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Letter to the Americans
Jean Cocteau, Alex Wermer-Colan
Paperback
Like Alexis de Tocqueville a century earlier, Jean Cocteau offers a powerful reminder to Americans of their own potential—and issues
Private Notebooks: 1914-1916
Ludwig Wittgenstein, Marjorie Perloff
Hardback
Written in code under constant threat of battle, Wittgenstein’s searing and illuminating diaries finally emerge in this first-ever English translation
25 Great Sentences and How They Got That Way
Geraldine Woods
Paperback
A guide to the artistry that lifts a sentence from good to great
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.
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.