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Author
Series
Everyman's library volume 259
Publisher
A.A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
li, 1336 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Humanist, skeptic, acute observer of himself and others, Michel de Montaigne (1533-92) was the first to use the term 'essay' to refer to the form he pioneered and he has remained one of its most famous practitioners. He reflected on the great themes of existence in his masterly and engaging writings, his subjects ranging from proper conversation and good reading, to the raising of children and the endurance of pain, from solitude, destiny, time and...
Author
Series
Everyman's library volume no. 277
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
xli, 548 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Everyman's library volume 271
Language
English
Formats
Description
Written in 1864, this classic novel recounts the apology and confession of a minor nineteenth-century official, an account of the man's separation from society, and his descent "underground."
Author
Series
Everyman's library volume 284
Publisher
A.A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
xxx, 630 p., [16] p. of plates : col. ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Everyman's library volume 302
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
xxxv, 559 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Everyman's library volume 300
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
xxxvii, 850 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
89) Jazz poems
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
256 p. ; 17 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Ever since its first flowering, jazz has had a powerful influence on American poetry; this scintillating anthology offers a treasury of poems that are as varied and as vital as the music that inspired them. From the Harlem Renaissance to the beat movement, from the poets of the New York school to the contemporary poetry scene, the jazz aesthetic has been a compelling literary force -- one that Jazz Poems makes palpable. We hear it in the poems of...
Author
Series
Everyman's library volume no. 304
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
xxxvii, 1122 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Everyman's library volume 308
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
xxxvii, 363 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
A collection of novels by the Russian-born author of Suite Franc?aise," who died in Auschwitz in 1942, features David Golder," a parable about greed and loneliness, as well as three novels available in English for the first time.
Author
Series
Everyman's library volume 312
Publisher
Everyman
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
xlvii, 366 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Formats
Description
Eighteen classic short stories that form a luminous chronicle of the life and times of one marriage in all its rich emotional complexity—from one of the most gifted American writers of the twentieth century and the author of the acclaimed Rabbit series.
In 1956, Updike published a story, “Snowing in Greenwich Village,” about a young couple, Joan and Richard Maple, at the beginning of their marriage. Over the next two...
In 1956, Updike published a story, “Snowing in Greenwich Village,” about a young couple, Joan and Richard Maple, at the beginning of their marriage. Over the next two...
Author
Series
Everyman's library volume no. 340
Publisher
Alfred A Knopf
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
xliii, 379 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
A collection of two classic novels by novelist, E.M. Forster, of English women visiting Italy, including "A Room With a View," and "Where Angels Fear to Tread."
Author
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
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Description
From one of the most brilliant and widely read of all American poets, a generous selection of lyrics, dramatic monologues, and narrative poems—all of them steeped in the wayward and isolated beauty of Frost's native New England. Includes his classics "Mending Wall, " "Birches, " and "The Road Not Taken, " as well as poems less famous but equally great.
97) Giovanni's room
Author
Series
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
xxxi, 159 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The groundbreaking novel by one of the most important twentieth-century American writers--now in an Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics hardcover edition. Giovanni's Room is set in the Paris of the 1950s, where a young American expatriate finds himself caught between his repressed desires and conventional morality. David has just proposed marriage to his American girlfriend, but while she is away on a trip he becomes involved in a doomed affair...
99) The L.A. quartet
Author
Series
Publisher
Random House Inc
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
1 volume ; 22 cm.
Language
English
100) Rumi: unseen poems
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
222 pages ; 17 cm.
Language
English
Description
"... a number of Rumi's English translators over the past century were not speakers of Persian and they based their sometimes very free interpretations on earlier translations. With Western audiences in mind, translators also tended to tone down or leave out elements of Persian culture and of Islam in Rumi's work, and hundreds of the prolific poet's works were never made available to English speakers at all. In this new translation -- composed almost...
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