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- The Slynx - T. Tolstaia
The Slynx - T. Tolstaia
- Tolstaya, Tatyana
- 304
- 2007
Two hundred years after civilization ended in an event known as the Blast, Benedikt isn't one to complain. He's got a job-transcribing old books and presenting them as the...
- Butcher's Crossing J. Williams
Butcher's Crossing J. Williams
- John Williams
- anglické
- 296
In his National Book Award - winning novel Augustus, John Williams uncovered the secrets of ancient Rome. With Butcher's Crossing, his fiercely intelligent, beautifully written...
- Hard Rain Falling - D. Carpenter
Hard Rain Falling - D. Carpenter
- Don Carpenter
- 328
- 2009
Don Carpenter's Hard Rain Falling is a tough as nails account of being down and out, but not quite down for good; a Dostoevskian tale of crime, punishment, and the pursuit of...
- Masters of the Nefarious
Masters of the Nefarious
- Police, Pierre La a Burns, Luke
- anglické
- 176
- 2024
Two supernatural crime fighters and their Rorschach-blotted best friend stumble into a plot involving UFOs, giant mollusks, and the Maluku Islands in this vivid, madcap...
- Zone Apollinaire Guillaume
Zone Apollinaire Guillaume
Zone is the fruit of poet-translator Ron Padgett's fifty-year engagement with the work of France's greatest modern poet. This bilingual edition of Apollinaire's poetry...
- Life With Picasso
Life With Picasso
Fran oise Gilot's candid memoir remains the most revealing portrait of Picasso written, and gives fascinating insight into the intense and creative life shared by two modern...
- Gull Yettin
- Theorem Pasolini Pier PaoloPaperback
Theorem Pasolini Pier PaoloPaperback
- Pasolini, Pier Paolo
- anglické
- 208
- 2023
This tale about seduction, obsession, and family is one of director Pier Paolo Pasolini's most fascinating creations, based on his most transcendent film of the same name....
- Night Of Wishes
Night Of Wishes
From the author of The Neverending Story, a book that reminds us that "magic--be it good or bad--is no simple matter." It's New Year's Eve at the Villa Nightmare but Beelzebub...
- Notes Of A Crocodile
Notes Of A Crocodile
The English-language premiere of Qiu Miaojin's coming-of-age novel about queer teenagers in Taiwan, a cult classic in China and winner of the 1995 China Times Literature Award....
- I Used to Be Charming
I Used to Be Charming
- Eve Babitz
- anglické
- 360
Previously uncollected nonfiction pieces by Hollywood's ultimate It Girl about everything from fashion to tango to Jim Morrison and Nicholas Cage. With Eve's Hollywood Eve...
- Dreams Of Earth And Sky
Dreams Of Earth And Sky
In this sequel to The Scientist as Rebel (2006), Freeman Dyson--whom The Times of London calls "one of the world's most original minds"--celebrates openness to unconventional...
- Margaret Cavendish
Margaret Cavendish
- Cavendish, Margaret a Robbins, Michael
- anglické
- 160
- 2019
An eclectic collection of poetry by one of 17th century England's boldest, smartest, and independent women. Virginia Woolf wrote in A Room of One's Own, "What a vision of...
- Tyrant Banderas
Tyrant Banderas
- Valle-Inclan, Ramon Del
- anglické
- 224
- 2012
The first great twentieth-century novel of dictatorship, and the avowed inspiration for Garcia Marquez's The Autumn of the Patriarch and Roa Bastos's I, the Supreme, Tyrant...
- Corrigan
Corrigan
- Caroline Blackwood
- anglické
- 328
Corrigan is at once a mordant comedy of manners and a very modern morality play. Since her husband's death, the increasingly frail Mrs. Blunt has had only her trips to his grave...
- The New York Stories of Henry James - H. James
The New York Stories of Henry James - H. James
- James, Henry
- anglické
- 592
- 2005
Henry James led a wandering life, which took him far from his native shores, but he continued to think of New York City, where his family had settled for several years during...
- Chaos and Night - H. De Montherlant
Chaos and Night - H. De Montherlant
- Montherlant, Henry de
- anglické
- 256
- 2009
Don Celestino is old and bitter and afraid, an impossible man. An anarchist who has been in exile from his native Spain for more than twenty years, he lives with his daughter in...
- The Anatomy of Melancholy - R. Burton
The Anatomy of Melancholy - R. Burton
- Robert Burton
- anglické
- 1424
One of the major documents of modern European civilization, Robert Burton's astounding compendium, a survey of melancholy in all its myriad forms, has invited nothing but...
- In a Bucolic Land
In a Bucolic Land
A moving, posthumous collection of elegies and eclogues that meditate on nature, landscape, and history, by a great Hungarian poet. Szil rd Borb ly's is one of the most...
- Silentiary
Silentiary
In post-WWII South America, a struggling writer embarks on a murderous thought experiment to help kickstart his career in this next tale of longing from the author of Zama. The...
- Memories of the Future - S. Krzhizhanovsky
Memories of the Future - S. Krzhizhanovsky
A man lives in a tiny apartment, engulfed in the noise of his neighbors' lives, squeezed in among his few possessions, hardly able to move. A mysterious figure turns up at his...
- Memoirs of Montparnasse - J. Glassco
Memoirs of Montparnasse - J. Glassco
- Glassco, John
- 264
- 2007
Memoirs of Montparnasse is a delicious book about being young, restless, reckless, and without cares. It is also the best and liveliest of the many chronicles of 1920s Paris and...
- The One-Straw Revolution - M. Fukuoka An Introduct
The One-Straw Revolution - M. Fukuoka An Introduct
- Masanobu Fukuoka
- anglické
- 200
Call it "Zen and the Art of Farming" or a "Little Green Book," Masanobu Fukuoka's manifesto about farming, eating, and the limits of human knowledge presents a radical...
- The Lore and Language of Schoolchildren - I. Opie
The Lore and Language of Schoolchildren - I. Opie
- Opie, Iona;Opie, Peter
- 488
- 2001
First published in 1959, Iona and Peter Opie's The Lore and Language of Schoolchildren is a pathbreaking work of scholarship that is also a splendid and enduring work of...