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My Father’s Glory & My Mother’s Castle: Marcel Pagnol’s Memories of Childhood
$29.00 Add to cartBathed in the warm clarity of the summer sun in Provence, Marcel Pagnol’s childhood memories celebrate a time of rare beauty and delight.Called by Jean Renoir “the leading film artist of his age,” Pag
- Author: Pagnol, Marcel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 342
- Publish Date: October 07 2004
- ISBN10: 0865472572
- Language: English
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Five Plays: Antigone, Eurydice, the Ermine, the Rehearsal, Romeo and Jeannette
$25.99 Add to cartThe great French playwright Jean Anouilh (1910-87) wrote both “pink” bittersweet comedies and “black” tragic dramas. Jean Anouilh Five Plays—the finest English-language anthology of his works—crackl
- Series: Five Plays #1
- Author: Anouilh, Jean
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 28 1990
- ISBN10: 0374522294
- Language: English
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Being John Malkovich
$16.00 Add to cartWhat do you get when a down-on-his-heels puppeteer working as a file clerk on the seventh-and-a-half floor of a Manhattan office building discovers a secret portal into the brain of John Malkovich? Hi
- Series: Faber and Faber Screenplays
- Author: Kaufman, Charlie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: October 20 2000
- ISBN10: 0571205860
- Language: English
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Unborn: The Life and Teachings of Zen Master Bankei, 1622-1693
$19.00 Add to cartIn 1633, at age eleven, Bankei Yotaku was banished from his family’s home because of his consuming engagement with the Confucian texts that all schoolboys were required to copy and recite. Using a hut
- Author: Yotaku, Bankei
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 156
- Publish Date: March 29 2005
- ISBN10: 0865475954
- Language: English
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The Poetry of Petrarch
$24.00 Add to cart“David Young’s version of Petrarch will refresh our images of the West’s crucial lyric poet. We are given a Petrarch in our own vernacular, with echoes of Wyatt, Shakespeare, and many who come after.”
- Author: Petrarch
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 01 2005
- ISBN10: 0374529612
- Language: English
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Strange Tools: Art and Human Nature
$21.99 Add to cartA philosopher makes the case for thinking of works of art as tools for investigating ourselves
In Strange Tools: Art and Human Nature, the philosopher and cognitive scientist Alva No? argues that our- Author: No?, Alva
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 27 2016
- ISBN10: 0809089165
- Language: English
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Human Chain
$16.00 Add to cartA Boston Globe Best Poetry Book of 2011
Seamus Heaney’s new collection elicits continuities and solidarities, between husband
Winner of the 2011 Griffin Poetry Prize
Winner of the 2011 Poetry Now Award- Author: Heaney, Seamus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: August 30 2011
- ISBN10: 0374533008
- Language: English
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Rushmore: A Screenplay
$20.00 Add to cartRushmore is the second work from the team of Wes Anderson and Owen Wilson following the success of their debut screenplay and film Bottle Rocket. It is a refreshingly offbeat comedy about young Max Fi
- Author: Anderson, Wes
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: May 31 1999
- ISBN10: 0571200125
- Language: English
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How Architecture Works
$25.99 Add to cartAn essential toolkit for understanding architecture as both art form and the setting for our everyday lives
We spend most of our days and nights in buildings, living and working and sometimes playing.- Author: Rybczynski, Witold
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 07 2014
- ISBN10: 0374534829
- Language: English
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Idea of India
$21.99 Add to cartA classic since it was first published in 1997, The Idea of India is a magisterial historical study that addresses the paradoxes and ironies of the world’s largest democracy. When, in 1947, the Britis
- Author: Khilnani, Sunil
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: November 21 2017
- ISBN10: 0374537623
- Language: English
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Islam’s Black Slaves: The Other Black Diaspora
$22.00 Add to cartA comprehensive study of the Eastern slave trade by an eminent British scholar
A companion volume to The Black Diaspora, this groundbreaking work tells the fascinating and horrifying story of the Islam
- Author: Segal, Ronald
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 273
- Publish Date: October 05 2006
- ISBN10: 0374527970
- Language: English
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Money of the Mind: How the 1980s Got That Way
$36.00 Add to cartThe 1980s witnessed a lemming-like rush into the sea of debt on the part of the American industrial and financial communities, with consequences we are only beginning to appreciate. But the speculativ
- Author: Grant, James L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: September 30 2004
- ISBN10: 0374524017
- Language: English
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The Vietnam War
$29.99 Add to cartA graphically told history of the Vietnam War, interweaving U.S. political and cultural history with the military history of the war.
When Senator Edward Kennedy declared, Iraq is George Bush’s Vietnam- Author: Mactavish
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: September 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0809094959
- 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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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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The Abyss
$40.99 Add to cartMarguerite Yourcenar instantly assumes command of our imagination in her novel The Abyss. Almost before we know it the author establishes a scene and time, and engages us in the fate of two cousins.
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- Author: Yourcenar, Marguerite
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 600
- Publish Date: April 09 2003
- ISBN10: 0374516669
- Language: English
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Jean de Florette and Manon of the Springs: Two Novels
$33.00 Add to cartIn Jean de Florette and Manon of the Springs, Marcel Pagnol (called by Andre Malraux “one of the great writers of our generation” and by Jean Renoir “the leading film artist of his age”) achieve the f
- Author: Pagnol, Marcel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: June 02 2005
- ISBN10: 0865473129
- Language: English
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Pan: From Lieutenant Thomas Glahn’s Papers
$15.99 Add to cartHamsun’s portrait of a man rejecting the claims of bourgeois society for a Rousseauian embrace of Nature and Eros, in a remarkable new translation.
“The work contains a harmony found only in the highes- Author: Hamsun, Knut
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: January 01 1956
- ISBN10: 0374500169
- Language: English
