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A Splendid Intelligence: The Life of Elizabeth Hardwick
Cathy Curtis
Hardback
The first biography of the extraordinary essayist and short story writer Elizabeth Hardwick, author of the semi-autobiographical novel Sleepless Nights
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The Wind Whistling in the Cranes: A Novel
Margaret Jull Costa, Lidia Jorge, Annie McDermott
Hardback
From the winner of the prestigious FIL Prize in Romance Languages comes this masterpiece saga of two clashing families in coastal Portugal
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Aristophanes: Four Plays: Clouds, Birds, Lysistrata, Women of the Assembly
Aristophanes, Aaron Poochigian
Paperback
A “zany [and] inventive” (Emily Wilson) translation that for the first time captures both the antic outrageousness and lyrical brilliance of antiquity’s greatest comedies.
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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