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  • In Cold Blood
    In Cold Blood
    Capote, Truman
    The intensively researched, atmospheric narrative of the lives of the Clutter family of Holcomb, Kansas, and of the two men, Richard Eugene Hickock and Perry Edward Smith, who brutally killed them on the night of November 15, 1959, is the seminal work of the "new journalism." Perry Smith is one of the great dark characters of American literature, full of contradictory emotions....

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  • Meditations
    Meditations
    Marcus Aurelius
    Nearly two thousand years after it was written, Meditations remains profoundly relevant for anyone seeking to lead a meaningful life.Your ability to control your thoughts—treat it with respect. It’s all that protects your mind from false perceptions—false to your nature, and that of all rational beings. A series of spiritual exercises filled with wisdom, practical guidance, and...

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  • Tales, Poems, and Other Writings
    Tales, Poems, and Other Writings
    Melville, Herman
    From short masterpieces like “Bartleby the Scrivener” and “Billy Budd” to more obscure, even completely unknown works like the epic poem "Clarel,” Melville’s stories and poems rank among his greatest and most gripping work. This unique anthology--the first of its kind in fifty years--gathers together all of Melville’s tales, as well as a judiciously edited array of his prose po...

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  • Blood Meridian
    Blood Meridian
    McCarthy, Cormac
    One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 YearsWidely considered one of the finest novels by a living writer, Blood Meridian is an epic tale of the violence and corruption that attended America’s westward expansion, brilliantly subverting the conventions of the Western novel and the mythology of the “Wild West.” Its wounded hero, the Kid, a fourteen-year-old T...

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  • Fathers and Sons
    Fathers and Sons
    Turgenev, Ivan
    When Fathers and Sons was first published in Russia, in 1862, it was met with a blaze of controversy about where Turgenev stood in relation to his account of generational misunderstanding. Was he criticizing the worldview of the conservative aesthete, Pavel Kirsanov, and the older generation, or that of the radical, cerebral medical student, Evgenii Bazarov, representing the yo...

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  • Selected Stories of Anton Chekhov
    Selected Stories of Anton Chekhov
    Chekhov, Anton
    Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, the highly acclaimed translators of War and Peace, Doctor Zhivago, and Anna Karenina, which was an Oprah Book Club pick and million-copy bestseller, bring their unmatched talents to The Selected Stories of Anton Chekhov, a collection of thirty of Chekhov’s best tales from the major periods of his creative life. Considered the greatest sho...

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  • Essential writing of ralph waldo emerson
    Essential writing of ralph waldo emerson
    Emerson, Ralph Waldo
    Introduction by Mary OliverCommentary by Henry James, Robert Frost, Matthew Arnold, Oliver Wendell Holmes, and Henry David Thoreau The definitive collection of Emerson's major speeches, essays, and poetry, The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson chronicles the life's work of a true "American Scholar." As one of the architects of the transcendentalist movement, Emerson emb...

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  • De Profundis
    De Profundis
    Wilde, Oscar
    Written from Wilde’s prison cell at Reading Gaol to his friend and lover Lord Alfred Douglas, De Profundis explodes the conventions of the traditional love letter and offers a scathing indictment of Douglas’s behavior, a mournful elegy for Wilde’s own lost greatness, and an impassioned plea for reconciliation. At once a bracingly honest account of ruinous attachment and a profo...

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  • Invisible Man
    Invisible Man
    Ellison, Ralph / Johnson, Charles (preface)
    Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time • Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American ReadInvisible Man is a milestone in American literature, a book that has continued to engage readers since its appearance in 1952. A first novel by an unknown writer, it remained on the bestseller list for sixteen weeks, won the ...

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  • Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, The
    Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, The
    McCullers, Carson
    Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time When she was only twenty-three, Carson McCullers's first novel created a literary sensation. She was very special, one of America's superlative writers who conjures up a vision of existence as terrible as it is real, who takes us on shattering voyages into the depths of the spiritual isolation that underli...

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  • Light in August
    Light in August
    Faulkner, William
    Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time From the Modern Library's new set of beautifully repackaged hardcover classics by William Faulkner--also available are Snopes, As I Lay Dying, The Sound and the Fury, Absalom, Absalom!, and Selected Short Stories One of William Faulkner's most admired and accessible novels, Light in August reveals the grea...

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  • Basic Works of Aristotle, The
    Basic Works of Aristotle, The
    Aristotle
    Preserved by Arabic mathematicians and canonized by Christian scholars, Aristotle’s works have shaped Western thought, science, and religion for nearly two thousand years. Richard McKeon’s The Basic Works of Aristotle—constituted out of the definitive Oxford translation and in print as a Random House hardcover for sixty years—has long been considered the best available one-volu...

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  • Hell's Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga
    Hell's Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga
    Thompson, Hunter S.

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  • Basic Writings of Nietzsche
    Basic Writings of Nietzsche
    Nietzsche, Friedrich

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  • Sound and the Fury, The
    Sound and the Fury, The
    Faulkner, William

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  • Ulysses
    Ulysses
    Joyce, James

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  • Absalom, Absalom!
    Absalom, Absalom!
    Faulkner, William

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  • Selected Short Stories
    Selected Short Stories
    Faulkner, William

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  • Death and Life of Great American Cities, The
    Death and Life of Great American Cities, The
    Jacobs, Jane
    Published to coincide with the 50th anniversary of its initial publication, this special edition of Jane Jacobs’s masterpiece, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, features a new Introduction by Jason Epstein, the book’s original editor, who provides an intimate perspective on Jacobs herself and unique insights into the creation and lasting influence of this classic.The...

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  • Monk, The
    Monk, The
    Lewis, Matthew
    When Matthew Lewis’s The Monk was published in 1796, readers were shocked by this gripping and horrific novel. Lewis’s story, which drove the House of Commons—of which he was a member—to deem him licentious and perverse, follows the abbot Ambrosio as he is tempted into a world of incest, murder, and torture by a young girl who has concealed herself in his monastery disguised as...

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  • Spanish Civil War, The
    Spanish Civil War, The
    Thomas, Hugh
    "Mr. Thomas has understood [the Spanish Civil War] incredibly well and has written it superbly. A full, vivid and deeply serious treatment of a great subject."--Vincent Sheean, The New York Times Book Review A masterpiece of the historian's art, Hugh Thomas's The Spanish Civil War remains the best, most engrossing narrative of one of the most emblematic and misunderstood wars o...

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  • Selected Poems of Emily Dickinson, The
    Selected Poems of Emily Dickinson, The
    Dickinson, Emily
    Emily Dickinson lived as a recluse in Amherst, Massachusetts, dedicating herself to writing a "letter to the world"--the 1,775 poems left unpublished at her death in 1886. Today, Dickinson stands in the front rank of American poets. This enthralling collection includes more than four hundred poems that were published between Dickinson's death and 1900. They express her ...

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  • Women in Love
    Women in Love
    Lawrence, D H

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  • Snopes
    Snopes
    Faulkner, William

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  • Eternal husband and other stories, The
    Eternal husband and other stories, The
    Dostoyevski, Fiódor

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  • Best Short Stories of O. Henry, The
    Best Short Stories of O. Henry, The
    Henry, O.
    The more than 600 stories written by O. Henry provided an embarrassment of riches for the compilers of this volume. The final selection of the thirty-eight stories in this collection offers for the reader's delight those tales honored almost unanimously by anthologists and those that represent, in variety and balance, the best work of America's favorite storyteller. They are ...

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  • Complete Poetry and Essential Prose of John Milton, The
    Complete Poetry and Essential Prose of...
    Milton, John
    John Milton is, next to William Shakespeare, the most influential English poet, a writer whose work spans an incredible breadth of forms and subject matter. The Complete Poetry and Essential Prose of John Milton celebrates this author’s genius in a thoughtfully assembled book that provides new modern-spelling versions of Milton’s texts, expert commentary, and a wealth of other ...

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  • Short Stories by Latin American Women
    Short Stories by Latin American Women
    Correas de Zapata, Celia
    Celia Correas de Zapata, an internationally recognized expert in the field of Latin American fiction written by women, has collected stories by thirty-one authors from fourteen countries, translated into English by such renowned scholars and writers as Gregory Rabassa and Margaret Sayers Peden. Contributors include Dora Alonso, Rosario Ferré, Elena Poniatowska, Ana Lydia Vega, ...

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  • Basic Writings of Kant
    Basic Writings of Kant
    Kant, Immanuel
    The writings of Immanuel Kant became the cornerstone of all subsequent philosophical inquiry. They articulate the relationship between the human mind and all that it encounters and remain the most important influence on our concept of knowledge. As renowned Kant scholar Allen W. Wood writes in his Introduction, Kant “virtually laid the foundation for the way people in the last ...

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  • Selected Poetry of Edna St. Vincent Millay, The
    Selected Poetry of Edna St. Vincent...
    St. Vincent Millay, Edna
    An indispensable collection of the groundbreaking poet's most masterful and innovative work, celebrating a bold early voice of female liberation, independence, and queer sexuality--featuring a new introduction by poet Olivia Gatwood, author of Life of the PartyEdna St. Vincent Millay defined a generation as one of the most critically acclaimed poets of the Modernist era. Her wo...

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