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  • Past Imperfect

    French Intellectuals, 1944-1956

    by Tony Judt ...
    A “marvelously readable” critique of Sartre, Camus, de Beauvoir, and other French postwar intellectuals that “consistently entertains and provokes” (The Washington Post).The uniquely prominent role of French intellectuals in European cultural and political life following World War II is the focus of this book by the acclaimed author of Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945. Tony Judt analyzes ... Read more

    $20.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Metamorphosis

    by Franz Kafka ...
    Metamorphosis (German: Die Verwandlung) is a novella written by Franz Kafka which was first published in 1915. One of Kafka's best-known works, Metamorphosis tells the story of salesman Gregor Samsa, who wakes one morning to find himself inexplicably transformed into a huge insect (German: ungeheueres Ungeziefer, lit. "monstrous vermin") and subsequently struggles to adjust to this new condition. ... Read more

    $0.99 USD

  • A Swim in a Pond in the Rain

    In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the Booker Prize–winning author of Lincoln in the Bardo and Tenth of December comes a literary master class on what makes great stories work and what they can tell us about ourselves—and our world today.LONGLISTED FOR THE PEN/DIAMONSTEIN-SPIELVOGEL AWARD • ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The Washington Post, NPR, Time, San Francisco Chronicle, Esquire, Milwaukee ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Starbooks Complete Works of Fyodor Dostoyevsky

    Series series Starbooks Classics Collection - Starbooks Complete Works
    Fyodor Dostoyevsky, 1821-1881[Biographical note]Considered one of the greatest Russian writers, whose works have had a profound and lasting effect on twentieth-century fiction. His works often feature characters living in poor conditions with disparate and extreme states of mind, and exhibit both an uncanny grasp of human psychology as well as penetrating analyses of the political, social and ... Read more

    $5.00 USD

  • How to Live

    Or A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer

    Winner of the 2010 National Book Critics Circle Award for BiographyHow to get along with people, how to deal with violence, how to adjust to losing someone you love—such questions arise in most people’s lives. They are all versions of a bigger question: how do you live? How do you do the good or honorable thing, while flourishing and feeling happy?This question obsessed Renaissance writers, none ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Hatred and Forgiveness

    Translated by Jeanine Herman ...
    Series series European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism
    Julia Kristeva refracts the impulse to hate (and our attempts to subvert, sublimate, and otherwise process it) through psychoanalysis and text, exploring worlds, women, religion, portraits, and the act of writing. Her inquiry spans themes, topics, and figures central to her writing, and her paths of discovery advance the theoretical innovations that are so characteristic of her thought.Kristeva ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • Unmaking Sex

    The Gender Outlaws of Nineteenth-Century France

    During the nineteenth century, words like 'intersex' and 'trans' had not yet been invented to describe individuals whose bodies, or senses of self, conflicted with binary sex. But that does not mean that such people did not exist. In nineteenth-century France, case studies filled medical journals, high-profile trials captured headlines, and doctors staked their reputations on sex determinations ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • Leonardo Sciascia e la funzione sociale degli intellettuali

    Leonardo Sciascia e la funzione sociale degli intellettuali raccoglie traduzioni di tre scritti già apparsi su riviste scientifiche anglofone – L'onore, il qualunquismo e l'essenzialismo ne L'antimonio di Sciascia, Sciascia e La scomparsa di Majorana e De L'Affaire Moro e della (ri)scrittura della storia – oltre ad una approfondita introduzione che fornisce una visione d'insieme dei risultati ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Five Comedies

    by Carlo Goldoni ...
    Series series Lorenzo Da Ponte Italian Library
    One of the first and most important Italian playwrights to move away from the commedia dell’arte tradition of improvisation, Carlo Goldoni (1707–1793) wrote more naturalistic “comedies of character” that featured the dialect and situations of everyday life in Venice.Five Comedies collects a selection of Goldoni’s finest plays, annotated and translated into English: The New House, The Coffee House, ... Read more

    $74.99 USD

  • Chekhov: The Essential Plays

    The Seagull, Uncle Vanya, Three Sisters & The Cherry Orchard

    by Anton Chekhov ...
    Translated by Michael Heim ...
    Because Chekhov’s plays convey the universally recognizable, sometimes comic, sometimes dramatic, frustrations of decent people trying to make sense of their lives, they remain as fresh and vigorous as when they were written a century ago. Gathered here in superb new renderings by one of the most highly regarded translators of our time—versions that have been staged throughout the United States, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD $10.99 USD

  • Dead Souls

    by Nikolai Gogol ...
    The classic satire of greed, corruption, and paranoia in czarist RussiaIn a small Russian town, the rich wield the power of the gods over their serfs, who remain enslaved even in death. Life is turned upside down with the arrival of Chichikov, a mysterious gentleman who wants to buy the rights to these useless “dead souls.” What is this strange traveler up to? Is he mad, or does he know something ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Anna Karenina

    by Leo Tolstoy ...
    Considered by some to be the greatest novel ever written, “Anna Karenina” is Tolstoy’s classic tale of love and adultery set against the backdrop of high society in Moscow and Saint Petersburg. A rich and complex masterpiece, the novel charts the disastrous course of a love affair between Anna, a beautiful married woman, and Count Vronsky, a wealthy army officer. Tolstoy seamlessly weaves together ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • So Much Longing in So Little Space

    The Art of Edvard Munch

    A brilliant and personal examination by sensational and bestselling author Karl Ove Knausgaard of his Norwegian compatriot Edvard Munch, the famed artist best known for his iconic painting The ScreamIn So Much Longing in So Little Space, Karl Ove Knausgaard sets out to understand the enduring and awesome power of Edvard Munch’s work by training his gaze on the landscapes that inspired Munch and ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • John Calvin and The Reformation of the Refugees

    by Heiko Oberman ...
    Series series Travaux d'Humanisme et Renaissance
    Heiko A. Oberman dedicated the last fifteen years of his scholarly career to the study of John Calvin and the pan-European movement he launched, described by Oberman as the "Reformation of the Refugees". In the eight essays collected here, Oberman assesses a half-century of research on Calvinism, probes the matrix of Calvin's early thought, addresses Calvin's message and its appeal to persecuted ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • The Trouble with Being Born

    by E. M. Cioran ...
    Translated by Richard Howard ...
    In this volume, which reaffirms the uncompromising brilliance of his mind, Cioran strips the human condition down to its most basic components, birth and death, suggesting that disaster lies not in the prospect of death but in the fact of birth, "that laughable accident." In the lucid, aphoristic style that characterizes his work, Cioran writes of time and death, God and religion, suicide and ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Modern German Thought from Kant to Habermas

    An Annotated German-Language Reader

    Edited by Henk de Berg, Duncan Large ...
    German-language thinkers such as Kant, Marx, Nietzsche, and Freud are central to modernity. Yet their reception in the English-speaking world has largely depended on translations, a situation that has often hampered full engagement with the rhetorical and philosophical complexity of the German history of ideas. The present volume, the first of its kind, is a response to this situation. After an ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The Decameron

    In the summer of 1348, as the Black Death ravages their city, ten young Florentines take refuge in the countryside...Taken from the Greek, meaning 'ten-day event', Boccaccio's Decameron sees his characters amuse themselves by each telling a story a day, for the ten days of their confinement - a hundred stories of love and adventure, life and death, and surprising twists of fate. Less preoccupied ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Limit of the Useful

    The first English-language translation of an essential, early work key to understanding the French philosopher's later thought.In the decade prior to the publication of Inner Experience (L’expérience intérieure), the twentieth-century French philosopher Georges Bataille produced a nascent masterwork containing some of his most original and extensive reflections on a range of subjects. With ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • That Mad Ache

    A Novel

    Translated by Douglas R Hofstadter ...
    That Mad Ache, set in high-society Paris in the mid-1960's, recounts the emotional battle unleashed in the heart of Lucile, a sensitive but rootless young woman who finds herself caught between her carefree, tranquil love for 50-year-old Charles, a gentle, reflective, and well-off businessman, and her sudden wild passion for 30-year-old Antoine, a hot-blooded, impulsive, and struggling editor. As ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Witcraft

    The Invention of Philosophy in English

    by Jonathan Rée ...
    An ambitious new history of philosophy in English that broadens the canon to include many lesser-known figuresLudwig Wittgenstein once wrote that “philosophy should be written like poetry.” But philosophy has often been presented more prosaically as a long trudge through canonical authors and great works. But what, Jonathan Rée asks, if we instead saw the history of philosophy as a haphazard ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • The Perpetual Orgy

    Flaubert and Madame Bovary

    Translated by Helen Lane ...
    The Perpetual Orgy is Mario Vargas Llosa's brilliant analysis of Gustav Flaubert's masterpiece Madame Bovary. In this remarkable book, "we not only enjoy a dazzling explication, but experience a master discoursing at the top of his form on the craft of the novel" (Robert Taylor, The Boston Globe). It is a tribute to The Perpetual Orgy that it sends the reader back to Flaubert's work with renewed ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Vladimir Nabokov's Speak, Memory: Bookmarked

    by Sven Birkerts ...
    Series Book 11 - Bookmarked
    “Birkerts reads Nabokov even as he allows Nabokov to read him. This is reading as high art, exhilarating and wise.”—CHRISTOPHER BENFEY, author, Red Brick, Black Mountain, White Clay“Much more than an exercise in literary criticism, this short book increasingly reads as a profound, sensitive, insightful meditation on family, history, time, language, the nature of artistic inspiration, and, in the ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • A Preface to Sartre

    Perhaps the leading Western intellectual of his time, Jean-Paul Sartre has written highly influential works in an awesomely diverse number of subject areas: philosophy, literature, biography, autobiography, and the theory of history. This concise and lucidly written book discusses Sartre's contributions in all of these fields.Making imaginative use of the insights of some of the most important ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Dante in Love

    A Biography

    by A. N. Wilson ...
    For William Butler Yeats, Dante Alighieri was "the chief imagination of Christendom." For T. S. Eliot, he was of supreme importance, both as poet and philosopher. Coleridge championed his introduction to an English readership. Tennyson based his poem "Ulysses" on lines from the Inferno. Byron chastised an "Ungrateful Florence" for exiling Dante. The Divine Comedy resonates across five hundred ... Read more

    $11.99 USD