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1	Heart of Darkness more books like this by Joseph Conrad add to wishlist Conrad's only spy novel, THE SECRET AGENT is set in the filthy and depraved city of London of the 1880s. Adolf Verloc, a bumbling police informer and the undercover agent for an unnamed European embassy, is recruited to bomb the Greenwich Observatory. Horrified and afraid, he fools his wife (who married him only so he would support her) into ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	Envy more books like this by Joseph Epstein add to wishlist Joseph Epstein attacks the deadly sin of envy, supplying not only his own take on the subject but the opinions of others, including Shakespeare. see all copies from $2.50! new only from $2.55! \| first editions \| SVS
3	The Norton Book of Personal Essays more books like this by Joseph Epstein (Editor) add to wishlist In this anthology of 20th-century essays, some of the most admired American and British writers express their lively, candid, entertaining, thoughtful, and--above all--varied opinions. Covering the profound and the buoyant, the traditional and the new, the expected and the surprising are Mark Twain, Willa Cather, Oliver Sacks, M.F.K. Fisher, E.B. ... see all copies from $9.76! new only from $13.86! \| first editions \| SVS
4	Mythic Worlds, Modern Words: On the Art of James Joyce more books like this by Joseph Campbell, Edmund L Epstein (Editor) add to wishlist This volume brings together all of Joseph Campbell's writings, as well as his lectures, on the work of James Joyce, whose use of mythological allegory helped inspire Campbell's own views on the vast tradition of mythological images and how they relate to mankind's heritage. The second in a series featuring the unpublished works of Joseph Campbell, ... see all copies from $4.33! new only from $8.35! \| first editions \| SVS
5	Fred Astaire more books like this by Joseph Epstein add to wishlist Joseph Epstein's "Fred Astaire" investigates the great dancer's magical talent, taking up the story of his life, his personality, his work habits, his modest pretensions, and above all his accomplishments. Written with the wit and grace the subject deserves, "Fred Astaire" provides a remarkable portrait of this extraordinary artist and how he came ... see all copies from $4.02! new only from $6.00! \| first editions \| SVS
6	A Skeleton Key to Finnegans Wake: Unlocking James Joyce's Masterwork more books like this by Joseph Campbell, Henry Morton Robinson, Edmund L Epstein (Foreword by) add to wishlist This is a beautiful new edition of Joseph Campbell and poet Henry Robinson's seminal decoding of Joyce's final masterpiece, Finnegans Wake. The authors break down Joyce's 'unintelligible' book page by page, stripping the text of much of its obscurity and serving up thoughtful interpretations via footnotes and bracketed commentary. They outline the ... see all copies from $13.74! new only from $14.31! \| SVS
7	Snobbery: The American Version more books like this by Joseph Epstein add to wishlist Wedding anecdote to exposition, Epstein tackles and dissects snobbery, as idea and as practice, in all its myriad forms. In some respects a companion volume to Epstein's earlier book AMBITION, SNOBBERY examines what snobbery is, who practices it, what it does in the world, how it came to exist, and where it's most common. A New York Times Notable ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
8	Narcissus Leaves the Pool more books like this by Joseph Epstein add to wishlist Epstein's sixth collection of personal pieces winningly and brilliantly rounds off his 23-year tenure as editor of "The American Scholar". Among the topics covered are naps, Gershwin aging, name-dropping, long books, pet peeves, talent vs. genius, Anglophilia, and surgery--the head and the heart. Excerpted in "The New Yorker". see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
9	Fabulous Small Jews more books like this by Joseph Epstein add to wishlist From prominent editor and social critic Joseph Epstein, these 17 Bellow-esque stories are, for the most part, about aging Jews in Chicago. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.04! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
10	In a Cardboard Belt!: Essays Personal, Literary, and Savage more books like this by Joseph Epstein add to wishlist Writing as a memoirist, polemicist, literary critic, and amused observer of contemporary culture, the author of "Snobbery" and "Friendship" presents this engaging collection of essays that captures his witty, entertaining responses to the richness and variety of life. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
11 view cover	Friendship: An Expose more books like this by Joseph Epstein add to wishlist The author sketches a witty and incisive anatomy of the modern friendship: its duties and requirements, the various kinds of friendships, the differences between male and female friendships, the complications marriage creates, and even what happens when sex enters the equation. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	Portraits: A Gallery of Intellectuals more books like this by Edward Albert Shils, Joseph Epstein (Editor) add to wishlist A memoir of some of the best known and most influential intellectuals of the 20th century, recounted by the famed Oxford sociologist who was on intimate terms with most of them. see all copies from $8.33! new only from $13.99! \| first editions
13	Divorced in America; marriage in an age of possibility. more books like this by Joseph Epstein add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! first editions
14 view cover	A Line Out for a Walk: Familiar Essays more books like this by Joseph Epstein add to wishlist Describing his art, Paul Klee once said, "I take a line out for a walk". This is precisely what Joseph Epstien does in his trenchant informal essays. In this fourth collection, he takes out such wildly various "lines" as gossip, gambling, height (or the lack of it), hats, smoking, fame, the madness of compulsive reading and walks them on the leash ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $11.34! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	Chamfort: A Biography more books like this by Claude Arnaud, Deke Dusinberre (Translator), Joseph Epstein (Foreword by) add to wishlist Subject classification:- Biography and Letters; Literature and Literary Criticism: Romance Languages see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.00! \| first editions
16 view cover	Creative Chicago: From the Chap-Book to the University more books like this by Henry Regnery, Joseph Epstein (Introduction by) add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.98! \| first editions
17 view cover	Literary Genius: 25 Classic Writers Who Define English & American Literature more books like this by Joseph Epstein add to wishlist What constitutes literary genius? This collection of essays focuses on twenty-five English-language writers whose original and enduring works enrich our lives. Renowned portraitist Barry Moser provides a handsome engraving of each writer, together with illustrations based upon their texts. see all copies from $3.85! new only from $14.72!
18 view cover	The Dimwit's Dictionary: More Than 5,000 Overused Words and Phrases and Alternatives to Them more books like this by Robert Hartwell Fiske, Joseph Epstein (Foreword by) add to wishlist This compilation of thousands of overused words and phrases, and alternatives to them, is the ultimate tool for the writer who seeks to weed out common, tired, language and replace it with crisp, concise writing. Humorous examples of bad language make for great browsing, while readers can also look up specific cliches and find fresh options. see all copies from $4.63! new only from $6.29! \| SVS
19 view cover	Alexis de Tocqueville: Democracy's Guide more books like this by Joseph Epstein add to wishlist A distinguished literary historian and author of the bestseller "Snobbery: The American Version" examines the legacy of the celebrated 19th century social observer, Alexis de Tocqueville. see all copies from $4.88! new only from $8.33! \| first editions \| SVS
20 view cover	Partial payments : essays on writers and their lives more books like this by Joseph Epstein add to wishlist see all copies from $3.37! new only from $8.15! \| first editions \| SVS
21 view cover	Once More Around the Block: Familiar Essays more books like this by Joseph Epstein add to wishlist An exploration into topics such as the pleasures of work, keeping a journal, lecturing, language snobbery, the comedy of gluttony, friendship and middle age. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $99.00! \| first editions \| SVS
22 view cover	The Supreme Court and Legal Change: Abortion and the Death Penalty more books like this by Lee Epstein add to wishlist Recent abortion and death penalty decisions by the Supreme Court provide prime examples of abrupt legal change. With a comprehensive account of key abortion and death penalty cases, Epstein and Kobylka reach a surprising conclusion: the way litigants frame legal arguments is as important as political pressures or the moral climate in bringing ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $29.52! \| first editions \| SVS
23 view cover	Ambition: The Secret Passion more books like this by Joseph Epstein add to wishlist These sketches of eminent Americans tell their stories and provide an opportunity to reconsider the ingredients of the American Dream. see all copies from $3.50! new only from $12.09! \| first editions \| SVS
24	With My Trousers Rolled: Familiar Essays more books like this by Joseph Epstein add to wishlist This book was chosen as a "Times Literary Supplement" Book of the Year for 1996. see all copies from $4.44! new only from $35.60! \| signed copies \| first editions
25 view cover	Life Sentences: Literary Essays more books like this by Joseph Epstein add to wishlist Comprises essays about writers works and lives. Those covered by this volume include: Michel de Montaigne; F. Scott Fitzgerald; Jospeh Conrad; Alexander Solzhenitsyn; Robert Lowell; Edmund Wilson; Elizabeth Bishop; Ambrose Bierce; and Philip Larkin. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $34.16! \| first editions \| SVS

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