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Cover of The Hospital
by Ahmed Bouanani
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2018

A tour de force: an utterly singular modern Moroccan classic “When I walked through the large iron gate of the hospital, I must have still been alive…” So begins Ahmed Bouanani’s arresting, hallucinatory 1989 novel The Hospital, appearing for the first time in English translation. Based...
Cover of Selected Poems
by Kenneth Patchen
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 1957

This selection is drawn from ten earlier volumes by the poet who has been called "the most compelling force in American poetry since Whitman." The late Kenneth Patchen was unique among contemporary poets for his direct and passionate concern with the most essential elements in the...
Cover of No Longer Human
by Osamu Dazai
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 1973

The poignant and fascinating story of a young man who is caught between the breakup of the traditions of a northern Japanese aristocratic family and the impact of Western ideas. Portraying himself as a failure, the protagonist of Osamu Dazai's No Longer Human narrates a seemingly normal life...
Cover of Into the Heart of Life: Henry Miller at One Hundred
by Henry Miller
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 1991

In celebration of the centennial of his birth, Into the Heart of Life: Henry Miller at One Hundred gathers a captivating selection of writings from ten of his books. The delights of his prose are many, not the least of which is Miller's comic irony, which as The London Times noted, can...
Cover of The Smile at the Foot of the Ladder
by Henry Miller
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 1974

**Henry Miller called The Smile at the Foot of the Ladder his “most singular story.” ** First published in 1959, this touching fable tells of Auguste, a famous clown who could make people laugh but who sought to impart to his audiences a lasting joy. Originally inspired by a series of...
Cover of The Berlin Stories
by Christopher Isherwood
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2008

A classic of 20th-century fiction, The Berlin Stories inspired the Broadway musical and Oscar-winning film Cabaret. First published in the 1930s, The Berlin Stories contains two astonishing related novels, The Last of Mr. Norris and Goodbye to Berlin, which are recognized today as classics...
Cover of Mr Norris Changes Trains
by Christopher Isherwood
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2013

Two Englishmen meeting on a train to Berlin in 1930 kick off one of Isherwood’s most enduring novels On a train to Berlin in late 1930, William Bradshaw locks eyes with Arthur Norris, an irresistibly comical fellow Englishman wearing a rather obvious wig and nervous about producing his passport...
Cover of All the Conspirators
by Christopher Isherwood
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2016

A timeless story of decaying middle-class English life after wwI and the generation that tried to escape its values Christopher Isherwood was only twenty-one when he began his first novel, All the Conspirators. in his introduction to the American edition, Isherwood explains: “All the Conspirators...
Cover of A House Not Meant to Stand: A Gothic Comedy
by Tennessee Williams
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2008

The spellbinding last full-length play produced during the author's lifetime is now published for the first time. Christmas 1982: Cornelius and Bella McCorkle of Pascagoula, Mississippi, return home one midnight in a thunderstorm from the Memphis funeral of their older son to a house and a...
Cover of Colonel Chabert
by Honore de Balzac
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 1997

The story of a French military hero of the Napoleonic Wars, long assumed to be dead, tries to recover his fortune and former wife through the help of a famous Parisian lawyer. Colonel Chabert, a Napoleonic War hero supposedly killed in the Battle of Eylau, returns to Paris after a long convalescence...
Cover of The Melancholy of Resistance
by László Krasznahorkai
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2002

From the winner of the 2015 Man Booker International Prize A powerful, surreal novel, in the tradition of Gogol, about the chaotic events surrounding the arrival of a circus in a small Hungarian town. The Melancholy of Resistance, László Krasznahorkai's magisterial, surreal novel, depicts...
Cover of The Armies
by Evelio Rosero
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009

An elderly retired teacher is caught up in drug wars which slowly destroy his small town. Ismail, the profesor, is a retired teacher in a small Colombian town where he passes the days pretending to pick oranges while spying on his neighbor Geraldina as she lies naked in the shade of a ceiba...
Cover of The Tanners
by Robert Walser
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2009

"The Tanners is a contender for Funniest Book of the Year."—The Village Voice The Tanners, Robert Walser’s amazing 1907 novel of twenty chapters, is now presented in English for the very first time, by the award-winning translator Susan Bernofsky. Three brothers and a sister comprise...
Cover of The Wall: (Intimacy) and Other Stories
by Jean-Paul Sartre
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2010

One of Sartre’s greatest existentialist works of fiction, The Wall contains the only five short stories he ever wrote. Set during the Spanish Civil War, the title story crystallizes the famous philosopher’s existentialism. 'The Wall', the lead story in this collection, introduces three...
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