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Title	Author	Description
The 13 Clocks 13 Clocks	James Thurber Thurber	Satirist Thurber takes on the fairy tale and the results are captivating. "There are spys, monsters, betrayals, hair's-breadth escapes, spells to be broken and all the usual accouterments, but Thurber gives the proceedings his own particular deadpan spin." —Los Angeles Times Contributors: Neil Gaiman , Marc Simont
The Adventures and Misadventures of Maqroll Adventures and Misadventures of Maqroll	Alvaro Mutis Mutis	Maqroll the Gaviero (the Lookout) is one of the most alluring and memorable characters in the fiction of the last twenty-five years. Contributors: Francisco Goldman , Edith Grossman
The Adventures of Sindbad Adventures of Sindbad	Gyula Krúdy Krudy	Rogue, romantic, and seducer, Sindbad, Krúdy's most famous creation, returns in dreams to lovers he has left, lovers who have died. The women in turn tell their stories, creating a beautifully melancholy vision of the twilight of the Habsburg Empire. “[Krúdy’s] literary power and greatness are almost past comprehension...” —Sándor Márai Contributors: George Szirtes
Afloat Afloat	Guy de Maupassant Maupassant	Maupassant merges fact and fiction, dream and documentation in this seemingly simple logbook of a sailing cruise along the French Mediterranean coast. "[Afloat] has spontaneity, gaiety and freshness."—Daily Telegraph (UK) Contributors: Douglas Parmée
An African in Greenland African in Greenland	Tete-Michel Kpomassie Kpomassie	"Kpomassie is indisputably a man of extraordinary charm; he is also sharp and perceptive and honest?unencumbered by a sense of obligation to his hosts that might have prevented him from telling us what they are really like."— Katherine Bouton, The Nation Contributors: Al Alvarez , James Kirkup
The Age of Conversation Age of Conversation	Benedetta Craveri Craveri	An award-winning look at French salons and the women who presided over them. Contributors: Teresa Waugh
Alfred and Guinevere Alfred and Guinevere	James Schuyler Schuyler	Schuyler has a pitch-perfect ear for the children's voices, and the story, told entirely through snatches of dialogue and passages from Guinevere's diary, is a tour de force of comic and poetic invention. Contributors: John Ashbery
All About H. Hatterr All About H. Hatterr	G.V. Desani Desani	Heralded by T. S. Eliot and an inspiration to Salman Rushdie, All About H. Hatterr is one of the great eccentric books of all time. Newsweek called this comedic search for a man's enlightenment "a mischievous mulligatawny that reads like a collaboration between Mrs. Malaprop and Groucho Marx". Contributors: Anthony Burgess
Alone! Alone!: Lives of Some Outsider Women Alone	Rosemary Dinnage Dinnage	In the course of over thirty years of writing about psychology, child development, biography, and fiction, Rosemary Dinnage has encountered a variety of outstanding women, all of whom, in one way or another, felt powerfully alone.
American Humor: A Study of the National Character American Humor	Constance Rourke Rourke	Constance Rourke's pioneering "study of the national character" examines such legendary figures as the Yankee, the backwoodsman, and the minstrel singer to show how the popular comic imagination contributed to America's changing self-awareness. Contributors: Greil Marcus