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Age of Anger: A History of the Present by Pankaj Mishra

Age of Anger: A History of the Present by Pankaj Mishra. New York. 2017. Farrar Straus Giroux. 9780374274788. 406 pages. hardcover. Jacket design by Jason Heuer. FROM THE PUBLISHER - One of our most important public intellectuals reveals[…]

The Violent Bear It Away by Flannery O'Connor

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The Violent Bear It Away by Flannery O'Connor. New York. 1960. Farrar Straus & Cudahy. 243 pages. hardcover. Jacket design by Milton Glaser. FROM THE PUBLISHER - In this novel Flannery O’Connor is at the top of her powers.[…]

Love, Anger, Madness: A Haitian Trilogy by Marie Vieux-Chauvet

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Love, Anger, Madness: A Haitian Trilogy by Marie Vieux-Chauvet. New York. 2009. Modern Library. Translated From The Haitian French By Rose-Myriam Rejouis & Val Vinokur. Introduction By Edwidge Danticat. 381 pages. Jacket design by Thomas Beck Stvan. 9780679643517. August 2009.[…]

This Sweet Sickness by Patricia Highsmith

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This Sweet Sickness by Patricia Highsmith. London. 1961. Heinemann. 240 pages. hardcover. Cover by Jack Whitsett. FROM THE PUBLISHER - This Sweet Sickness is a chilling novel. David Kelsey was a brilliant young chemist, and the firm he[…]

The Great Camouflage: Writings of Dissent (1941-1945) by Suzanne Cesaire

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The Great Camouflage: Writings of Dissent (1941-1945) by Suzanne Cesaire. Middletown. 2012. Wesleyan University Press. 9780819572752. Edited by Daniel Maximin. Translated by Keith L. Walker. 67 pages. paperback. Cover illustration: Suzanne Cesaire. FROM THE PUBLISHER - The Great[…]

Passing by Nella Larsen

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Passing by Nella Larsen. New York. 1929. Knopf. 217 pages. hardcover. FROM THE PUBLISHER - A landmark novel about the cultural meanings of race by the Harlem Renaissance’s premier woman writer. The beautiful, elegant, and ambitious Clare Kendry[…]

A Good Man In Africa by William Boyd

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A Good Man In Africa by William Boyd. New York. 1982. Morrow. hardcover. 342 pages. keywords: Literature England Africa. 0688008208. FROM THE PUBLISHER - A Good Man in Africa is William Boyd's classic, prize-winning debut[…]

Geist and Zeitgeist: The Spirit In An Unspiritual Age - Six Essays by Hermann Broch

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Geist and Zeitgeist: The Spirit In An Unspiritual Age - Six Essays by Hermann Broch. New York. 2002. Counterpoint. hardcover. 210 pages. December 2002. Jacket design by Rick Pracher. Translated from the German, Edited, & With An Introduction by John[…]

Spies of the Balkans: A Novel by Alan Furst

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Spies of the Balkans: A Novel by Alan Furst. New York. 2010. Random House. hardcover. 268 pages. Jacket design by Robbin Schiff. 9781400066032. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Greece, 1940. In the port city of Salonika, with its wharves[…]

James Joyce by Italo Svevo

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James Joyce by Italo Svevo. San Francisco. 1950. City Lights Books. Reprinted Paperback Edition after A limited Edition of 1600 numbered copies were privately issued by James Laughlin for the friends and supporters of New Directions.Very Good In Wrappers. unpaginated.[…]

At the Dusk of Dawn: Selected Poetry and Prose by Albery Allson Whitman

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At the Dusk of Dawn: Selected Poetry and Prose by Albery Allson Whitman. Boston. 2009. Northeastern University Press. hardcover. 331 pages. Jacket illustration: Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. Edited by Ivy G. Wilson. Northeastern[…]

Tituba of Salem Village by Ann Petry

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Tituba of Salem Village by Ann Petry. New York. 1964. Thomas Y. Crowell. hardcover. 256 pages. Jacket by John Wilson. FROM THE PUBLISHER - In Salem village in 1692, superstition and hysteria mounted to the climax[…]

Satan is a Woman by Gil Brewer

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Satan is a Woman by Gil Brewer. New York. 1951. Facwett Gold Medal. paperback. 158 pages. September 1951. #169. FROM THE PUBLISHER - She carried hell in her heart. SATAN IS A WOMAN. There is a[…]

Half-Truths & One-And-A-Half Truths by Karl Kraus

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Half-Truths & One-And-A-Half Truths by Karl Kraus. Montreal. 1976. Engendra Press. hardcover. 128 pages. Design by Anthony Crouch. Edited and translated from the German by Harry Zohn. 0919830005. FROM THE PUBLISHER - ‘This, and only this,[…]

Haiti Noir by Edwidge Danticat (editor)

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Haiti Noir by Edwidge Danticat (editor). New York. 2011. Akashic Books. hardcover. 315 pages. keywords: Mystery Anthology Haiti. 9781617750137. FROM THE PUBLISHER - 'A wide-ranging collection from the beloved but besieged Caribbean island. [. ] The 36th entry[…]

Heimskringla - 3 Volumes by Snorri Sturluson

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Heimskringla - 3 Volumes by Snorri Sturluson. New York and London. 1964. Everyman’s Library. hardcover. 717, 722, and 847. Volume 1 - Dustjacket drawing by Eric Fraser. Volume 2 - Dustjacket drawing by Aleksander Werner. Translated from the Icelandic by[…]

(04/30/2014) Eurocentrism by Samir Amin

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Eurocentrism by Samir Amin. New York. 1989. Monthly Review Press. hardcover. 152 pages. Translated from the French by Russell More. 0853457867. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Since its first publication twenty years ago, Eurocentrism has become a[…]

The Shooting Gallery & Other Stories by Yuko Tsushima

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The Shooting Gallery & Other Stories by Yuko Tsushima. New York. 1988. Pantheon Books. paperback. 138 pages. Translated from the Japanese by Geraldine Harcourt. 0394757432. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Eight stories by one of Japan's most[…]

The Invasion of America: Indians, Colonialism, and the Cant of Conquest by Francis Jennings

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The Invasion of America: Indians, Colonialism, and the Cant of Conquest by Francis Jennings. New York. 1976. Norton. paperback. 369 pages. Cover design by Jay J. Smith. keywords: History America Colonialism Conquest. 0393008304. FROM THE PUBLISHER - […]

The Voices Of Guns: The Definitive & Dramatic Story Of The Twenty-Two-Month Career Of The Symbionese Liberation Army-One Of The Most Bizarre Chapters In The History Of The American Left by Vin McLellan and Paul Avery

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The Voices Of Guns: The Definitive & Dramatic Story Of The Twenty-Two-Month Career Of The Symbionese Liberation Army-One Of The Most Bizarre Chapters In The History Of The American Left by Vin McLellan and Paul Avery. New York. 1977. Putnam.[…]

Agua Viva by Clarice Lispector

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Agua Viva by Clarice Lispector. New York. 2012. New Directions. paperback. 88 pages. Translated from the Portuguese by Stefan Tobler. 9780811219907. FROM THE PUBLISHER - New translation by Stefan Tobler. Introduction by Benjamin Moser. In the[…]

The Bureaucrats by Honore de Balzac

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The Bureaucrats by Honore de Balzac. Evanston. 1993. Northwestern University Press. 247 pages. paperback. Cover: Honore Daumier, ‘Le ventre Legiuslatif, from Association Mensuelle.’ Translated from the French by Charles Foulkes. Edited and with an introduction by Marco Diani. 0810109875. Originally[…]

The Traces Of Thomas Hariot by Muriel Rukeyser

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The Traces Of Thomas Hariot by Muriel Rukeyser. New York. 1971. Random House. 366 pages. hardcover. 0394449231. FROM THE PUBLISHER - A study of the life of little-known Elizabethan Thomas Hariot - friend of Ralegh,[…]

Sally Hemings by Barbara Chase-Riboud

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Sally Hemings by Barbara Chase-Riboud. New York. 1979. Viking Press. hardcover. 348 pages. June 1979. Jacket painting by Cornelia Gray. 0670616052. FROM THE PUBLISHER - One of the greatest love stories in American history is also[…]

Unbought & Unbossed by Shirley Chisholm

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Unbought & Unbossed by Shirley Chisholm. Boston. 1970. Houghton Mifflin. hardcover. 177 pages. October 1970. Jacket photographs by Gordon Parks. Jr. 0395683680. FROM THE PUBLISHER - In 1968 Shirley Chisholm became the first black woman to[…]

The Good Fight by Shirley Chisholm

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The Good Fight by Shirley Chisholm. New York. 1973. Harper & Row. hardcover. 206 pages. A Moving & Hard-Hitting Statement by The First Woman & First African American To Run For President In 1968. 0060107642. FROM THE PUBLISHER -[…]

The Italics Are Mine by Nina Berberova

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The Italics Are Mine by Nina Berberova. New York. 1969. Harcourt Brace & World. 606 pages. hardcover. Jacket photograph & design by Robert A. Propper. Translated from the Russian by Philippe Radley. FROM THE PUBLISHER - […]

The Republic Of Dreams by Nelida Pinon

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The Republic Of Dreams by Nelida Pinon. New York. 1989. Knopf. 663 pages. July 1989. hardcover. 0394555252. Jacket illustration by Steven Rydberg. Jacket design by Carol Devine Carson. Translated from the Portuguese by Helen Lane. (original title: Republica dos sonhos,[…]

Resurrection by William Gerhardi

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Resurrection by William Gerhardi. New York. 1934. Harcourt Brace & Company. 372 pages. 'One grows older furtively, under the watchful eyes of friends. But gradually one sees they are accomplices who condone the crime; which turns into a weakness,[…]

Tales of the German Imagination: From the Brothers Grimm to Ingeborg Bachmann by Peter Wortsman (editor)

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Tales of the German Imagination: From the Brothers Grimm to Ingeborg Bachmann by Peter Wortsman (editor). New York. 2012. Penguin Books. paperback. 361 pages. Cover: 'Melancholy of the Mountains', 1929, Coloured woodcut by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner. Translated from the German,[…]

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