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The Man with Qualities

Edmund Wilson: A Biography

by Jeffrey Meyers

From the Uncollected Edmund Wilson

selected and introduced by Janet Groth and David Castronovo


The Somber Monster

Lenin: A New Biography

by Dmitri Volkogonov, translated and edited by Harold Shukman


On the Enchanted Hill

The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson 1854–1890

edited by Bradford A. Booth, edited by Ernest Mehew

Robert Louis Stevenson: A Biography

by Frank McLynn

Fanny Stevenson: A Romance of Destiny

by Alexandra Lapierre, translated by Carol Cosman


Disturbing the Peace

Tom Paine: A Political Life

by John Keane

Thomas Paine: Apostle of Freedom

by Jack Fruchtman Jr.

Thomas Paine: Collected Writings

edited by Eric Foner


Woman of the Year

This Side of Peace: A Personal Account

by Hanan Ashrawi


Twice Around the Grounds

Arcadia

a play by Tom Stoppard, directed by Trevor Nunn

Arcadia

by Tom Stoppard


Red, Black, and White

Stories of Scottsboro

by James Goodman

Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists During the Great Depression

by Robin D.G. Kelley

Southern Labor and Black Civil Rights: Organizing Memphis Workers

by Michael K. Honey

Speak Now Against the Day: The Generation Before the Civil Rights Movement in the South

by John Egerton


Dispatches from the New Era

The Art of Music and Other Essays (A Travers Chants)

by Hector Berlioz, translated and edited by Elizabeth Csicsery-Rónay


Kicking the Air

How Late it Was, How Late

by James Kelman

The Dead School

by Patrick McCabe

Walking the Dog and Other Stories

by Bernard MacLaverty


Vases or Pots?

Artful Crafts: Ancient Greek Silverware and Pottery

by Michael Vickers and David Gill


Nothing Sacred

The Forbidden Best-Sellers of Pre-Revolutionary France

by Robert Darnton

The Corpus of Clandestine Literature in France, 1769-1789

by Robert Darnton

Subversive Words: Public Opinion in Eighteenth-Century France

by Arlette Farge, translated by Rosemary Morris


India’s Virtuoso Builders

The History of Architecture in India: From the Dawn of Civilization to the End of the Raj

by Christopher Tadgell

The Royal Palaces of India

by George Michell, photographs by Antonio Martinelli


Behind the Smoke Screen

The Life of Graham Greene, Volume II, 1939-1955

by Norman Sherry

Graham Greene: The Man Within

by Michael Shelden

Graham Greene: Three Lives

by Anthony Mockler

Graham Greene: Friend and Brother

by Leopoldo Duran, translated by Euan Cameron

Reflections

by Graham Greene, selected and introduced by Judith Adamson

A World of My Own: A Dream Diary

by Graham Greene

The Graham Greene Film Reader: Reviews, Essays, Interviews & Film Stories

edited by David Parkinson

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