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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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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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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