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Berlin Noir: The First Three Bernie Gunther Novels
$30.00 Add to cartNow in one volume–the first three novels in Philip Kerr’s New York Times bestselling historical mystery series starring hard-boiled detective Bernie Gunther…
“A Chandleresque knight errant caught i- Series: Bernie Gunther Novel
- Author: Kerr, Philip
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 848
- Publish Date: January 01 1994
- ISBN10: 140231706
- Language: English
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Flatland/Sphereland
$19.99 Add to cartA century-old classic of British letters that charmed and fascinated generations of readers with its witty satire of Victorian society and its unique insights, by analogy, into the fourth dimension.
Au… [more below]
- Author: Abbott, Edwin A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: January 28 1994
- ISBN10: 0062732765
- Language: English
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The Malady of Death
$16.00 Add to cartA man hires a woman to spend several weeks with him by the sea. The woman is no one in particular, a “she,” a warm, moist body with a beating heart-the enigma of Other. Skilled in the mechanics of sex… [more below]
- Series: Duras, Marguerite
- Author: Duras, Marguerite
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: January 13 1994
- ISBN10: 0802130364
- Language: English
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Justine, Philosophy in the Bedroom, and Other Writings
$22.00 Add to cartNo other writer has so scandalized proper society as the Marquis de Sade, but despite the deliberate destruction of over three-quarters of his work, Sade remains a major figure in the history of ideas… [more below]
- Author: de Sade, Marquis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 784
- Publish Date: January 11 1994
- ISBN10: 0802132189
- Language: English
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Goodbye, Columbus: And Five Short Stories
$18.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER – From the Pulitzer Prize-winnning writer of explosive wit, merciless insight, and a fierce compassion comes “a masterpiece” (Newsweek) that illuminates the subterranean con… [more below]
- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Roth, Philip
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 13 1994
- ISBN10: 0679748261
- Language: English
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A Lantern in Her Hand
$14.95 Add to cartFirst published in 1928, A Lantern in Her Hand has outlasted literary fashions to touch generations of readers. In this classic story of a pioneer woman, Bess Streeter Aldrich modeled protagonist Abbi… [more below]
- Author: Aldrich, Bess Streeter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 307
- Publish Date: January 01 1994
- ISBN10: 0803259220
- Language: English
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The Wild Boys: A Book of the Dead
$17.00 Add to cartThe Wild Boys is a futuristic tale of global warfare in which a guerrilla gang of boys dedicated to freedom battles the organized armies of repressive police states. Making full use of his inimitable
- Series: Burroughs, William S.
- Author: Burroughs, William S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 193
- Publish Date: January 12, 1994
- ISBN10: 0802133312
- Language: English
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A Fairy Tale of New York
$17.00 Add to cartA Fairy Tale of New York is a funny, lusty, and sad novel of comic genius. Returning from study abroad, Cornelius Christian enters customs with his luggage and his dead wife. His first encounter in Ne… [more below]
- Series: Donleavy, J. P.
- Author: Donleavy, J. P.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 348
- Publish Date: January 18 1994
- ISBN10: 0871132648
- Language: English
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Don Quixote, Which Was a Dream
$16.00 Add to cartKathy Acker’s Don Quixote is an indomitable woman on a formidable quest: to become a knight and defeat the evil enchanters of modern America by pursuing “the most insane idea that any woman can think
- Series: Acker, Kathy
- Author: Acker, Kathy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: January 18 1994
- ISBN10: 0802131921
- Language: English
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Anthology of Chinese Literature: Volume I: From Early Times to the Fourteenth Century
$16.00 Add to cartInternationally renowned Chinese literature scholar Cyril Birch was the first to assemble the finest translations of these seminal pieces in his now classic and still definitive introductory anthologi… [more below]
- Series: Anthology of Chinese Literature #1
- Author: Birch, Cyril
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: January 10 1994
- ISBN10: 0802150381
- Language: English
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Wrong: Stories
$16.00 Add to cartFor the last decade, Dennis Cooper has intrigued, shocked, and energized American writing. Whether described as the leading writer of the Blank Generation or the New Narrative or likened to Poe, Sade,
- Series: Cooper, Dennis
- Author: Cooper, Dennis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: January 14 1994
- ISBN10: 0802133673
- Language: English
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The Cement Garden
$15.00 Add to cartIn this “irresistibly readable” (New York Review of Books) tour de force of psychological unease, the Booker Prize winner and bestselling author of Atonement excavates the ruins of childhood and uncov… [more below]
- Series: Vintage International
- Author: McEwan, Ian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: January 13 1994
- ISBN10: 0679750185
- Language: English
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Querelle
$15.00 Add to cart“It is awesome, perhaps the finest novel I have ever read in my life. It literally sent shivers through me, the sheer beauty of the language, the exquisite perversity of the imagination, the incredibl
- Series: Genet, Jean
- Author: Genet, Jean
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 13 1994
- ISBN10: 0802151574
- Language: English
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Molloy
$18.00 Add to cartMolloy, the first of the three masterpieces which constitute Samuel Beckett’s famous trilogy, appeared in French in 1951, followed seven months later by Malone Dies (Malone meurt) and two years later … [more below]
- Series: Beckett, Samuel
- Author: Beckett, Samuel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: January 12 1994
- ISBN10: 0802151361
- Language: English
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The Book of Job
$15.99 Add to cart“If Mr. Mitchell gives an eloquent account of the effects of Job’s poetry in his introduction, in the translation itself he does even better: he makes those effects come alive. Writing with three insi
- Author: Mitchell, Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: January 15 1994
- ISBN10: 0060969598
- Language: English
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The Wealth of Nations
$35.00 Add to cartFirst published in 1776, The Wealth of Nations is generally regarded as the foundation of contemporary economic thought. Adam Smith, a Scottish professor of moral philosophy, expounded the then-revolu
- Series: Modern Library (Hardcover)
- Author: Smith, Adam
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 1200
- Publish Date: January 25 1994
- ISBN10: 0679424733
- Language: English
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Betrayal
$16.00 Add to cart“One of the most essential artists produced by the twentieth century. Pinter’s work gets under our skin more than that of any living playwright.” —New York Times
Upon its premiere at the National The- Series: Pinter, Harold
- Author: Pinter, Harold
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: January 07 1994
- ISBN10: 0802130801
- Language: English
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O Pioneers!
$10.00 Add to cartThe first of Cather’s renowned prairie novels, O Pioneers established a new voice in American literature–turning the stories of ordinary Midwesterners and immigrants into authentic literary characte… [more below]
- Series: Great Plains Trilogy
- Author: Cather, Willa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: January 01 1994
- ISBN10: 0140187758
- Language: English
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100 Selected Poems
$17.00 Add to cartE.E. Cummings is without question one of the major poets of this century, and this volume, first published in 1959, is indispensable for every lover of modern lyrical verse. It contains one hundred of
- Author: Cummings, E. E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 121
- Publish Date: January 10, 1994
- ISBN10: 0802130720
- Language: English
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Be a Friend to Trees
$6.99 Add to cartRead and find out about trees in this colorfully illustrated nonfiction picture book.
Why should you be a friend to trees? Trees are a valuable natural resource. People depend on trees for food, and an
- Series: Let’s-Read-And-Find-Out Science 2 #1
- Author: Lauber, Patricia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: January 01 1994
- ISBN10: 0064451208
- Language: English
