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Seven Men
Seven Men
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Max Beerbohm
Beerbohm
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In Seven Men the brilliant English caricaturist and critic Max Beerbohm turns his comic searchlight upon the fantastic fin-de-siècle world of the 1890s—the age of Oscar Wilde, Aubrey Beardsley, and the young Yeats, as well of Beerbohm's own first success.
Contributors: John Updike |
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The Struggle for Iran
Struggle for Iran
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Christopher de Bellaigue
Bellaigue
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Who rules Iran, and how secure is their grip on a young and restless society? How should the world respond to allegations that the Islamic Republic is building nuclear weapons and supporting terrorists? Bellaigue addresses these and other questions in this essential guide to a nation that is certain to be in the headlines for some time to come. |
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Moura: The Dangerous Life of the Baroness Budberg
Moura
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Nina Berberova
Berberova
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In this legendary biography, an unusual labor of love, Berberova paints a portrait of the ultimate survivor, a woman who made her life a triumph of fiction.
Contributors: Marian Schwartz, Richard D. Sylvester |
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Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist
Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist
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Alexander Berkman
Berkman
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No other book discusses so frankly the criminal ways of the closed prison society, its homosexuality or extortion. No other political prisoner even remotely approaches Berkman's sympathy for what most of the revolutionaries refer to contemptuously as common criminals.
Contributors: John William Ward |
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Mouchette
Mouchette
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Georges Bernanos
Bernanos
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First published as Nouvelle Histoire de Mouchette in 1937, this French classic is the basis for Robert Bresson's cult film.
Contributors: Fanny Howe , J.C. Whitehouse |
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War and the Iliad
War and the Iliad
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Simone Weil,
Rachel Bespaloff
Bespaloff
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These essays do more than prove the permanent relevance of Homer's great poem. They analyze the logic of war itself, and explore how intoxicating violence defines the human condition.
Contributors: Christopher Benfey , Hermann Broch , Mary McCarthy |
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Sheppard Lee, Written by Himself
Sheppard Lee, Written by Himself
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Robert Montgomery Bird
Bird
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The eponymous hero of this early-American picaresque climbs the social ladder by inhabiting the bodies of the recently deceased, assuming the identities of, among others, a country squire, a young man of fashion, and a slave.
Contributors: Christopher Looby |
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Great Granny Webster
Great Granny Webster
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Caroline Blackwood
Blackwood
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This macabre, mordantly funny, partly auto-biographical novel reveals the gothic craziness behind the scenes in the great houses of the aristocracy, as witnessed through the unsparing eyes of an orphaned teenage girl.
Contributors: Honor Moore |
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Corrigan
Corrigan
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Caroline Blackwood
Blackwood
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With Corrigan Caroline Blackwood takes a long, hard look at our dearly beloved notions of saints and sinners, victims and villains, patrimony and present pleasure?and winks.
Contributors: Andrew Solomon |
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The Way of the World
Way of the World
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Nicolas Bouvier
Bouvier
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In 1953 two young men in Geneva hopped in their rusty old Fiat determined to drive their way to the Khyber Pass. Many years later, Nicolas Bouvier reconstructed their travels through Turkey, Kurdistan, Afghanistan in this luminous travel memoir filled with the romance of unbound youth and adventure of self-discovery.
Contributors: Patrick Leigh Fermor , Thierry Vernet , Robyn Marsack |
