Father Schedoni is enlisted by the imperious Marchesa di Vivaldi to prevent her son from marrying the beautiful Ellena. Schedoni has no scruples in kidnapping Ellena and in undertaking...
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p Quite in Theo. Gift's best vein are these stories adapted from the Birth Stories of Buddha. They...
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p Classic Chinese Love Storied includes some of the best classics from China. Written in a graceful...
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p Karen Blixen is the centerpiece of this story about love and destiny. In circles around her, seve...
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strong em Ladies first! /em /strong /p p strong Long before Dracula haunted the pages of liter...
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Sunjata Keita was the founder of one of the greatest empires of Western Africa. These two epic accounts of his life portray a greedy, slow-witted child - said to have crawled until...
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A Penguin Classic First published in 1938, this volume of stories collected with the encouragement of his longtime editor Pascal Covici serves as a wonderful introduction to the work...
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A Penguin Classic Ancient pagan beliefs, the great Greek epics, and the Bible all inform this extraordinary novel by Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck, which occupied him for more than...
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"Kissing your hand may make you feel very very good, but a diamond and safire bracelet lasts forever. " Anita Loos first published the diaries of the gold-digging blonde Lorelei Lee...
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The first book in Robertson Davies's acclaimed The Deptford Trilogy, with a new foreword by Kelly Link Ramsay is a man twice born, a man who has returned from the hell of the battle-grave...
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"I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman. " In A Room of One's Own, Virginia Woolf imagines that Shakespeare had a sister--a...
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The renowned French playwright Molière's most masterful and most frequently performed play, skillfully translated into English by the Pulitzer Prize-winning translator Richard Wilbur...
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Perfectly balanced between humor and erudition, Ex Libris establishes Anne Fadiman as one of our finest contemporary essayists. Anne Fadiman is--by her own admission--the sort of person...
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From one of the 20th century's greatest voices comes the complete chronological anthology of his short stories featuring Nick Adams, Ernest Hemingway's memorable character, as he grows...
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The ideal introduction to the genius of Ernest Hemingway, The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories contains ten of Hemingway's most acclaimed and popular works of short fiction. Selected...
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Classic short stories from a master of American fiction exploring relationships, war, and sportsmanship. First published in 1927, Men Without Women represents some of Hemingway's most...
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The Wild Boys is a futuristic tale of global warfare in which a guerrilla gang of boys dedicated to freedom battles the organized armies of repressive police states. Making full use...
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One of the best-loved of Nabokov's novels, Pnin features his funniest and most heart-rending character. Serialized in The New Yorker and published in book form in 1957, Pnin brought...
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PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST - Twelve short stories that mark a turning point in the work of "one of the true American masters" (The New York Review of Books). "A writer of astonishing compassion...
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Set in Mississippi during the Civil War and Reconstruction, THE UNVANQUISHED focuses on the Sartoris family, who, with their code of personal responsibility and courage, stand for the...
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One of Faulkner's comic masterpieces, The Reivers is a picaresque that tells of three unlikely car thieves from rural Mississippi. Eleven-year-old Lucius Priest is persuaded by Boon...
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p Between the years 1642 and 1649 eight members of the Society of Jesus were killed in North Americ...
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p As the world teeters on the brink of war in 1937, two young souls separated by an ocean are about...
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p Yellow Arrow Journal is a biannual literary journal of creative nonfiction, poetry, and cover art...
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