The Journal: 1837-1861
By Henry David Thoreau
Preface by John R. Stilgoe
Edited by Damion Searls
To understand Thoreau, one must read his journals—but until now they have never been available in a one-volume reader's edition that draws on the entirety of his 14-volume journal. Here at last is the essence of the great naturalist's thoughts, accumulated over the span of a life time
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Alien Hearts
By Guy de Maupassant
Translated from the French and with a preface by Richard Howard
Maupassant's last completed novel is the story of three lovers bound by bitterness and infatuation. Richard Howard's new English translation of this complex and brooding psychological novel reveals the final, unexpected flowering of the great French realist's art.
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The Way of the World
By Nicolas Bouvier
Drawings by Thierry Vernet
Introduction by Patrick Leigh Fermor
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.
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No Tomorrow
By Vivant Denon
Introduction by Peter Brooks
Translated from the French by Lydia Davis
"I was desperately in love with the comtesse de—. I was twenty years old and I was naive. She deceived me, I got angry, she left me. I was naive, I missed her. I was twenty years old." So begins this seductive tale of seduction and the endless ambiguities of desire.
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The Man Who Lost His Head
By Claire Huchet Bishop
Pictures by Robert McCloskey
What would you do if your head went missing? Would you replace it with a pumpkin? a parsnip? maybe a block of wood? The man who lost his head tries all of these things, but it takes a brash bold boy to save the day. This delightful tale pairs the author of The Five Chinese Brothers with the creator of Make Way for Ducklings.
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Everything Flows
By Vasily Grossman
Introduction by Robert Chandler
The final novel from the author of Life and Fate centers a former political prisoner adjusting to freedom after decades spent in a Soviet camps. It is a story of love, survival, honor, and an indictment of the totalitarian state.
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Carbonel & Calidor
By Barbara Sleigh
Illustrations by Charles Front
When Carbonel's son decides to give up his birthright and apprentice himself to a witch, Rosemary and John must use all the magic within their power to save him.
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Poem Strip
By Dino Buzzati
Translated from the Italian by Marina Harss
Buzzati's pioneering graphic novel relocates the story of Orpheus and Eurydice to a ghostly version of an ultra-mod, hyper-sexy 1960s Milan and shows the influence of his one-time collaborator Federico Fellini.
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Ounce Dice Trice
By Alastair Reid
Drawings by Ben Shahn
Ben Shahn illustrates this notebook of fabulous words: heavy words, squishy words, made up words, names for cats, whales, and houses. Says the author: "All the words here are meant to be said aloud, over and over, for your own delight."
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Memories of the Future
By Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky
Translated from the Russian and with an introduction by Joanne Turnbull
The first English-language collection of stories from a Soviet writer whose mind-bending tales draw comparisons to the works of Poe, Borges, Kafka, and Capek.
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The Company They Kept: Writers on Unforgettable Friendships
Edited by Robert B. Silvers and Barbara Epstein
Now in paperback. Our most remarkable writers share what has influenced them the most: each other. "These wonderful reminiscences will renew readers' appreciation for those unpredictable joys shared between all close friends." —Booklist
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The Cost of Living
By Mavis Gallant
Introduction by Jhumpa Lahiri
An original collection of stories—many originally published in The New Yorker—from a woman widely considered to be one of the most thrilling practitioners of the genre. Gallant's tales of exile and displacement are admired by Margaret Atwood, Deborah Eisenberg, Michael Ondaatje, Russell Banks, and others.
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