American Short Story Masterpieces
Edited by Raymond Carver and Tom Jenks
Format: Paperback, 528 pages
On Sale: April 2, 1989
Price: $7.99
This highly Acclaimed collection of short stories by American writers contains only the best literary art of the past four decades. With a bias toward realism editors Raymond Carver and Tom Jenks have selected fiction that “tells a story”–and tells it with a masterful handling of language, situation, and insight.
But what...
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The Selected Letters of Willa Cather
Written by Willa Cather
Edited by Andrew Jewell and Janis Stout
Format: Hardcover, 752 pages
On Sale: April 16, 2013
Price: $37.50
This first publication of the letters of one of America’s most consistently admired writers is both an exciting and a significant literary event. Willa Cather, wanting to be judged on her work alone, clearly forbade the publication of her letters in her will. But now, more than sixty-five years after her...
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How to Teach Your Children Shakespeare
Written by Ken Ludwig
Format: eBook, 368 pages
On Sale: June 11, 2013
Price: $12.99
A foolproof, enormously fun method of teaching your children the classic works of William Shakespeare William Shakespeare’s plays are among the great bedrocks of Western civilization and contain the finest writing of the past 450 years. Many of the best novels, plays, poetry, and films in the English language produced since Shakespeare’s death in...
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Living with Shakespeare
Essays by Writers, Actors, and Directors
Written by Susannah Carson
Foreword by Harold Bloom
Format: Trade Paperback, 528 pages
On Sale: April 9, 2013
Price: $16.00
Why Shakespeare? What explains our continued fascination with his poems and plays? In
Living with Shakespeare, Susannah Carson invites forty actors, directors, scholars, and writers to reflect on why his work is still such a vital part of our culture.
We hear from James Earl Jones on reclaiming Othello as a tragic...
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The Analects of Confucius
A Philosophical Translation
Written by Roger T. Ames
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: September 7, 1999
Price: $15.00
"To quietly persevere in storing up what is learned, to continue studying without respite, to instruct others without growing weary--is this not me?"
--Confucius
Confucius is recognized as China's first and greatest teacher, and his ideas have been the fertile soil in which the Chinese cultural tradition has flourished. Now, here is a...
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The Girl Who Loved Camellias
The Life and Legend of Marie Duplessis
Written by Julie Kavanagh
Format: eBook, 304 pages
On Sale: June 11, 2013
Price: $13.99
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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The Hall of Uselessness
Collected Essays
Written by Simon Leys
Foreword by Simon Leys
Format: Trade Paperback, 576 pages
On Sale: July 30, 2013
Price: $19.95
An NYRB Classics Original
Simon Leys is a Renaissance man for the era of globalization. A distinguished scholar of classical Chinese art and literature and one of the first Westerners to recognize the appalling toll of Mao’s Cultural Revolution, Leys also writes with unfailing intelligence, seriousness, and bite about European art, literature...
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The End of Your Life Book Club
Written by Will Schwalbe
Format: Hardcover, 352 pages
On Sale: October 2, 2012
Price: $25.00
“What are you reading?”
That’s the question Will Schwalbe asks his mother, Mary Anne, as they sit in the waiting room of the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. In 2007, Mary Anne returned from a humanitarian trip to Pakistan and Afghanistan suffering from what her doctors believed was a rare type of...
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