Grove Press
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Anthology of Japanese Literature: From the Earliest Era to the Mid-Nineteenth Century
$20.00 Add to cartThe sweep of Japanese literature in all its great variety was made available to Western readers for the first time in this anthology. Every genre and style, from the celebrated No plays to the poetry
- Series: UNESCO Collection of Representative Works: European
- Author: Keene, Donald
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: January 11, 1994
- ISBN10: 0802150586
- Language: English
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The End We Start from
$16.00 Add to cartNOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING JODIE COMER
“Engrossing, compelling.” — Naomi Alderman, author of The Power
“I was moved, terrified, uplifted – sometimes all three at once.” — Tracy Chevalier, aut
- Author: Hunter, Megan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: September 18 2018
- ISBN10: 0802128599
- Language: English
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Jasmine: 30th Anniversary Edition
$18.00 Add to cartA NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR
ONE OF TIME‘ S “30 BOOKS TO READ BEFORE YOU’RE 30”“Mukherjee gives us the gift of being allowed to see ourselves in all our inconsistencies . . . To build ou
- Author: Mukherjee, Bharati
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 05 1999
- ISBN10: 0802136303
- Language: English
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Wish You Were Here
$20.00 Add to cartAward-winning writer Stewart O’Nan has been acclaimed by critics as one of the most accomplished novelists writing today. Now comes his finest and most complete novel to date.
A year after the death o
- Author: O’Nan, Stewart
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: April 07 2003
- ISBN10: 0802139892
- Language: English
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India: A History. Revised and Updated
$22.00 Add to cartFully revised with forty thousand new words that take the reader up to present-day India, John Keay’s India: A History spans five millennia in a sweeping narrative that tells the story of the peoples
- Author: Keay, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: April 12 2011
- ISBN10: 0802145582
- Language: English
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El Norte: The Epic and Forgotten Story of Hispanic North America
$23.00 Add to cartA sweeping saga of the Spanish history and influence in North America over five centuries, from the acclaimed author of Empire’s Crossroads
Because of our shared English language, as well as the cele
- Author: Gibson, Carrie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: February 18 2020
- ISBN10: 0802148360
- Language: English
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The Day the Sun Died
$26.00 Read moreYan Lianke has secured his place as contemporary China’s most essential and daring novelist, “with his superlative gifts for storytelling and penetrating eye for truth” (New York Times Book Review). H… [more below]
- Author: Lianke, Yan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: December 11 2018
- ISBN10: 080212853X
- Language: English
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Happiness
$18.00 Add to cart“Throughout Happiness, Forna stops in our tracks . . . Reminiscent at times of Michael Ondaatje’s novel Anil’s Ghost . . . Happiness is a meditation on grand themes: Love and death, man and nature, cr
- Author: Forna, Aminatta
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 22 2019
- ISBN10: 0802129188
- Language: English
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Arkansas
$14.00 Add to cartOriginally published by McSweeney’s in hardcover and met with wide acclaim, Arkansas is a darkly comic debut novel written by John Brandon about a pair of drug runners, Kyle and Swin, set in the rural… [more below]
- Author: Brandon, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: June 03 2009
- ISBN10: 0802144365
- Language: English
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Endgame and Act Without Words
$17.00 Add to cartSamuel Beckett was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1969; his literary output of plays, novels, stories and poetry has earned him an uncontested place as one of the greatest writers of our ti… [more below]
- Author: Beckett, Samuel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: June 16 2009
- ISBN10: 080214439X
- Language: English
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The Delusions of Crowds: Why People Go Mad in Groups
$20.00 Add to cartFrom the award-winning author of A Splendid Exchange, a fascinating new history of financial and religious mass manias over the past five centuries
“We are the apes who tell stories,” writes William Be
- Author: Bernstein, William J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: March 15 2022
- ISBN10: 0802157106
- Language: English
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Arcadia
$17.00 Add to cart“It is a defect of God’s humor that he directs our hearts everywhere but to those who have a right to them.”–Tom Stoppard, Arcadia
In a large country house in Derbyshire in April 1809 sits Lady Thom- Author: Stoppard, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: July 11 2017
- ISBN10: 0802126995
- Language: English
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The Earth Shall Weep: A History of Native America
$18.00 Add to cartNow available in paperback, The Earth Shall Weep is a groundbreaking, critically acclaimed history of the Native American peoples. Combining traditional historical sources with new insights from ethno… [more below]
- Author: Wilson, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: March 03 2000
- ISBN10: 080213680X
- Language: English
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Homesickness
$18.00 Read moreThe second book from the “exact and poetic” (New York Times) author of critical smash Young Skins, winner of the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature and a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35, Homesickne… [more below]
- Author: Barrett, Colin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: May 09 2023
- ISBN10: 080216174X
- Language: English
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Brown Dog
$24.00 Add to cart“What Harrison does on every page of Brown Dog is have fun . . . not simply for the sake of delight but because he believes delight is as close to sublimity as humans can get. . . . The great project … [more below]
- Author: Harrison, Jim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: September 09 2014
- ISBN10: 0802122868
- Language: English
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Crown & Sceptre: A New History of the British Monarchy, from William the Conqueror to Charles III
$22.00 Add to cartOn the eve of Queen Elizabeth II’s historic 70th anniversary on the throne, Tracy Borman’s sweeping narrative of the British monarchy illuminates one of history’s most iconic and enduring legacies
Sinc
- Author: Borman, Tracy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: February 28 2023
- ISBN10: 0802162320
- Language: English
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A Splendid Exchange: How Trade Shaped the World
$20.00 Add to cartA sweeping narrative history of world trade–from Sumer in 3000 BC to the firestorm over globalization today–that brilliantly explores trade’s colorful and contentious past and provides fresh insight
- Author: Bernstein, William J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: May 06 2009
- ISBN10: 0802144160
- Language: English
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Red Star Over China: The Classic Account of the Birth of Chinese Communism
$20.00 Add to cartThe iconic history of the Chinese Communist leaders who forever changed the course of China
The first Westerner to meet Mao Tse-tung and the Chinese Communist leaders in 1936, Edgar Snow came away wi
- Author: Snow, Edgar
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: February 16 1994
- ISBN10: 0802150934
- Language: English
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Frankissstein
$17.00 Add to cartFrom internationally bestselling icon Jeanette Winterson comes her most highly anticipated new book since Why Be Happy When You Could be Normal?, about the bodies we live in and the bodies we desire
Si… [more below]- Author: Winterson, Jeanette
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 0
- Publish Date: September 22 2020
- ISBN10: 0802149391
- Language: English
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Try
$17.00 Read moreSimultaneously deadpan and queasily raw, Try is the story of Ziggy, the adopted teenaged son of two sexually abusive fathers whose failed experiment at nuclear-family domesticity has left him stranded
- Series: Cooper, Dennis
- Author: Cooper, Dennis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: March 09 1995
- ISBN10: 080213338X
- Language: English
