Format: Trade Paperback, 128 pages
Publisher: Melville House On Sale: August 16, 2011 Price: $14.95 ISBN: 978-1-61219-000-6 (1-61219-000-6)
This 10th anniversary edition is an important and inspiring document from a defining moment in our nation’s history. There will be great interest as the events of 9/11 are commemorated and analyzed on the 10-year anniversary.
A sweeping collection of poems, written in the year after the 9/11 attacks, by all New...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
Publisher: Beacon Press On Sale: September 1, 1998 Price: $24.00 ISBN: 978-0-8070-8335-2 (0-8070-8335-6)
Luminous fiction on themes of faith and meaning from favorite writers, including Sandra Cisneros, Andre Dubus, Louise Erdrich, Stephen King, Flannery O’Connor, Philip Roth, E. M. Forster and others.
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Format: Trade Paperback, 496 pages
Publisher: Anchor On Sale: August 10, 2004 Price: $15.00 ISBN: 978-1-4000-3482-6 (1-4000-3482-5)
“In twenty-nine separate but ingenious ways, these stories seek permanent residence within a reader. They strive to become an emotional or intellectual cargo that might accompany us wherever, or however, we go. . . . If we are made by what we read, if language truly builds people into what they...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
Publisher: Pantheon On Sale: April 27, 2004 Price: $16.95 ISBN: 978-0-375-71450-4 (0-375-71450-2)
In this anthology, Wendy Martin offers us an assortment of stellar short stories written by North American women over the past thirty years. In reading these stories we see how vast and varied is the landscape of American fiction: We are transported from a Midwestern strip mine town in the 1970s...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
Publisher: Pantheon On Sale: April 7, 1990 Price: $18.00 ISBN: 978-0-679-72881-8 (0-679-72881-3)
“From the classics of Welty, Oates, and O’Connor to the latest stories of Mason, Erdrich, Atwood, and LeGuin, this anthology shows the astonishing range of contemporary women's fiction in North America,” writes Elaine Showalter. For all the diversity of the stories—in subject, style, setting and mood—they have one thing in common...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
Publisher: Anchor On Sale: March 13, 2007 Price: $16.00 ISBN: 978-1-4000-7975-9 (1-4000-7975-6)
Featuring the work of more than 28 writers from upwards of 20 countries, Words Without Borders: The World through the Eyes of Writers transports us to the frontiers of the new literature for the twenty-first century.
In these pages, some of the most accomplished writers in world literature–among them Edwidge Danticat, Ha...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
Publisher: Broadway On Sale: October 23, 2001 Price: $14.95 ISBN: 978-0-609-80840-5 (0-609-80840-0)
Bum Rush the Page is a groundbreaking collection, capturing the best new work from the poets who have brought fresh energy, life, and relevance to American poetry.
“Here is a democratic orchestration of voices and visions, poets of all ages, ethnicities, and geographic locations coming together to create a dialogue and to...
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Format: Hardcover, 1408 pages
Publisher: Modern Library On Sale: November 13, 2007 Price: $55.00 ISBN: 978-0-679-64253-4 (0-679-64253-6)
“In this landmark edition, teachers will discover a powerful ally in bringing the excitement of Milton's poetry and prose to new generations of students. In the clarity of its overall conception, its thoroughness, and its never-faltering attention to literary and historical detail, the Modern Library Milton promises to serve almost as...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 592 pages
Publisher: Modern Library On Sale: March 12, 2013 Price: $18.00 ISBN: 978-0-8129-8372-2 (0-8129-8372-6)
Edited by William Kerrigan, John Rumrich, and Stephen M. Fallon
The legendary author of Paradise Lost and other poems was also a superb and provocative prose writer. Culled from Modern Library’s definitive The Complete Poetry and Essential Prose of John Milton, this indispensable collection, authoritatively annotated and updated for this new volume...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
Publisher: Vintage On Sale: January 4, 2005 Price: $14.00 ISBN: 978-0-375-72745-0 (0-375-72745-0)
The first foray east in the "In Mind" series, India in Mind collects the varied appraisals of a country that has tantalized and largely eluded writers for much of its history. A vast and varied land, India has long been the repository of myth and legend. Only in the last hundred...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 428 pages
Publisher: Vintage On Sale: June 12, 1975 Price: $15.00 ISBN: 978-0-394-71151-5 (0-394-71151-3)
Excerpts from the private diaries of women, known and unknown, among them Louisa May Alcott, Sophie Tolstoy, George Eliot, Anais Nïn.
“To read this book is to experience an excitement, a warm recognitiion, and a dizzingly expanded sense of possibilities. . . . These are revelations indeed. For the first time, consciously...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 464 pages
Publisher: Vintage On Sale: September 28, 1993 Price: $15.00 ISBN: 978-0-679-74030-8 (0-679-74030-9)
This is a collection of women's travel writings, including work by Joan Didion, Edith Wharton, Mildred Cable, Willa Cather, Isak Dinesen, and others. In wry, lyrical, and sometimes wistful voices, they write of disguising themselves as men for safety, of longing for family left behind or falling in love with people...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 496 pages
Publisher: Modern Library On Sale: May 5, 1998 Price: $15.95 ISBN: 978-0-375-75150-9 (0-375-75150-5)
Nothing But You: Love Stories from The New Yorker, edited by Roger Angell, senior editor at The New Yorker, is the first fiction anthology in more than three decades from the magazine that has defined the American short story for almost a century. As noteworthy for its range as it is...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 736 pages
Publisher: Anchor On Sale: October 20, 1998 Price: $20.00 ISBN: 978-0-385-49118-1 (0-385-49118-2)
The Vietnam Reader is a selection of the finest and best-known art from the American war in Vietnam, including fiction, nonfiction, poetry, drama, film, still photos, and popular song lyrics. All the strongest work is here, from mainstream bestsellers to radical poetry, from Tim O'Brien to Marvin Gaye. Also included are...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 480 pages
Publisher: Vintage On Sale: July 12, 1955 Price: $15.00 ISBN: 978-0-394-70125-7 (0-394-70125-9)
"In the interval between the epics of Homer...and the age of the three great tragic poets, thinkers began to explore the various phenomena of the external world and came to understand many aspects of nature which had hitherto been shrouded in complete mystery. The creative literary activity of this epoch likewise...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 400 pages
Publisher: Anchor On Sale: December 3, 2002 Price: $17.95 ISBN: 978-0-385-72240-7 (0-385-72240-0)
“The short stories assembled here resemble the art of an mbari display in the great variety and frank energy of their styles and practices. We are not expected, or indeed intended, to experience every offering with impartial, even-handed enthusiasm. But we will do well as we embark on the journey they...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
Publisher: Anchor On Sale: August 21, 2001 Price: $13.00 ISBN: 978-0-385-72086-1 (0-385-72086-6)
Seventy-four distinguished writers tell personal tales of books loved and lost–great books overlooked, under-read, out of print, stolen, scorned, extinct, or otherwise out of commission.
Compiled by the editors of Brick: A Literary Magazine, Lost Classicsis a reader’s delight: an intriguing and entertaining collection of eulogies for lost books. As the...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 448 pages
Publisher: Vintage On Sale: June 1, 2010 Price: $15.95 ISBN: 978-0-307-47751-4 (0-307-47751-7)
For the first time ever, legendary editor Otto Penzler has handpicked some of the most respected and bestselling thriller writers working today for a riveting collection of spy fiction. From first to last, this stellar collection signals mission accomplished.
Including:
* Lee Child with an incredible look at the formation of a special...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 512 pages
Publisher: Vintage On Sale: August 19, 2003 Price: $15.00 ISBN: 978-0-375-71301-9 (0-375-71301-8)
This year’s worth of the most powerful, the most startling, the smartest and most astute, in short, the best crime journalism. Scouring hundreds of publications, Otto Penzler and Thomas H. Cook have created a remarkable compilation containing the best examples of the most current and vibrant of our literary traditions: crime...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 896 pages
Publisher: Vintage On Sale: May 31, 2011 Price: $25.00 ISBN: 978-0-307-47450-6 (0-307-47450-X)
A hair-raising collection of adventure stories that's so big and enthralling if you open it you may never be seen again: enter at your own risk. Everyone loves adventure, and Otto Penzler has collected the best adventure stories of all time into one mammoth volume. With stories by Jack London, O...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 848 pages
Publisher: Vintage On Sale: September 18, 2012 Price: $25.00 ISBN: 978-0-307-47449-0 (0-307-47449-6)
The Big Book of Ghost Stories is a spirited Black Lizard anthology with over a thousand pages of haunted—and haunting—tales.
The ghost story is perhaps the oldest of all the supernatural literary genres and has captured the imagination of almost every writer to put pen to the page. Here, Edgar Award-winning...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 1136 pages
Publisher: Vintage On Sale: September 21, 2010 Price: $25.00 ISBN: 978-0-307-45543-7 (0-307-45543-2)
An unstoppable anthology of crime stories culled from Black Mask magazine the legendary publication that turned a pulp phenomenon into literary mainstream.
Black Mask was the apotheosis of noir. It was the magazine where the first hardboiled detective story, which was written by Carroll John Daly appeared. It was the slum...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 1168 pages
Publisher: Vintage On Sale: November 6, 2007 Price: $25.00 ISBN: 978-0-307-28048-0 (0-307-28048-9)
The biggest, the boldest, the most comprehensive collection of Pulp writing ever assembled.
Weighing in at over a thousand pages, containing over forty-seven stories and two novels, this book is big baby, bigger and more powerful than a freight train—a bullet couldn’t pass through it. Here are the best stories and...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 1056 pages
Publisher: Vintage On Sale: September 29, 2009 Price: $25.00 ISBN: 978-0-307-47389-9 (0-307-47389-9)
The Vampire Archives is the biggest, hungriest, undeadliest collection of vampire stories, as well as the most comprehensive bibliography of vampire fiction ever assembled. Dark, stormy, and delicious, once it sinks its teeth into you there’s no escape.
Vampires! Whether imagined by Bram Stoker or Anne Rice, they are part of the...
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