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Pinocchio
Pinocchio
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Carlo Collodi
Collodi
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This new translation of Pinocchio will forever banish the saucer-eyed Disney character from your mind (not to mention the advice-spouting Talking Cricket, whom Pinocchio squashes with a mallet in chapter 4). In his place is Collodi's greedy, charming, subversive boy-puppet and a dreamlike story that flaunts its commedia dell'arte roots.
Contributors: Umberto Eco , Rebecca West , Geoffrey Brock |
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Letters from Russia
Letters from Russia
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Astolphe de Custine
Custine
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The Marquis de Custine's record of his trip to Russia in 1839 is a brilliantly perceptive, even prophetic, account of one of the world's most fascinating and troubled countries.
Contributors: Anka Muhlstein |
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The New Life
New Life
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Dante Alighieri
Dante
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The New Life is the masterpiece of Dante's youth, an account of his love for Beatrice, the girl who was to become his lifelong muse, and of her tragic early death.
Contributors: Dante Gabriel Rossetti |
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The Ten Thousand Things
Ten Thousand Things
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Maria Dermout
Dermout
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The Ten Thousand Things is an entranced vision of a far-off place that is as convincingly real and intimate as it is exotic, a book that is at once a lament and an ecstatic ode to nature and life.
Contributors: Hans Koning |
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Grief Lessons (Paperback): Four Plays by Euripides
Grief Lessons
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Euripides
Euripides
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"Why does tragedy exist? Because you are full of rage. Why are you full of rage? Because you are full of grief." Celebrated contemporary poet and classicist Anne Carson presents new translations of four plays by Euripides.
Contributors: Anne Carson |
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Prisoner of Love
Prisoner of Love
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Jean Genet
Genet
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Genet's final masterpiece, written and rewritten on his deathbed, is a lyrical and philosophical voyage to the bloody intersection of oppression, terror, and desire at the heart of the contemporary world.
Contributors: Ahdaf Soueif , Barbara Bray |
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The Bog People: Iron Age Man Preserved
Bog People
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P.V. Glob
Glob
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Conceived as a kind of a detective story, this classic of archaeological history—out of print for over thirty years—is a fascinating account of the religion, culture, and daily life of the Iron Age in Europe.
Contributors: Elizabeth Wayland Barber, Paul T. Barber , Rupert Bruce-Mitford |
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Life and Fate
Life and Fate
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Vasily Grossman
Grossman
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An epic tale of World War II that interweaves a transfixing account of the battle of Stalingrad with the story of a single middle-class family, the Shaposhnikovs, scattered by fortune from Germany to Siberia.
Contributors: Robert Chandler |
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The Lord Chandos Letter and Other Writings
Lord Chandos Letter
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Hugo von Hofmannsthal
Hofmannsthal
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In Hugo von Hofmannsthal's celebrated autobiographical novella a young nobleman reveals to his patron Sir Francis Bacon his particularly modern crisis of spirit.
Contributors: John Banville |
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The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert
Notebooks of Joseph Joubert
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Joseph Joubert
Joubert
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The writings of a secretive eighteenth-century French thinker who left an unpublished masterpiece behind.
Contributors: Paul Auster |
