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The Pearl
Written by Anonymous
Format: eBook, 656 pages
On Sale: February 20, 2013
Price: $11.99
Among the first "Journals of Voluptuous Reading" to be spawned by the Victorians, this novel shows them as vastly different from their public image--beneath the facade of respectability and sexual repression there existed the strongest urge for sexual experimentation and enjoyment. First published in London in July 1879, The Pearl provided... Read more >
Written by Anonymous
Format: eBook, 656 pages
On Sale: February 20, 2013
Price: $11.99
Among the first "Journals of Voluptuous Reading" to be spawned by the Victorians, this novel shows them as vastly different from their public image--beneath the facade of respectability and sexual repression there existed the strongest urge for sexual experimentation and enjoyment. First published in London in July 1879, The Pearl provided... Read more >
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The Sound of the Mountain
Written by Yasunari Kawabata
Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: February 20, 2013
Price: $11.99
“The apparently fixed constellations of family relationships, the recurrent beauties of nature, the flaming or flickering patterns of love and lust—all the elements of Kawabata’s fictional world are combined in an engrossing novel that rises to the incantatory fascination of a Nō drama.” —Saturday Review
Few novels have rendered the predicament... Read more >
Written by Yasunari Kawabata
Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: February 20, 2013
Price: $11.99
“The apparently fixed constellations of family relationships, the recurrent beauties of nature, the flaming or flickering patterns of love and lust—all the elements of Kawabata’s fictional world are combined in an engrossing novel that rises to the incantatory fascination of a Nō drama.” —Saturday Review
Few novels have rendered the predicament... Read more >
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The Lost Weekend
Written by Charles Jackson
Introduction by Blake Bailey
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: February 12, 2013
Price: $15.00
The classic tale of one man’s struggle with alcoholism, this revolutionary novel remains Charles Jackson’s best-known book—a daring autobiographical work that paved the way for contemporary addiction literature.
It is 1936, and on the East Side of Manhattan, a would-be writer named Don Birnam decides to have a drink. And then another, and... Read more >
Written by Charles Jackson
Introduction by Blake Bailey
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: February 12, 2013
Price: $15.00
The classic tale of one man’s struggle with alcoholism, this revolutionary novel remains Charles Jackson’s best-known book—a daring autobiographical work that paved the way for contemporary addiction literature.
It is 1936, and on the East Side of Manhattan, a would-be writer named Don Birnam decides to have a drink. And then another, and... Read more >
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The Lost Weekend
Written by Charles Jackson
Introduction by Blake Bailey
Format: eBook, 240 pages
On Sale: February 12, 2013
Price: $9.99
The classic tale of one man’s struggle with alcoholism, this revolutionary novel remains Charles Jackson’s best-known book—a daring autobiographical work that paved the way for contemporary addiction literature.
It is 1936, and on the East Side of Manhattan, a would-be writer named Don Birnam decides to have a drink. And then another, and... Read more >
Written by Charles Jackson
Introduction by Blake Bailey
Format: eBook, 240 pages
On Sale: February 12, 2013
Price: $9.99
The classic tale of one man’s struggle with alcoholism, this revolutionary novel remains Charles Jackson’s best-known book—a daring autobiographical work that paved the way for contemporary addiction literature.
It is 1936, and on the East Side of Manhattan, a would-be writer named Don Birnam decides to have a drink. And then another, and... Read more >
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trade paperback.
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The Sunnier Side and Other Stories
Written by Charles Jackson
Introduction by Blake Bailey
Format: eBook, 240 pages
On Sale: February 12, 2013
Price: $9.99
A masterful collection of short stories exposing the seamy undercurrents of small-town American life from Charles Jackson, celebrated author of The Lost Weekend.
A selection of Jackson’s finest tales, The Sunnier Side and Other Stories explores the trials of adolescence in America during the tumultuous years of the early twentieth century. Set... Read more >
Written by Charles Jackson
Introduction by Blake Bailey
Format: eBook, 240 pages
On Sale: February 12, 2013
Price: $9.99
A masterful collection of short stories exposing the seamy undercurrents of small-town American life from Charles Jackson, celebrated author of The Lost Weekend.
A selection of Jackson’s finest tales, The Sunnier Side and Other Stories explores the trials of adolescence in America during the tumultuous years of the early twentieth century. Set... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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The Sunnier Side and Other Stories
Written by Charles Jackson
Introduction by Blake Bailey
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: February 12, 2013
Price: $15.00
A masterful collection of short stories exposing the seamy undercurrents of small-town American life from Charles Jackson, celebrated author of The Lost Weekend.
A selection of Jackson’s finest tales, The Sunnier Side and Other Stories explores the trials of adolescence in America during the tumultuous years of the early twentieth century. Set... Read more >
Written by Charles Jackson
Introduction by Blake Bailey
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: February 12, 2013
Price: $15.00
A masterful collection of short stories exposing the seamy undercurrents of small-town American life from Charles Jackson, celebrated author of The Lost Weekend.
A selection of Jackson’s finest tales, The Sunnier Side and Other Stories explores the trials of adolescence in America during the tumultuous years of the early twentieth century. Set... Read more >
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eBook.
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The Tale of Genji
Written by Shikibu Murasaki
Abridged by Edward G. Seidensticker
Translated by Edward G. Seidensticker
Format: eBook, 384 pages
On Sale: February 6, 2013
Price: $11.99
In the eleventh century Murasaki Shikibu, a lady in the Heian court of Japan, wrote the world's first novel. But The Tale of Genji is no mere artifact. It is, rather, a lively and astonishingly nuanced portrait of a refined society where every dalliance is an act of political consequence, a... Read more >
Written by Shikibu Murasaki
Abridged by Edward G. Seidensticker
Translated by Edward G. Seidensticker
Format: eBook, 384 pages
On Sale: February 6, 2013
Price: $11.99
In the eleventh century Murasaki Shikibu, a lady in the Heian court of Japan, wrote the world's first novel. But The Tale of Genji is no mere artifact. It is, rather, a lively and astonishingly nuanced portrait of a refined society where every dalliance is an act of political consequence, a... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
Youth
Written by Joseph Conrad
Format: eBook
On Sale: February 6, 2013
Price: $13.99
"For it can hardly be denied that it is not their own desserts that men are most proud of, but rather of their prodigious luck, of their marvelous fortune," wrote Conrad of Youth. In it he captures a young man's exhilaration in the face of danger and the unknown. Read more >
Written by Joseph Conrad
Format: eBook
On Sale: February 6, 2013
Price: $13.99
"For it can hardly be denied that it is not their own desserts that men are most proud of, but rather of their prodigious luck, of their marvelous fortune," wrote Conrad of Youth. In it he captures a young man's exhilaration in the face of danger and the unknown. Read more >
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Breakfast at Tiffany's & Other Voices, Other Rooms
Two Novels
Written by Truman Capote
Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
On Sale: February 5, 2013
Price: $21.00
Together in one volume, here are a pair of literary touchstones from Truman Capote’s extraordinary early career: the transcendently popular novella Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Other Voices, Other Rooms, the debut novel he published as a twenty-three-year-old prodigy.
Of all his characters, Capote once said, Holly Golightly was his favorite... Read more >
Two Novels
Written by Truman Capote
Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
On Sale: February 5, 2013
Price: $21.00
Together in one volume, here are a pair of literary touchstones from Truman Capote’s extraordinary early career: the transcendently popular novella Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Other Voices, Other Rooms, the debut novel he published as a twenty-three-year-old prodigy.
Of all his characters, Capote once said, Holly Golightly was his favorite... Read more >
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Washington Square
Written by Henry James
Format: Hardcover, 232 pages
On Sale: February 5, 2013
Price: $22.00
Washington Square is one of Henry James’s most appealing and popular novels, with the most straightforward plot and style of any of his works.
Set in the genteel New York of James’s early childhood, it is a tale of cruelty laced with comedy. Dr. Austin Sloper is a wealthy and domineering... Read more >
Written by Henry James
Format: Hardcover, 232 pages
On Sale: February 5, 2013
Price: $22.00
Washington Square is one of Henry James’s most appealing and popular novels, with the most straightforward plot and style of any of his works.
Set in the genteel New York of James’s early childhood, it is a tale of cruelty laced with comedy. Dr. Austin Sloper is a wealthy and domineering... Read more >
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eBook and a
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