Literature

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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.

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  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

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  The Book: A Cover-to-Cover Exploration of the Most Powerful Object of Our Time

  Keith Houston

  Paperback

  “Everybody who has ever read a book will benefit from the way Keith Houston explores the most powerful object of our time. And everybody who has read it will agree that reports of the book’s death have been greatly exaggerated.”—Erik Spiekermann, typographer