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Travels with Herodotus
Written by Ryszard Kapuscinski
Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: November 11, 2009
Price: $14.95
From the renowned journalist comes this intimate account of his years in the field, traveling for the first time beyond the Iron Curtain to India, China, Ethiopia, and other exotic locales.
In the 1950s, Ryszard Kapuscinski finished university in Poland and became a foreign correspondent, hoping to go abroad – perhaps to... Read more >
Written by Ryszard Kapuscinski
Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: November 11, 2009
Price: $14.95
From the renowned journalist comes this intimate account of his years in the field, traveling for the first time beyond the Iron Curtain to India, China, Ethiopia, and other exotic locales.
In the 1950s, Ryszard Kapuscinski finished university in Poland and became a foreign correspondent, hoping to go abroad – perhaps to... Read more >
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A Truth Universally Acknowledged
33 Great Writers on Why We Read Jane Austen
Edited by Susannah Carson
Foreword by Harold Bloom
Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
On Sale: November 10, 2009
Price: $25.00
For so many of us a Jane Austen novel is much more than the epitome of a great read. It is a delight and a solace, a challenge and a reward, and perhaps even an obsession. For two centuries Austen has enthralled readers. Few other authors can claim as many fans... Read more >
33 Great Writers on Why We Read Jane Austen
Edited by Susannah Carson
Foreword by Harold Bloom
Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
On Sale: November 10, 2009
Price: $25.00
For so many of us a Jane Austen novel is much more than the epitome of a great read. It is a delight and a solace, a challenge and a reward, and perhaps even an obsession. For two centuries Austen has enthralled readers. Few other authors can claim as many fans... Read more >
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Why Read the Classics?
Written by Italo Calvino
Format: eBook
On Sale: October 7, 2009
Price: $14.00
Italo Calvino was not only a prolific master of fiction, he was also an uncanny reader of literature, a keen critic of astonishing range. Why Read the Classics? is the most comprehensive collection of Calvino's literary criticism available in English, accounting for the enduring importance to our lives of crucial writers... Read more >
Written by Italo Calvino
Format: eBook
On Sale: October 7, 2009
Price: $14.00
Italo Calvino was not only a prolific master of fiction, he was also an uncanny reader of literature, a keen critic of astonishing range. Why Read the Classics? is the most comprehensive collection of Calvino's literary criticism available in English, accounting for the enduring importance to our lives of crucial writers... Read more >
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The Education of a British-Protected Child
Essays
Written by Chinua Achebe
Format: eBook, 208 pages
On Sale: October 6, 2009
Price: $24.95
From the celebrated author of Things Fall Apart and winner of the Man Booker International Prize comes a new collection of autobiographical essays—his first new book in more than twenty years.
Chinua Achebe’s characteristically measured and nuanced voice is everywhere present in these seventeen beautifully written pieces. In a preface, he discusses... Read more >
Essays
Written by Chinua Achebe
Format: eBook, 208 pages
On Sale: October 6, 2009
Price: $24.95
From the celebrated author of Things Fall Apart and winner of the Man Booker International Prize comes a new collection of autobiographical essays—his first new book in more than twenty years.
Chinua Achebe’s characteristically measured and nuanced voice is everywhere present in these seventeen beautifully written pieces. In a preface, he discusses... Read more >
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The Education of a British-Protected Child
Essays
Written by Chinua Achebe
Format: Hardcover
On Sale: October 6, 2009
Price: $24.95
From the celebrated author of Things Fall Apart and winner of the Man Booker International Prize comes a new collection of autobiographical essays—his first new book in more than twenty years.
Chinua Achebe’s characteristically measured and nuanced voice is everywhere present in these seventeen beautifully written pieces. In a preface, he discusses... Read more >
Essays
Written by Chinua Achebe
Format: Hardcover
On Sale: October 6, 2009
Price: $24.95
From the celebrated author of Things Fall Apart and winner of the Man Booker International Prize comes a new collection of autobiographical essays—his first new book in more than twenty years.
Chinua Achebe’s characteristically measured and nuanced voice is everywhere present in these seventeen beautifully written pieces. In a preface, he discusses... Read more >
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Beg, Borrow, Steal
A Writer's Life
Written by Michael Greenberg
Format: Hardcover, 232 pages
On Sale: September 8, 2009
Price: $19.95
In Beg, Borrow, Steal Michael Greenberg regales us with his wry and vivid take on the life of a writer of little means trying to practice his craft or simply stay alive. He finds himself doctoring doomed movie scripts; selling cosmetics from an ironing board in front of a women's department... Read more >
A Writer's Life
Written by Michael Greenberg
Format: Hardcover, 232 pages
On Sale: September 8, 2009
Price: $19.95
In Beg, Borrow, Steal Michael Greenberg regales us with his wry and vivid take on the life of a writer of little means trying to practice his craft or simply stay alive. He finds himself doctoring doomed movie scripts; selling cosmetics from an ironing board in front of a women's department... Read more >
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Beg, Borrow, Steal
A Writer's Life
Written by Michael Greenberg
Format: eBook, 200 pages
On Sale: September 8, 2009
Price: $15.99
In Beg, Borrow, Steal Michael Greenberg regales us with his wry and vivid take on the life of a writer of little means trying to practice his craft or simply stay alive. He finds himself doctoring doomed movie scripts; selling cosmetics from an ironing board in front of a women's department... Read more >
A Writer's Life
Written by Michael Greenberg
Format: eBook, 200 pages
On Sale: September 8, 2009
Price: $15.99
In Beg, Borrow, Steal Michael Greenberg regales us with his wry and vivid take on the life of a writer of little means trying to practice his craft or simply stay alive. He finds himself doctoring doomed movie scripts; selling cosmetics from an ironing board in front of a women's department... Read more >
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Havanas in Camelot
Personal Essays
Written by William Styron
Format: Trade Paperback, 176 pages
On Sale: August 11, 2009
Price: $15.00
After the great success in 1990 of Darkness Visible, his memoir of depression and recovery, William Styron wrote more frequently in an introspective, autobiographical mode. Havanas in Camelot brings together fourteen of his personal essays, including a reminiscence of his brief friendship with John F. Kennedy; memoirs of Truman Capote, James... Read more >
Personal Essays
Written by William Styron
Format: Trade Paperback, 176 pages
On Sale: August 11, 2009
Price: $15.00
After the great success in 1990 of Darkness Visible, his memoir of depression and recovery, William Styron wrote more frequently in an introspective, autobiographical mode. Havanas in Camelot brings together fourteen of his personal essays, including a reminiscence of his brief friendship with John F. Kennedy; memoirs of Truman Capote, James... Read more >
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Selected Essays of Gore Vidal
Written by Gore Vidal
Format: Trade Paperback, 480 pages
On Sale: June 16, 2009
Price: $17.00
Gore Vidal—novelist, playwright, critic, screenwriter, memoirist, indefatigable political commentator, and controversialist—is America's premier man of letters. No other living writer brings more sparkling wit, vast learning, indelible personality, and provocative mirth to the job of writing an essay.
This long-needed volume comprises some twenty-four of his best-loved pieces of criticism, political commentary... Read more >
Written by Gore Vidal
Format: Trade Paperback, 480 pages
On Sale: June 16, 2009
Price: $17.00
Gore Vidal—novelist, playwright, critic, screenwriter, memoirist, indefatigable political commentator, and controversialist—is America's premier man of letters. No other living writer brings more sparkling wit, vast learning, indelible personality, and provocative mirth to the job of writing an essay.
This long-needed volume comprises some twenty-four of his best-loved pieces of criticism, political commentary... Read more >
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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: $15.95
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... Read more >
Real Life Stories: China From the Bottom Up
Written by Liao Yiwu
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: May 5, 2009
Price: $15.95
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... Read more >
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More Matter
Essays and Criticism
Written by John Updike
Format: eBook, 928 pages
On Sale: February 19, 2009
Price: $25.00
John Updike's fiftieth book and fifth collection of assorted prose, most of it first published in The New Yorker, brings together eight years' worth of essays, criticism, addresses, introductions, humorous feuilletons, and -- in a concluding section, "Personal Matters" -- paragraphs on himself and his work. More matter, indeed, in an... Read more >
Essays and Criticism
Written by John Updike
Format: eBook, 928 pages
On Sale: February 19, 2009
Price: $25.00
John Updike's fiftieth book and fifth collection of assorted prose, most of it first published in The New Yorker, brings together eight years' worth of essays, criticism, addresses, introductions, humorous feuilletons, and -- in a concluding section, "Personal Matters" -- paragraphs on himself and his work. More matter, indeed, in an... Read more >
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Six Memos for the Next Millennium
Written by Italo Calvino
Format: eBook, 144 pages
On Sale: February 4, 2009
Price: $13.00
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Written by Italo Calvino
Format: eBook, 144 pages
On Sale: February 4, 2009
Price: $13.00
Read more >
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A New World Order
Essays
Written by Caryl Phillips
Format: eBook, 320 pages
On Sale: January 21, 2009
Price: $14.00
The Africa of his ancestry, the Caribbean of his birth, the Britain of his upbringing, and the United States where he now lives are the focal points of award-winning writer Caryl Phillips’ profound inquiry into evolving notions of home, identity, and belonging in an increasingly international society.
At once deeply reflective and... Read more >
Essays
Written by Caryl Phillips
Format: eBook, 320 pages
On Sale: January 21, 2009
Price: $14.00
The Africa of his ancestry, the Caribbean of his birth, the Britain of his upbringing, and the United States where he now lives are the focal points of award-winning writer Caryl Phillips’ profound inquiry into evolving notions of home, identity, and belonging in an increasingly international society.
At once deeply reflective and... Read more >
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Something to Declare
Essays on France and French Culture
Written by Julian Barnes
Format: eBook, 320 pages
On Sale: January 16, 2009
Price: $14.95
Anyone who loves France (or just feels strongly about it), or has succumbed to the spell of Julian Barnes’s previous books, will be enraptured by this collection of essays on the country and its culture.
Barnes’s appreciation extends from France’s vanishing peasantry to its hyper-literate pop singers, from the gleeful iconoclasm... Read more >
Essays on France and French Culture
Written by Julian Barnes
Format: eBook, 320 pages
On Sale: January 16, 2009
Price: $14.95
Anyone who loves France (or just feels strongly about it), or has succumbed to the spell of Julian Barnes’s previous books, will be enraptured by this collection of essays on the country and its culture.
Barnes’s appreciation extends from France’s vanishing peasantry to its hyper-literate pop singers, from the gleeful iconoclasm... Read more >
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trade paperback.
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Due Considerations
Essays and Criticism
Written by John Updike
Format: eBook, 736 pages
On Sale: December 30, 2008
Price: $20.00
“A drop of truth, of lived experience, glistens in each.” This is how John Updike, one of the world’s most acclaimed novelists, modestly describes his nonfiction work, the brilliant and graceful essays and criticism he has written for more than five decades. Due Considerations is his sixth collection, and perhaps the... Read more >
Essays and Criticism
Written by John Updike
Format: eBook, 736 pages
On Sale: December 30, 2008
Price: $20.00
“A drop of truth, of lived experience, glistens in each.” This is how John Updike, one of the world’s most acclaimed novelists, modestly describes his nonfiction work, the brilliant and graceful essays and criticism he has written for more than five decades. Due Considerations is his sixth collection, and perhaps the... Read more >
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hardcover and a
trade paperback.
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Waterfront
A Walk Around Manhattan
Written by Phillip Lopate
Format: eBook, 448 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2008
Price: $15.95
Fusing history, lore, politics, culture, and on-site adventures, esteemed essayist and author Phillip Lopate takes us on an exuberant, affectionate, and eye-opening excursion around Manhattan’s shoreline. Waterfront captures the ever-changing character of New York in the best way possible: on a series of exploratory walks conducted by one of the city’s... Read more >
A Walk Around Manhattan
Written by Phillip Lopate
Format: eBook, 448 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2008
Price: $15.95
Fusing history, lore, politics, culture, and on-site adventures, esteemed essayist and author Phillip Lopate takes us on an exuberant, affectionate, and eye-opening excursion around Manhattan’s shoreline. Waterfront captures the ever-changing character of New York in the best way possible: on a series of exploratory walks conducted by one of the city’s... Read more >
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13 Ways of Looking at the Novel
Written by Jane Smiley
Format: eBook, 608 pages
On Sale: December 10, 2008
Price: $15.95
Pulitzer Prize winner and bestselling novelist Jane Smiley celebrates the novel–and takes us on an exhilarating tour through one hundred of them–in this seductive and immensely rewarding literary tribute.
In her inimitable style–exuberant, candid, opinionated–Smiley explores the power of the novel, looking at its history and variety, its cultural impact, and just... Read more >
Written by Jane Smiley
Format: eBook, 608 pages
On Sale: December 10, 2008
Price: $15.95
Pulitzer Prize winner and bestselling novelist Jane Smiley celebrates the novel–and takes us on an exhilarating tour through one hundred of them–in this seductive and immensely rewarding literary tribute.
In her inimitable style–exuberant, candid, opinionated–Smiley explores the power of the novel, looking at its history and variety, its cultural impact, and just... Read more >
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trade paperback.
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Creationists
Selected Essays, 1993-2006
Written by E.L. Doctorow
Format: eBook, 192 pages
On Sale: December 10, 2008
Price: $14.95
E. L. Doctorow is acclaimed internationally for such novels as Ragtime, Billy Bathgate, and The March. Now here are Doctorow’s rich, revelatory essays on the nature of imaginative thought. In Creationists, Doctorow considers creativity in its many forms: from the literary (Melville and Mark Twain) to the comic (Harpo Marx) to... Read more >
Selected Essays, 1993-2006
Written by E.L. Doctorow
Format: eBook, 192 pages
On Sale: December 10, 2008
Price: $14.95
E. L. Doctorow is acclaimed internationally for such novels as Ragtime, Billy Bathgate, and The March. Now here are Doctorow’s rich, revelatory essays on the nature of imaginative thought. In Creationists, Doctorow considers creativity in its many forms: from the literary (Melville and Mark Twain) to the comic (Harpo Marx) to... Read more >
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Through the Children's Gate
A Home in New York
Written by Adam Gopnik
Format: eBook, 336 pages
On Sale: December 10, 2008
Price: $14.95
Not long after Adam Gopnik returned to New York at the end of 2000 with his wife and two small children, they witnessed one of the great and tragic events of the city’s history. In his sketches and glimpses of people and places, Gopnik builds a portrait of our altered New... Read more >
A Home in New York
Written by Adam Gopnik
Format: eBook, 336 pages
On Sale: December 10, 2008
Price: $14.95
Not long after Adam Gopnik returned to New York at the end of 2000 with his wife and two small children, they witnessed one of the great and tragic events of the city’s history. In his sketches and glimpses of people and places, Gopnik builds a portrait of our altered New... Read more >
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The Things That Matter
What Seven Classic Novels Have to Say About the Stages of Life
Written by Edward Mendelson
Format: eBook
On Sale: November 26, 2008
Price: $14.00
An illuminating exploration of how seven of the greatest English novels of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries—Frankenstein, Wuthering Heights, Jane Eyre, Middlemarch, Mrs. Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, and Between the Acts—portray the essential experiences of life.
For Edward Mendelson—a professor of English and comparative literature at Columbia University—these classic novels tell life... Read more >
What Seven Classic Novels Have to Say About the Stages of Life
Written by Edward Mendelson
Format: eBook
On Sale: November 26, 2008
Price: $14.00
An illuminating exploration of how seven of the greatest English novels of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries—Frankenstein, Wuthering Heights, Jane Eyre, Middlemarch, Mrs. Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, and Between the Acts—portray the essential experiences of life.
For Edward Mendelson—a professor of English and comparative literature at Columbia University—these classic novels tell life... Read more >
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Other Colors
Essays and a Story
Written by Orhan Pamuk
Format: Trade Paperback, 464 pages
On Sale: November 11, 2008
Price: $15.95
In the three decades that Nobel prize-winning author Orhan Pamuk has devoted himself to writing fiction, he has also produced scores of witty, moving, and provocative essays and articles. He engages the work of Nabokov, Kundera, Rushdie, and Vargas Llosa, among others, and he discusses his own books and writing process... Read more >
Essays and a Story
Written by Orhan Pamuk
Format: Trade Paperback, 464 pages
On Sale: November 11, 2008
Price: $15.95
In the three decades that Nobel prize-winning author Orhan Pamuk has devoted himself to writing fiction, he has also produced scores of witty, moving, and provocative essays and articles. He engages the work of Nabokov, Kundera, Rushdie, and Vargas Llosa, among others, and he discusses his own books and writing process... Read more >
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Portraits and Observations
The Essays of Truman Capote
Written by Truman Capote
Format: Trade Paperback, 528 pages
On Sale: November 11, 2008
Price: $17.00
Perhaps no twentieth-century writer was so observant and graceful a chronicler of his times as Truman Capote. Portraits and Observations is the first volume devoted solely to all the essays ever published by this most beloved of writers. Included are such masterpieces of narrative nonfiction as “The Muses Are Heard” and... Read more >
The Essays of Truman Capote
Written by Truman Capote
Format: Trade Paperback, 528 pages
On Sale: November 11, 2008
Price: $17.00
Perhaps no twentieth-century writer was so observant and graceful a chronicler of his times as Truman Capote. Portraits and Observations is the first volume devoted solely to all the essays ever published by this most beloved of writers. Included are such masterpieces of narrative nonfiction as “The Muses Are Heard” and... Read more >
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The American Idea
The Best of the Atlantic Monthly
Edited by Robert Vare
Format: Trade Paperback, 688 pages
On Sale: October 14, 2008
Price: $17.95
“What is ‘the American idea’? It is the fractious, maddening approach to the conduct of human affairs that values equality despite its elusiveness, that values democracy despite its debasement, that values pluralism despite its messiness, that values the institutions of civic culture despite their flaws, and that values public life as... Read more >
The Best of the Atlantic Monthly
Edited by Robert Vare
Format: Trade Paperback, 688 pages
On Sale: October 14, 2008
Price: $17.95
“What is ‘the American idea’? It is the fractious, maddening approach to the conduct of human affairs that values equality despite its elusiveness, that values democracy despite its debasement, that values pluralism despite its messiness, that values the institutions of civic culture despite their flaws, and that values public life as... Read more >
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eBook.
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Due Considerations
Essays and Criticism
Written by John Updike
Format: Trade Paperback, 736 pages
On Sale: September 30, 2008
Price: $20.00
“A drop of truth, of lived experience, glistens in each.” This is how John Updike, one of the world’s most acclaimed novelists, modestly describes his nonfiction work, the brilliant and graceful essays and criticism he has written for more than five decades. Due Considerations is his sixth collection, and perhaps the... Read more >
Essays and Criticism
Written by John Updike
Format: Trade Paperback, 736 pages
On Sale: September 30, 2008
Price: $20.00
“A drop of truth, of lived experience, glistens in each.” This is how John Updike, one of the world’s most acclaimed novelists, modestly describes his nonfiction work, the brilliant and graceful essays and criticism he has written for more than five decades. Due Considerations is his sixth collection, and perhaps the... Read more >
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The Liberal Imagination
Written by Lionel Trilling
Introduction by Louis Menand
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: September 23, 2008
Price: $15.95
The Liberal Imagination is one of the most admired and influential works of criticism of the last century, a work that is not only a masterpiece of literary criticism but an important statement about politics and society. Published in 1950, one of the chillier moments of the Cold War, Trilling’s... Read more >
Written by Lionel Trilling
Introduction by Louis Menand
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: September 23, 2008
Price: $15.95
The Liberal Imagination is one of the most admired and influential works of criticism of the last century, a work that is not only a masterpiece of literary criticism but an important statement about politics and society. Published in 1950, one of the chillier moments of the Cold War, Trilling’s... Read more >
