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The Oasis
A Novel
Written by Mary McCarthy
Introduction by Vivian Gornick
Format: eBook
On Sale: June 11, 2013
Price: $15.00
A vicious and brilliant satire of human vanity from the author of the classic bestseller The Group.
Mary McCarthy's long-out-of-print second book satirizes the everyday struggles of a utopian commune seeking refuge after the destruction of the Second World War. It's also a roman a clef in which she hardly troubles to... Read more >
A Novel
Written by Mary McCarthy
Introduction by Vivian Gornick
Format: eBook
On Sale: June 11, 2013
Price: $15.00
A vicious and brilliant satire of human vanity from the author of the classic bestseller The Group.
Mary McCarthy's long-out-of-print second book satirizes the everyday struggles of a utopian commune seeking refuge after the destruction of the Second World War. It's also a roman a clef in which she hardly troubles to... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
One Thousand and One Nights
A Retelling
Translated by Hanan al-Shaykh
Foreword by Mary Gaitskill
Format: eBook, 344 pages
On Sale: June 11, 2013
Price: $12.99
Gathered and passed down over the centuries from India, Persia, and across the Arab world, the mesmerizing stories of One Thousand and One Nights tell of the real and the supernatural, love and marriage, power and punishment, wealth and poverty, and the endless trials and uncertainties of fate. They are related by... Read more >
A Retelling
Translated by Hanan al-Shaykh
Foreword by Mary Gaitskill
Format: eBook, 344 pages
On Sale: June 11, 2013
Price: $12.99
Gathered and passed down over the centuries from India, Persia, and across the Arab world, the mesmerizing stories of One Thousand and One Nights tell of the real and the supernatural, love and marriage, power and punishment, wealth and poverty, and the endless trials and uncertainties of fate. They are related by... Read more >
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hardcover.
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One Thousand and One Nights
A Retelling
Translated by Hanan al-Shaykh
Foreword by Mary Gaitskill
Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
On Sale: June 11, 2013
Price: $26.00
Gathered and passed down over the centuries from India, Persia, and across the Arab world, the mesmerizing stories of One Thousand and One Nights tell of the real and the supernatural, love and marriage, power and punishment, wealth and poverty, and the endless trials and uncertainties of fate. They are related by... Read more >
A Retelling
Translated by Hanan al-Shaykh
Foreword by Mary Gaitskill
Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
On Sale: June 11, 2013
Price: $26.00
Gathered and passed down over the centuries from India, Persia, and across the Arab world, the mesmerizing stories of One Thousand and One Nights tell of the real and the supernatural, love and marriage, power and punishment, wealth and poverty, and the endless trials and uncertainties of fate. They are related by... Read more >
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The Aeneid
Written by Virgil
Translated by Robert Fitzgerald
Format: eBook, 464 pages
On Sale: May 15, 2013
Price: $9.99
Virgil's great epic transforms the Homeric tradition into a triumphal statement of the Roman civilizing mission. Translated by Robert Fitzgerald. Read more >
Written by Virgil
Translated by Robert Fitzgerald
Format: eBook, 464 pages
On Sale: May 15, 2013
Price: $9.99
Virgil's great epic transforms the Homeric tradition into a triumphal statement of the Roman civilizing mission. Translated by Robert Fitzgerald. Read more >
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hardcover and a
trade paperback.
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The Divine Comedy
Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso
Written by Dante Alighieri
Format: Trade Paperback, 640 pages
On Sale: May 14, 2013
Price: $15.00
The complete Divine Comedy (Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso) in one volume from Vintage Classics. The greatest poem of the Middle Ages, in the standard Carlyle-Okey-Wickstead translation, with full notes.
Dante’s Divine Comedy relates the allegorical tale of the poet’s journey through the three realms of the dead. Accompanied through the Inferno and Purgatory... Read more >
Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso
Written by Dante Alighieri
Format: Trade Paperback, 640 pages
On Sale: May 14, 2013
Price: $15.00
The complete Divine Comedy (Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso) in one volume from Vintage Classics. The greatest poem of the Middle Ages, in the standard Carlyle-Okey-Wickstead translation, with full notes.
Dante’s Divine Comedy relates the allegorical tale of the poet’s journey through the three realms of the dead. Accompanied through the Inferno and Purgatory... Read more >
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The Divine Comedy
Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso
Written by Dante Alighieri
Format: eBook, 656 pages
On Sale: May 14, 2013
Price: $9.99
Dante’s Divine Comedy relates the allegorical tale of the poet’s journey through the three realms of the dead. Accompanied through the Inferno and Purgatory by Virgil--author of the Roman epic the Aeniad--Dante encounters mythical, historical, and contemporaneous figures in their respective afterlives. Relying on classical (pagan) mythology and Christian imagery and... Read more >
Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso
Written by Dante Alighieri
Format: eBook, 656 pages
On Sale: May 14, 2013
Price: $9.99
Dante’s Divine Comedy relates the allegorical tale of the poet’s journey through the three realms of the dead. Accompanied through the Inferno and Purgatory by Virgil--author of the Roman epic the Aeniad--Dante encounters mythical, historical, and contemporaneous figures in their respective afterlives. Relying on classical (pagan) mythology and Christian imagery and... Read more >
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hardcover and a
trade paperback.
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The Complete Stories
Written by Truman Capote
Format: Hardcover, 352 pages
On Sale: May 7, 2013
Price: $23.00
Most readers know Truman Capote as the author of Breakfast at Tiffany’s and In Cold Blood, or they remember his notorious social life and wild and witty public appearances. But he was also the author of superb short tales that were as elegant as they were heartfelt, as compassionate as they... Read more >
Written by Truman Capote
Format: Hardcover, 352 pages
On Sale: May 7, 2013
Price: $23.00
Most readers know Truman Capote as the author of Breakfast at Tiffany’s and In Cold Blood, or they remember his notorious social life and wild and witty public appearances. But he was also the author of superb short tales that were as elegant as they were heartfelt, as compassionate as they... Read more >
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The Complete Novels of Jane Austen, Volume I
Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park
Written by Jane Austen
Format: eBook, 912 pages
On Sale: April 24, 2013
Price: $9.99
The first volume in the Complete Novels of Jane Austen, this volume contains the classics Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, and Mansfield Park. Read more >
Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park
Written by Jane Austen
Format: eBook, 912 pages
On Sale: April 24, 2013
Price: $9.99
The first volume in the Complete Novels of Jane Austen, this volume contains the classics Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, and Mansfield Park. Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover.
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The Decay of the Angel
The Sea of Fertility, 4
Written by Yukio Mishima
Translated by Edward G. Seidensticker
Format: eBook, 256 pages
On Sale: April 9, 2013
Price: $11.99
Yukio Mishima’s The Decay of the Angel is the final novel in his masterful tetralogy, The Sea of Fertility. It is the last installment of Shigekuni Honda’s pursuit of the successive reincarnations of his childhood friend Kiyoaki Matsugae.
It is the late 1960s and Honda, now an aged and wealthy... Read more >
The Sea of Fertility, 4
Written by Yukio Mishima
Translated by Edward G. Seidensticker
Format: eBook, 256 pages
On Sale: April 9, 2013
Price: $11.99
Yukio Mishima’s The Decay of the Angel is the final novel in his masterful tetralogy, The Sea of Fertility. It is the last installment of Shigekuni Honda’s pursuit of the successive reincarnations of his childhood friend Kiyoaki Matsugae.
It is the late 1960s and Honda, now an aged and wealthy... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
Spring Snow
The Sea of Fertility, 1
Written by Yukio Mishima
Format: eBook, 400 pages
On Sale: April 9, 2013
Price: $11.99
Yukio Mishima’s Spring Snow is the first novel in his masterful tetralogy, The Sea of Fertility. Here we meet Shigekuni Honda, who narrates this epic tale of what he believes are the successive reincarnations of his friend, Kiyoaki Matsugae.
It is 1912 in Tokyo, and the hermetic world of the... Read more >
The Sea of Fertility, 1
Written by Yukio Mishima
Format: eBook, 400 pages
On Sale: April 9, 2013
Price: $11.99
Yukio Mishima’s Spring Snow is the first novel in his masterful tetralogy, The Sea of Fertility. Here we meet Shigekuni Honda, who narrates this epic tale of what he believes are the successive reincarnations of his friend, Kiyoaki Matsugae.
It is 1912 in Tokyo, and the hermetic world of the... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
