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The Senses of Walden
An Expanded Edition
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2013
Stanley Cavell, one of America's most distinguished philosophers, has written an invaluable companion volume to Walden, a seminal book in our cultural heritage. This expanded edition includes two essays on Emerson.
by E. T. A. Hoffmann
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2008
Ranging from macabre fantasies to fairy tales and tales of crime, these stories from the author of The Nutcracker create a rich fictional world. Hoffman paints a complex vision of humanity, where people struggle to establish identities in a hostile, absurd world.
"The editors have made...
by Richmond Lattimore
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2013
"Professor Lattimore, holding closely to the original metres, has produced renderings of great power and beauty. His feeling for the telling noun and verb, the simple yet poignant epithet, and the dramatic turn of syntax is marked. He has completely freed the poems from sentimentality, and the...
The Raj Quartet, Volume 1
The Jewel in the Crown
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2011
No set of novels so richly recreates the last days of India under British rule—"two nations locked in an imperial embrace"—as Paul Scott's historical tour de force, The Raj Quartet. The Jewel in the Crown opens in 1942 as the British fear both Japanese invasion and Indian demands for...
Presumption
An Entertainment: A Sequel to Pride and Prejudice
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2012
This witty sequel to Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice follows the fate of Georgiana Darcy, Mr. Darcy's younger sister, who must choose between two suitors, a well-placed navy captain and a brash young architect. Masterfully adapted to Austen's original nineteenth-century style, Presumption brings...
by Ludwig Wittgenstein
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2015
For several terms at Cambridge in 1939, Ludwig Wittgenstein lectured on the philosophical foundations of mathematics. A lecture class taught by Wittgenstein, however, hardly resembled a lecture.
He sat on a chair in the middle of the room, with some of the class sitting in chairs, some on the...
The Great Prince Died
A Novel about the Assassination of Trotsky
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2015
On August 20, 1940, Marxist philosopher, politician, and revolutionary Leon Trotsky was attacked with an ice axe in his home in Coyoacán, Mexico. He died the next day.
In The Great Prince Died, Bernard Wolfe offers his lyrical, fictionalized account of Trotsky’s assassination as witnessed...
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
In a Modern English Version with a Critical Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2011
The adventures and challenges of Sir Gawain, King Arthur’s nephew and a knight at the Round Table, including his duel with the mysterious Green Knight, are among the oldest and best known of Arthurian stories. Here the distinguished author and poet John Gardner has captured the humor, elegance,...
Image and Myth
A History of Pictorial Narration in Greek Art
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2013
On museum visits, we pass by beautiful, well-preserved vases from ancient Greece—but how often do we understand what the images on them depict? In Image and Myth, Luca Giuliani tells the stories behind the pictures, exploring how artists of antiquity had to determine which motifs or historical and...
The Blackbird
An Alan Grofield Novel
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
Donald E. Westlake is one of the greats of crime fiction. Under the pseudonym Richard Stark, he wrote twenty-four fast-paced, hardboiled novels featuring Parker, a shrewd career criminal with a talent for heists. Using the same nom de plume, Westlake also completed a separate series in the Parker...
Butcher's Moon
A Parker Novel
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2011
The sixteenth Parker novel, Butcher’s Moon is more than twice as long most of the master heister’s adventures, and absolutely jammed with the action, violence, and nerve-jangling tension readers have come to expect. Back in the corrupt town where he lost his money, and nearly his life, in Slayground,...
Plunder Squad
A Parker Novel
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2010
“Hearing the click behind him, Parker threw his glass straight back over his right shoulder, and dove off his chair to the left.” When a job looks like amateur hour, Parker walks away. But even a squad of seasoned professionals can't guarantee against human error in a high-risk scam. Can an art...
Backflash
A Parker Novel
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2011
After the publication of Butcher's Moon in 1974, Donald Westlake said, “Richard Stark proved to me that he had a life of his own by simply disappearing. He was gone.” And readers waited.
But nothing bad is truly gone forever, and Parker’s as bad as they come. According to Westlake,...
Murder in Canton
A Judge Dee Mystery
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2010
Brought back into print in the 1990s to wide acclaim, re-designed new editions of Robert van Gulik's Judge Dee Mysteries are now available.
Written by a Dutch diplomat and scholar during the 1950s and 1960s, these lively and historically accurate mysteries have entertained a devoted following...