The Captive Mind
Written by Czeslaw Milosz
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: August 11, 1990
Price: $16.00
The best known prose work by the winner of the 1980 Nobel Prize for Literature examines the moral and intellectual conflicts faced by men and women living under totalitarianism of the left or right.
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A Man Without a Country
Written by Kurt Vonnegut
Edited by Daniel Simon
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $23.95
A Man Without a Country is Kurt Vonnegut’s hilariously funny and razor-sharp look at life ("If I die—God forbid—I would like to go to heaven to ask somebody in charge up there, ‘Hey, what was the good news and what was the bad news?"), art ("To practice any art, no matter...
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Negotiating with the Dead
A Writer on Writing
Written by Margaret Atwood
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: September 9, 2003
Price: $14.95
What do we mean when we say that someone is a writer? Is he or she an entertainer? A high priest of the god Art? An improver of readers’ minds and morals? And who, for that matter, are these mysterious readers? In this wise and irresistibly quotable book, one of the...
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Stranger Than Fiction
True Stories
Written by Chuck Palahniuk
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: May 10, 2005
Price: $15.00
Chuck Palahniuk’s world has always been, well, different from yours and mine. In his first collection of nonfiction, Chuck Palahniuk brings us into this world, and gives us a glimpse of what inspires his fiction.At the Rock Creek Lodge Testicle Festival in Missoula, Montana, average people perform public sex acts on...
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Music For Chameleons
Written by Truman Capote
Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: May 15, 2012
Price: $9.99
In these gems of reportage Truman Capote takes true stories and real people and renders them with the stylistic brio we expect from great fiction. Here we encounter an exquisitely preserved Creole aristocrat sipping absinthe in her Martinique salon; an enigmatic killer who sends his victims announcements of their forthcoming demise...
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The Mansions of Limbo
Written by Dominick Dunne
Format: eBook, 432 pages
On Sale: February 22, 2012
Price: $11.99
In a collection of his essays from
Vanity Fair, the best-selling author reveals the life and times of the beautiful--and not-so-beautiful--people.
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Hopes and Impediments
Selected Essays
Written by Chinua Achebe
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
On Sale: September 1, 1990
Price: $14.00
One of the most provocative and original voices in contemporary literature, Chinua Achebe here considers the place of literature and art in our society in a collection of essays spanning his best writing and lectures from the last twenty-three years. For Achebe, overcoming goes hand in hand with eradicating the destructive...
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The Complete Works
Written by Michel de Montaigne
Format: Hardcover, 1392 pages
On Sale: April 29, 2003
Price: $35.00
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 and engaging writings...
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James Joyce's Ulysses
Written by Stuart Gilbert
Format: Paperback, 448 pages
On Sale: January 12, 1955
Price: $13.95
With the passing of each year, Ulysses receives wider recognition and greater acclaim as a modern literary classic. To comprehend Joyce's masterpiece fully, to gain insight into its significance and structure, the serious reader will find this analytical and systematic guide invaluable. In this exegesis, written under Joyce's supervision, Stuart Gilbert...
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