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    The Norton Facsimile of the First Folio of Shakespeare: Based on Folios in the Folger Library Collection

    William Shakespeare, Charlton Hinman, Peter W. M. Blayney

    Hardback

    A full-size photographic facsimile of one of the essential books of English literature and culture that has won the admiration of actors and scholars throughout the world.

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    Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life

    Ruth Franklin

    Paperback

    Reviving the life and work of a neglected master, this biography establishes Shirley Jackson as a towering figure in American literature.

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    The Golden Ass

    Apuleius, Peter Singer, Ellen Finkelpearl, Anna and Varvara Kendel

    Paperback

    Peter Singer has breathed new life into Apuleius’s The Golden Ass—a hilarious, bawdy tale and one of the earliest novels—accentuating its remarkable empathy for animals.

  • Journey to the End of the Night

    Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Ralph Manheim, William T. Vollmann

    Paperback

    Céline’s masterpiece—colloquial, polemic, hyper-realistic, boiling over with black humor

  • The Marrow of Tradition

    Charles W. Chesnutt, Autumn Womack

    First Edition

    eBook

    The Marrow of Tradition (1901), Charles Chesnutt’s second novel, is one of the most prominent entries in the canon of post-bellum, pre-Harlem Black...