Two Spanish Picaresque Novels: Lazarillo De Tormes; The Swindler
Penguin, 1984. Paper Back. 12mo. with edgewear and dust stained edges. [214 pages plus eight pages of ads for Penguin books.]. More
Fiction & Literature
Selected Letters (Oxford World's Classics)
Oxford University Press, July 2002. Trade Paperback. Keats's letters have long been regarded as an extraordinary record of poetic development. According to T. S. Eliot, Keats's letters are "the most notable and most important ever written by any English poet." They represent one of the most sustained reflections on the..... More
Jane Eyre
Penguin Books, September 1996. Trade Paperback. Jane Eyre is a wildly emotional romance with a lonely heroine and a tormented Byronic hero, pathetic orphans, dark secrets, and a madwoman in the attic. When it was published in 1847, it was a great popular success. The power of the writing, the..... More
Manhood for Amateurs: The Pleasures and Regrets of a Husband, Father, and Son
Harper, October 2009. First Edition. Hardcover. "Chabon has always been a magical prose stylist, adept at combining the sort of social and emotional detail found in Philip Roth's Goodbye, Columbus stories with the metaphor-rich descriptions of John Updike and John Irving's inventive sleight of hand. . . . As in..... More
After I'm Gone
William Morrow & Company, February 2014. Hardcover. Laura Lippman, the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of The Most Dangerous Thing, I'd Know You Anywhere, and What the Dead Know, returns with an addictive story that explores how one man's disappearance echoes through the lives of the wife, mistress, and..... More
Long Day's Journey Into Night
Tale University Press, 1962. Trade Paperback. underlining and marginalia throughout. More
The Sound and the Fury (Norton Critical Editions)
W. W. Norton, December 1993. Trade Paperback. Backgrounds begins with the appendix Faulkner wrote in 1945 and sometimes referred to as another telling of The Sound and the Fury and includes a selection of Faulkner's letters, excerpts from two Faulkner interviews, a memoir by FaulknerÃs friend Ben Wasson, and both..... More
Faust: Part 1 (Penguin Classics) (Pt. 1)
Penguin Classics, December 2005. Trade Paperback. Goethe's Faust reworks the late-medieval myth of Dr Faust, a brilliant scholar so disillusioned he resolves to make a contract or wager with the devil, Mephistopheles. The devil will do all he asks on Earth and seek to grant him a moment in life..... More
Introducing Kafka
Totem Books, October 2000. Trade Paperback. What do I have in common with the Jews? I don't even have anything in common with myself. Nothing could better express the essence of Franz Kafka, a man described by his friends as living behind a glass wall. More
Romantic Movement: Sex, Shopping, and the Novel
Picador USA, May 1996. Trade Paperback. In The Romantic Movement, Alain de Botton explores the progress of a love affair from first meeting to breaking up, intercut with musings on the nature of art of love. The relationship between Alice, an advertising executive, and Eric, a banker, is examined at..... More
Kiss & Tell
Picador USA, May 1997. Trade Paperback. Told by a former girlfriend that he lacks the necessary quality of empathy, the narrator of Kiss & Tell decides to write a biography of the next person who walks into his life. At a party, he meets Isabel Rogers, a production assistant at..... More
Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story
Scribner, June 2006. Trade Paperback. Building on the national bestselling success of Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs, preeminent pop culture writer Chuck Klosterman unleashes his best book yet--the story of his cross-country tour of sites where rock stars have died and his search for love, excitement, and the meaning of..... More
Of Love and Other Demons (Vintage International)
Vintage, June 2008. Trade Paperback. From the Nobel Prize-winning author of One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera comes an extraordinary reading experience, the story of a doomed love affair between a twelve-year-old girl and a bookish priest, three times her age, who's been sent..... More
The Martian
Broadway Books, November 2014. Trade Paperback. Selected for common reading at North Lake College Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read Six days ago, astronaut Mark Watney became one of the first people to walk on Mars. Now, he's sure he'll be the first..... More
Orientalism (Vintage)
Vintage, October 1979. Trade Paperback. A groundbreaking critique of the West's historical, cultural, and political perceptions of the East that is--three decades after its first publication--one of the most important books written about our divided world. "Intellectual history on a high order ... and very exciting." --The New York Times..... More
Burnt Sugar: A Novel
The Overlook Press, January 2021. First Edition. Hardcover. Shortlisted for the 2020 Booker Prize, Avni Doshi's Burnt Sugar is a searing literary debut novel set in India about mothers and daughters, obsession, and betrayal. NPR Best Book of 2020 A Pen America Literary Award Finalist "I would be lying if..... More
When You Are Engulfed in Flames
Little, Brown and Company, June 2008. Hardcover. "David Sedaris's ability to transform the mortification of everyday life into wildly entertaining art," (The Christian Science Monitor) is elevated to wilder and more entertaining heights than ever in this remarkable new book. Trying to make coffee when the water is shut off..... More
What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours
Riverhead Books, March 2017. Trade Paperback. "Transcendent." --The New York Times Book Review "Flawless. . . another masterpiece from an author who seems incapable of writing anything that's less than brilliant." --NPR From the award-winning author of Boy, Snow, Bird and Peaces comes an enchanting collection of intertwined stories. Playful..... More
The Topeka School: A Novel
Picador, September 2020. Trade Paperback. FINALIST FOR THE PULITZER PRIZE WINNER OF THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES TOP TEN BOOKS OF THE YEAR A TIME, GQ, Vulture, and WASHINGTON POST TOP 10 BOOK of the YEAR ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVORITE BOOKS OF..... More
All's Well: A Novel
Scribner / Marysue Rucci Books, August 2022. Trade Paperback. From the author of Bunny, which Margaret Atwood hails as "genius," comes a "wild, and exhilarating" (Lauren Groff) novel about a theater professor who is convinced staging Shakespeare's most maligned play will remedy all that ails her--but at what cost? Miranda..... More
Writers & Lovers: A Novel
Grove Press, February 2021. Trade Paperback. #ReadWithJenna Book Club Pick as Featured on Today Emma Roberts Belletrist Book Club Pick A New York Times Book Review's Group Text Selection "I loved this book not just from the first chapter or the first page but from the first paragraph... The voice..... More
Ernest Hemingway on Writing
Simon & Schuster, July 1999. Trade Paperback. An assemblage of reflections on the nature of writing and the writer from one the greatest American writers of the twentieth century.Throughout Hemingway's career as a writer, he maintained that it was bad luck to talk about writing--that it takes off "whatever butterflies..... More
J.B.: A Play in Verse
Houghton Mifflin, August 1989. Reprint. Trade Paperback. J. B.: A Play in Verse is Archibald MacLeish's Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning play, based on the biblical story of Job.The story of a twentieth-century American banker and millionaire whom God commands be stripped of his family and wealth, but who refuses..... More
Marriage Portrait
Knopf Publishing Group, September 2022. Hardcover. WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION FINALIST - REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK - NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER - The author of award-winning Hamnet brings the world of Renaissance Italy to jewel-bright life in this unforgettable fictional portrait of the captivating young duchess Lucrezia de' Medici..... More
Mona
Picador Paper, March 2022. Trade Paperback. From Pola Oloixarac, the critically acclaimed author of Savage Theories and Dark Constellations, comes Mona, in which success as a "writer of color" proves to be a fresh hell for a young Latin American woman at a literary conference in Sweden. Mona, a Peruvian..... More
