Lives of Some Outsider Women
by Rosemary Dinnage
Alone! Alone! tells the stories of a variety of odd and accomplished women, all of whom in one way or another lived their lives apart from their contemporaries. Here are solitary figures like Gwen John, Simone Weil, and Barbara Pym, muses and partners of dominant men like Clementine Churchill and Giuseppina Verdi, survivors such as Isak Dinesen, Doris Lessing, and Rebecca West, and other writers including Katherine Mansfield, Iris Murdoch, and Anita Brookner.

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By John Pope-Hennessy

The Piero della Francesca Trail quickly achieved a cult following when it was first published and it remains the classic guide to the luminous and enigmatic frescoes of Piero. Pope-Hennessy writes affectingly about the pilgrimage to see Piero's works, a journey now made by thousands each year. Designed for the art lover and cultural traveler, this new edition includes more than fifty color reproductions and, for the first time, "The Best Picture," Aldous Huxley's famous essay that first inspired Pope-Hennessy to seek out the mysterious and at that time little-known works that now constitute the Piero della Francesca Trail.

ISBN: 1892145138 - 88 pages - Hardcover

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Series editor Robert Kahn
Editor, Tim Adams


In this imaginatively conceived series, the world's foremost artists, writers, architects, curators, and others reveal their favorite discoveries. From wellknown sites to overlooked gems, the pages of City Secrets are rich with hundreds of classic and quirky entries about restaurants, historic sites, art, architecture, and much more. City Secrets contributors include Louis Begley, J.G. Ballard, Michael Cunningham, John Guare, David Hare, Marcella Hazan, Mario Vargas Llosa, Danny Meyer, Oliver Sacks, Pete Seeger, Frank Stella, and others.

"City Secrets guides are unlike any others on the market...in this case, a formidable cross section of London's intelligentsia...share their inside information on the parts of London they know best...."—The Sunday Times (London)ISBN: 1892145073 • 250 pages • Hardcover

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By François Thomazeau
Photographs by Sylvain Ageorges
Translated by Anna Moschovakis

There may be a bistro on every block in Paris, but distinguishing the good from the disappointing isn't so easy: these little neighborhood restaurants look alike—zinc (or wood or pewter) bar, with small dining room, daily specials on the chalkboard, husband in the kitchen, wife up front. But the 51 bistros profiled here stand apart from the others by virtue of their food, often regional dishes native to the owners' home province, and wine, often a short but well-chosen list from small vineyards with which the owner has a longstanding relationship.

Some of the gems included in Authentic Bistros of Paris include:

• Le Bistrot de peintre, frequented by artists and gallery owners, with a façade that is considered the most beautiful example of the Modern style in Paris
• The exquisite La Palette, with its incomparable terrace and celebrity clientele, from Pablo Picasso to Catherine Deneuve
• The picturesque La Tartine, “the most-photographed bar in Paris”
• Le Petit fer a cheval, where more than 20 select small-label wines are offered, and served to patrons seated on recycled metro benches or at the horseshoe-shaped antique bar
• Chez Georges, the archetypical Latin Quarter wine bar, frequented by a convivial mélange of old-timers, students, and locals.


This discriminating little guide offers an endless source of charming and unpretentious places to enjoy a morning coffee, savor a memorable meal, or sip an afternoon aperitif in the most authentic Parisian settings.

Sumptuous color photographs throughout.

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By Steve Dollar

Jazz Guide: New York City is the only comprehensive guide to jazz in the Big Apple –now updated to include all the newest hot spots on the scene. Uptown, downtown. Big bands to subway soloists. Elegant clubs with big-name headliners to hole-in-the wall joints where the bands play all night. Jazz Guide profiles more than sixty venues where you can hear the best of every kind of jazz—big band, fusion, bebop, and funk; Creole, Afro-Caribbean, rhythm-and-blues, groove-oriented, and electronic music; Gallic, Arabic, and Brazilian acts; and music from drum cultures including the Caribbean, Latin America, West Africa.

Profiles of contemporary clubs are interwoven with listing of music festivals, specialty stores, jazz lore, including visits to Harlem and 52nd Street in their heydays, the famous bridge where Sonny Rollins moonlighted, and the neighborhood Louis Armstrong called home.

ISBN: 1892145437 • 176 pages • Paperback

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The Little Bookroom
The dearly held belief that no meal can be too big or last too long has been cherished for generations in New Orleans, and nowhere more faithfully than in these 34 of the city's oldest restaurants,from neighborhood joints serving up the freshest crawfish and finest oyster po' boys to the French Quarter's more elegant establishments. New Orleans' leisurely, unaffected style also endures in the 22 venerable shops profiled here, including a turn of the century parfumerie and luxurious antiques stores.
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by Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) Italian
Preface by Michael Palmer • Translated by Dante Gabriel Rossetti
This is the masterpiece of Dante's youth, an account of his love for Beatrice, the girl who was to become his lifelong muse, and of her tragic early death. An allegory of the soul's crisis and growth, combining prose and poetry, narrative and meditation, dreams and songs and prayers,The New Life is one of the supreme revelations in the literature of love.
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by Julia Holmes
100 New Yorkers profiles painters, comedians, crooners, politicians—even a pirate—and the places associated with them in the city. It describes affairs and love stories, feats of the imagination, lurid scandals, and fabulous parties. Throughout, 100 New Yorkers features the incomparable panorama of the city—the drama surrounding the construction of the Brooklyn Bridge, the music of smoky Harlem lounges in the 1940s, and the bustle of Coney Island in its heyday; with 100 black and white photographs.
Paperback • 250 pages

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by Ivy Compton-Burnett (1892-1969) English
Introduction by Francine Prose
Abuse, adultery, incest, and murder: these are at the center of Compton-Burnett's darkly comic novels. Among the most unsparing,A House and Its Head dissects the domestic establishment of Duncan Edgeworth, a tyrannical pater familias who can't stop remarrying, while his daughters can't get married at all. Soon the family's conflicting interests set off a series of appalling transgressions, made all the more scary by the ease with which, in the end, the survivors accept the results.
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By Beth Elon

Each of the ten itineraries in this cookbook/guidebook takes readers through parts of Tuscany that still remain largely undiscovered—and into the kitchens of more than fifty restaurants whose cooks reveal their most authentic recipes. In addition to 100 recipes, also included are descriptions and contact information for restaurants, trattorie, gourmet shops, wineries, olive oil producers, local markets, and regional food festivals, and how to find the monasteries, workshops, and artisans' studios that offer local items ranging from herbal beauty products to traditional ceramics and hand-woven linens. 320 pp

What Beth Elon has given us is not only a detailed and practical cookbook but also a traveler's guide—and a love letter to a place and a way of living. This is great food writing in the spirit of Elizabeth David.—Joan Didion

Beth Elon not only tastes Tuscany, she savors every flavor, turns down every enticing road, and joyously reveals her long, profound, and continuing appreciation of this place of endless pleasures. — Frances Mayes

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by Fr. Rolfe (1860-1913) British
Introduction by Alexander Theroux
One day George Arthur Rose, hack writer and minor priest, discovers that he has been picked to be Pope. He is hardly surprised and not in the least daunted. Hadrian is conceived in the image of his creator, Frederick Rolfe, whose aristocratic pretensions (he called himself Baron Corvo), religious obsession (he abbreviated his first name to Fr., giving the impression he was a priest), and self-aggrandizing sensibility have made him known as one of the great English eccentrics.
0-94032-262-5 • Paperback

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by Robert Walser
Translated and with an introduction by Christopher Middleton
Jakob von Gunten is the story of a seventeen-year-old runaway from an old family who enrolls in a school for servants. The Institute is a deeply mysterious place: the faculty lies asleep in a single room; the students, though subject to fierce discipline, come and go at will. And in the end, as the Institute itself dissolves around him like a dream, he steps out boldly to explore still-unimagined worlds.
0-94032-221-8 • Paperback • 200 pp

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A man is shot dead as he runs to catch the bus in the piazza of a small Sicilian town. Captain Bellodi, the detective on the case, is new to his job and determined to prove himself. But all the while Bellodi's investigation is being carefully monitored by a host of observers, near and far, who share a single concern: to keep the truth from coming out. This short, beautifully paced novel is a mesmerizing description of the Mafia at work.

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A guide to the century-old establishments of the city

By Ellen Williams & Steve Radlauer

Be fitted for a suit at Abraham Lincoln's haberdashery, visit the apothecary where Mark Twain filled his prescriptions, lunch at restaurants that once served Charles Dickens and Mae West. This guide directs you to the tobacconists, wine merchants, coffee roasters, jewelers, and pasta makers that have delighted New Yorkers and visitors alike for generations.

"This is a jewel box that yields the gems of a bygone era, polished afresh."—The Chicago TribuneISBN: 1892145154 • 350 pages • Hardcover

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By Harpo Marx
With Roland Barber
Introduction by E. L. Doctorow

Long before vaudeville, Broadway, and the silver screen, Harpo Marx triumphed on the greatest stage of all—New York City. Optimistic and wry, with an unforgettable cast of characters, and set against turn-of-the-century Manhattan, this is the delightful tale of a second-grade dropout.

"A real charmer."—Library Journal

"This enchanting memoir will make you regret every day you ever wasted going to school."—John Guare

ISBN: 1892145065 • 56 pages • Hardcover

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By E. B. White
Introduction by Roger Angell

E.B. White's remarkable, pristine essay, Here is New York, has been chosen by The New York Times as one of the ten best books ever written about the city.

"Just to dip into this miraculous essay—to experience the wonderful lightness and momentum of its prose, its supremely casual air and surprisingly tight knit—is to find oneself going ahead and rereading it all. White's homage feels as fresh now as fifty years ago."—John Updike

ISBN: 1892145022 • 56 pages • Hardcover

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by J. A. Baker (b. 1926) English
Introduction by Robert Macfarlane
With no prior knowledge of birds, the author is seized with an unexplained longing to track the peregrine falcons that hunt in the river valley behind his home. As winter approaches, he resolves to shun the world of men in fierce pursuit of the falcon's inner life. Veering swiftly from the mundane to the miraculous, Baker's diary of a long winter in the wild is a triumph of pure and immediate description.
1-59017-133-0 • Paperback

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Series editor Robert Kahn

In this imaginatively conceived series, the world's foremost artists, writers, architects, curators, and others reveal their favorite discoveries. From wellknown sites to overlooked gems, the pages of City Secrets are rich with hundreds of classic and quirky entries about restaurants, historic sites, art, architecture, and much more. City Secrets contributors include Louis Begley, J.G. Ballard, Michael Cunningham, John Guare, David Hare, Marcella Hazan, Mario Vargas Llosa, Danny Meyer, Oliver Sacks, Pete Seeger, Frank Stella, and others. "You'll never want to go back to the standard guidebook."—GQ

ISBN: 1892145014 • 280 pages • Hardcover

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by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742–1799) German
Translated and with an introduction by R. J. Hollingdale

The casual notes and aphorisms collected here by Lichtenberg, an 18th-century polymath, were greatly admired by Leo Tolstoy, Albert Einstein, and André Breton. They are above all a powerful testament to the necessity, and pleasure, of unfettered thought. 0-94032-250-1 • PB • 264 pp

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by William Attaway (1911-1986) American
This extraordinary novel chronicles the harrowing psychological, emotional, and spiritual odyssey of the Moss brothers as they confront the brutal realities of industrialization and the African-American Great Migration. Delivered by day into the searing inferno of the steel mills, by night they encounter a spiritually and environmentally devastated world in an unprecedented vision of the American melting pot not as an image of hope, but as an instrument of destruction.
1-59017-134-9 • Paperback

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By Ellen Williams

Four walking tours through some of the most picturesque and historic districts of the city follow Picasso from the gaslit garrets of Montmartre to the Left Bank quarter where he sat out the Occupation. Along the way, meet his celebrated circle of friends, including Gertrude Stein, Henri Matisse, and Coco Chanel. With color reproductions, photographs, and period dining recommendations.

"...the engaging writing and thorough research make for an excellent travel guide—or just a great read."— Time Out New York

ISBN: 0964126273 • 144 pages • Hardcover

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by Hugo von Hofmannsthal (1874-1929) Austrian
Introduction by John Banville • Translated by Joel Rotenberg

In The Lord Chandos Letter, the author conjures a figure from the English Renaissance in order to write about a peculiarly modern crisis of the spirit. In this cryptic, haunting, at times hallucinated document, a young lord writes for the last time to his patron, Sir Francis Bacon, of a mysterious affliction which has left him entirely bereft of words. The book evokes a state of final internal exile, of death in life.
1-59017-120-9 • Paperback • 152 pp

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By Jessica Mitford
Introduction by Christopher Hitchens

Jessica Mitford was part of a legendary eccentric English aristocratic family. One of her sisters fell head over heels in love with Hitler; one of the others became the Duchess of Devonshire. Jessica swung left, moved to America, and became a journalist. Hons and Rebels is the hugely entertaining tale of Mitford's upbringing, which was, as she dryly remarks, "not exactly conventional": a family portrait, a tale of youthful folly, a study in social history, a love story, and a delightful contribution to the autobiographer's art.

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by William Dean Howells (1870-1920) American
Introduction by Wendy Lesser
Theodore Colville, just 40, has left his job as a successful newspaper publisher to head for Italy, where as a young man he had dreamed of a career as an architect and fallen hopelessly in love. There he runs into the sometime best friend of the woman who jilted him; he also meets 20-year-old Imogene Graham.
1-59017-109-8 • Paperback

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by Angus Wilson (1913-1991) English
Introduction by Jane Smiley

It's 1954, and Gerard Middleton is a 60-year-old self-proclaimed failure. Worse than that, he's a “a failure with a conscience.” As a young man, he was involved in an archaeological dig that turned up a heathen idol in the coffin of a 7th-century Anglo-Saxon bishop, thereby scandalizing a generation. Now, Middleton must confront his estranged children, his alcoholic former mistress, and a nagging sense of failure in order to expose the greatest archaeological hoax of the century.

1-59017-142-X • Paperback • 360 pp

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by Jules Vallès (1832-1885) French
Translated and with an introduction by Douglas Parmée

The Child tells the story of a young boy who is scapegoated and abused, emotionally and physically, by his parents. But the young hero learns to stand up to them, and ultimately, even to love them. Yet for all the pain the book registers, it is anything but dreary. To the contrary, Vallès's book is one of the funniest in French literature, a triumph of insubordinate comedy over the forces of order and the self-appointed defenders of decency.
1-59017-117-9 • Paperback • 368 pp

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by Yashar Kemal

Memed, My Hawk is an epic story of the Middle East by modern Turkey's greatest novelist. Memed grows up in a desperately poor village thatsuffers under a local landlord. He runs away, but is caught and subjected to even more cruelty. He escapes again, to set up as a roving brigand,perhaps a liberator of his people…or has his character taken on anirremediably brutal form?

PB • 360 pp

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by H. G. Wells • Illustrations by Edward Gorey
H. G. Wells's spellbinding account of an invasion from outer space is the first and still the best of its genre. Famously dramatized by Wells in a 1938 radio presentation, The War of the Worlds is the subject of a forthcoming movie by Steven Spielberg. Here, this classic receives its ultimate visual interpretation by master illustrator Edward Gorey, who offers front and back cover art and 30 spectacular drawings.
Hardcover • 250 pp

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by Barbara Sleigh

When Rosemary buys a second-rate broom and a cat from an old lady, she quickly learns that appearances can be deceiving. Some old ladies are witches, some brooms can fly, and some ordinary-looking cats are Princes of the Royal Blood. When Carbonel enlists Rosemary's help in regaining his rightful throne, she must do some clever sleuthing, work a little magic of her own, and—not least—put up with the demands of a very haughty cat. Ages 8 and up.

HC • 5 1/2" x 8 1/2" • 216 pp

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2nd edition • by Thomas Powers

No one outside the CIA knows more about the intelligence business than Thomas Powers. These essays range from the exploits of agents from World War II, through the Cold War, to 9/11.
"It sounds odd to talk of sympathy for the CIA. But that is what Thomas Powers obviously feels towards the main spying agency of the United States, and it makes for a remarkable, mind-clearing book."—New Statesman
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Living in Paris in the Twenties, Harry Crosby was at the center of the wild life of the Lost Generation until 1929, when he shot his girlfriend, the recent bride of another man, and then himself.

"The best biography I have ever read."—James Dickey

"Crosby emerges as a character as complex and fascinating as Zelda or Alice Toklas, even Ezra Pound. ...A breathtaking story." —San Francisco Chronicle

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by Evan Connell • Introduction by A.M. Homes

In this novel, a young man—not so young anymore—spurned at home and at work, sits in his cramped apartment channeling everything around him into a diary that is a record of a world going to pieces. "Connell has been on a quiet mission, as an artist, historian and, perhaps most of all, as a gloriously insidious philosopher of our true heritage, for more than 50 years. He's produced five unexpected, wholly original American classics. Living American authors of his stature can be counted on one hand."—Salon.com
PB • 5" x 8" • 272 pp

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by Edmund Wilson • Introduction by Louis Menand

A powerful novel, Memoirs of Hecate County has been overlooked, perhaps because of Edmund Wilson's commanding reputation as a critic, but also no doubt because its unsentimental depictions of sex attracted the attentions of the censor and provoked a scandal. Hecate County is a sleepy bedroom community where drinks flow endlessly and fantasies of sexual fulfillment take form or fade away in an atmosphere of persistent unreality. But at the heart of Wilson's book is a New York story, "The Princess with the Golden Hair," a riveting, comic, and ultimately very moving account of man caught up in concurrent love affairs. "No longer shocking, and never meant to be, this 'memoir' remains, I think, a work of exemplary merit, still the most intelligent attempt by an American male to dramatize sexual behavior as a function of, rather than a suspension of, personality."—John Updike
PB • 5" x 8" • 472 pp

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By Yuri Olesha (1899-1960) Ukrainian
Introduction by Ken Kalfus • Translated by Marian Schwartz
Andrei, a model Soviet citizen and self-satisfied sausage producer, encounters Nikolai, the loser. Andrei gives him a job as a gofer. Griping, sulking, grovelingly abject, Nikolai despises everything about Andrei, even as he envies him his every breath. Thus, the producer and sponger, insider and outcast, master and man fight back and forth in the pages of this anarchic comedy.
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One of Balzac's most celebrated tales, this is the story of a painter who, depending on one's perspective, is either an abject failure or a transcendental genius—or both. The story, which has served as an inspiration to artists as various as Henry James and Picasso, is, in Dore Ashton's words, a "fable of modern art." Here it appears as Balzac intended, with "Gambara," a grotesque and tragic novella about a musician undone by his dreams.

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In an early spring day in 1950, two men cutting peat in a Danish bog uncovered a well-preserved body of a man with a noose around his neck. The police were baffled until they consulted the famous archaeologist P.V. Glob, who identified the body as that of a ritually-murdered 2000-year-old man. Conceived as a kind of a detective story, this classic of archaeological history is a fascinating account of the daily life of the Iron Age in Europe. Includes seventy-six black-and-white photographs.

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by J.G. Farrell • Introduction by Pankaj Mishra

Set in India in 1857, the year of bloody rebellion, the novel concerns a Victorian outpost confident of its superior culture and military strength—until it finds itself under siege. Booker Prize winner.
"What a book. It has everything you could expect to find ina big old-fashioned novel or several of them—characters, suspense, military action, romantic attachments, satire, wit, tenderness,philosophy. In my family, nobody, from the age of eighteen to over sixty, could put it down."—Mary McCarthy
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by Luigi Pirandello (1867-1936) Italian
Translated by William Weaver
Mattia Pascal endures a life of drudgery in a provincial town. Then, providentially, he discovers that he has been declared dead. He realizes he has a chance to start over, moves to a new city and adopts a new name, only to find this second life as insufferable as the old one. But when he returns to the world he knew, it's too late: his job is gone, and his wife has a new husband.
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by Janet Hobhouse (1948-1991) American
Introduction by Daphne Merkin
An exhilarating, fiercely honest, ultimately devastating book,The Furiesconfronts the claims of family and the lure of desire, the difficulties of independence, and the approach of death. Janet Hobhouse's final testament is beautifully written, deeply felt, and above all utterly alive.
"[A] sad, beautiful—and profoundly affecting—meditation on love and death and family." —Michiko Kakutani,New York Times
1-59017-085-7 • Paperback

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by Julio Cortázar (1914-1984) Argentine
Introduction by Alastair Reid • Translated by Elaine Kerrigan
The winners of a state lottery, a cross section of the citizens of Buenos Aires, have received tickets for a mysterious luxury cruise. They embark without knowing where they are headed. Within hours, the passengers are told a disease has broken out among the crew and they will be confined to a small section of the ship. Some accept their confinement, others confront the crew, leading to an outbreak of violence that seems both inevitable and pointless.
0-94032-231-5 • PB • 441 pp

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by Thomas Flanagan (1923–2002) American
Introduction by Seamus Deane
In 1798, Irish patriots, committed to freeing their country from England, landed with a company of French troops in County Mayo, in westernmost Ireland. But before long the insurgency collapsed before a brutal English counterattack. Very few books succeed in registering the sudden terrible impact of historical events; Thomas Flanagan's is one. "A masterwork of historical fiction." —The Philadelphia Inquirer
1-59017-108-X • Paperback • 648 pp

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Auden's great anthology is above all a rethinking of the history of poetry in English. Auden looked for a poetry that was clear, enjoyable, and absolutely modern; taking full account of popular traditions, he includes ballads, chanteys, ditties, nursery rhymes, streetcalls, bathroom graffiti, and tombstone epitaphs; folk songs, vaudeville turns, and blues, not to mention limericks and clerihews. This new edition restores previously censored poems.

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by J.G. Farrell (1935-1979) Anglo-Irish
Introduction by Derek Mahon
Singapore, 1939: life just isn't what it used to be for Walter Blackett, head of British Singapore's oldest and most powerful firm. The natives are striking, his daughter is entangled with the most unsuitable beaus. Business may be booming—the Allies are helpless to resist Blackett's price-fixing and market manipulation—but something is wrong. No one suspects that the world of the British Empire is about to come to a terrible end.
1-59017-136-5 • Paperback

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On March 16, 1978 Aldo Moro, a former Prime Minister of Italy, was ambushed in Rome. An hour later the terrorist Red Brigades announced that Moro was in their hands; seven weeks later his body was discovered in the trunk of a car. The Moro Affair presents a chilling picture of how a secretive government and a ruthless terrorist faction help to keep each other in business. Also included is "The Mystery of Majorana," Sciascia's fascinating investigation of the disappearance of a major Italian physicist during Mussolini's regime.

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Harvey Swados pays tribute to the concerns of ordinary people here in a naturalistic and controlled style that bears comparison to Cheever and Bellow. In these portraits of America at mid-century, a professor's wife loses her connection to her husband but rediscovers herself; a boy who idolizes his Coney Island uncle learns that human fallibility is everyone's lot; and in the celebrated title novella, post-World-War-II New York plays host to a generation of idealists who must come to terms with a country increasingly divided against itself.

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by John Horne Burns (1916-1953) American
Introduction by Paul Fussell
Set in occupied Naples in 1944,The Gallery takes its name from a bombed-out arcade where soldiers and civilians meet in pursuit of drink, sex, money, and oblivion. One of the first novels to look directly at gay life in the military, and admired by such writers as Edmund Wilson, Norman Mailer, and Gore Vidal, no other book succeeds so well in capturing the confused feelings of horror, cynicism, rage, and self-loathing with which many Americans emerged from the war.
1-59017-080-6 • Paperback

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by Mark Danner
Includes the torture photographs in color, full texts of the secret administration memos on torture and the investigative reports on the abuses. To understand how Abu Ghraib could have happened, Danner turns to the documents that are collected here for the first time, including secret government memos that portray a fierce argument within the Bush administration over whether prisoners were protected by the Geneva Conventions and how far the US could go in interrogating them.
Paperback • 592 pp

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In this original collection, some of today's finest writers introduce little-known treasures of literature that they count among their favorite books. Here, Susan Sontag raises the curtain on a distant summer when three great poets exchanged love letters like no others, and Michael Cunningham uncovers the secrets of what may well be the finest short novel in modern American literature. Other contributors include Francine Prose, Luc Sante, Toni Morrison, and John Updike.

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District Attorney Varga is shot dead. Then Judge Sanza is killed. Then Judge Azar. Are these random murders, or part of a conspiracy? Inspector Rogas thinks he might know, but as soon as he makes progress he is transferred and encouraged to pin the crimes on the Left. Equal Danger is set in an imaginary country, one that seems all too real. It is the most extreme—and gripping—depiction of the politics of paranoia by Leonardo Sciascia, master of the metaphysical detective novel.

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by Mavis Gallant (b. 1922) Canadian
Selected and with an introduction by Russell Banks

Russell Banks's extensive new selection from Gallant's work demonstrates anew the remarkable reach of this writer's singular art. Among its contents are three previously uncollected stories, as well as the celebrated semi-autobiographical sequence about Linnet Muir—stories that are wise, funny, and full of insight into the perils and promise of growing up and breaking loose.
1-59017-060-1 • Paperback • 400 pp

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