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.
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The Outsider Test for Faith
How to Know Which Religion Is True
Written by John W. Loftus
Format: Trade Paperback, 300 pages
On Sale: March 19, 2013
Price: $18.00
At a time when the vast diversity of human belief systems is accessible to all, the outsider test for faith offers a rational means for fostering mutual understanding. Depending on how one defines religion, there are at least thousands of religions in the world. Given such religious diversity, how can any...
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London
A Biography
Written by Peter Ackroyd
Format: Trade Paperback, 848 pages
On Sale: April 8, 2003
Price: $22.00
Here are two thousand years of London’s history and folklore, its chroniclers and criminals and plain citizens, its food and drink and countless pleasures. Blackfriar’s and Charing Cross, Paddington and Bedlam. Westminster Abbey and St. Martin in the Fields. Cockneys and vagrants. Immigrants, peasants, and punks. The Plague, the Great Fire...
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David Foster Wallace: The Last Interview
and Other Conversations
Written by David Foster Wallace
Format: Trade Paperback, 128 pages
On Sale: December 5, 2012
Price: $15.95
In intimate and eloquent interviews, including the last he gave before his suicide, the writer hailed by A.O. Scott of
The New York Times as “the best mind of his generation” considers the state of modern America, entertainment and discipline, adulthood, literature, and his own inimitable writing style.
In addition to Wallace’s last interview, the...
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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.
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The Complete Works
Written by Michel de Montaigne
Format: Hardcover, 1392 pages
On Sale: April 29, 2003
Price: $35.00
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)
Humanist, skeptic, acute observer of himself and others, Michel de Montaigne (1533—92) was the first to use the term “essay” to refer to the form he pioneered, and he has remained one of its most famous practitioners. He reflected on the great themes of existence in his wise...
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Ecotopia
Written by Ernest Callenbach
Format: eBook, 192 pages
On Sale: December 16, 2009
Price: $13.99
A novel both timely and prophetic, Ernest Callenbach’s
Ecotopia is a hopeful antidote to the environmental concerns of today, set in an ecologically sound future society. Hailed by the
Los Angeles Times as the “newest name after Wells, Verne, Huxley, and Orwell,” Callenbach offers a visionary blueprint for the survival of...
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Against Wind and Tide
Letters and Journals, 1947-1986
Written by Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Introduction by Reeve Lindbergh
Format: Hardcover, 368 pages
On Sale: April 24, 2012
Price: $27.95
Why, as an eager and talented writer, has Anne Morrow Lindbergh published so relatively little in forty years of marriage?” asked reviewer John Barkham in 1970. “After a promising start with those first books on flying, she tapered off into long silences broken by an infrequent volume of verse or prose.” ...
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The Devil and Sherlock Holmes
Tales of Murder, Madness, and Obsession
Written by David Grann
Format: Trade Paperback, 416 pages
On Sale: January 11, 2011
Price: $15.95
From the bestselling author of
The Lost City of Z comes this brilliant collection of true stories about people whose fixations propel them into unfathomable and often deadly circumstances.
Whether David Grann is investigating a mysterious murder, tracking a chameleon-like con artist, or hunting an elusive giant squid, he has proven to...
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Playing in the Dark
Written by Toni Morrison
Format: eBook
On Sale: July 24, 2007
Price: $9.99
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of
Beloved and
Jazz now gives us a learned, stylish, and immensely persuasive work of literary criticism that promises to change the way we read American literature even as it opens a new chapter in the American dialogue on race.
Toni Morrison's brilliant discussions of the "Africanist" presence...
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