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  • Palais-Royal

    Richard Sennett

    Paperback

    “Historical fiction at its most scrupulous and carefully researched. . . . A novel of this kind needs to be elegantly written while getting its period language unobtrusively convincing. Sennett achieves both requisites quite splendidly.” —D. J. Enright, New York Review of Books

  • The Book of Embraces

    Eduardo Galeano, Cedric Belfrage

    Paperback

    Parable, paradox, anecdote, dream, and autobiography blend into an exuberant world view and affirmation of human possibility.

  • The Single Hound

    May Sarton

    Paperback

    “Only a poet and, perhaps, only a young poet could have written this beautiful and distinguished first novel.” —New York Times

  • Sudden Fiction International: 60 Short-Short Stories

    Robert Shapard, James Thomas

    Paperback

    Sudden Fiction International is even better than its predecessor. It's a fine teaching tool, a good gift, it's Around-the-World-in-Sixty-Stories, with many surprises, new friends, old friends, almost every stop a brief wonder in itself.” —Alan Cheuse

  • Clothes for a Summer Hotel: Play

    Tennessee Williams

    Paperback

    This late play by Tennessee Williams explores the troubled relationship between F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald.