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Shakespeare and Modern Culture
Written by Marjorie Garber
Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
On Sale: December 1, 2009
Price: $17.00
From one of the world's premier Shakespeare scholars comes a magisterial new study whose premise is "that Shakespeare makes modern culture and that modern culture makes Shakespeare."
Shakespeare has determined many of the ideas that we think of as "naturally" true: ideas about human character, individuality and selfhood, government, leadership, love... Read more >
Written by Marjorie Garber
Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
On Sale: December 1, 2009
Price: $17.00
From one of the world's premier Shakespeare scholars comes a magisterial new study whose premise is "that Shakespeare makes modern culture and that modern culture makes Shakespeare."
Shakespeare has determined many of the ideas that we think of as "naturally" true: ideas about human character, individuality and selfhood, government, leadership, love... Read more >
Talking About Detective Fiction
Written by P. D. James
Format: eBook, 208 pages
On Sale: December 1, 2009
Price: $22.00
In a perfect marriage of author and subject, P. D. James—one of the most widely admired writers of detective fiction at work today—gives us a personal, lively, illuminating exploration of the human appetite for mystery and mayhem, and of those writers who have satisfied it.
P. D. James examines the genre from... Read more >
Written by P. D. James
Format: eBook, 208 pages
On Sale: December 1, 2009
Price: $22.00
In a perfect marriage of author and subject, P. D. James—one of the most widely admired writers of detective fiction at work today—gives us a personal, lively, illuminating exploration of the human appetite for mystery and mayhem, and of those writers who have satisfied it.
P. D. James examines the genre from... Read more >
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Talking About Detective Fiction
Written by P. D. James
Format: Hardcover, 208 pages
On Sale: December 1, 2009
Price: $22.00
In a perfect marriage of author and subject, P. D. James—one of the most widely admired writers of detective fiction at work today—gives us a personal, lively, illuminating exploration of the human appetite for mystery and mayhem, and of those writers who have satisfied it.
P. D. James examines the genre from... Read more >
Written by P. D. James
Format: Hardcover, 208 pages
On Sale: December 1, 2009
Price: $22.00
In a perfect marriage of author and subject, P. D. James—one of the most widely admired writers of detective fiction at work today—gives us a personal, lively, illuminating exploration of the human appetite for mystery and mayhem, and of those writers who have satisfied it.
P. D. James examines the genre from... Read more >
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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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Lifelines
The Black Book of Proverbs
Written by Askhari Johnson Hodari and Yvonne McCalla Sobers
Foreword by Archbishop Desmond Tutu
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
On Sale: November 10, 2009
Price: $19.99
This little book contains the wisdom of the ages, and is guaranteed to produce a smile of appreciation at the sheer sense of the proverbs you will find inside. From advice you wish your mother had given you, to things you probably suspected, but had never put into words, Lifelines is... Read more >
The Black Book of Proverbs
Written by Askhari Johnson Hodari and Yvonne McCalla Sobers
Foreword by Archbishop Desmond Tutu
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
On Sale: November 10, 2009
Price: $19.99
This little book contains the wisdom of the ages, and is guaranteed to produce a smile of appreciation at the sheer sense of the proverbs you will find inside. From advice you wish your mother had given you, to things you probably suspected, but had never put into words, Lifelines is... Read more >
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Lifelines
The Black Book of Proverbs
Written by Askhari Johnson Hodari and Yvonne McCalla Sobers
Foreword by Archbishop Desmond Tutu
Format: eBook, 256 pages
On Sale: November 10, 2009
Price: $19.99
This little book contains the wisdom of the ages, and is guaranteed to produce a smile of appreciation at the sheer sense of the proverbs you will find inside. From advice you wish your mother had given you, to things you probably suspected, but had never put into words, Lifelines is... Read more >
The Black Book of Proverbs
Written by Askhari Johnson Hodari and Yvonne McCalla Sobers
Foreword by Archbishop Desmond Tutu
Format: eBook, 256 pages
On Sale: November 10, 2009
Price: $19.99
This little book contains the wisdom of the ages, and is guaranteed to produce a smile of appreciation at the sheer sense of the proverbs you will find inside. From advice you wish your mother had given you, to things you probably suspected, but had never put into words, Lifelines is... 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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Yours Ever
People and Their Letters
Written by Thomas Mallon
Format: Hardcover, 352 pages
On Sale: November 10, 2009
Price: $26.95
From the author of A Book of One’s Own and Stolen Words comes a delightful and wide-ranging investigation of the art of letter writing.
Yours Ever explores the offhand masterpieces dispatched through the ages by messenger, postal service, and BlackBerry. Thomas Mallon weaves a remarkable assortment of epistolary riches into his... Read more >
People and Their Letters
Written by Thomas Mallon
Format: Hardcover, 352 pages
On Sale: November 10, 2009
Price: $26.95
From the author of A Book of One’s Own and Stolen Words comes a delightful and wide-ranging investigation of the art of letter writing.
Yours Ever explores the offhand masterpieces dispatched through the ages by messenger, postal service, and BlackBerry. Thomas Mallon weaves a remarkable assortment of epistolary riches into his... Read more >
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Yours Ever
People and Their Letters
Written by Thomas Mallon
Format: eBook, 360 pages
On Sale: November 10, 2009
Price: $26.95
From the author of A Book of One’s Own and Stolen Words comes a delightful and wide-ranging investigation of the art of letter writing.
Yours Ever explores the offhand masterpieces dispatched through the ages by messenger, postal service, and BlackBerry. Thomas Mallon weaves a remarkable assortment of epistolary riches into his... Read more >
People and Their Letters
Written by Thomas Mallon
Format: eBook, 360 pages
On Sale: November 10, 2009
Price: $26.95
From the author of A Book of One’s Own and Stolen Words comes a delightful and wide-ranging investigation of the art of letter writing.
Yours Ever explores the offhand masterpieces dispatched through the ages by messenger, postal service, and BlackBerry. Thomas Mallon weaves a remarkable assortment of epistolary riches into his... Read more >
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hardcover.
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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 >
Also available as a
hardcover.
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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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eBook.
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Forever a Hustler's Wife
Written by Nikki Turner
Read by Bahni Turpin
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: September 29, 2009
Price: $20.00
The high priestess of the hood, Nikki Turner, is back with the novel fans have been feenin’ for: the sequel to her #1 bestselling novel, A Hustler’s Wife.
Des, Virginia’s slickest gangsta, is about to become a dad when he is charged with the murder of his own attorney. But with... Read more >
Written by Nikki Turner
Read by Bahni Turpin
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: September 29, 2009
Price: $20.00
The high priestess of the hood, Nikki Turner, is back with the novel fans have been feenin’ for: the sequel to her #1 bestselling novel, A Hustler’s Wife.
Des, Virginia’s slickest gangsta, is about to become a dad when he is charged with the murder of his own attorney. But with... Read more >
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Travels in a Thin Country
A Journey Through Chile
Written by Sara Wheeler
Format: eBook, 336 pages
On Sale: September 23, 2009
Price: $13.95
Squeezed between a vast ocean and the longest mountain range on earth, Chile is 2,600 miles long and never more than 110 miles wide--not a country that lends itself to maps, as Sara Wheeler discovered when she traveled alone from the top to the bottom, from the driest desert in the... Read more >
A Journey Through Chile
Written by Sara Wheeler
Format: eBook, 336 pages
On Sale: September 23, 2009
Price: $13.95
Squeezed between a vast ocean and the longest mountain range on earth, Chile is 2,600 miles long and never more than 110 miles wide--not a country that lends itself to maps, as Sara Wheeler discovered when she traveled alone from the top to the bottom, from the driest desert in the... Read more >
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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: eBook
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 >
A Reader's Guide to The Remembrance of Things Past
Written by Patrick Alexander
Format: eBook
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 >
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trade paperback.
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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 >
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 >
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eBook.
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Life's Too F***ing Short
A Guide to Getting What You Want Out of Life Without Wasting Time, Effort, or Money
Written by Janet Street-Porter
Format: Trade Paperback, 176 pages
On Sale: September 15, 2009
Price: $15.95
An irreverent, unapologetically opinionated, no-holds-barred manifesto for women who aim to thrive, not just survive, in the 21st century.
“Spend the first minute of every day telling yourself ‘I am bloody brilliant’–no one else is going to!” Janet Street-Porter proffers pithy pronouncements on everything from platform shoes to climbing the corporate ladder... Read more >
A Guide to Getting What You Want Out of Life Without Wasting Time, Effort, or Money
Written by Janet Street-Porter
Format: Trade Paperback, 176 pages
On Sale: September 15, 2009
Price: $15.95
An irreverent, unapologetically opinionated, no-holds-barred manifesto for women who aim to thrive, not just survive, in the 21st century.
“Spend the first minute of every day telling yourself ‘I am bloody brilliant’–no one else is going to!” Janet Street-Porter proffers pithy pronouncements on everything from platform shoes to climbing the corporate ladder... 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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hardcover.
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The Company They Kept
Writers on Unforgettable Friendships
Edited by Robert B. Silvers and Barbara Epstein
Format: Trade Paperback, 316 pages
On Sale: September 1, 2009
Price: $19.95
Now in paperback
Many of the illustrious contributors to The New York Review of Books have had deep and abiding relationships–both personal and intellectual–with other poets, writers, artists, composers, and scientists of equal stature. The Company They Kept is a collection of twenty-seven accounts of these varied friendships–most of them undeniably fraught... Read more >
Writers on Unforgettable Friendships
Edited by Robert B. Silvers and Barbara Epstein
Format: Trade Paperback, 316 pages
On Sale: September 1, 2009
Price: $19.95
Now in paperback
Many of the illustrious contributors to The New York Review of Books have had deep and abiding relationships–both personal and intellectual–with other poets, writers, artists, composers, and scientists of equal stature. The Company They Kept is a collection of twenty-seven accounts of these varied friendships–most of them undeniably fraught... Read more >
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Bobbed Hair and Bathtub Gin
Writers Running Wild in the Twenties
Written by Marion Meade
Format: eBook, 304 pages
On Sale: August 11, 2009
Price: $14.00
In her exuberant new work, BOBBED HAIR AND BATHTUB GIN, Marion Meade presents a portrait of four extraordinary writers--Dorothy Parker, Zelda Fitzgerald, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and Edna Ferber--whose loves, lives, and literary endeavors embodied the spirit of the 1920s.
Capturing the jazz rhythms and desperate gaiety that defined the era... Read more >
Writers Running Wild in the Twenties
Written by Marion Meade
Format: eBook, 304 pages
On Sale: August 11, 2009
Price: $14.00
In her exuberant new work, BOBBED HAIR AND BATHTUB GIN, Marion Meade presents a portrait of four extraordinary writers--Dorothy Parker, Zelda Fitzgerald, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and Edna Ferber--whose loves, lives, and literary endeavors embodied the spirit of the 1920s.
Capturing the jazz rhythms and desperate gaiety that defined the era... 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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Once on a Moonless Night
Written by Dai Sijie
Translated by Adriana Hunter
Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
On Sale: August 11, 2009
Price: $24.95
From the author of the beloved best seller Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress, a haunting tale of love and of the beguiling power of a lost language.
When Puyi, the last emperor, was exiled to Manchuria in the early 1930s, it is said that he carried an eight-hundred-year-old silk scroll inscribed... Read more >
Written by Dai Sijie
Translated by Adriana Hunter
Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
On Sale: August 11, 2009
Price: $24.95
From the author of the beloved best seller Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress, a haunting tale of love and of the beguiling power of a lost language.
When Puyi, the last emperor, was exiled to Manchuria in the early 1930s, it is said that he carried an eight-hundred-year-old silk scroll inscribed... Read more >
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eBook.
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Once on a Moonless Night
Written by Dai Sijie
Translated by Adriana Hunter
Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: August 11, 2009
Price: $23.95
From the author of the beloved best seller Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress, a haunting tale of love and of the beguiling power of a lost language.
When Puyi, the last emperor, was exiled to Manchuria in the early 1930s, it is said that he carried an eight-hundred-year-old silk scroll inscribed... Read more >
Written by Dai Sijie
Translated by Adriana Hunter
Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: August 11, 2009
Price: $23.95
From the author of the beloved best seller Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress, a haunting tale of love and of the beguiling power of a lost language.
When Puyi, the last emperor, was exiled to Manchuria in the early 1930s, it is said that he carried an eight-hundred-year-old silk scroll inscribed... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover.
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The Gift
Creativity and the Artist in the Modern World
Written by Lewis Hyde
Format: eBook
On Sale: July 1, 2009
Price: $14.95
Discusses the argument that a work of art is essentially a gift and not a commodity.
From the Trade Paperback edition. Read more >
Creativity and the Artist in the Modern World
Written by Lewis Hyde
Format: eBook
On Sale: July 1, 2009
Price: $14.95
Discusses the argument that a work of art is essentially a gift and not a commodity.
From the Trade Paperback edition. Read more >
Also available as a
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