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Five Plays: Antigone, Eurydice, the Ermine, the Rehearsal, Romeo and Jeannette
$25.99 Add to cartThe great French playwright Jean Anouilh (1910-87) wrote both “pink” bittersweet comedies and “black” tragic dramas. Jean Anouilh Five Plays—the finest English-language anthology of his works—crackl
- Series: Five Plays #1
- Author: Anouilh, Jean
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 28 1990
- ISBN10: 0374522294
- Language: English
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In Suspect Terrain
$19.00 Read moreFrom the outwash plains of Brooklyn to Indiana’s drifted diamonds and gold In Suspect Terrain is a narrative of the earth, told in four sections of equal length, each in a different way reflecting the
- Series: Annals of the Former World #2
- Author: McPhee, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: January 01 1984
- ISBN10: 374517940
- Language: English
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The Tummy Trilogy
$27.00 Add to cartIn the 1970s, Calvin Trillin informed America that its most glorious food was not to be found at the pretentious restaurants he referred to generically as La Maison de la Casa House, Continental Cuisi
- Author: Trillin, Calvin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: September 30 1994
- ISBN10: 0374524173
- Language: English
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Collected Poems
$33.00 Add to cartThis collection of poetry showcases the unique talent of James Schuyler and highlights the writing that won him a Pulitzer Prize.
“Schuyler’s subject is his life, and his poems often read like elegant
- Author: Schuyler, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: October 01 1995
- ISBN10: 0374524033
- Language: English
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District and Circle
$18.00 Add to cartSeamus Heaney’s new collection starts In an age of bare hands and cast iron and ends as The automatic lock / clunks shut in the eerie new conditions of a menaced twenty-first century. In their haunted
- Author: Heaney, Seamus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: April 03 2007
- ISBN10: 0374530815
- Language: English
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Genesis
$30.99 Add to cartA probing look at one of the most incendiary subjects of our time–the relationship between the United States and Israel
There has been more than half a century of raging conflict between Jews and Arab- Author: Judis, John B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: February 17 2015
- ISBN10: 0374535124
- Language: English
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Tombstone: The Great Chinese Famine, 1958-1962
$29.00 Add to cartThe much-anticipated definitive account of China’s Great Famine
An estimated thirty-six million Chinese men, women, and children starved to death during China’s Great Leap Forward in the late 1950s an- Author: Jisheng, Yang
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 656
- Publish Date: November 19 2013
- ISBN10: 0374533997
- Language: English
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Troublesome Young Men: The Rebels Who Brought Churchill to Power and Helped Save England
$32.00 Add to cartA riveting history of the daring politicians who challenged the disastrous policies of the British government on the eve of World War II
On May 7, 1940, the House of Commons began perhaps the most cru- Author: Olson, Lynne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: April 29 2008
- ISBN10: 0374531331
- Language: English
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The Georgics of Virgil (Bilingual Edition)
$19.00 Add to cartJohn Dryden called Virgil’s Georgics, written between 37 and 30 B.C.E., “the best poem by the best poet.” The poem, newly translated by the poet and translator David Ferry, is one of the great songs,
- Author: Ferry, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: May 02 2006
- ISBN10: 0374530319
- Language: English
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Collected Poems in English
$26.00 Add to cartThe poems of the legendary Nobel Laureate, in one volume at last
One of the greatest and grandest advocates of the literary vocation, Joseph Brodsky truly lived his life as a poet, and for it earned- Author: Brodsky, Joseph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: April 01 2002
- ISBN10: 0374528381
- Language: English
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Being John Malkovich
$16.00 Add to cartWhat do you get when a down-on-his-heels puppeteer working as a file clerk on the seventh-and-a-half floor of a Manhattan office building discovers a secret portal into the brain of John Malkovich? Hi
- Series: Faber and Faber Screenplays
- Author: Kaufman, Charlie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: October 20 2000
- ISBN10: 0571205860
- Language: English
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The Man with Night Sweats: Poems
$16.00 Add to cartThe Man with Night Sweats is a haunting depiction of a world ravaged by illness that is part elegy for those who have been lost and part evocation of the changes that await those who survive. It is al
- Series: FSG Classics
- Author: Gunn, Thom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: April 17 2007
- ISBN10: 0374530688
- Language: English
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The Crofter and the Laird
$18.00 Add to cartWhen John McPhee returned to the island of his ancestors–Colonsay, twenty-five miles west of the Scottish mainland–a hundred and thirty-eight people were living there. About eighty of these, crofter
- Author: McPhee, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: September 01 1992
- ISBN10: 0374514658
- Language: English
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Pale Colors in a Tall Field: Poems
$15.00 Read moreA powerful, inventive collection from one of America’s most critically acclaimed poets.
Carl Phillips’s new poetry collection, Pale Colors in a Tall Field, is a meditation on the intimacies of thought- Author: Phillips, Carl
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: March 23, 2021
- ISBN10: 0374539359
- Language: English
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Oranges
$18.00 Add to cartA classic of reportage, Oranges was first conceived as a short magazine article about oranges and orange juice, but the author kept encountering so much irresistible information that he eventually fou
- Author: McPhee, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: January 01 1975
- ISBN10: 0374512973
- Language: English
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Unborn: The Life and Teachings of Zen Master Bankei, 1622-1693
$19.00 Add to cartIn 1633, at age eleven, Bankei Yotaku was banished from his family’s home because of his consuming engagement with the Confucian texts that all schoolboys were required to copy and recite. Using a hut
- Author: Yotaku, Bankei
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 156
- Publish Date: March 29 2005
- ISBN10: 0865475954
- Language: English
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Half-Light: Collected Poems 1965-2016
$25.00 Add to cartWINNER OF THE 2018 PULITZER PRIZE IN POETRY
The collected works of one of contemporary poetry’s most original voices Gathered together, the poems of Fr
WINNER OF THE 2017 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR POETRY- Author: Bidart, Frank
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 736
- Publish Date: August 21 2018
- ISBN10: 0374537690
- Language: English
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The Poetry of Petrarch
$24.00 Add to cart“David Young’s version of Petrarch will refresh our images of the West’s crucial lyric poet. We are given a Petrarch in our own vernacular, with echoes of Wyatt, Shakespeare, and many who come after.”
- Author: Petrarch
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 01 2005
- ISBN10: 0374529612
- Language: English
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Selected Poems
$19.00 Add to cartIntense verbal music with a jazz feeling; invention against the grain of expectation; intelligence racing among materials with the variety of a busy street–these have been the qualities of Robert Pin
- Author: Pinsky, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: March 27 2012
- ISBN10: 0374533164
- Language: English
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A Grace Paley Reader: Stories, Essays, and Poetry
$26.99 Add to cartOne of The New Yorker‘s “Books We Loved in 2017”
A Grace Paley Reader compiles a selection of Paley’s writing across genres, showcasing her breadth of work as well as her extraordinary insight and bri- Author: Paley, Grace
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: April 03 2018
- ISBN10: 0374537410
- Language: English
