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Juan Valera y Alcala-Galiano (1824-1905), one of 19th-century Spain’s most well known authors, had a... more

. --New York Journal of Books In his introduction to The Best American Noir of the Century, James Ellroy writes, Noir is the...... more

Their conquest was measured not in miles but in degrees of longitude. They smashed the gates of empi... more

The Old English Baron is an ambitious rewriting of Horace Walpole’s Castle of Otranto, transporting ... more

Lucio, a normal man in a normal (nosy) city neighborhood with normal problems with his in-laws (ever... more

this masterwork renowned for its romance and wit. With an Introduction by Margaret Drabble and an Afterword by Eloisa James...... more

enthrall readers for generations to come. With an Introduction by Greg Bear and an Afterword by Simon J. James...... more

promise of recovery. This Macmillan Collector’s Library edition features a new introduction by author James Blaylock...... more

John Hearne was one of the first wave of West Indian writers to achieve international recognition in... more

This is the definitive scholarly edition of Tobias Smollett s first novel, widely regarded as one of... more

suspense, and, as Simms famously noted to his friend James Henry Hammond, an implicit answer to Harriet Beecher Stowe’s...... more

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The anti-war masterpiece that became an iconic motion picture-now with a foreword by the creator of ... more

In his sixth novel, The Cave (1959), Robert Penn Warren tells the story of a young man trapped in a ... more

Like the autobiographical hero of this, his classic first novel, Mouloud Feraoun grew up in the rugg... more

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Miami homicide detective Hoke Moseley is called to a posh Miami neighborhood to investigate a lethal... more

ordinary lives with great insight. James Colvert writes in the introduction to this volume: "Here we find once again the major...... more

Ambushed in the cold moonlight of an Arizona night, Captain John Carter is inexplicably teleported t... more

Experience Hemingway’s firsthand chronicle of a brutal season of bullfights in Spain. In the 1950s, ... more

bibliography to Foucault’s work by James Faubion, an interview with Foucault, conducted only nine months before his death, and...... more

An NYRB Classics Original Winner of the French-American Foundation Translation Prize for Fiction Mic... more

Chosen by the American Society of Magazine Editors, the stories in this anthology include National M... more

This translation is based upon the Norwegian text in the Centenary Edition of Ibsen’s collected work... more

Edward Fitzgerald, whom the world has already learned, in spite of his own efforts to remain wathin ... more

pieces by ... Nelson Algren Andy Bellin Anthony Holden Katy Lederer James Thurber Barbara Tuchman Billy Collins Pete Dexter...... more

A new telling of Dante s Inferno, this translation is the most fluent, grippingly readable version o... more

Aime Cesaire has been described by the Times Literary Supplement as likely to figure alongside the ... more

, James L. Pethica writes: "It offers us both a retrospective - a compressed and intensified accounting of Wyley’s...... more

Robert Penn Warren was unique among twentieth-century American writers for having achieved excellenc... more

Comprised of more than 250 selections from Henry James’s stories about writers, his critical and speculative essays...... more

Taken from the highly acclaimed Oxford Ibsen, this collection of Ibsen’s plays includes A Doll’s Hou... more

In A Lie Too Big to Fail, longtime Kennedy researcher (of both JFK and RFK) Lisa Pease lays out, in ... more

A major new look at the work of one of America s foremost self-taught artists Bill Traylor (ca. 1853... more

Organized crime in America today is not the tough hoodlums familiar to moviegoers and TV watchers. I... more

introduction by James Grieve, who directed Love, Love, Love at the Royal Court, London....... more

For metaphysicians who have imbibed the sober and inebriating teachings of Thomas Aquinas, existence... more

the Times have been collected in one volume, with an introduction and notes supplied by James Tolhurst. The Tracts for the...... more

From Marilu Henner--beloved actress and one of only twelve people known to have a "Superior Autobiog... more

’s book critic James Wood, discussing how The Book of Common Prayer has influenced the English language and literature...... more

Frederick William Benteen (1834-98) was a military officer during the Civil War and the Black Hills ... more

Part memoir, part history of the vanishing wilderness, and part compendium of animal and First Natio... more

cited by Wallace. James Ryerson s introduction connects Wallace s early philosophical work to the themes and explorations of...... more

, the science of mind, and even politics. This edition includes a new and specially written introduction by James McGilvray...... more

An Essay on Philosophical Method contains the most sustained discussion in the twentieth century of ... more

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Wales, the Risorgimento in Italy and its repercussions on the papacy, and the death of two friends, Dr. Weedall and James...... more

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A fascinating account of a double tragedy: one physical, the other psyc... more

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, upon which many contemporary histories have relied, is now back in print with an introduction by James Wasserman, author of...... more

Rising from sandbars on the Platte River with clarion calls, the sandhill crane (Grus canadensis) fe... more

Lloyd Kaufman, the writer/producer/director of such cult-classic films as The Toxic Avenger, Class o... more