The Analects of Confucius
A Philosophical Translation
Written by Roger T. Ames
Format: eBook
On Sale: November 24, 2010
Price: $11.99
"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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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.
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Essays
Written by George Orwell
Format: Hardcover, 1416 pages
On Sale: October 15, 2002
Price: $37.50
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)
A generous and varied selection–the only hardcover edition available–of the literary and political writings of one of the greatest essayists of the twentieth century.
Although best known as the author of
Animal Farm and
Nineteen Eighty-four, George Orwell left an even more lastingly significant achievement in his voluminous essays...
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The Corpse Walker
Real Life Stories: China From the Bottom Up
Written by Liao Yiwu
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: May 5, 2009
Price: $16.95
The Corpse Walker introduces us to regular men and women at the bottom of Chinese society, most of whom have been battered by life but have managed to retain their dignity: a professional mourner, a human trafficker, a public toilet manager, a leper, a grave robber, and a Falung Gong practitioner...
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Also available as an
eBook.
Music for Chameleons
Written by Truman Capote
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: March 29, 1994
Price: $15.00
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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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 Ecstasy of Influence
Nonfictions, Etc.
Written by Jonathan Lethem
Format: Trade Paperback, 464 pages
On Sale: October 2, 2012
Price: $16.95
National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist
A New York Times Notable Book
A Best Book of the Year —Austin American-Statesman
Includes a new, previously uncollected piece: "My Internet"
In The Ecstasy of Influence, the incomparable Jonathan Lethem has compiled a career-spanning collection of occasional pieces—essays, memoir, liner notes, fiction, and criticism—which also doubles as a novelist’s...
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Washington Square
Written by Henry James
Format: Hardcover, 232 pages
On Sale: February 5, 2013
Price: $22.00
Washington Square is one of Henry James’s most appealing and popular novels, with the most straightforward plot and style of any of his works.
Set in the genteel New York of James’s early childhood, it is a tale of cruelty laced with comedy. Dr. Austin Sloper is a wealthy and domineering...
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Grief Lessons
Four Plays by Euripides
Written by Euripides
Translated by Anne Carson
Introduction by Anne Carson
Format: Trade Paperback, 312 pages
On Sale: September 16, 2008
Price: $14.95
Now in paperback.
Euripides, the last of the three great tragedians of ancient Athens, reached the height of his renown during the disastrous Peloponnesian War, when democratic Athens was brought down by its own outsized ambitions. “Euripides,” the classicist Bernard Knox has written, “was born never to live in peace with himself...
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