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The Ravishing of Lol Stein

Marguerite Duras
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The Ravishing of Lol Stein is a haunting early novel by the author of The Lover. Lol Stein is a beautiful young woman, securely married, settled in...

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The Republic of Plato

Allan Bloom | Adam Kirsch
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The definitive translation of Plato's Republic, the most influential text in the history of Western philosophyLong regarded as the most accurate re...

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The Return of Martin Guerre

Natalie Zemon Davis
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The clever peasant Arnaud du Tilh had almost persuaded the learned judges at the Parlement of Toulouse when, on a summer’s day in 1560, a man swagg...

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The Return of the Soldier (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)

Rebecca West | Samuel Hynes
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Writing her first novel during World War I, West examines the relationship between three women and a soldier suffering from shell-shock. This novel...

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The Reverse of the Medal

Patrick O`brian
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"An overwhelming, outstanding novel...!"―Irish TimesCaptain Jack Aubrey, R. N., ashore after a successful cruise, is persuaded by a casual acquaint...

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The Rig Veda (Penguin Classics)

Anonymous | Wendy Doniger
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The earliest of the four Hindu religious scriptures known as the Vedas, and the first extensive composition to survive in any Indo-European languag...

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The Road (Oprah's Book Club)

Cormac McCarthy
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WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A searing, post-apocalyptic novel about a father and son's fight to survive, this "tale of sur...

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The Round House: A Novel

Louise Erdrich
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One of The Atlantic’s Great American NovelsWinner of the National Book Award • Washington Post Best Book of the Year • A New York Times Notable Boo...

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The Screaming Mimi

Fredric Brown
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It was the figure of a girl, her arms thrust out to ward off the ripper... her body distorted, rigid with terror... her mouth open in a silent, ete...

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The Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction: 50 North American Stories Since 1970 (Touchstone Books (Paperback))

Lex Williford | Michael Martone
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Fifty remarkable short stories from a range of contemporary fiction authors including Junot Diaz, Amy Tan, Jamaica Kincaid, Jhumpa Lahiri, and more...

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The Search for God in Ancient Egypt

Jan Assmann | David Lorton
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"What, for the ancient Egyptians, was the nature of the world's governing spirits'... With the evidence of ancient texts, Assmann considers Egyptia...

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The Secret History of Wonder Woman

Jill Lepore
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER - Within the origin of one of the world's most iconic superheroes hides a fascinating family story--and a crucial history of fe...

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The Sign in Brustein's Window: A Drama in Two Acts

Lorraine Hansberry
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This is the probing hilarious and provocative story of Sidney a disenchanted Greenwich Village intellectual his wife Iris an aspiring actress and t...

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The Souls of Black Folk: With "The Talented Tenth" and "The Souls of White Folk" (Penguin Classics)

W. E. B. Du Bois | Donald B. Gibson | Monica M. Elbert
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The landmark book about being black in America, now in an expanded edition commemorating the 150th anniversary of W. E. B. Du Bois’s birth and feat...

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The South Africa Reader: History, Culture, Politics (The World Readers)

Clifton Crais | Thomas V. McClendon
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The South Africa Reader is an extraordinarily rich guide to the history, culture, and politics of South Africa. With more than eighty absorbing sel...

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The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World

David Abram
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Winner of the International Lannan Literary Award for NonfictionAnimal tracks, word magic, the speech of stones, the power of letters, and the tast...

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The Stories We Tell: Classic True Tales by America's Greatest Women Journalists

Patsy Sims
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The Stories We Tell celebrates the work of twenty women who have made major contributions to the cannon of American magazine writing.While each has...

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The Storyteller Essays (New York Review Books Classics)

Walter Benjamin | Samuel Titan | Tess Lewis
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A new translation of philosopher Walter Benjamin's work as it pertains to his famous essay, "The Storyteller," this collection includes short stori...

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The Stranger

Albert Camus | Matthew Ward
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With the intrigue of a psychological thriller, The Stranger—Camus's masterpiece—gives us the story of an ordinary man unwittingly drawn into a sens...

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The Street of Crocodiles and Other Stories (Penguin Classics)

Bruno Schulz | Celina Wieniewska | David Goldfarb | Jonathan Safran Foer
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The collected fiction of "one of the most original imaginations in modern Europe" (Cynthia Ozick)Bruno Schulz's untimely death at the hands of a Na...

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The Sword and the Flute: Kali and Krsna- Dark Visions of the Terrible and the Sublime in Hindu Mythology (Hermeneutics, Studies in the History of Religions)

David R. Kinsley
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With a New PrefaceKali and Krsna are two of Hinduism's most popular deities, representing dramatically different truths about the nature of the sac...

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The Symposium (Penguin Classics)

Plato | Christopher Gill
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A fascinating discussion on sex, gender, and human instincts, as relevant today as everIn the course of a lively drinking party, a group of Athenia...

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The Tale of Kieu: A Bilingual Edition of Nguyen Du's Truyen Kieu

Huynh Sanh Thong
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Since its publication in the early nineteenth century, this long narrative poem has stood unchallenged as the supreme masterpiece of Vietnamese lit...

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The Taming of the Shrew (Folger Shakespeare Library)

William Shakespeare | Dr. Barbara A. Mowat | Paul Werstine Ph.D.
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Love and marriage are the concerns of Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew. Lucentio’s marriage to Bianca is prompted by his idealized love of an ...

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