The Bear That Wasn't
By Frank Tashlin
The perils of being a modern bear! One minute you're hibernating in the forest, the next you wake to find a factory built over your den. And when you try to explain yourself, the management laughs in your face, telling you to get back to work—and to get a shave. A sharp, comic parable from Tashlin, a legendary animator and screenwriter.
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Skylark
By Dezső Kosztolányi
Introduction by Péter Esterházy
Translated from the Hungarian by Richard Aczel
"...a gem of a book that is completely convincing in its depiction of characters and the society they move in." —The Independent
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The Sorely Trying Day
By Russell and Lillian Hoban
What a mess! The cat is on top of the grandfather clock, the dog is barking and lunging, and all the children are squabbling and shouting. Well, who started it? Each child points to the next, and even the dog blames the cat. But the truth is another story. From the author and illustrator of the Frances books.
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Poets in a Landscape
By Gilbert Highet
Preface by Michael C. J. Putnam
Highet introduces us to the lives and work of seven of ancient Rome's greatest poets. What makes this book special is the book's rich context, resulting in an amalgam of travel writing, biography, criticism, and pure poetry.
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The Wedding of Zein
By Tayeb Salih
Introduction by Hisham Matar
Translated from the Arabic by Denys Johnson-Davies
Salih returns to the Sudanese village that was the setting of Season of Migration to the North in this book of three tales — including the title story, in which the miraculous betrothal of the town fool unites its residents in unforeseen ways.
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Original Letters from India
By Eliza Fay
Introduction by Simon Winchester
Annotated by E.M. Forster
It took Eliza Fay over a year to travel from London to Calcutta at the end of the eighteenth century. The letters she wrote along the way provide an unparalleled view of the adventure that was travel in days past.
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Wish Her Safe At Home
By Stephen Benatar
Introduction by John Carey
An unexpected inheritance frees Rachel Waring from her dreary life. But will her newfound joie de vivre free her from her grasp on reality as well? Benatar's brilliantly subjective storytelling keeps the reader guessing till the very end.
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Fortunes of War: The Balkan Trilogy
By Olivia Manning
Introduction by Rachel Cusk
"One of those combinations of soap opera and literature that are so rare you'd think it would meet the conditions of two kinds of audiences: those after what the trade calls 'a good read,' and those who want something more." —Howard Moss, The New York Review of Books
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Soul of Wood
By Jakov Lind
Introduction by Michael Krüger
Translated from the German by Ralph Manheim
Lind's stories of the Second World War and its repercussions deal masterfully with a world of horror through fantasy, paradox, and sardonic distortion and bring to life the agonies of twentieth-century Europe.
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The True Deceiver
By Tove Jansson
Introduction by Ali Smith
Translated from the Swedish by Thomas Teal
A story of manipulation and deceit set in the depths of the Swedish winter. "I loved this book. It's cool in both senses of the word, understated yet exciting, and with a tension that keeps you reading." —Ruth Rendell
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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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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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