Red Globe Press, September 1997. Library Binding. In this readers' guide, Nicolas Tredell introduces and sets in context the key critical debates surrounding a novel about which more critical material exists than any other work of American fiction. The extracts and essays included here reflect on The Great Gatsby's place..... More
Oxford University Press, USA, September 1995. Trade Paperback. For much of his life, Pascal (1623-62) worked on a magnum opus which was never published in the form the philosopher intended. Instead, Pascal left a mass of fragments, some of them meant as notes for the Apologie. These became known as..... More
HarperCollins Publishers, January 2022. Trade Paperback. Frank Reid is a struggling printer in Moscow. On the eve of the Revolution, his wife returns to her native England, leaving him to raise their three young children alone. How does a reasonable man like Frank cope? Should he listen to the Tolstoyan..... More
Cambridge University Press, January 1995. Trade Paperback. This introductory study presents Racine's Phèdre as the culmination of French classical tragedy. It situates the play in its historical, literary and theatrical context, shows its relationship with other tragedies of Racine, and sketches its influence on later European literature. It analyzes the..... More
Cambridge University Press, October 1986. Trade Paperback. Though taking due account of the historical and philosophical dimensions of the poem, Robin Kirkpatrick focuses on Dante as a poet and story-teller. He addresses important questions such as Dante's attitude towards Virgil and demonstrates how an early work such as the Vita..... More
Modern Library, October 2005. Mass Market PaperBack. An extraordinary new verse translation of Dante's masterpiece, by poet, scholar, and lauded translator Anthony Esolen Of the great poets, Dante is one of the most elusive and therefore one of the most difficult to adequately render into English verse. In the Inferno..... More
Farrar Straus Giroux, April 2001. First Edition. Hardcover. This collection is a testament to Dante's continuing, uncanny presence in twentieth-century poetry; a presence that appears, as Robert Lowell observed, "in the way most gratifying to a poet -- in the works of his fellow poets who write long after, in..... More
HarperCollins, April 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. Poetry has the power to move and challenge the reader. It can intensify or even celebrate misery, be cynical or wry, or just laugh outright in an outrageous way. Poetry is as serious and as antic as life, and yet reading modern poetry can..... More
Humanities Pr, January 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. Very minor shelf wear on the jacket. Previous owners name on the front free endpaper. More
Thames & Hudson, June 1987. Soft Cover. The unending fascination of F. Scott Fitzgerald lies partly in the fact that his tragic life was like the plots of his own novels. This book looks at the facts of Fitzgerald's short life and offers insights into the subtle way actual events..... More
Random House, January 2011. Hardcover. One of the most popular and mysterious figures in American literary history, author of the classic "Catcher in the Rye, " J. D. Salinger eluded fans and journalists for most of his life. Now comes a new biography that Peter Ackroyd in "The Times" of..... More
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, January 1995. Hardcover. Light shelf wear on the jacket. Previous owner's name on a front free endpaper. More
Knopf Publishing Group, March 2021. Cloth. NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER - Once in a great while, a book comes along that changes our view of the world. This magnificent novel from the Nobel laureate and author of Never Let Me Go is "an intriguing take on how artificial intelligence..... More
Knopf Publishing Group, September 2022. Hardcover. NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER - The author of Hamnet--New York Times best seller and National Book Critics Circle Award winner--brings the world of Renaissance Italy to jewel-bright life in this unforgettable fictional portrait of the captivating young duchess Lucrezia de' Medici as she..... More
Little, Brown and Company, September 2022. Hardcover. In the follow-up to the "bedazzling, bewitching, and be-wonderful" (New York Times?) best-selling and Pulitzer Prize-winning Less: A Novel, the awkward and lovable Arthur Less returns in an unforgettable road trip across America. "Go get lost somewhere, it always does you good." For..... More
Orbit, July 2021. Paper Back. Three-time Hugo Award-winning and New York Times bestselling author N.K. Jemisin crafts her most incredible novel yet, a "glorious" story of culture, identity, magic, and myths in contemporary New York City. In Manhattan, a young grad student gets off the train and realizes he doesn't..... More
Little, Brown and Company, August 2022. Hardcover. In this "razor-sharp" and "dangerously hilarious" novel that "hooks readers from the beginning" (Los Angeles Times), a trans woman reenters life on the outside after more than twenty years in a men's prison, over one consequential Fourth of July weekend--from the author of..... More
Biblioasis, November 2022. Paper Back. Shortlisted for the 2022 Gordon Burn Prize - Shortlisted for the 2022 Ned Kelly Awards - Longlisted for the 2022 Booker Prize - Longlisted for the 2022 HWA Gold Crown Award SELECTED BY NEW YORK TIMES AS ONE OF 100 NOTABLE BOOKS OF 2022 The..... More
Grove Press, April 2016. Trade Paperback. Winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction Winner of the 2016 Edgar Award for Best First Novel Winner of the 2016 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction "[A] remarkable debut novel." --Philip Caputo, New York Times Book Review (cover review) Winner of..... More
Scribe US, September 2022. Paper Back. Are we free to create our own destinies or are we just part of a system beyond our control? A joyful family saga about free will, forgiveness, and how we are all interconnected. In October 1989, a set of triplets is born, and it..... More
Bloomsbury Publishing, December 2022. Paper Back. For the first time in English, literary icon Marguerite Duras's foundational masterpiece about a young woman's existential breakdown in the deceptively peaceful French countryside. The Easy Life is the story of Francine Veyrenattes, a twenty-five-year-old woman who already feels like life is passing her..... More
Flatiron Books, December 2022. Paper Back. Award-winning, New York Times bestselling author S. A. Cosby's debut novel My Darkest Prayer is republished in a new edition, with a new introduction from the author. "I handle the bodies." Whether it's working at his cousin's funeral home or tossing around the local..... More
Bloomsbury Publishing, December 2022. Hardcover. AN OBSERVER BEST DEBUT NOVEL OF THE YEAR * AN ESQUIRE BEST BOOK OF 2022 * A STYLIST BOOK YOU CAN'T MISS IN 2022 SEARING-Harper's Bazaar SMART, SPARKLING, TWISTED -Attitude SCREAMINGLY FUNNY, SCANDALOUSLY HOT, OPULENT, DEEP -Jeremy Atherton Lin, author of Gay Bar From an..... More
New Directions Publishing Corporation, June 2022. Trade Paperback. While vacationing in a hunting lodge in the Austrian mountains, a middle-aged woman awakens one morning to find herself separated from the rest of the world by an invisible wall. With a cat, a dog, and a cow as her sole companions..... More
Ecco, December 2022. Paper Back. "A spectacular debut filled with great characters and heart." --Lisa See, author of Snow Flower and the Secret Fan FINALIST FOR THE 2022 DAYTON LITERARY PEACE PRIZE - FINALIST FOR THE BALCONES FICTION PRIZE - LONGLISTED FOR THE HWA DEBUT CROWN AWARD An epic story..... More
