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Forty-one False Starts
$24.00 Add to cartA National Book Critics Circle Finalist for Criticism
A deeply Malcolmian volume on painters, photographers, writers, and critics. Janet Malcolm’s In the Freud Archives and The Journalist and the Murd- Author: Malcolm, Janet
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 13 2014
- ISBN10: 0374534586
- Language: English
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The Old Gringo
$18.00 Add to cartOne of Carlos Fuentes’s greatest works, The Old Gringo tells the story of Ambrose Bierce, the American writer, soldier, and journalist, and of his last mysterious days in Mexico living among Pancho Vi
- Series: FSG Classics
- Author: Fuentes, Carlos
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: February 20 2007
- ISBN10: 0374530521
- Language: English
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August 1914: A Novel: The Red Wheel I
$35.00 Add to cartThe Russian Nobelist’s major work, back in print for the centenary of World War I and the Russian Revolution
In his monumental narrative of the outbreak of the First World War and the ill-fated Russia
- Series: FSG Classics
- Author: Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 896
- Publish Date: August 19 2014
- ISBN10: 0374534691
- Language: English
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Novel of the Century
$23.99 Add to cartA New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice
Les Mis rables is among the most popular and enduring novels ever written. Like Inspector Javert’s
Winner of the American Library in Paris Book Award, 2017- Author: Bellos, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: March 13 2018
- ISBN10: 0374537402
- Language: English
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Epitaph of a Small Winner
$18.00 Add to cartIn these memoirs, Braz Cubas, a wealthy nineteenth-century Brazilian, examines (from beyond the grave) his rather undistinguished life in 160 short chapters that are filled with philosophical digressi
- Series: FSG Classics
- Author: de Assis, Machado
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: April 29 2008
- ISBN10: 0374531234
- Language: English
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The Goalie’s Anxiety at the Penalty Kick
$17.00 Add to cartThe first of Nobel Prize winner Peter Handke’s novels to be published in English, The Goalie’s Anxiety at the Penalty Kick is a true modern classic that “portrays the…breakdown of a murderer in ways
- Series: FSG Classics
- Author: Handke, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: December 10 2007
- ISBN10: 0374531064
- Language: English
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Wise Children
$17.99 Add to cartIn their heyday on the vaudeville stages of the early twentieth century, Dora Chance and her twin sister, Nora–unacknowledged daughters of Sir Melchior Hazard, the greatest Shakespearean actor of his
- Series: FSG Classics
- Author: Carter, Angela
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: December 10 2007
- ISBN10: 0374530947
- Language: English
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Prater Violet
$22.00 Add to cart“Prater Violet is the most charming novel I have read in a long time.” —Diana Trilling
Originally published in 1945, Christopher Isherwood’s Prater Violet is a stingingly satirical novel about the fil- Series: FSG Classics
- Author: Isherwood, Christopher
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: February 10 2015
- ISBN10: 0374535248
- Language: English
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The Collected Stories of Caroline Gordon
$25.99 Add to cartThe complete collection of short fiction from a literary stylist who captured the nuances of life in the American South of the early twentieth century, The Collected Stories of Caroline Gordon is firm
- Series: FSG Classics
- Author: Gordon, Caroline
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 26 2009
- ISBN10: 0374531633
- Language: English
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Axel’s Castle: A Study of the Imaginative Literature of 1870-1930
$20.00 Add to cartPublished in 1931, Axel’s Castle was Edmund Wilson’s first book of literary criticism–a landmark book that explores the evolution of the French Symbolist movement and considers its influence on six m
- Series: FSG Classics
- Author: Wilson, Edmund
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 15 2004
- ISBN10: 0374529272
- Language: English
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A Man in Full
$56.99 Add to cartThe Bonfire of the Vanities defined an era–and established Tom Wolfe as our prime fictional chronicler of America at its most outrageous and alive. In the #1 New York Times bestseller and National Bo
- Author: Wolfe, Tom
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 742
- Publish Date: November 12 1998
- ISBN10: 0374270325
- Language: English
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On Poetry and Poets
$23.99 Add to cartT. S. Eliot was not only one of the greatest poets of the twentieth century–he was also one of the most acute writers on his craft. In On Poetry and Poets, which was first published in 1957, Eliot ex
- Series: FSG Classics
- Author: Eliot, T. S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: July 07 2009
- ISBN10: 0374531978
- Language: English
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The Life You Save May Be Your Own: An American Pilgrimage
$27.00 Add to cartThe story of four modern American Catholics who made literature out of their search for God
In the mid-twentieth century four American Catholics came to believe that the best way to explore the questi- Author: Elie, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: March 10 2004
- ISBN10: 0374529213
- Language: English
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Dream on Monkey Mountain and Other Plays
$20.00 Add to cartOn a Caribbean island, the morning after a full moon, Felix Hobain tears through the market in a drunken rage. Taken away to sober up in jail, all that night he is gripped by hallucinations: the impov
- Author: Walcott, Derek
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: January 01 1971
- ISBN10: 0374508607
- Language: English
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The Essays of Leonard Michaels
$18.00 Add to cartLeonard Michaels was a writer of unfailing emotional honesty. His memoirs, originally scattered through his story collections, are among the most thrilling evocations of growing up in the New York of
- Author: Michaels, Leonard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: June 22 2010
- ISBN10: 0374532265
- Language: English
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Property Of
$21.99 Add to cartThe acclaimed first novel by Alice Hoffman, a marvelous writer with a painter’s eye (Washington Post Book World), Property Of is about a young girl fearlessly in love with a gang leader but afraid of
- Series: FSG Classics
- Author: Alice, Hoffman
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 12 2009
- ISBN10: 0374531838
- Language: English
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At Large and at Small: Familiar Essays
$20.00 Add to cartIn At Large and At Small, Anne Fadiman returns to one of her favorite genres, the familiar essay–a beloved and hallowed literary tradition recognized for both its intellectual breadth and its miniatu
- Author: Fadiman, Anne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: May 27 2008
- ISBN10: 0374531315
- Language: English
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A Cool Million and the Dream Life of Balso Snell: Two Novels
$19.00 Add to cartNathanael West was only thirty-seven when he died in 1940, but his depictions of the sometimes comic, sometimes horrifying aspects of the American scene rival those of William Faulkner and Flannery O’
- Series: FSG Classics
- Author: West, Nathanael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: June 27 2006
- ISBN10: 0374530270
- Language: English
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Road-Side Dog
$18.00 Add to cartI went on a journey in order to acquaint myself with my province, in a two-horse wagon with a lot of fodder and a tin bucket rattling in the back. The bucket was required for the horses to drink from.
- Author: Milosz, Czeslaw
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: November 29 1999
- ISBN10: 0374526230
- Language: English
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The Golden Ass: The Transformations of Lucius
$19.00 Add to cartThe story of The Golden Ass is that of Lucius Apuleius, a young man of good birth who encountered many strange adventures while disporting himself along the roads to Thessaly. Not the least of these o
- Series: FSG Classics
- Author: Apuleius
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 31, 2009
- ISBN10: 0374531811
- Language: English
