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Anthropology, Best Selling
Five Modern No Plays
Japanese No drama is one of the great art forms that has fascinated people throughout the world. The late Yukio Mishima, one of Japan's outstanding post-war writers, infused new life...
$15.95
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Mexico in Mind: An Anthology
Two centuries of writers drawn to Mexico--from D. H. Lawrence, John Steinbeck, Jack Kerouac, and Tennessee Williams to Salman Rushdie, Anita Desai, and Sandra CisnerosThis scintillating literary travel guide gathers...
$16.00
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Fuenteovejuna
Lope de Vega's masterpiece, a classic play of the Spanish Golden Age, in a vibrant new translation Lope de Vega "single-handedly created the Spanish national theatre," writes Roberto Gonz lez...
$13.95
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On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History
Based on a series of lectures delivered in 1840, Thomas Carlyle's On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History considers the creation of heroes and the ways they exert heroic...
$22.00
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Good Night, Beloved Comrade: The Letters of Denton Welch to Eric Oliver
Denton Welch (1915-48) died at the age of thirty-three after a brief but brilliant career as a writer and painter. The revealing, poignant, impressionistic voice that buoys his novels was...
$29.95
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Forest Under Story: Creative Inquiry in an Old-Growth Forest
Two kinds of long-term research are taking place at the H. J. Andrews Experimental Forest, a renowned research facility in the temperate rain forest of the Oregon Cascades. Here, scientists...
$19.95
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The Drunken Man's Talk: Tales from Medieval China
This collection of short stories, anecdotes, and poems was likely compiled during the 13th century. Tales of romantic love--including courtship, marriage, and illicit affairs--unify the collection and make it an...
$32.00
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Twilight on the Range: Recollections of a Latterday Cowboy
Billie Timmons was fourteen when he met Charles Goodnight--over a wagonload of manure that had been jammed on a gatepost--and he went to work on the Goodnight Cross J Ranch...
$25.00
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The Communicating Vessels
For the first time available in English, two portraits of grief by Friederike Mayr cker, one of the significant European writers of our time. Friederike Mayr cker met Ernst Jandl...
$16.95
Architecture, Best Selling
Melusine; Or, the Noble History of Lusignan
Jean d'Arras's splendid prose romance of Melusine, written for Jean de Berry, the brother of King Charles V of France, is one of the most significant and complex literary works...
$25.95
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The Great Flowing River: A Memoir of China, from Manchuria to Taiwan
Heralded as a literary masterpiece and a best-seller in the Chinese-speaking world, The Great Flowing River is a personal account of the history of modern China and Taiwan unlike any...
$37.00
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Sisters of the Cross
Thirty-year-old Piotr Alekseevich Marakulin lives a contented, if humdrum life as a financial clerk in a Petersburg trading company. He is jolted out of his daily routine when, quite unexpectedly,...
$14.95
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Between Dog and Wolf
Sasha Sokolov is one of few writers to have been praised by Vladimir Nabokov, who called his first novel, A School for Fools, "an enchanting, tragic, and touching book." Sokolov's...
$14.95
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The Comedies
'I thought you'd do what the common run of slaves normally do, cheating and tricking me because my son's having an affair.' Terence's comedies have provided plots and characters for...
$16.95
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Letters
Not originally intended for publication, the celebrated and controversial correspondences between Lord Chesterfield and his son Philip, dating from 1737, were praised in their day as a complete manual of...
$16.95
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Culture and Anarchy
Matthew Arnold's famous series of essays, which were first published in book form under the title Culture and Anarchy in 1869, debate important questions about the nature of culture and...
$13.95
Art, Best Selling
Life, Letters, and Poetry
Michelangelo was, apart from being a sculptor, architect, and painter of genius, a poet and letter-writer of remarkable accomplishment. George Bull, a distinguished translator of many Italian classics, has brought...
$11.95
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Bheda
Akhila Naik's Bheda (2010) has the distinction of being the first Odiya Dalit novel. It is set in remote villages of the Kalahandi district in western Odisha mired in poverty,...
$24.95
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Messing about in Quotes: A Little Oxford Dictionary of Humorous Quotations
Become a dazzling wit or enjoy a good laugh with this entertaining collection of humorous quotations, carefully handpicked and edited by writer and broadcaster Gyles Brandreth. From Art to Bores,...
$14.95
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Aristotle and the Eleatic One
In this book Timothy Clarke examines Aristotle's response to Eleatic monism, the theory of Parmenides of Elea and his followers that reality is 'one'. Clarke argues that Aristotle interprets the...
$84.00
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The Early Diary of Anais Nin, Vol. 2 (1920-1923)
A continuation of the journey of self-education and self-discovery begun by Ana s Nin in the previous volume of her early diary. Central here is the growing conflict between her...
$40.00
Award Winning Books, Best Selling
Mysteries of Small Houses: Poems
Alice Notley vividly reconstructs the mysteries, longings, and emotions of her past in this brilliant new collection of poems that charts her growth from young girl to young woman to...
$22.00
Architecture, Best Selling
La Vita Nuova
A unique treatise by a poet, written for poets, on the art of poetry The La Vita Nuova is elaborately and symbolically patterned, consisting of a selection of Dante's early...
$13.00
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Catiline's War, the Jurgurthine War, Histories
Sallust is the earliest Roman historian of whom complete works survive, a senator of the Roman Republic and younger contemporary of Cicero, Pompey and Julius Caesar. His Catiline's War tells...
$17.00
