Maupassant’s remarkable range, his technical perfection, his sexual realism, and his ability to create whole... Read more >
Written by Guy De Maupassant
Translated by Joachim Neugroschel
Introduction by Adam Gopnik
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
Publisher: Modern Library
On Sale: November 11, 2003
Price: $10.95
These stories—poignant scrutinies of social pretension, wicked tales of lust and love, and harrowing examinations of terror and madness—display the full genius of Guy de Maupassant in an enthralling new translation by Joachim Neugroschel. They reveal Maupassant’s remarkable range, his technical perfection, his sexual realism, and his ability to create whole... Read more >
Angels and Ages
Lincoln, Darwin, and the Birth of the Modern Age
Written by Adam Gopnik
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: February 9, 2010
Price: $15.00
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Lincoln, Darwin, and the Birth of the Modern Age
Written by Adam Gopnik
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: February 9, 2010
Price: $15.00
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Angels and Ages
A Short Book About Darwin, Lincoln, and Modern Life
Written by Adam Gopnik
Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: January 27, 2009
Price: $24.95
On a memorable day in human history, February 12, 1809, two babies were born an ocean apart: Abraham Lincoln in a one-room Kentucky log cabin; Charles Darwin on an English country estate. It was a time of backward-seeming notions, when almost everyone still accepted the biblical account of creation as the... Read more >
A Short Book About Darwin, Lincoln, and Modern Life
Written by Adam Gopnik
Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: January 27, 2009
Price: $24.95
On a memorable day in human history, February 12, 1809, two babies were born an ocean apart: Abraham Lincoln in a one-room Kentucky log cabin; Charles Darwin on an English country estate. It was a time of backward-seeming notions, when almost everyone still accepted the biblical account of creation as the... Read more >
Angels and Ages
A Short Book about Darwin, Lincoln, and Modern Life
Written by Adam Gopnik
Format: eBook, 224 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: January 27, 2009
Price: $24.95
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A Short Book about Darwin, Lincoln, and Modern Life
Written by Adam Gopnik
Format: eBook, 224 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: January 27, 2009
Price: $24.95
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Paris to the Moon
Written by Adam Gopnik
Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
On Sale: September 11, 2001
Price: $15.00
Paris. The name alone conjures images of chestnut-lined boulevards, sidewalk cafés, breathtaking façades around every corner--in short, an exquisite romanticism that has captured the American imagination for as long as there have been Americans.
In 1995, Adam Gopnik, his wife, and their infant son left the familiar comforts and hassles of New... Read more >
Written by Adam Gopnik
Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
On Sale: September 11, 2001
Price: $15.00
Paris. The name alone conjures images of chestnut-lined boulevards, sidewalk cafés, breathtaking façades around every corner--in short, an exquisite romanticism that has captured the American imagination for as long as there have been Americans.
In 1995, Adam Gopnik, his wife, and their infant son left the familiar comforts and hassles of New... Read more >
Paris to the Moon
Written by Adam Gopnik
Format: eBook
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
On Sale: December 18, 2001
Price: $15.00
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Written by Adam Gopnik
Format: eBook
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
On Sale: December 18, 2001
Price: $15.00
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Through the Children's Gate
A Home in New York
Written by Adam Gopnik
Format: eBook, 336 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: December 10, 2008
Price: $14.95
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A Home in New York
Written by Adam Gopnik
Format: eBook, 336 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: December 10, 2008
Price: $14.95
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Through the Children's Gate
A Home in New York
Written by Adam Gopnik
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: November 6, 2007
Price: $14.95
Not long after Adam Gopnik returned to New York at the end of 2000 with his wife and two small children, they witnessed one of the great and tragic events of the city’s history. In his sketches and glimpses of people and places, Gopnik builds a portrait of our altered New... Read more >
A Home in New York
Written by Adam Gopnik
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: November 6, 2007
Price: $14.95
Not long after Adam Gopnik returned to New York at the end of 2000 with his wife and two small children, they witnessed one of the great and tragic events of the city’s history. In his sketches and glimpses of people and places, Gopnik builds a portrait of our altered New... Read more >
Les Miserables
Written by Victor Hugo
Translated by Julie Rose
Introduction by Adam Gopnik
Format: Hardcover, 1376 pages
Publisher: Modern Library
On Sale: July 8, 2008
Price: $28.00
In this major new rendition by the acclaimed translator Julie Rose, Victor Hugo’s tour de force, Les Misérables, is revealed in its full unabridged glory. A favorite of readers for nearly 150 years, and the basis for one of the most beloved stage musicals ever, this stirring tale of crime, punishment... Read more >
Written by Victor Hugo
Translated by Julie Rose
Introduction by Adam Gopnik
Format: Hardcover, 1376 pages
Publisher: Modern Library
On Sale: July 8, 2008
Price: $28.00
In this major new rendition by the acclaimed translator Julie Rose, Victor Hugo’s tour de force, Les Misérables, is revealed in its full unabridged glory. A favorite of readers for nearly 150 years, and the basis for one of the most beloved stage musicals ever, this stirring tale of crime, punishment... Read more >
