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The World of Yesterday
$26.95 Add to cartBy the author who inspired Wes Anderson’s film, The Grand Budapest Hotel
Written as both a recollection of the past and a warning for future generations, The World of Yesterday recalls the golden age- Author: Zweig, Stefan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 472
- Publish Date: May 01 2013
- ISBN10: 0803226616
- Language: English
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Down and Out in Paris and London
$18.99 Add to cartFrom the author of 1984, the classic semi-autobiographical story about the adventures of a penniless British writer in two cities.
Down and Out in Paris and London follows the journey of a writer amon
- Author: Orwell, George
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: March 15, 1972
- ISBN10: 015626224X
- Language: English
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Orwell: The New Life
$39.95 Read moreA fascinating exploration of George Orwell–and his body of work–by an award-winning Orwellian biographer and scholar, presenting the author anew to twenty-first-century readers.
We find ourselves i- Author: Taylor, D. J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: May 23 2023
- ISBN10: 163936451X
- Language: English
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Unrealistic Expectations
$17.00 Add to cartWhen a relationship therapist gets dumped right before her new dating handbook hits shelves, she fake dates to save face in this spicy romantic comedy.
There are a lot of things that can go wrong on- Author: Christopher, Andie J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 26, 2023
- ISBN10: 059320008X
- Language: English
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Remembrance: Selected Correspondence of Ray Bradbury
$35.00 Read moreIconic author of Fahrenheit 451, The Martian Chronicles, and Something Wicked This Way Comes, Ray Bradbury believed that, someday, a collection of his letters could illuminate the story of his life i… [more below]
- Author: Bradbury, Ray
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: November 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1668016974
- Language: English
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A Girl’s Story
$18.95 Add to cartWINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE
Another masterpiece of remembering from Annie Ernaux, the Man Booker International Prize-shortlisted author of The Years. In A Girl’s Story, Annie Ernaux- Author: Ernaux, Annie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: April 07, 2020
- ISBN10: 1609809513
- Language: English
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A Moveable Feast
$18.99 Add to cart“There is never any ending to Paris and the memory of each person who has lived in it differs from that of any other.” –Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable FeastErnest Hemingway’s classic memoir of Paris in… [more below]
- Author: Hemingway, Ernest
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: May 29 1996
- ISBN10: 068482499X
- Language: English
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The Writing Life
$15.99 Add to cart“For nonwriters, it is a glimpse into the trials and satisfactions of a life spent with words. For writers, it is a warm, rambling, conversation with a stimulating and extraordinarily talented colleag
- Author: Dillard, Annie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: 12-Nov-13
- ISBN10: 0060919884
- Language: English
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Wanderlust: An Eccentric Explorer, an Epic Journey, a Lost Age
$45.00 Read moreThe mesmerizing, larger-than-life tale of an eccentric adventurer who traversed some of the greatest frontiers of the twentieth century, from uncharted Arctic wastelands to the underground resistance
- Author: Mitenbuler, Reid
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: February 21 2023
- ISBN10: 358468329
- Language: English
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A Woman’s Story
$12.95 Add to cartWINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE
A New York Times Notable Book “A deeply affecting account of mothers and daughters, youth and age, and dreams and reality” (Kirkus Reviews) Upon her mother- Author: Ernaux, Annie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 104
- Publish Date: August 05 2003
- ISBN10: 1583225757
- Language: English
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Oh My Mother!: A Memoir in Nine Adventures
$28.00 Add to cart“Humorous, endearing, and intimate.” –TIME
“Mother and daughter relationships are always tricky but this peripatetic pair has outdone all of us with this most excellent adventure written by my namesa- Author: Wang, Connie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: May 09 2023
- ISBN10: 0593490924
- Language: English
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The Copenhagen Trilogy: Childhood; Youth; Dependency
$20.00 Add to cartCalled “a masterpiece” by The New York Times, the acclaimed trilogy from Tove Ditlevsen, a pioneer in the field of genre-bending confessional writing.
Tove Ditlevsen is today celebrated as one of the- Series: The Copenhagen Trilogy
- Author: Ditlevsen, Tove
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: 22-Feb-22
- ISBN10: 125082978X
- Language: English
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Pure Wit: The Revolutionary Life of Margaret Cavendish
$29.95 Add to cartA biography of the remarkable–and in her time scandalous–seventeenth-century writer Margaret Cavendish, who pioneered the science fiction novel.
“My ambition is not only to be Empress, but Authoress- Author: Peacock, Francesca
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: 2-Jan-24
- ISBN10: 1639366032
- Language: English
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The Night Trilogy: Night/Dawn/Day
$22.00 Add to cartThe new translation of the bestselling memoir Night in one volume with its companion novels, Dawn and Day
Night is one of the masterpieces of Holocaust literature. First published in 1958, it is the- Author: Wiesel, Elie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: April 15, 2008
- ISBN10: 0809073641
- Language: English
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Black Boy
$18.99 Add to cart“Superb. . . . A great American writer speaks with his own voice about matters that still resonate at the center of our lives.” —New York Times Book Review
A striking new edition of Richard Wright’s p
- Author: Wright, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: January 10 2023
- ISBN10: 0062964135
- Language: English
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Quack This Way: David Foster Wallace & Bryan A. Garner Talk Language and Writing
$18.95 Add to cartDavid Foster Wallace was at the center of late-20th-century American literature, Bryan A. Garner at that of legal scholarship and lexicography. It was language that drew them together. The wide-rangin… [more below]
- Author: Garner, Bryan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 146
- Publish Date: January 01, 1970
- ISBN10: 0991118111
- Language: English
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Letters to a Young Poet: A New Translation and Commentary
$18.95 Add to cartA fresh perspective on a beloved classic by acclaimed translators Anita Barrows and Joanna Macy.
German poet Rainer Maria Rilke’s (1875-1926) Letters to a Young Poet has been treasured by readers for- Series: Shambhala Pocket Library
- Author: Rilke, Rainer Maria
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: June 01 2021
- ISBN10: 1611806860
- Language: English
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Boy: Tales of Childhood
$8.99 Add to cartFind out where the bestselling author of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and The BFG got all his wonderful story ideas in this autobiographical account of his childhood
From his own life, of cours- Author: Dahl, Roald
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: February 01, 2009
- ISBN10: 014241381X
- Language: English
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Letters to a Young Poet: The Norton Centenary Edition
$20.00 Add to cartThis slim volume of letters from the poet and mystic, Rainer Maria Rilke, to a nineteen-year-old cadet and aspiring poet named Franz Xaver Kappus, has touched millions of readers since it was first pu
- Author: Rilke, Rainer Maria
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: May 23 2023
- ISBN10: 1324050721
- Language: English
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Walden and Civil Disobedience
$14.00 Add to cartA transcendentalist classic on social responsibility and a manifesto that inspired modern protest movements
Critical of 19th-century America’s booming commercialism and industrialism, Henry David Thor- Series: Penguin American Library
- Author: Thoreau, Henry David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: August 25, 1983
- ISBN10: 0140390448
- Language: English
