Literature

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  What Blest Genius?: The Jubilee That Made Shakespeare

  Andrew McConnell Stott

  Hardcover

  The remarkable, ridiculous, rain-soaked story of Shakespeare’s Jubilee: the event that established William Shakespeare as the greatest writer of all time.

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  Crime and Punishment: A New Translation

  Fyodor Dostoevsky, Michael R. Katz

  Paperback

  An event to be celebrated, a Dostoesvsky translation that fully captures the literary achievements of the original.

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  Machado de Assis: 26 Stories

  Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, Margaret Jull Costa, Robin Patterson, Michael Wood

  Paperback

  This “watershed collection” (The Wall Street Journal) now appears in a selected paperback edition with twenty-six of Machado’s finest stories.

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  Meg, Jo, Beth, Amy: The Story of Little Women and Why It Still Matters

  Anne Boyd Rioux

  Paperback

  Rediscover the beloved classic Little Women and its lasting power as it celebrates its 150th anniversary.

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  Essential Essays: Culture, Politics, and the Art of Poetry

  Adrienne Rich, Sandra M. Gilbert

  Paperback

  A career-spanning selection of the lucid, courageous and boldly political prose of National Book Award winner Adrienne Rich.