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Ever since the Greeks coined the language we commonly use for scientific description, mythology a...

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Mr. B, an English historian in Pakistan working on a documentary, spies a young donkey that has b...

The celebrated, National Book Award-winning, translation of Baudelaire's masterpiece. 'It is the ...

From award-winning Financial Times journalist Sarah O'Connor, a deeply reported investigation int...

'Flows with depth and power....wide-open wonder.'--Washington Post

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The definitive guide to classical book design in the digital era.

Learn to read the Romans! This book is an exciting new way to discover the Latin language. Whethe...

'A brilliant tour de force.'--India Today

One couple consumed by things. One man liberated by indifference. Two haunting explorations of th...

The thinking person's book of big answers to small questions. Applying tools for rationality from...

A small masterpiece of world literature, set in Austria as the Nazis began their rise.

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She was a servant with no voice. He was a predator with powerful friends. She refused to stay sil...

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The life of Charles Bukowski-laureate of lowlife Los Angeles-a novelist and poet who wrote as he ...

These twenty-four stories some traditional and realistic, others experimental and 'cubist' were w...

Two great poets thinking through life and literature in an unequalled correspondence: Charles Ols...

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In this startling and illuminating book, Leo Rubinfien's 'map' is neither precise nor defined by ...

A large-scale biography of a major figure in American enterprise, the man who built General Elect...

A fiction anthology of 22 stories that celebrate the many sides of rock and roll and its cultural...

First published in 1996 by Metropolitan Books.

America's most popular 19th century poet, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow devoted himself to providing...

A treasure trove of stage and screen actor portraits by a renowned British photographer.The photo...

'Powerful.'--The New York Times, Notable Book of the Year

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Catie Copley is a black Labrador retriever who lives an unusual life as Canine Ambassador at the ...

An enchanting story about an adventurous girl and her day at sea with Bonefish Joe, one of the be...

Photographer George Tice and novelist and poet Millen Brand illuminate the history and lives of t...

'One of the great novels of the century. Suddenly and unexpectedly, the late 20th century has pro...

Poetry grounded in Vermont¿s Northeast Kingdom and that speaks to us clearly and directly. Kinsey...

It was going to be a great summer for the Amazons until their great aunt came to stay. She's deci...

Exquisitely powerful short stories by the masterful Andre Dubus. Originally published in two volu...

Bilingual edition of the French masterpiece-with the definitive English translation.

'First published in 1967 by The Dial Press'--Title page verso.

Edward Field writes poetry that is literate, immediate, funny and completely personal-like small ...

Introduction by Octavio Paz -- front cover.

'Few punctuation marks elicit quite as much love or hate as the exclamation point. It's bubbly an...

With Hymn to the Rebel Cafe (1994), Chekhov (1995) and 1968: A History in Verse (1997), Ed Sander...

Three classic novels in one volume: Summer in Williamsburg (1934), Homage to Blenholt (1936), and...

One of Americäs finest gay poets whose flat, dry, conversational Midwestern voice speaks with hon...

In a unique style of biographical poetry, Edward Sanders recounts the short life and revolutionar...

For seven years (1919-1926), Thomas Seltzer was one of New York City's most influential small pub...

Two great poets thinking through life and literature in an unequalled correspondence: Charles Ols...