Luigi Pirandello

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

New York

Five Plays

The plays in this collection include Six Characters in Search of an Author, It Is So If You Think So, and Henry IV.

Naked Masks

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Mark Jay Mirsky

Robert. Musil

Robert Musil is ranked alongside Marcel Proust and James Joyce for his monumental, unfinished novel, The Man Without Qualities. His Diaries, a distillation of forty-three years of material, are valuable in a number of ways: as a first-hand historical document of life in twentieth-century central Europe, as a kind of unwitting autobiography of a great novelist, and as a writer's notebook that details the moods of artistic adventure.Readers will gain keen insights into Musil's passage from scientist, to soldier, to novelist, in honest passages that reveal the man in all his humor, ambition, frustration, and transcendence.

Musil Diaries

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George. Orwell

Orwell’s best essays in a 1953 #paperback 

A clear-eyed, uncompromising collection of essays from the "conscience of his generation" and the author of 1984 (V. S. Pritchett). One of the most thought-provoking and vivid essayists of the twentieth century, George Orwell fought the injustices of his time with singular vigor through pen and paper. In this selection of essays, he ranges from reflections on his boyhood schooling and the profession of writing to his views on the Spanish Civil War and British imperialism.



The works collected here include "Such, Such Were the Joys," "Shooting an Elephant," "Politics and the English Language," and "Why I Write." Perfect for those new to Orwell's work and a wonderful compilation for the experienced Orwell reader, A Collection of Essays is an invaluable anthology.

A Collection of Essays

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Julia Kristeva

Leon S. Roudiez

Marked up but otherwise good condition #hardcover 

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Depression and Melancholia

In Black Sun, Julia Kristeva addresses the subject of melancholia, examining this phenomenon in the context of art, literature, philosophy, the history of religion and culture, as well as psychoanalysis. She describes the depressive as one who perceives the sense of self as a crucial pursuit and a nearly unattainable goal and explains how the love of a lost identity of attachment lies at the very core of depression's dark heart.In her discussion she analyzes Holbein's controversial 1522 painting "The Body of the Dead Christ in the Tomb," and has revealing comments on the works of Marguerite Duras, Dostoyevsky and Nerval. Black Sun takes the view that depression is a discourse with a language to be learned, rather than strictly a pathology to be treated.

Black Sun

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First edition 1967 one of stated 500 copies. Poetry, prose, art inspired by Hart Crane #paperback #poetry


With a photograph by Walker Evans 

The Hart Crane Voyages

Holly Van Gulden

Lisa M. Bartels-Rabb

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Parenting the Adopted Child

Sought-after answers to lifelong question.

Real Parents, Real Children

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H. Jackson Brown

#paperback #nonfiction #educational #selfhelp 

A Few More Suggestions, Observations, and Reminders on How to Live a Happy and Rewarding Life

A collection of advice on how to live a happy and rewarding life

Life's Little Instruction Book

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Anna Ottani Cavina

Three Approaches to Neoclassical Art

This book offers access to the aesthetics of neoclassical Europe from a new perspective: landscape painting and interior decoration. The source documents, together with the nexus of relationships they helped to establish, reveal a world shaken by a series of epochal changes. This study of paintings, drawings, and documents touches on such themes as the rediscovery of the ancient world, aristocratic homes in the neoclassical period, and the birth of the rationalist landscape. While the most important artists are French, the chosen vantage point is Rome, because of the impact of antiquity on aesthetic perceptions toward the end of the century. The book insightfully analyzes the last years of the eighteenth century through the visual representation of that world, a world that has been handed down to us through the response of contemporary artists to momentous changes.

Geometries of Silence

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Richard Canning

Conversations with Gay Novelists

A collection of in-depth analytical interviews with twelve of the best-known gay novelists writing in English today, including Armistead Maupin, David Leavitt, Alan Garganus, and others.

Gay Fiction Speaks

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Gregory Woods

The Male Tradition

Account of male gay literature across cultures and languages and from ancient times to the present. It traces writing by and about homosexual men from ancient Greece and Rome through the Middle Ages and Renaissance to the twentieth-century gay literary explosion. It includes writers of wide-ranging literary status (from high cultural icons like Virgil, Dante, Marlowe, Shakespeare, and Proust to popular novelists like Clive Barker and Dashiell Hammett) and of various locations (from Mishima s Tokyo and Abu Nuwas s Baghdad to David Leavitt s New York). It also deals with representations of male-male love by writers who were not themselves homosexual or bisexual men.

A History of Gay Literature

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Taylor Branch

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

America in the King Years, 1963-1965

Examines the jailing of Martin Luther King, the end of segregation, and the growing rifts in the civil rights movement that led to calls for a more violent reaction to racism

Pillar of Fire

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Gregory Pardlo

Memoir by poet Gregory Pardlo #memoir #blm 

A Memoir of Ambition and Manhood in America

Air Traffic

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Andrew Solomon

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Soviet Artists in a Time of Glasnost

Describes how glasnost has improved the fortunes of formerly obscure, Soviet avant-garde artists, and changed Russian life in general

The Irony Tower

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Bernard Cornwell

The History of Four Days, Three Armies, and Three Battles

#1 Bestseller in the U.K. From the New York Times bestselling author and master of martial fiction comes the definitive, illustrated history of one of the greatest battles ever fought—a riveting nonfiction chronicle published to commemorate the 200th anniversary of Napoleon’s last stand. On June 18, 1815 the armies of France, Britain and Prussia descended upon a quiet valley south of Brussels. In the previous three days, the French army had beaten the Prussians at Ligny and fought the British to a standstill at Quatre-Bras. The Allies were in retreat. The little village north of where they turned to fight the French army was called Waterloo. The blood-soaked battle to which it gave its name would become a landmark in European history. In his first work of nonfiction, Bernard Cornwell combines his storytelling skills with a meticulously researched history to give a riveting chronicle of every dramatic moment, from Napoleon’s daring escape from Elba to the smoke and gore of the three battlefields and their aftermath. Through quotes from the letters and diaries of Emperor Napoleon, the Duke of Wellington, and the ordinary officers and soldiers, he brings to life how it actually felt to fight those famous battles—as well as the moments of amazing bravery on both sides that left the actual outcome hanging in the balance until the bitter end. Published to coincide with the battle’s bicentennial in 2015, Waterloo is a tense and gripping story of heroism and tragedy—and of the final battle that determined the fate of nineteenth-century Europe.

Waterloo

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Otto Friedrich

And Other Reports from the Past

The Grave of Alice B. Toklas

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Jean-Dominique Bauby

A Memoir of Life in Death

The author, former editor of French Elle magazine, describes the rare stroke to the brain stem that left his mind intact in a nearly totally paralyzed body

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

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Colm Toibin

Travels in Catholic Europe

The author explores the role of Catholicism in the lives of people throughout Europe and reexamines its impact on his own life

The Sign of the Cross

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Don Paterson

A collection of poems--addressed to the rain and the sea, to the poet's young sons or beloved friends--never shy from their inquiry into truth and lie and serve both to expose readers to the unsettling forces within the world and to offer some protection against them. By the award-winning poet behind Landing Light.

Rain

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Andrew Marvell

Marvell

Member of Parliament, tutor to Oliver Cromwell's ward, satirist and friend of John Milton, Andrew Marvell was one of the most interesting and important poets of the seventeenth century. The Complete Poems demonstrates his unique skill and immense diversity to the full, and includes lyrical love-poetry, religious works and biting satire. From the passionately erotic To his Coy Mistress, to the astutely political Cromwellian poems and the profoundly spiritual On a Drop of Dew, in which he considers the nature of the soul, these works are masterpieces of clarity and metaphysical imagery. Eloquent and compelling, they remain among the most vital and profound works of the era - works by a figure who, in the words of T. S. Eliot, speaks clearly and unequivocally with the voice of his literary age'.

The Complete Poems and Translations

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August Kleinzahler

Low Characters and Strange Places, Gently Explained

The poet-author of The Strange Hours Travelers Keep chronicles the adventures of his oddball New Jersey clan, revealing passion and violence at the heart of this family as well as meditations on sex and literature. 15,000 first printing.

Cutty, One Rock

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Boris Leonidovich Pasternak

Jon Stallworthy

Peter France

Pasternak

Selected Poems

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Mary McCarthy

Writing on the Wall and Other Lit Essays

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Kenzaburo Oe

John Nathan

First pub. 1964. Author's most dramatic work, won him the prestigious Shincho Literary Prize. In the novel the narrator tells how he responds to the birth and problems posed by his handicapped child. Recipient of the 1994 Nobel prize.

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