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"This novella was originally published, in slightly different form, in The Paris Review, 2002."--T.p. verso.

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A brilliantly atmospheric novel that brings to vivid life both the dizzying triumphs and terrible sorrows of the Bront sisters, and reveals how love ... More

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The third volume of "Parade's End"--one of the outstanding works about World War I and British society before, during, and after that cataclysm--this ... More

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From the author of "The Physician "and "Shaman" now comes this story of a young man--the grapes he grows, the wine he fashions, the women he loves, ... More

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Yalo was a soldier on one of the many sides in Lebanon's sectarian civil war, and then he becomes a deserter and a thief, a nightwatchman in Paris, ... More

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In Alfred Gibson the fierce energy and brilliance of the most famous of the Victorian novelists is recreated, in a heart-warming story of first love- ... More

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I am Kozaisho: Fifth daughter, Woman-For-Play, teller of stories, lover, wife and Flower Samurai. In the rich, dazzling, brutal world of twelfth ... More

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When Hurricane Hazel tore through Toronto on October 15, 1954, it left its mark on both the city and its inhabitants. In the aftermath, a young cop ... More

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At the end of Nathaniel Hawthorne's classic novel, The Scarlet Letter, we know that Pearl, the elf-child daughter of Hester Prynne, is somewhere in ... More

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Carmen Boullosa is one of Latin America's most original voices, and in Cleopatra Dismounts she has written a remarkable reconstruction of the life of ... More

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A gripping and moving portrait of a society emerging from the shadow of war, and of an unforgettable woman out of kilter with her time In the ... More

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Shakespeare in Love for the sonnets: a fictional tale of how Shakespeare wrote his most famous poems. No one knows for sure precisely when and where ... More

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Set in the late nineteenth century, "A World Elsewhere" is an intricately woven tale of humour and emotion, of family and friendship, of ambition and ... More

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In his study of John F. Kennedy's womanizing, Mercurio never demonizes his subject, instead offering a sympathetic portrait of a virtuous man in the ... More

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The Jalna household is electric with secrecy and excited expectation. It is now 1923, while young love blossoms between Pheasant and Piers, Aunt ... More

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When Stella, fresh from her life in the city, arrives to take up her first teaching post in the one-room schoolhouse in a little frontier settlement ... More

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In the aftermath of the Great War, Non Davies wakes one morning to find her husband crouching underneath the kitchen table in a cold sweat, ... More

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A riotous tale of love and lust, valor and villainy on the Mexican frontier of the 1930s. Robert Hough's vivid and wildly imaginative novel takes us ... More

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Jerry Finch, a Florida schoolteacher, is chosen to be the first civilian to go on a manned space trip to the moon--and becomes a national hero as a ... More

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"Traveler of the Century" is a deeply philosophical novel, chock-full of discussions about philosophy, history, and literature with pillow talk about ... More

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From dross to gold, an enchanting tale of love is spun. Goethe, Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, Kierkegaard, Wittgenstein, Tolstoy, Einstein--all praised ... More

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Tracing the evolution of a small Oregon lumber town and its connection to the Japanese internment during World War II, THE FIRES OF EDGARVILLE is a ... More

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As compelling as "The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman" or "Bastard out of Carolina, " this richly imagined first novel tells the story of a young ... More

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