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My Dog Tulip By J.R. Ackerley Introduction by Elizabeth Marshall Thomas Ackerley has written a book that is a profound and subtle meditation on the strangeness abiding at the heart of all relationships. Price: $10.46 (25% off)

We Think the World of You By J.R. Ackerley Introduction by P.N. Furbank This powerful short novel, with its extraordinary mixture of acute social realism and dark fantasy, was described by J. R. Ackerley himself as "a fairy tale for adults." Price: $9.71 (25% off)

My Father and Myself By J.R. Ackerley Introduction by W.H. Auden Ackerley's pursuit of his father is also an exploration of the self, making My Father and Myself a pioneering record, at once sexually explicit and emotionally charged, of life as a gay man. Price: $11.21 (25% off)

Hindoo Holiday By J.R. Ackerley Introduction by Eliot Weinberger Hindoo Holiday is an intimate and very funny account of an exceedingly strange place, and one of the masterpieces of twentieth-century travel literature. Price: $12.71 (25% off)

The Jeffersonian Transformation By Henry Adams Introduction by Garry Wills The ideal introduction and companion to Adams's "massive and magisterial" history of the administrations of Jefferson and Madison, presenting an indelible picture of America's startling rise to world power. Price: $11.21 (25% off)

Monsieur Proust By Céleste Albaret Translated from the French by Barbara Bray Foreword by André Aciman This lovely book is as close as we can come to meeting Proust in person. Price: $14.21 (25% off)

The Enchanted April By Elizabeth von Arnim Introduction by Cathleen Schine Four women who share only their unhappiness and a love of wisteria flee 1920s London and converge on a magical villa in Portofino Italy in this charming comedy of manners that has been called "a feast of flowers"—Times Literary Supplement. Price: $11.21 (25% off)

Blood on the Forge By William Attaway Introduction by Darryl Pinckney A savage vision of the Great Migration told through a bleak and harrowing story of three brothers. Price: $10.50 (25% off)

W.H. Auden's Book of Light Verse Preface by Edward Mendelson Edited by W.H. Auden Auden's great, transformative anthology, assembled when his own work was at its most provocative and searching, is above all a rethinking of the history of poetry in English. Price: $13.46 (25% off)

Dante By Erich Auerbach Introduction by Michael Dirda An inspiring introduction to one of world's greatest poets and a brilliantly argued essay in the history of ideas. Price: $11.21 (25% off)

Cassandra at the Wedding By Dorothy Baker Afterword by Deborah Eisenberg Dorothy Baker's fascinating tragicomic novel follows an unpredictable course of events in which Cassandra appears variously as conniving, self-aware, pitiful, frenzied, absurd, and heartbroken—at once utterly impossible and surprisingly sympathetic. Price: $11.96 (25% off)

The Peregrine By J.A. Baker Introduction by Robert Macfarlane A classic of nature writing. Price: $11.96 (25% off)

The Unknown Masterpiece By Honoré de Balzac Translated from the French by Richard Howard Introduction by Arthur C. Danto The story, which has served as an inspiration to artists as various as Cézanne, Henry James, Picasso, and New Wave director Jacques Rivette, is, in critic Dore Ashton's words, a "fable of modern art." Price: $10.50 (25% off)

Seven Men By Max Beerbohm Introduction by John Updike In Seven Men the brilliant English caricaturist and critic Max Beerbohm turns his comic searchlight upon the fantastic fin-de-siècle world of the 1890s—the age of Oscar Wilde, Aubrey Beardsley, and the young Yeats, as well of Beerbohm's own first success. Price: $9.71 (25% off)

Moura By Nina Berberova Translated from the Russian by Marian Schwartz Richard D. Sylvester In this legendary biography, an unusual labor of love, Berberova paints a portrait of the ultimate survivor, a woman who made her life a triumph of fiction. Price: $18.71 (25% off)

Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist By Alexander Berkman Introduction by John William Ward No other book discusses so frankly the criminal ways of the closed prison society, its homosexuality or extortion. No other political prisoner even remotely approaches Berkman's sympathy for what most of the revolutionaries refer to contemptuously as common criminals. Price: $17.21 (25% off)

Mouchette By Georges Bernanos Translated from the French by J.C. Whitehouse Introduction by Fanny Howe First published as Nouvelle Histoire de Mouchette in 1937, this French classic is the basis for Robert Bresson's cult film. Price: $10.50 (25% off)

War and the Iliad By Rachel Bespaloff Simone Weil Translated from the French by Mary McCarthy Introduction by Christopher Benfey Afterword by Hermann Broch These essays do more than prove the permanent relevance of Homer's great poem. They analyze the logic of war itself, and explore how intoxicating violence defines the human condition. Price: $11.21 (25% off)

Sheppard Lee, Written by Himself By Robert Montgomery Bird Introduction by Christopher Looby The eponymous hero of this early-American picaresque climbs the social ladder by inhabiting the bodies of the recently deceased, assuming the identities of, among others, a country squire, a young man of fashion, and a slave. Price: $12.71 (25% off)

Great Granny Webster By Caroline Blackwood Introduction by Honor Moore This macabre, mordantly funny, partly auto-biographical novel reveals the gothic craziness behind the scenes in the great houses of the aristocracy, as witnessed through the unsparing eyes of an orphaned teenage girl. Price: $9.71 (25% off)

Corrigan By Caroline Blackwood Afterword by Andrew Solomon With Corrigan Caroline Blackwood takes a long, hard look at our dearly beloved notions of saints and sinners, victims and villains, patrimony and present pleasure—and winks. Price: $11.21 (25% off)

The Way of the World By Nicolas Bouvier Translated from the French by Robyn Marsack Introduction by Patrick Leigh Fermor Drawings by Thierry Vernet 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. Price: $12.71 (25% off)

On the Yard By Malcolm Braly Introduction by Jonathan Lethem A major American novel, and arguably the finest work of literature ever to emerge from a US prison, On the Yard is a book of penetrating psychological realism. Price: $11.21 (25% off)

Manservant and Maidservant By Ivy Compton-Burnett Introduction by Diane Johnson At once the strangest and most marvelous of Ivy Compton-Burnett's fictions, Manservant and Maidservant has for its subject the domestic life of Horace Lamb, sadist, skinflint, and tyrant. Price: $12.71 (25% off)

A House and Its Head By Ivy Compton-Burnett Afterword by Francine Prose A House and Its Head is Ivy Compton-Burnett's subversive look at the politics of family life, and perhaps the most unsparing of her novels. Price: $12.71 (25% off)

The Gallery By John Horne Burns Introduction by Paul Fussell Burns's early death at the age of 36 led to the subsequent neglect of this searching book, which captures the shock the war dealt to the preconceptions and ideals of the victorious Americans. Price: $11.21 (25% off)

The Anatomy of Melancholy By Robert Burton Introduction by William H. Gass One of the major documents of modern European civilization, Robert Burton's astounding compendium, a survey of melancholy in all its myriad forms, has invited nothing but superlatives since its publication in the seventeenth century. Price: $20.96 (25% off)

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. Price: $11.21 (25% off)

The Book of My Life By Girolamo Cardano Translated from the Italian by Jean Stoner Introduction by Anthony Grafton At once picaresque adventure and campus comedy, curriculum vitae and last will, The Book of My Life is an extraordinary Renaissance self-portrait. Price: $13.46 (25% off)

Hard Rain Falling By Don Carpenter Introduction by George Pelecanos A gripping novel of being down and out, but never down for good—a Dostoyevskian tale of crime, punishment, and the pursuit of an ever-elusive redemption. Price: $12.71 (25% off)

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