Fiction
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![]() | Italian Cultural Studies : An IntroductionAdopting a unique and accessible interdisciplinary focus, 'Italian Cultural Studies: An Introduction' presents a variety of new perspectives on modern Italian culture. The four parts of the book explore diverse aspects of culture in Italy.On Sale |
![]() | Given Time: I. Counterfeit MoneyIs giving possible? Insofar as it enters into the circle of exchange (gift and countergift, debt, acquittal, compensation, symbolic recognition, memory), the gift seems to get annulled. In order to give, one would have to expect nothing in return: to...On Sale |
![]() | Greek LyricsEnlarged edition with more than a hundred poems and poetic fragments from the great age of Greek lyric poetry - in robust and graceful modern translation.On Sale |
![]() | Euripides I: The Complete Greek TragediesEach of the sixteen tragedies is preceded by notes on plot, theme, and charactersOn Sale |
![]() | The Wall Jumper: A Berlin StoryWhen the Berlin Wall was still the most tangible representation of the Cold War, Peter Schneider made this political and ideological symbol into something personal, that could be perceived on a human level, from more than one side. In Schneider's Berlin,...On Sale |
![]() | The Chinese Maze Murders: A Chinese Detective Story Suggested by Tree Original Ancient Chinese Plots'If you have not yet discovered Judge Dee and his faithful Sgt. Hoong, I envy you that initial pleasure which comes from the discovery of a great detective story. For the magistrate of Poo-yang belongs in that select group of fictional detectives headed...On Sale |
![]() | Lucretius the Way Things Are: The De Rerum NaturaLucretius the Way Things Are: The De Rerum NaturaOn Sale |
![]() | The Hoosier School-Master: A NovelThe Hoosier School-Master: A NovelOn Sale |
![]() | Scent of Apples : A Collection of StoriesThis collection of sixteen short stories brings the work of a distinguished Filipino writer to the attention of an American audience. Born in the Phillipines, Mr. Santos first came to the United States in 1941. Since then, he has lived intermittently...On Sale |
![]() | The Tale of Kiêu; A bilingual edition of Nguyen Du`s Truyên KiêuSince its publication in the early nineteenth century, this long narrative poem has stood unchallenged as the supreme masterpiece of Vietnamese literature. Huynh's new and absorbingly readable translation (on pages facing the Vietnamese text) is illuminated...On Sale |
![]() | The Complete Humorous Sketches and Tales of Mark TwainThis is the first and most complete collection of all 136 humorous sketchers and tales that Samuel Clemens (1835-1940), a.k.a Mark Twain, wrote as a young reporter for various newspapers and magazines and later saw fit to issue in book form.On Sale |
![]() | The Vietnam War in American Stories, Songs, and PoemsThis first college anthology of American literature about the Vietnam War brings together 16 stories, five songs, and 63 poems in an affordable text for literature and history courses.On Sale |
![]() | The Last Deception of Palliser WentwoodA charming Irish rogue leaves his beautiful wife and daughters to search for a fortune to restore the prosperity of his farm and family. Alternately funny and sad, this story combines the pleasures of an old-fashioned novel with the delights of a contemporary...On Sale |
![]() | American PrimitiveBrief poems describe nature, mortality, a missing child, the lives of animals, and the beauty of the seasonsOn Sale |
![]() | Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again : Essays and ArgumentsThis exuberantly praised--and uproariously funny--first collection of nonfiction pieces by one of the most acclaimed and adventurous writers of our time--the author of 'Infinite Jest'--'reconfirms Mr. Wallace's stature as one of his generation's preeminent...On Sale |
![]() | Decline and FallDecline and FallOn Sale |
![]() | Private ScreeningThe shocking brutal murder of a presidential hopeful. A fiercely independent attorney defending the assassin in the media event of the decade. And a ruthless figure who seizes the airwaves and commits the ultimate act of high-tech terror.On Sale |
![]() | Fellowship of the Ring : The Lord of the RingElves, dwarves, hobbits, and men are caught in the spell of an evil ring that corrupts.On Sale |
![]() | Tarzan of the ApesWhen Tarzan is orphaned as a baby deep in the African jungle, the apes adopt him and raise him as their own. By the time he's ten, he can swing through the trees and talk to the animals. By the time Tarzan is 18, he has the strength of a lion and rules...On Sale |
![]() | Hobbit : The Enchanting Prelude to the Lord of the RingsBilbo Baggins, a respectable, well-to-do hobbit, lives comfortably in his hobbit-hole until the day the wandering wizard Gandalf chooses him to share in an adventure from which he may never return.On Sale |





















