Literature

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  Loving Sylvia Plath: A Reclamation

  Emily Van Duyne

  Paperback

  A nuanced, passionate exploration of the life and work of one of the most misunderstood writers of the twentieth century

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  The Norton Facsimile of the First Folio of Shakespeare: Based on Folios in the Folger Library Collection

  William Shakespeare, Charlton Hinman, Peter W. M. Blayney

  Hardback

  A full-size photographic facsimile of one of the essential books of English literature and culture that has won the admiration of actors and scholars throughout the world.

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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.

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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 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...