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8 Featured Titles
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A Truth Universally Acknowledged
33 Great Writers on Why We Read Jane Austen
Edited by Susannah Carson
Foreword by Harold Bloom
Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
Publisher: Random House
On Sale: November 10, 2009
Price: $25.00
ISBN: 978-1-4000-6805-0 (1-4000-6805-3)
For so many of us a Jane Austen novel is much more than the epitome of a great read. It is a delight and a solace, a challenge and a reward, and perhaps even an obsession. For two centuries Austen has enthralled readers. Few other authors can claim as many fans... Read more >
33 Great Writers on Why We Read Jane Austen
Edited by Susannah Carson
Foreword by Harold Bloom
Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
Publisher: Random House
On Sale: November 10, 2009
Price: $25.00
ISBN: 978-1-4000-6805-0 (1-4000-6805-3)
For so many of us a Jane Austen novel is much more than the epitome of a great read. It is a delight and a solace, a challenge and a reward, and perhaps even an obsession. For two centuries Austen has enthralled readers. Few other authors can claim as many fans... Read more >
Homer & Langley
A Novel
Written by E.L. Doctorow
Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
Publisher: Random House
On Sale: September 1, 2009
Price: $26.00
ISBN: 978-1-4000-6494-6 (1-4000-6494-5)
From Ragtime and Billy Bathgate to The Book of Daniel, World’s Fair, and The March, the novels of E. L. Doctorow comprise one of the most substantive achievements of modern American fiction. Now, with Homer & Langley, this master novelist has once again created an unforgettable work.
Homer and Langley Collyer are... Read more >
A Novel
Written by E.L. Doctorow
Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
Publisher: Random House
On Sale: September 1, 2009
Price: $26.00
ISBN: 978-1-4000-6494-6 (1-4000-6494-5)
From Ragtime and Billy Bathgate to The Book of Daniel, World’s Fair, and The March, the novels of E. L. Doctorow comprise one of the most substantive achievements of modern American fiction. Now, with Homer & Langley, this master novelist has once again created an unforgettable work.
Homer and Langley Collyer are... Read more >
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The World Is What It Is
The Authorized Biography of V.S. Naipaul
Written by Patrick French
Format: Trade Paperback, 592 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: November 3, 2009
Price: $17.00
ISBN: 978-1-4000-7980-3 (1-4000-7980-2)
The first major biography of V.S. Naipaul, the controversial and enigmatic Nobel laureate: a stunning writer whose only stated ambition was greatness, in pursuit of which goal nothing else was sacred.
Beginning in rich detail in Trinidad, where Naipaul was born into an Indian family, Patrick French skillfully examines Naipaul’ s... Read more >
The Authorized Biography of V.S. Naipaul
Written by Patrick French
Format: Trade Paperback, 592 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: November 3, 2009
Price: $17.00
ISBN: 978-1-4000-7980-3 (1-4000-7980-2)
The first major biography of V.S. Naipaul, the controversial and enigmatic Nobel laureate: a stunning writer whose only stated ambition was greatness, in pursuit of which goal nothing else was sacred.
Beginning in rich detail in Trinidad, where Naipaul was born into an Indian family, Patrick French skillfully examines Naipaul’ s... Read more >
Ayn Rand and the World She Made
Written by Anne C. Heller
Format: Hardcover, 592 pages
Publisher: Nan A. Talese
On Sale: October 27, 2009
Price: $35.00
ISBN: 978-0-385-51399-9 (0-385-51399-2)
Ayn Rand is best known as the author of the perennially bestselling novels The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged. Altogether, more than 12 million copies of the two novels have been sold in the United States. The books have attracted three generations of readers, shaped the foundation of the Libertarian movement, and... Read more >
Written by Anne C. Heller
Format: Hardcover, 592 pages
Publisher: Nan A. Talese
On Sale: October 27, 2009
Price: $35.00
ISBN: 978-0-385-51399-9 (0-385-51399-2)
Ayn Rand is best known as the author of the perennially bestselling novels The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged. Altogether, more than 12 million copies of the two novels have been sold in the United States. The books have attracted three generations of readers, shaped the foundation of the Libertarian movement, and... Read more >
Also available as an
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Last Night in Twisted River
A Novel
Written by John Irving
Format: Hardcover, 576 pages
Publisher: Random House
On Sale: October 27, 2009
Price: $28.00
ISBN: 978-1-4000-6384-0 (1-4000-6384-1)
In 1954, in the cookhouse of a logging and sawmill settlement in northern New Hampshire, an anxious twelve-year-old boy mistakes the local constable’s girlfriend for a bear. Both the twelve-year-old and his father become fugitives, forced to run from Coos County–to Boston, to southern Vermont, to Toronto–pursued by the implacable constable... Read more >
A Novel
Written by John Irving
Format: Hardcover, 576 pages
Publisher: Random House
On Sale: October 27, 2009
Price: $28.00
ISBN: 978-1-4000-6384-0 (1-4000-6384-1)
In 1954, in the cookhouse of a logging and sawmill settlement in northern New Hampshire, an anxious twelve-year-old boy mistakes the local constable’s girlfriend for a bear. Both the twelve-year-old and his father become fugitives, forced to run from Coos County–to Boston, to southern Vermont, to Toronto–pursued by the implacable constable... Read more >
Also available as an
unabridged audio CD,
unabridged audiobook download,
eBook,
trade paperback and in
large print trade paperback.
Too Much Happiness
Stories
Written by Alice Munro
Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: November 17, 2009
Price: $25.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-26976-8 (0-307-26976-0)
Ten superb new stories by one of our most beloved and admired writers—the winner of the 2009 Man Booker International Prize.
In the first story a young wife and mother receives release from the unbearable pain of losing her three children from a most surprising source. In another, a young woman... Read more >
Stories
Written by Alice Munro
Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: November 17, 2009
Price: $25.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-26976-8 (0-307-26976-0)
Ten superb new stories by one of our most beloved and admired writers—the winner of the 2009 Man Booker International Prize.
In the first story a young wife and mother receives release from the unbearable pain of losing her three children from a most surprising source. In another, a young woman... Read more >
The Original of Laura
Written by Vladimir Nabokov
Preface by Dmitri Nabokov
Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: November 17, 2009
Price: $35.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-27189-1 (0-307-27189-7)
When Vladimir Nabokov died in 1977, he left instructions for his heirs to burn the 138 handwritten index cards that made up the rough draft of his final and unfinished novel, The Original of Laura. But Nabokov’s wife, Vera, could not bear to destroy her husband’s last work, and when she... Read more >
Written by Vladimir Nabokov
Preface by Dmitri Nabokov
Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: November 17, 2009
Price: $35.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-27189-1 (0-307-27189-7)
When Vladimir Nabokov died in 1977, he left instructions for his heirs to burn the 138 handwritten index cards that made up the rough draft of his final and unfinished novel, The Original of Laura. But Nabokov’s wife, Vera, could not bear to destroy her husband’s last work, and when she... Read more >
Look at the Birdie
Unpublished Short Fiction
Written by Kurt Vonnegut
Format: Hardcover, 272 pages
Publisher: Delacorte Press
On Sale: October 20, 2009
Price: $27.00
ISBN: 978-0-385-34371-8 (0-385-34371-X)
Look at the Birdie is a collection of fourteen previously unpublished short stories from one of the most original writers in all of American fiction. In this series of perfectly rendered vignettes, written just as he was starting to find his comic voice, Kurt Vonnegut paints a warm, wise, and funny... Read more >
Unpublished Short Fiction
Written by Kurt Vonnegut
Format: Hardcover, 272 pages
Publisher: Delacorte Press
On Sale: October 20, 2009
Price: $27.00
ISBN: 978-0-385-34371-8 (0-385-34371-X)
Look at the Birdie is a collection of fourteen previously unpublished short stories from one of the most original writers in all of American fiction. In this series of perfectly rendered vignettes, written just as he was starting to find his comic voice, Kurt Vonnegut paints a warm, wise, and funny... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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