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The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them
$19.00 Add to cartOne of The Economist‘s 2011 Books of the Year
From the author of Either/Or and The Idiot, Elif Batuman’s The Possessed presents the true but unlikely stories of lives devoted–Absurdly! Melancholical- Author: Batuman, Elif
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 16, 2010
- ISBN10: 0374532184
- Language: English
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Cancer Ward
$25.00 Add to cartThe Russian Nobelist’s semiautobiographical novel set in a Soviet cancer ward shortly after Stalin’s death
One of the great allegorical masterpieces of world literature, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s Cance- Series: FSG Classics
- Author: Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: April 14 2015
- ISBN10: 0374534713
- Language: English
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Selected Poems
$15.00 Add to cartThom Gunn was an Elizabethan poet in modern guise, though there’s nothing archaic, quaint, or sepia-toned about his poetry. His method was dispassionate and rigorous, uniquely well suited for making a
- Author: Gunn, Thom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: March 31 2009
- ISBN10: 0374258597
- Language: English
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The Natural
$18.00 Add to cartThe classical novel (and basis for the acclaimed film starring Robert Redford) now in a new edition
Introduction by Kevin Baker The Natural, Bernard Malamud’s first novel, published in 1952, is also t- Series: FSG Classics
- Author: Malamud, Bernard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 231
- Publish Date: July 07 2003
- ISBN10: 0374502005
- Language: English
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Role Models
$19.00 Add to cartRole Models is a personal invitation into one of the most unique, perverse, and hilarious artistic minds of our time.
From the incomparable John Waters, a paean to the power of subversive inspiration t- Author: Waters, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 26 2011
- ISBN10: 0374532869
- Language: English
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The Death of Artemio Cruz
$19.00 Add to cartImmerse yourself in the extraordinary life of Artemio Cruz, a powerful newspaper magnate and land baron, as he navigates the blurred boundaries between dreams, memories, and reality.
On his deathbed,- Series: FSG Classics
- Author: Fuentes, Carlos
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: February 03 2009
- ISBN10: 0374531803
- Language: English
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The Vagabond
$19.99 Add to cartThirty-three years-old and recently divorced, Ren e N r has begun a new life on her own, supporting herself as a music-hall artist. Maxime, a rich and idle bachelor, intrudes on her independent exist… [more below]
- Author: Colette
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 246
- Publish Date: September 05 2001
- ISBN10: 0374528047
- Language: English
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Basin and Range
$19.00 Add to cartThe first of John McPhee’s works in his series on geology and geologists, Basin and Range is a book of journeys through ancient terrains, always in juxtaposition with travels in the modern world–a hi
- Series: Annals of the Former World #1
- Author: McPhee, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: April 01 1982
- ISBN10: 374516901
- Language: English
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White Egrets: Poems
$15.00 Add to cartA DAZZLING NEW COLLECTION FROM ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT POETS OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
In White Egrets, Derek Walcott treats the characteristic subjects of his career–the Caribbean’s complex colonia- Author: Walcott, Derek
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: March 15 2011
- ISBN10: 0374532702
- Language: English
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Levels of the Game
$17.00 Add to cartLevels of the Game is John McPhee’s astonishing account of a tennis match played by Arthur Ashe against Clark Graebner at Forest Hills in 1968.
It begins with the ball rising into the air for the initi- Author: McPhee, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: November 01 1979
- ISBN10: 0374515263
- Language: English
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The Control of Nature
$19.00 Add to cartThe Control of Nature is John McPhee’s bestselling account of places where people are locked in combat with nature. Taking us deep into these contested territories, McPhee details the strageties and t
- Author: McPhee, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 01 1990
- ISBN10: 0374522596
- Language: English
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Enormous Changes at the Last Minute: Stories
$18.00 Add to cartIn this collection of short stories, originally published in 1974, Grace Paley “makes the novel as a form seem virtually redundant” (Angela Carter, London Review of Books). Her stories here capture “t
- Author: Paley, Grace
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: September 01 1985
- ISBN10: 0374515247
- Language: English
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Who Killed Palomino Molero?
$15.00 Add to cartWINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE
This wonderful detective novel is set in Peru in the 1950s. Near an Air Force base in the northern desert, a young airman is found murdered. Lieutenant Silva an- Author: Llosa, Mario Vargas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: August 13 2004
- ISBN10: 0374525560
- Language: English
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The Philokalia, Volume 3: The Complete Text; Compiled by St. Nikodimos of the Holy Mountain & St. Markarios of Corinth
$21.00 Add to cartThe Philokalia is a collection of texts written between the fourth and the fifteenth centuries by spiritual masters of the Orthodox Christian tradition. First published in Greek in 1782, then translat
- Series: Philokalia #3
- Author: Palmer, G. E. H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: August 25 1986
- ISBN10: 0571175252
- Language: English
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The Lost Lunar Baedeker: Poems of Mina Loy
$22.00 Add to cartMina Loy’s technique and subjects – prostitution, menstruation, destitution, and suicide – shock even some modernists and she vanished from the poetry scene as dramatically as she had appeared on it.
- Author: Loy, Mina
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: December 20 2002
- ISBN10: 0374525072
- Language: English
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I Ching: The Book of Change: A New Translation
$16.00 Add to cartIn a radically new translation and interpretation of the I Ching, David Hinton strips this ancient Chinese masterwork of the usual apparatus and discovers a deeply poetic and philosophical text. Teasi
- Author: Hinton, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: May 09 2017
- ISBN10: 0374536422
- Language: English
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Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals
$19.00 Add to cartThe British bestseller Straw Dogs is an exciting, radical work of philosophy, which sets out to challenge our most cherished assumptions about what it means to be human. From Plato to Christianity, fr
- Author: Gray, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 16 2007
- ISBN10: 0374270937
- Language: English
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Geography III
$17.00 Add to cartWhether writing about waiting as a child in a dentist’s office, viewing a city from a plane high above, or losing items ranging from door keys to one’s lover in the masterfully restrained “One Art,” E
- Series: FSG Classics
- Author: Bishop, Elizabeth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: March 18 2008
- ISBN10: 0374530653
- Language: English
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A Village Life: Poems
$16.00 Add to cartWINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE
A Village Life, Louise Gl?k’s eleventh collection of poems, begins in the topography of a village, a Med
A dreamlike collection from the Nobel Prize-winning poet- Author: Glück, Louise
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: September 14 2010
- ISBN10: 0374532435
- Language: English
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The White Goddess: A Historical Grammar of Poetic Myth
$25.00 Add to cartThe definitive edition of one of the more extraordinary and influential books of our time
This labyrinthine and extraordinary book, first published more than sixty years ago, was the outcome of Robert- Series: FSG Classics
- Author: Graves, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: October 08 2013
- ISBN10: 0374289336
- Language: English
