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Through the story of the brilliant but conflicted young Raskolnikov and the murder he commits, Fyodor Dostoevsky explores the theme of redemption through su...

Argues That American Children Are Deprived Of Cultural Literacy. Literacy And Cultural Literacy -- The Discovery Of The Schema -- National Language And Nati...

Marion And Shiva Stone Are Twin Brothers Born Of A Secret Union Between A Beautiful Indian Nun And A Brash British Surgeon At A Mission Hospital In Addis Ab...

A work of great personal courage and a literary tour de force, this bestseller is Styron's true account of his descent into a crippling and almost suicida...

with a Natural History Of The Senses, Diane Ackerman Let Her Free-ranging Intellect Loose On The Natural World.  now In deep Play She Tackles The Realm Of...

Dept. Of Speculation Is A Portrait Of A Marriage. It Is Also A Beguiling Rumination On The Mysteries Of Intimacy, Trust, Faith, Knowledge, And The Condition...

“Beautiful . . . funny, heart-hammering, wise . . . superb entertainment.” –The New York Times “A book that should join those few that every liter...

Only now can the full scope of the war in the Pacific be fully understood. Historian Ronald Spector, drawing on newly declassified intelligence files, an ...

Originally published in 1942 and now rediscovered to international acclaim, this taut and exquisitely structured novel by the Hungarian master Sandor Marai...

With Empire FallsRichard Russo cements his reputation as one of America’s most compelling and compassionate storytellers. Miles Roby has been slinging bur...

From his first novel, Mohawk, to his most recent, Straight Alan, Richard Russo has demonstrated great affinity for the tragicomic human condition, and her...

In his most delightful foray into the wonders of Provençal life, Peter Mayle returns to France and puts behind him cholesterol worries, shopping by phone, ...

A St. Louis Post Dispatch Best Book of 2017The first full biography of Ernest Hemingway in more than fifteen years is the first to draw on a wide array of ...

With two novels and one short story collection published to overwhelming critical acclaim ("Monkeys takes your breath away," said Anne Tyler; "heartbreaking...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2018'Daisy Johnson is a new goddamn swaggering monster of fiction' Lauren Groff‘Weird and wild and wonderfully unsett...

Tom Bissell is a prizewinning writer who published three widely acclaimed books before the age of thirty-four. He is also an obsessive gamer who has spent...

At the age of 14 Georg Koves is plucked from his home in a Jewish section of Budapest and without any particular malice, placed on a train to Auschwitz. He ...

Shares recipes for fish, seafood, poultry, meat, stews, pasta, soups, vegetables, salads, bread, and desserts all prepared at New York City firehousesCatego...

The complete text of Faulkner’s third novel, published for the first time in 1973, appeared with his reluctant consent in a much cut version in 1929 as Sa...

A Kind Of Detective Story, Relating A Cranky Amateur Scholar's Search For The Truth About Gustave Flaubert, And The Obsession Of This Detective Whose Life S...

Stylish, convincing, wise, funny–and just in time: the ultimate non-diet book, which could radically change the way you think and live.French women don’t g...

Winner of the Man Booker Prize 2007Categories: Literature & FictionContemporary

Since her death in 1987, Jacqueline du Pre's brother and sister have long felt that her life story has never been properly told. This is an extraordinary re...

Over a quarter of a century after its first publication, the great and simple wisdom in this book continues to influence women's lives.Categories: Religion ...

Girl At The Lion d'Or [Paperback] Faulks, SebastianCategories: Literature & Fiction Genre FictionWar

What sort of "person" is God? Is it possible to approach him not as an object of religious reverence, but as the protagonist of the world's greatest book--...

A Metaphorical Fugue On Minds And Machines In The Manner Of Lewis Carroll--cover Subtitle. Words Of Thanks -- Geb -- Introduction: A Musico-logical Offering...

roth's Award-winning First Book Instantly Established Its Author's Reputation As A Writer Of Explosive Wit, Merciless Insight, And A Fierce Compassion For...

sarfraz Manzoor Was Two Years Old When, In 1974, He Emigrated From Pakistan To Britain With His Mother, Brother, And Sister. Sarfraz Spent His Teenage Year...

The first and most terrifying monster in English literature, from the great early epic BEOWULF, tells his side of the story.Categories: Teen & Young Adu...

In early 1895, the Marquess of Queensberry, the father of Wilde's young lover, Lord Alfred Douglas, left a card at Wilde's club bearing the phrase "posing s...

In the nine breathtaking stories that make up her celebrated tenth collection, Alice Munro achieves new heights, creating narratives that loop and swerve ...

With Headhunters, Jo Nesbø has crafted a funny, dark, and twisted caper story worthy of Quentin Tarantino and the Coen brothers. FIRST TIME PUBLISHED IN TH...

From one of our most interesting literary figures – former editor of Granta, former fiction editor at The New Yorker, acclaimed author of Among the Thugs...

Daniel Jonah Goldhagen Has Revisited A Question That History Has Come To Treat As Settled, And His Researchers Have Led Him To The Inescapable Conclusion Th...

Hollywood marks the fifth episode in Gore Vidal's "Narratives of Empire," his celebrated series of six historical novels that form his extended biography o...

with His National Bestsellers a Year In Provence And toujours Provence, Peter Mayle Gave New Meaning To The Phrase "great Escape." Now He Has Written A De...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * From the acclaimed author of The Flight Attendant: "Historical fiction at its best.... The book is a thriller in structure, and ...

Presents A Meditation And Portrait Of The Experience Of Dying That Elucidates The Decisions That Can Be Made To Allow Each Person An Understanding Of Death,...

from The Screenwriter Who Brought Us When Harry Met Sally Comes A Hilarious, Candid Look At Issues That Concern Women. With Her Disarming, Intimate, Compl...

In this honest and stunning novel, now a major motion picture directed by Barry Jenkins, James Baldwin has given America a moving story of love in the face ...

Most of us watch with mild concern the fast-disappearing wild spaces or the recurrence of pollution-related crises such as oil spills, toxic blooms in ferti...

A fascinating, unprecedented first-hand look at the soldiers on the front lines on the Global War on Terror. Plunging deep into midst of some of the hottest...

Overview: Once Upon A Time An Indian Writer Named Amitav Ghosh Set Out To Find An Indian Slave, Name Unknown, Who Some Seven Hundred Years Before Had Travel...

Truman Capote Called His Account Of The 1959 Murder Of A Kansas Farm Family A Nonfiction Novel. Using Information He Collected Through Townspeople And The K...

a Shimmering Evocation, By Turns Intimate And Panoramic, Of One Of The World’s Great Cities, By Its Foremost Writer. Orhan Pamuk Was Born In Istanbul And S...

Paula Fredriksen, renowned historian and author of From Christ to Jesus, begins this inquiry into the historic Jesus with a fact that may be the only undisp...

Winner of the 1998 National Jewish Book Award "An astonishing fusion of learning and psychic intensity; its poignance and lucidity should be an authentic ...