Home and Exile

Written by Chinua Achebe

Format: Trade Paperback, 128 pages
On Sale: September 18, 2001
Price: $12.00

More personally revealing than anything Achebe has written, Home and Exile-the great Nigerian novelist's first book in more than ten years-is a major statement on the importance of stories as real sources of power, especially for those whose stories have traditionally been told by outsiders.

In three elegant essays, Achebe seeks to... Read more >

Monsieur Proust's Library

Written by Anka Muhlstein

Format: Hardcover, 160 pages
On Sale: November 6, 2012
Price: $19.95

Reading was so important to Marcel Proust that it sometimes seems he was unable to create a personage without a book in hand. Everybody in his work reads: servants and masters, children and parents, artists and physicians. The more sophisticated characters find it natural to speak in quotations. Proust made literary...

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Mencken Chrestomathy

Written by H.L. Mencken

Format: Trade Paperback, 656 pages
On Sale: April 12, 1982
Price: $21.95

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Marcel Proust's Search for Lost Time
A Reader's Guide to The Remembrance of Things Past
Written by Patrick Alexander

Format: Trade Paperback, 400 pages
On Sale: September 22, 2009
Price: $15.95

An accessible, irreverent guide to one of the most admired—and entertaining—novels of the past century. There is no other guide like this; a user-friendly and enticing entry into the marvelously enjoyable world of Proust.

At seven volumes, three thousand pages, and more than four hundred characters, as well as a towering reputation... Read more >

Atlantis
The Lost Continent Finally Found
Written by Arysio Santos

Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
On Sale: March 1, 2011
Price: $21.95

The late author Arysio Santos was a highly regarded climatologist, geologist, and nuclear physicist. He was also a scholar of history, folklore, languages, and the occult. In this groundbreaking study of Atlantis, he draws on all these disciplines, as well as ancient maps, Plato’s dialogues, and folkloric narratives, to provide the... Read more >

The Doorbell Rang

Written by Rex Stout

Format: Paperback, 192 pages
On Sale: June 1, 1992
Price: $7.99

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The Last Empire
Essays 1992-2000
Written by Gore Vidal

Format: Trade Paperback, 480 pages
On Sale: June 11, 2002
Price: $17.95

Like his National Book Award—winning United States, Gore Vidal’s scintillating ninth collection, The Last Empire, affirms his reputation as our most provocative critic and observer of the modern American scene. In the essays collected here, Vidal brings his keen intellect, experience, and razor-edged wit to bear on an astonishing range of... Read more >

Reality Hunger
A Manifesto
Written by David Shields

Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: February 8, 2011
Price: $15.00

With this landmark book, David Shields fast-forwards the discussion of the central artistic issues of our time. Who owns ideas? How clear is the distinction between fiction and nonfiction? Has the velocity of digital culture rendered traditional modes obsolete? Exploring these and related questions, Shields orchestrates a chorus of voices, past...

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Plainwater
Essays and Poetry
Written by Anne Carson

Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: March 28, 2000
Price: $16.00

The poetry and prose collected in Plainwater are a testament to the extraordinary imagination of Anne Carson, a writer described by Michael Ondaatje as "the most exciting poet writing in English today." Succinct and astonishingly beautiful, these pieces stretch the boundaries of language and literary form, while juxtaposing classical and modern... Read more >

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. Read more >