Literature

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  The Marrow of Tradition

  Charles W. Chesnutt, Autumn Womack

  First Edition

  eBook

  The Marrow of Tradition (1901), Charles Chesnutt’s second novel, is one of the most prominent entries in the canon of post-bellum, pre-Harlem Black...

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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 Twenty Days of Turin: A Novel

  Giorgio De Maria, Ramon Glazov, Jeff VanderMeer

  Paperback

  Written during the height of the 1970s Italian domestic terror, a cult novel, with distinct echoes of Lovecraft and Borges, makes its English-language debut

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  Quincas Borba: A Novel

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

  Paperback

  A satirical tale of a young man flush with newfound wealth who promptly gets swindled, Quincas Borba is an inspired critique of nineteenth-century Brazil

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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