POND
"A sharp, funny, and eccentric debut ... Pond makes the case for Bennett as an innovative writer of real talent. ... [It]reminds us that small things...
CONVERSATIONS WITH FRIENDS
NOW A HULU ORIGINAL SERIES - From the New York Times bestselling author of Normal People . . . "[A] cult-hit . . . [a] sharply realistic comedy of...
MY YEAR OF REST AND RELAXATION
Named a Best Book of the Year by The Washington Post, Time, NPR, Amazon, Vice, Bustle, The New York Times, The Guardian, Kirkus Reviews,...
Literature
ODYSSEY: BOOKS 13-24
Written by Homer
Here is a new Loeb Classical Library edition of the resplendent epic tale of Odysseus's long journey home from the Trojan War and the legendary temptations, delays, and perils he faced at every turn.
LEAVES OF GRASS
Written by Whitman, Walt
Abraham Lincoln read it with approval, but Emily Dickinson described its bold language and themes as "disgraceful." Ralph Waldo Emerson found it "the most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom that America has yet produced." Published at the author's expense on July 4, 1855, Leaves of Grass inaugurated a new voice and style into American letters and gave expression to an optimistic, bombastic visi
RED BADGE OF COURAGE & THE VETERAN
Written by Crane, Stephen
One of the greatest works of American literature, The Red Badge of Courage gazes fearlessly into the bright hell of war through the eyes of one young soldier, the reluctant Henry Fleming.
RULES OF ATTRACTION
Written by Ellis, Bret Easton
Set at a small, affluent liberal-arts college in New England at the height of the Reagan 80s, TheRules of Attraction is a startlingly funny, kaleidoscopic novel about three students with no plansfor the future--or even the present--who become entangled in a curious romantic triangle.
DEAD SOULS (RICHARD PEVEAR & LARISSA VOLOKHONSKY)
Written by Gogol, Nikolai
Since its publication in 1842, Dead Souls has been celebrated as a supremely realistic portrait of provincial Russian life and as a splendidly exaggerated tale; as a paean to the Russian spirit and as a remorseless satire of imperial Russian venality, vulgarity, and pomp.
WIND-UP BIRD CHRONICLE
Written by Murakami, Haruki
"The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle" is many things: the story of a marriage that mysteriously collapses; a jeremiad against the superficiality of contemporary politics; an investigation of painfully suppressed memories of war; a bildungsroman about a compassionate young man's search for his own identity as well as that of his nation.
MAGIC MOUNTAIN
Written by Mann, Thomas
Hans Castorp - on the verge of an intense flirtation with Clavdia Chauchat, a married woman and feverish fellow patient - is perched high above the world, dozing in his splendid lounge chair at the International Sanatorium Berghof, swaddled in blankets against the Alpine chill.
BLACK MONEY
Written by MacDonald, Ross
Lew Archer is hired to investigate the suspicious French "aristocrat" who's run off with his client's girlfriend--only to uncover a mountain of gambling debts and a seven-year-old suicide with lethal repercussions in the present. Black Money is Ross Macdonald at his best, baring the skull beneath the suntanned skin of Southern California's high society.
UNTOUCHABLE
Written by Banville, John
Victor Maskell has been betrayed: in Parliament, a revelation of his double, perhaps quadruple, life of espionage; in the press, photographs and inch-high type. But why now - as he enters his seventies, diagnosed with cancer, twenty years into "retirement" - and by whom?
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