University of Chicago Press
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The Raj Quartet, Volume 4: A Division of Spoils Volume 4
$23.00 Add to cartAfter exploiting India’s divisions for years, the British depart in such haste that no one is prepared for the Hindu-Muslim riots of 1947. The twilight of the raj turns bloody. Against the backdrop of… [more below]
- Series: Phoenix Fiction #4
- Author: Scott, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: May 22 1998
- ISBN10: 0226743446
- Language: English
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Breakout: A Parker Novel
$19.00 Add to cartTogether at last. Under the pseudonym Richard Stark, Donald E. Westlake, one of the greats of crime fiction, wrote twenty-four fast-paced, hard-boiled novels featuring Parker, a shrewd career criminal… [more below]
- Author: Stark, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 08 2017
- ISBN10: 022650820X
- Language: English
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Deadly Edge
$17.00 Read moreDeadly Edge bids a brutal adieu to the 1960s as Parker robs a rock concert, and the heist goes south. Soon Parker finds himself–and his woman, Claire–menaced by a pair of sadistic, strung-out killer
- Series: Parker Novels
- Author: Stark, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: September 01 2010
- ISBN10: 0226770915
- Language: English
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Dirty Money: A Parker Novel
$19.00 Add to cartTogether at last. Under the pseudonym Richard Stark, Donald E. Westlake, one of the greats of crime fiction, wrote twenty-four fast-paced, hard-boiled novels featuring Parker, a shrewd career criminal… [more below]
- Author: Stark, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 08 2017
- ISBN10: 022648615X
- Language: English
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The Damsel
$17.00 Add to cartDonald E. Westlake is one of the greats of crime fiction. Under the pseudonym Richard Stark, he wrote twenty-four fast-paced, hardboiled novels featuring Parker, a shrewd career criminal with a talent… [more below]
- Author: Stark, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 198
- Publish Date: April 15 2012
- ISBN10: 0226770362
- Language: English
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The Raj Quartet, Volume 3: The Towers of Silence Volume 3
$23.00 Add to cartIndia, 1943: In a regimental hill station, the ladies of Pankot struggle to preserve the genteel fa軋de of British society amid the debris of a vanishing empire and World War II. A retired missionary… [more below]
- Series: Phoenix Fiction #3
- Author: Scott, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 399
- Publish Date: May 22 1998
- ISBN10: 0226743438
- Language: English
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Keats’s Odes: A Lover’s Discourse
$15.00 Read more“When I say this book is a love story, I mean it is about things that cannot be gotten over–like this world, and some of the people in it.”
In 1819, the poet John Keats wrote six poems that would be- Author: Nersessian, Anahid
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: December 13 2022
- ISBN10: 022682652X
- Language: English
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The Outfit
$17.00 Add to cartThey wanted Parker dead–and a late-night visit from a hitman proved they meant business. Now Parker plans to get even–dead even. Armed with a new face and his usual iron will, Parker is declaring a … [more below]
- Series: Parker Novels
- Author: Stark, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0226771016
- Language: English
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The Monkey and the Monk: An Abridgment of The Journey to the West
$20.00 Add to cartAnthony C. Yu’s celebrated translation of The Journey to the West reinvigorated one of Chinese literature’s most beloved classics for English-speaking audiences when it first appeared thirty years ago
- Author: Yu, Anthony C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: November 15 2006
- ISBN10: 0226971562
- Language: English
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The Man with the Getaway Face
$17.00 Add to cartIn New York there was a contract on his life. In Nebraska there was an unscrupulous plastic surgeon guarded by a punch-drunk fighter. And somewhere in New Jersey there was an armored car stuffed with … [more below]
- Series: Parker Novels
- Author: Stark, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0226771008
- Language: English
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On Not Knowing: How to Love and Other Essays
$16.00 Add to cartA beautifully written suite of personal essays on the value of not knowing.
Moments of clarity are rare and fleeting; how can we become comfortable outside of them, in the more general condition of u- Author: Ogden, Emily
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: April 20 2022
- ISBN10: 022675135X
- Language: English
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Bengal Nights
$21.00 Add to cartSet in 1930s Calcutta, this is a roman clef of remarkable intimacy. Originally published in Romanian in 1933, this semiautobiographical novel by the world renowned scholar Mircea Eliade details the … [more below]
- Author: Eliade, Mircea
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: April 01 1995
- ISBN10: 0226204197
- Language: English
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A Certain Smile
$17.00 Read moreFran oise Sagan is best known for her first novel, Bonjour Tristesse, which caused a scandal when she first published it at the age of eighteen in 1953. But her second novel, A Certain Smile, less sho
- Author: Sagan, Françoise
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: October 15 2011
- ISBN10: 0226733475
- Language: English
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A Dance to the Music of Time: Second Movement
$26.00 Add to cartAnthony Powell’s universally acclaimed epic encompasses a four-volume panorama of twentieth century London. Hailed by Time as “brilliant literary comedy as well as a brilliant sketch of the times,” A … [more below]
- Series: Dance to the Music of Time
- Author: Powell, Anthony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 746
- Publish Date: June 15 1995
- ISBN10: 0226677168
- Language: English
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A Naked Singularity
$22.00 Add to cartThe critically acclaimed novel that is now a major motion picture starring John Boyega and Olivia Cooke, coming to theaters August 6, streaming August 13!
A Naked Singularity tells the story of Casi,- Author: de la Pava, Sergio
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 688
- Publish Date: April 19 2012
- ISBN10: 0226141799
- Language: English
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Pictures from an Institution
$19.00 Add to cartBeneath the unassuming surface of a progressive women’s college lurks a world of intellectual pride and pomposity awaiting devastation by the pens of two brilliant and appalling wits. Randall Jarrell’
- Series: Phoenix Fiction
- Author: Jarrell, Randall
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: April 30 2010
- ISBN10: 0226393755
- Language: English
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The Mourner
$17.00 Add to cartThe Mourner is a story of convergence–of cultures and of guys with guns. Hot on the trail of a statue stolen from a fifteenth-century French tomb, Parker enters a world of eccentric art collectors, g
- Series: Parker Novels
- Author: Stark, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: April 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0226771032
- Language: English
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A Dance to the Music of Time: Third Movement
$28.00 Add to cartAnthony Powell’s universally acclaimed epic encompasses a four-volume panorama of twentieth century London. Hailed by Time as “brilliant literary comedy as well as a brilliant sketch of the times,” A … [more below]
- Series: Dance to the Music of Time
- Author: Powell, Anthony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 731
- Publish Date: May 31 1995
- ISBN10: 0226677176
- Language: English
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A Dance to the Music of Time: Fourth Movement
$28.00 Add to cartAnthony Powell’s universally acclaimed epic encompasses a four-volume panorama of twentieth century London. Hailed by Time as “brilliant literary comedy as well as a brilliant sketch of the times,” A … [more below]
- Series: Dance to the Music of Time
- Author: Powell, Anthony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 804
- Publish Date: May 31 1995
- ISBN10: 0226677184
- Language: English
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The Score
$17.00 Add to cartIt was an impossible crime: knock off an entire town–a huge plant payroll, all the banks, and all the stores–in one night. But there was one thief good enough to try–Parker. In The Score, Parker ta
- Series: Parker Novels
- Author: Stark, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0226771040
- Language: English
