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Stay, Illusion!
The Hamlet Doctrine
Written by Simon Critchley and Jamieson Webster
Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
On Sale: June 25, 2013
Price: $25.00
The Hamlet Doctrine
Written by Simon Critchley and Jamieson Webster
Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
On Sale: June 25, 2013
Price: $25.00
The figure of Hamlet haunts our culture like the ghost haunts Shakespeare’s melancholy Dane. Arguably, no literary work is more familiar to us. Everyone knows at least six words from Hamlet, and most people know many more. Yet the play—Shakespeare’s longest—is more than “passing strange,” and it becomes even more complex...
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eBook and a
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House of Light
Written by Mary Oliver
Format: eBook
On Sale: March 28, 2012
Price: $15.00
Winner of a 1991 Christopher Award
Winner of the 1991 Boston Globe Lawrence L. Winship Book Award
This collection of poems by Mary Oliver once again invites the reader to step across the threshold of ordinary life into a world of natural and spiritual luminosity.
From the Trade Paperback edition. Read more >
Written by Mary Oliver
Format: eBook
On Sale: March 28, 2012
Price: $15.00
Winner of a 1991 Christopher Award
Winner of the 1991 Boston Globe Lawrence L. Winship Book Award
This collection of poems by Mary Oliver once again invites the reader to step across the threshold of ordinary life into a world of natural and spiritual luminosity.
From the Trade Paperback edition. Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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Indian Givers
How Native Americans Transformed the World
Written by Jack Weatherford
Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
On Sale: August 3, 2010
Price: $15.00
"As entertaining as it is thoughtful...Few contemporary writers have Weatherford's talent for making the deep sweep of history seem vital and immediate."
THE WASHINGTON POST
After 500 years, the world's huge debt to the wisdom of the Indians of the Americas has finally been explored in all its vivid drama by anthropologist Jack... Read more >
How Native Americans Transformed the World
Written by Jack Weatherford
Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
On Sale: August 3, 2010
Price: $15.00
"As entertaining as it is thoughtful...Few contemporary writers have Weatherford's talent for making the deep sweep of history seem vital and immediate."
THE WASHINGTON POST
After 500 years, the world's huge debt to the wisdom of the Indians of the Americas has finally been explored in all its vivid drama by anthropologist Jack... Read more >
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The Girl Who Loved Camellias
The Life and Legend of Marie Duplessis
Written by Julie Kavanagh
Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
On Sale: June 11, 2013
Price: $27.95
The Life and Legend of Marie Duplessis
Written by Julie Kavanagh
Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
On Sale: June 11, 2013
Price: $27.95
From the author of Nureyev, the definitive biography of the celebrated Russian dancer, now comes the astonishing and unknown story of Marie Duplessis, the courtesan who inspired Alexandre Dumas fils’s novel and play La dame aux camélias, Giuseppe Verdi’s opera La Traviata, George Cukor’s film Camille, and Frederick Ashton’s ballet Marguerite...
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eBook.
The Doorbell Rang
Written by Rex Stout
Format: eBook, 192 pages
On Sale: June 9, 2010
Price: $7.99
Hired to help society widow Rachel Bruner foil bothersome Feds, Nero Wolfe and his able assistant Archie get in over their heads with highly trained G-men who are adept at bugs, tails, and threats. Read more >
Written by Rex Stout
Format: eBook, 192 pages
On Sale: June 9, 2010
Price: $7.99
Hired to help society widow Rachel Bruner foil bothersome Feds, Nero Wolfe and his able assistant Archie get in over their heads with highly trained G-men who are adept at bugs, tails, and threats. Read more >
Also available as an
unabridged audiobook download and a
paperback.
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The Age of Insight
The Quest to Understand the Unconscious in Art, Mind, and Brain, from Vienna 1900 to the Present
Written by Eric Kandel
Format: eBook, 656 pages
On Sale: March 27, 2012
Price: $17.99
A brilliant book by Nobel Prize winner Eric R. Kandel, The Age of Insight takes us to Vienna 1900, where leaders in science, medicine, and art began a revolution that changed forever how we think about the human mind—our conscious and unconscious thoughts and emotions—and how mind and brain relate to... Read more >
The Quest to Understand the Unconscious in Art, Mind, and Brain, from Vienna 1900 to the Present
Written by Eric Kandel
Format: eBook, 656 pages
On Sale: March 27, 2012
Price: $17.99
A brilliant book by Nobel Prize winner Eric R. Kandel, The Age of Insight takes us to Vienna 1900, where leaders in science, medicine, and art began a revolution that changed forever how we think about the human mind—our conscious and unconscious thoughts and emotions—and how mind and brain relate to... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover.
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Goethe's Faust
Written by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Translated by Walter Kaufmann
Introduction by Walter Kaufmann
Format: Trade Paperback, 512 pages
On Sale: December 4, 1962
Price: $11.95
The best translation of Faust available, this volume provides the original German text and its English counterpart on facing pages. Walter Kaufmann's translation conveys the poetic beauty and rhythm as well as the complex depth of Goethe's language. Includes Part One and selections from Part Two. Read more >
Written by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Translated by Walter Kaufmann
Introduction by Walter Kaufmann
Format: Trade Paperback, 512 pages
On Sale: December 4, 1962
Price: $11.95
The best translation of Faust available, this volume provides the original German text and its English counterpart on facing pages. Walter Kaufmann's translation conveys the poetic beauty and rhythm as well as the complex depth of Goethe's language. Includes Part One and selections from Part Two. Read more >
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Ulysses (Gabler Edition)
Written by James Joyce
Format: Trade Paperback, 680 pages
On Sale: May 12, 1986
Price: $21.00
Considered the greatest 20th century novel written in English, in this edition Walter Gabler uncovers previously unseen text. It is a disillusioned study of estrangement, paralysis and the disintegration of society. Read more >
Written by James Joyce
Format: Trade Paperback, 680 pages
On Sale: May 12, 1986
Price: $21.00
Considered the greatest 20th century novel written in English, in this edition Walter Gabler uncovers previously unseen text. It is a disillusioned study of estrangement, paralysis and the disintegration of society. Read more >
The Gift
Creativity and the Artist in the Modern World
Written by Lewis Hyde
Format: eBook
On Sale: July 1, 2009
Price: $13.99
Discusses the argument that a work of art is essentially a gift and not a commodity.
From the Trade Paperback edition. Read more >
Creativity and the Artist in the Modern World
Written by Lewis Hyde
Format: eBook
On Sale: July 1, 2009
Price: $13.99
Discusses the argument that a work of art is essentially a gift and not a commodity.
From the Trade Paperback edition. Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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Letters to a Young Poet
Written by Rainer Maria Rilke
Translated by Stephen Mitchell
Format: Hardcover, 128 pages
On Sale: December 4, 2001
Price: $16.00
Rilke’s Letters to a Young Poet are arguably the most famous and beloved letters of the twentieth century. Written when the poet was himself still a young man, with most of his greatest work before him, they were addressed to a student who had sent Rilke some of his own writing... Read more >
Written by Rainer Maria Rilke
Translated by Stephen Mitchell
Format: Hardcover, 128 pages
On Sale: December 4, 2001
Price: $16.00
Rilke’s Letters to a Young Poet are arguably the most famous and beloved letters of the twentieth century. Written when the poet was himself still a young man, with most of his greatest work before him, they were addressed to a student who had sent Rilke some of his own writing... Read more >
