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The Long Embrace
Raymond Chandler and the Woman He Loved
Written by Judith Freeman
Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
On Sale: November 11, 2008
Price: $16.95
Raymond Chandler was among the most original and enduring crime novelists of the twentieth century. Yet much of his pre-writing life, including his unconventional marriage, has remained shrouded in mystery. In this compelling, wholly original book, Judith Freeman sets out to solve the puzzle of who Chandler was and how he... Read more >
Raymond Chandler and the Woman He Loved
Written by Judith Freeman
Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
On Sale: November 11, 2008
Price: $16.95
Raymond Chandler was among the most original and enduring crime novelists of the twentieth century. Yet much of his pre-writing life, including his unconventional marriage, has remained shrouded in mystery. In this compelling, wholly original book, Judith Freeman sets out to solve the puzzle of who Chandler was and how he... Read more >
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K.
Written by Roberto Calasso
Translated by Geoffrey Brock
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: February 14, 2006
Price: $15.00
From the internationally acclaimed author of The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony comes one of the most significant books in recent years on a writer of perennial interest–a virtuoso interpretation of the work of Franz Kafka.
What are Kafka’s fictions about? Are they dreams? Allegories? Symbols? Countless answers have been offered, but... Read more >
Written by Roberto Calasso
Translated by Geoffrey Brock
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: February 14, 2006
Price: $15.00
From the internationally acclaimed author of The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony comes one of the most significant books in recent years on a writer of perennial interest–a virtuoso interpretation of the work of Franz Kafka.
What are Kafka’s fictions about? Are they dreams? Allegories? Symbols? Countless answers have been offered, but... Read more >
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The Souls of Black Folk
Written by W.E.B. Du Bois
Format: Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: June 1, 1989
Price: $5.95
"The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line." Thus speaks W.E.B. Du Bois in The Souls Of Black Folk, one of the most prophetic and influental works in American literature. In this eloquent collection of essays, first published in 1903, Du Bois dares as no one... Read more >
Written by W.E.B. Du Bois
Format: Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: June 1, 1989
Price: $5.95
"The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line." Thus speaks W.E.B. Du Bois in The Souls Of Black Folk, one of the most prophetic and influental works in American literature. In this eloquent collection of essays, first published in 1903, Du Bois dares as no one... Read more >
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The Diary of Samuel Pepys
Written by Samuel Pepys
Edited by Richard Le Gallienne
Introduction by Robert Louis Stevenson
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: September 9, 2003
Price: $15.95
Richard Le Gallienne’s elegant abridgment of the Diary captures the essential writings of Samuel Pepys (1633–1703), a remarkable man who witnessed the coronation of Charles II, the Great Plague of 1665, and the Great Fire of 1666. Originally scribbled in a cryptic shorthand, Pepys’s quotidian journal of life in Restoration London... Read more >
Written by Samuel Pepys
Edited by Richard Le Gallienne
Introduction by Robert Louis Stevenson
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: September 9, 2003
Price: $15.95
Richard Le Gallienne’s elegant abridgment of the Diary captures the essential writings of Samuel Pepys (1633–1703), a remarkable man who witnessed the coronation of Charles II, the Great Plague of 1665, and the Great Fire of 1666. Originally scribbled in a cryptic shorthand, Pepys’s quotidian journal of life in Restoration London... Read more >
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Robinson: Poems
Written by Edwin Arlington Robinson
Edited by Scott Donaldson
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
On Sale: February 6, 2007
Price: $12.50
Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869-1935) a three-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize, was the first of the great American modernist poets.
"No poet ever understood loneliness and separateness better than Robinson," James Dickey has observed. Robinson's lyric poems illuminate the hearts and minds of the most unlikely subjects—the downtrodden, the bereft, and the... Read more >
Written by Edwin Arlington Robinson
Edited by Scott Donaldson
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
On Sale: February 6, 2007
Price: $12.50
Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869-1935) a three-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize, was the first of the great American modernist poets.
"No poet ever understood loneliness and separateness better than Robinson," James Dickey has observed. Robinson's lyric poems illuminate the hearts and minds of the most unlikely subjects—the downtrodden, the bereft, and the... Read more >
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Jacques Futrelle's "The Thinking Machine"
The Enigmatic Problems of Prof. Augustus S. F. X. Van Dusen, Ph. D., LL. D., F. R. S., M. D., M. D. S.
Written by Jacques Futrelle
Edited by Harlan Ellison
Introduction by Harlan Ellison
Format: Trade Paperback, 416 pages
On Sale: December 30, 2003
Price: $16.00
This irascible genius, this diminutive egghead scientist, known to the world as “The Thinking Machine,” is no less than the newly rediscovered literary link between Sherlock Holmes and Nero Wolfe: Professor Augustus S. F. X. Van Dusen, who—with only the power of ratiocination—unravels problems of outrageous criminous activity in dazzlingly impossible... Read more >
The Enigmatic Problems of Prof. Augustus S. F. X. Van Dusen, Ph. D., LL. D., F. R. S., M. D., M. D. S.
Written by Jacques Futrelle
Edited by Harlan Ellison
Introduction by Harlan Ellison
Format: Trade Paperback, 416 pages
On Sale: December 30, 2003
Price: $16.00
This irascible genius, this diminutive egghead scientist, known to the world as “The Thinking Machine,” is no less than the newly rediscovered literary link between Sherlock Holmes and Nero Wolfe: Professor Augustus S. F. X. Van Dusen, who—with only the power of ratiocination—unravels problems of outrageous criminous activity in dazzlingly impossible... Read more >
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Beowulf and Other Old English Poems
Written by Constance Hieatt
Format: Paperback, 192 pages
On Sale: August 1, 1988
Price: $4.95
Unique and beautiful, Beowulf brings to life a society of violence and honor, fierce warriors and bloody battles, deadly monsters and famous swords. Written by an unknown poet in about the eighth century, this masterpiece of Anglo-Saxton literature transforms legends, myth, history, and ancient songs into the richly colored tale of... Read more >
Written by Constance Hieatt
Format: Paperback, 192 pages
On Sale: August 1, 1988
Price: $4.95
Unique and beautiful, Beowulf brings to life a society of violence and honor, fierce warriors and bloody battles, deadly monsters and famous swords. Written by an unknown poet in about the eighth century, this masterpiece of Anglo-Saxton literature transforms legends, myth, history, and ancient songs into the richly colored tale of... Read more >
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The Wind in the Willows
Written by Kenneth Grahame
Illustrated by Paul Bransom
Introduction by Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
On Sale: March 8, 2005
Price: $12.00
“The boastful, unstable Toad, the hospitable Water Rat, the shy, wise, childlike Badger, and the Mole with his pleasant habit of brave boyish impulse,” noted Vanity Fair nearly a century ago, “are types of that deeper humanity which sways us all.” Written by Kenneth Grahame as bedtime stories for his son... Read more >
Written by Kenneth Grahame
Illustrated by Paul Bransom
Introduction by Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
On Sale: March 8, 2005
Price: $12.00
“The boastful, unstable Toad, the hospitable Water Rat, the shy, wise, childlike Badger, and the Mole with his pleasant habit of brave boyish impulse,” noted Vanity Fair nearly a century ago, “are types of that deeper humanity which sways us all.” Written by Kenneth Grahame as bedtime stories for his son... Read more >
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Main Street
Written by Sinclair Lewis
Format: Paperback, 624 pages
On Sale: March 1, 1996
Price: $5.95
The first of Sinclair Lewis’s great successes, Main Street shattered the sentimental American myth of happy small-town life with its satire of narrow-minded provincialism. Reflecting his own unhappy childhood in Sauk Centre, Minnesota, Lewis’s sixth novel attacked the conformity and dullness he saw in midwestern village life. Young college graduate Carol... Read more >
Written by Sinclair Lewis
Format: Paperback, 624 pages
On Sale: March 1, 1996
Price: $5.95
The first of Sinclair Lewis’s great successes, Main Street shattered the sentimental American myth of happy small-town life with its satire of narrow-minded provincialism. Reflecting his own unhappy childhood in Sauk Centre, Minnesota, Lewis’s sixth novel attacked the conformity and dullness he saw in midwestern village life. Young college graduate Carol... Read more >
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Essays, Speeches & Public Letters
Written by William Faulkner
Edited by James B. Meriwether
Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: February 10, 2004
Price: $17.00
An essential collection of William Faulkner’s mature nonfiction work, updated, with an abundance of new material.
This unique volume includes Faulkner’s Nobel Prize acceptance speech, a review of Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea (in which he suggests that Hemingway has found God), and newly collected gems, such as the... Read more >
Written by William Faulkner
Edited by James B. Meriwether
Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: February 10, 2004
Price: $17.00
An essential collection of William Faulkner’s mature nonfiction work, updated, with an abundance of new material.
This unique volume includes Faulkner’s Nobel Prize acceptance speech, a review of Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea (in which he suggests that Hemingway has found God), and newly collected gems, such as the... Read more >
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