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Vieux Carré
Tennessee Williams, Robert Bray
Paperback
Born out of the journals the playwright kept at the time, Tennessee Williams's Vieux Carré is not emotion recollected in tranquility, but emotion re-created with all the pain, compassion, and wry humor of the playwright's own 1938-39 sojourn in the New Orleans French Quarter vividly intact.
A Murder, a Mystery and a Marriage: A Story
Mark Twain, Roy Blount Jr., Peter de Sève
Paperback
An unpublished Mark Twain story surfaces 125 years after it was first written—a must-read for any Twain enthusiast and a perfect introduction to The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
The Collected Stories of Joseph Roth
Joseph Roth, Michael Hofmann
Paperback
The Collected Stories, in its variety and force, is the essential introduction to the fiction of Joseph Roth.
Freud's Megalomania: A Novel
Israel Rosenfield
Paperback
"Wonderfully contrived ....a triumph of that false-memory syndrome called contemporary fiction."—New York Times Book Review
Look Out: A Selection of Writings
Gary Snyder
Paperback
Personal favorites selected by the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet himself.