Alice Munro

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Massachusetts

Stories

A collection of short fiction explores the complexities of human relationships and emotions in stories about a housekeeper entering old-maidhood whose life is transformed by a practical joke and a lifelong philanderer who finds the tables turned.

Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage

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Dante

Robert Pinsky

John Freccero

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

A New Verse Translation, Bilingual Edition

A translation of the classic poem about man's spiritual journey

The Inferno of Dante

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Annie Dillard

Pilgrim at Tinker Creek is the story of a dramatic year in Virginia's Blue Ridge valley. Annie Dillard sets out to see what she can see. What she sees are astonishing incidents of "mystery, death, beauty, violence."

Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

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Victor Hugo

Lee Fahnestock

Norman MacAfee

Chris Bohjalian

NOW A SIX-PART MINISERIES ON MASTERPIECE ON PBS

The only completely unabridged paperback edition of Victor Hugo's masterpiece--a sweeping tale of love, loss, valor, and passion.

Introducing one of the most famous characters in literature, Jean Valjean--the noble peasant imprisoned for stealing a loaf of bread--Les Misérables ranks among the greatest novels of all time. In it, Victor Hugo takes readers deep into the Parisian underworld, immerses them in a battle between good and evil, and carries them to the barricades during the uprising of 1832 with a breathtaking realism that is unsurpassed in modern prose.

Within his dramatic story are themes that capture the intellect and the emotions: crime and punishment, the relentless persecution of Valjean by Inspector Javert, the desperation of the prostitute Fantine, the amorality of the rogue Thénardier, and the universal desire to escape the prisons of our own minds. Les Misérables gave Victor Hugo a canvas upon which he portrayed his criticism of the French political and judicial systems, but the portrait that resulted is larger than life, epic in scope--an extravagant spectacle that dazzles the senses even as it touches the heart.
 
Translated by Lee Fahnestock and Norman Macafee, based on the classic nineteenth-century Charles E. Wilbour translation
 
Inlcudes an Introduction by Lee Fahnestock
and an Afterword by Chris Bohjalian

Les Miserables

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D. H. Lawrence

Kathryn Harrison

Constance Chatterley turns from a sterile marriage to a passionate relationship with a spiritually independent gamekeeper.

Lady Chatterley's Lover

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Euripides

Stephen Esposito

Michael R. Halleran

Anthony Podlecki

Four Plays

English translations of four of Euripides' most popular tragedies, with notes, extensive introductions, and two interpretive essays by Michael R . Halleran.

Medea, Hippolytus, Heracles, Bacchae

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Sophocles

Ruby Blondell

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Antigone, King Oidipous and Oidipous at Colonus

English translations of three of Sophocles' Oidipous Cycle: King Oidipous, Oidipous at Colonus, and Antigone. Focus Classical Library provides close translations with notes and essays to provide access to understanding Greek culture.

The Theban Plays

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Diskin Clay

English translation of Euripides' tragedy about the consequences of war and the fate of those defeated in war. Introductory essay; appendix on Euripides' "Trojan Tetrology"; a translation of Gorgias' "In Praise of Helen"; suggestions for further reading.

The Trojan Women

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Kurt Vonnegut

"A free-wheeling vehicle . . . an unforgettable ride!"--The New York Times 

Cat's Cradle is Kurt Vonnegut's satirical commentary on modern man and his madness. An apocalyptic tale of this planet's ultimate fate, it features a midget as the protagonist, a complete, original theology created by a calypso singer, and a vision of the future that is at once blackly fatalistic and hilariously funny. A book that left an indelible mark on an entire generation of readers, Cat's Cradle is one of the twentieth century's most important works--and Vonnegut at his very best.

"[Vonnegut is] an unimitative and inimitable social satirist."--Harper's Magazine

"Our finest black-humorist . . . We laugh in self-defense."--Atlantic Monthly

Cat's Cradle

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In a frolic of cartoon and comic outbursts against rule and reason, a miraculous weaving of science fiction, memoir, parable, fairy tale and farce, Kurt Vonnegut attacks the whole spectrum of American society, releasing some of his best-loved literary cre

Breakfast of Champions

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Jen George

“I'm so happy this collection exists. I feel drunk with love for these stories. They're so funny and weird and true.” —Sheila Heti Five stories―several as long as novellas―introduce the world to Jen George, a writer whose furiously imaginative new voice calls to mind Donald Barthelme and Leonora Carrington no less than Kathy Acker and Chris Kraus. In “Guidance/The Party,” an ethereal alcoholic “Guide” in robes and flowing hair appears to help a thirty-three-year-old woman prepare a party for her belated adulthood; “Take Care of Me Forever” tragically lambasts the medical profession as a ship of fools afloat in loneliness and narcissism; “Instruction” chronicles a season in an unconventional art school called The Warehouse, where students divide their time between orgies, art critiques, and burying dead racehorses. Combining slapstick, surrealism, erotica, and social criticism, Jen George's sprawling creative energy belies the secret precision and unexpected tenderness of everything she writes.

The Babysitter at Rest

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Franz Kafka

Translated by PEN translation award-winner Joachim Neugroschel, The Metamorphosis, In the Penal Colony, and Other Stories has garnered critical acclaim and is widely recognized as the preeminent English-language anthology of Kafka's stories. These translations illuminate one of this century's most controversial writers and have made Kafka's work accessible to a whole new generation. This classic collection of forty-one great short works -- including such timeless pieces of modern fiction as "The Judgment" and "The Stoker" -- now includes two new stories, "First Sorrow" and "The Hunger Artist."

The Metamorphosis, in the Penal Colony and Other Stories

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Jane. Austen

In late eighteenth-century England, a spirited young woman copes with the suit of a snobbish gentleman as well as the romantic entanglements of three of her four sisters.

Pride and Prejudice

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Zora Neale Hurston

Contains some annotations in pen (pictured).

A Novel

Their Eyes Were Watching God

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Anna Burns

Winner of the Man Booker Prize “Everything about this novel rings true. . . . Original, funny, disarmingly oblique and unique.”—The Guardian In an unnamed city, middle sister stands out for the wrong reasons. She reads while walking, for one. And she has been taking French night classes downtown. So when a local paramilitary known as the milkman begins pursuing her, she suddenly becomes “interesting,” the last thing she ever wanted to be. Despite middle sister’s attempts to avoid him—and to keep her mother from finding out about her maybe-boyfriend—rumors spread and the threat of violence lingers. Milkman is a story of the way inaction can have enormous repercussions, in a time when the wrong flag, wrong religion, or even a sunset can be subversive. Told with ferocious energy and sly, wicked humor, Milkman establishes Anna Burns as one of the most consequential voices of our day.

Milkman

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1985 paperback edition. In readable shape, but some of the photo pages have fallen out.

By Myself

George Orwell

Erich Fromm

1984

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1959 paperback edition. In OK shape, but a little brittle feeling.

The Catcher in the Rye

Tony Kushner

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Part Two: Perestroika

Angels in America

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No flaws, in great condition. Only writing is on the front end page.

Slight bend in the shape of the book. A few small markings throughout the pages.

Part One: Millennium Approaches

Dramatizes the effects of AIDS on the United States through the experiences of lawyer Roy Cohn, a Morman couple, and a young man called Prior Walter

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Ted Hughes

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

A collection of poems addressed to Hughes' late wife, poetess Sylvia Plath, dealing with the psychological breakdown that led to some of her greatest poems and her untimely death

Birthday Letters

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In great condition for its age. Some tears in dusk jacket that have been taped down. No markings.

The World According to Garp

Damon Galgut

WINNER OF THE 2021 BOOKER PRIZE
A NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS' CHOICE

On her deathbed, Rachel Swart makes a promise to Salome, the family's Black maid. This promise will divide the family--especially her children: Anton, the golden boy; Astrid, whose beauty is her power; and the youngest, Amor, whose life is shaped by feelings of guilt.

Reunited by four funerals over thirty years, the dwindling Swart family remains haunted by the unmet promise, just as their country is haunted by its own failures. The Promise is an epic South African drama that unfurls against the unrelenting march of history, sure to leave its readers transformed.

"Simply: you must read it."--Claire Messud, Harper's Magazine

★ "This tour-de-force unleashes a searing portrait of a damaged family and a troubled country in need of healing."--Publishers Weekly (Starred Review)

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Alice Munro

Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage

Dante

The Inferno of Dante

Annie Dillard

Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

Victor Hugo

Les Miserables

D. H. Lawrence

Lady Chatterley's Lover

Euripides

Medea, Hippolytus, Heracles, Bacchae

Sophocles

The Theban Plays

Euripides

The Trojan Women

Kurt Vonnegut

Cat's Cradle

Kurt Vonnegut

Breakfast of Champions

Jen George

The Babysitter at Rest

Franz Kafka

The Metamorphosis, in the Penal Colony and Other Stories

Jane Austen

Pride and Prejudice

Zora Neale Hurston

Their Eyes Were Watching God

Anna Burns

Milkman

Lauren Bacall

By Myself

George Orwell

1984

J. D. Salinger

The Catcher in the Rye

Tony Kushner

Angels in America

Tony Kushner

Angels in America

Tony Kushner

Angels in America

Ted Hughes

Birthday Letters

John Irving

The World According to Garp

Damon Galgut

The Promise

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