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A Streetcar Named Desire
Tennessee Williams
New Directions Publishing Corporation
New Directions Publishing Corporation
The Pulitzer Prize and Drama Critics Circle Award winning play—reissued with an introduction by Arthur Miller ( Death of a Salesman and The Crucible ), and Williams' essay "The World I Live In." It is a very short list of 20th-century...
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Brother, I'm Dying (Vintage Contemporaries)
Edwidge Danticat
Vintage
Vintage
From the age of four, award-winning writer Edwidge Danticat came to think of her uncle Joseph as her “second father,” when she was placed in his care after her parents left Haiti for America. And so she was both elated and saddened when,...
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Illuminations: Essays and Reflections
Walter Benjamin
Schocken
Schocken
Walter Benjamin was one of the most original cultural critics of the twentieth century. Illuminations includes his views on Kafka, with whom he felt a close personal affinity; his studies on Baudelaire and Proust; and his essays on Leskov and on...
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Books: A Memoir
Larry McMurtry
Simon & Schuster
Simon & Schuster
Amazon Best of the Month, July 2008 : It wasn't enough for Pulitzer Prize-winning author Larry McMurtry to become one of the most prolific, bestselling, and beloved of American writers. Besides writing nearly forty books, including the Pultizer...
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Samuel Johnson: A Biography
Peter Martin
Belknap Press
Belknap Press
Bewigged, muscular and for his day unusually tall, adorned in soiled, rumpled clothes, beset by involuntary tics, opinionated, powered in his conversation by a prodigious memory and intellect, Samuel Johnson (1709–1784) was in his life a...
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David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest: A Reader's Guide (Continuum Contemporaries)
Stephen Burn
Continuum International Publishing Group
Continuum International Publishing Group
This is part of a new series of guides to contemporary novels. The aim of the series is to give readers accessible and informative introductions to some of the most popular, most acclaimed and most influential novels of recent years from The...
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Nausea
Jean-Paul Sartre
New Directions
New Directions
The classic Existentialist novel, with a newintroduction by renowned poet, translator, and critic Richard Howard. Winner of the 1964 Nobel Prize for Literature, Jean-Paul Sartre, French philosopher, critic, novelist, and dramatist, holds a...
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Free-Range Chickens
Simon Rich
Random House
Random House
In his riotous debut collection, Ant Farm , Simon Rich found humor in some of life’s most desperate situations. Now this former editor of The Harvard Lampoon and current writer for Saturday Night Liv e has returned to mine more comedy from...
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The Hunter: A Parker Novel (Parker Novels)
Richard Stark
University Of Chicago Press
University Of Chicago Press
You probably haven’t ever noticed them. But they’ve noticed you. They notice everything . That’s their job. Sitting quietly in a nondescript car outside a bank making note of the tellers’ work habits, the positions of the...
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