Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family (Everyman’s Library) (Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) Introduction by T. J. Reed; Translation by John E. Woods Buddenbrooks, first published in Germany in 1901, when Mann was only twenty-six, has become a classic of modern literature. It is the story of four generations of a wealthy bourgeois family in northern [...]
Archive for August, 2011
August 31st, 2011
The Wings of the Dove (Oxford World’s Classics) for kindle
The Wings of the Dove (Oxford World’s Classics) Confronting a Bronzino portrait in an English country house, a young American heiress comes face to face with her own predicament. For Milly Theale, who seems to have the world before her and at her feet, is fatally ill. Eager for life, eager for love, she embarks [...]
August 31st, 2011
The Birds Fall Down by Rebecca West (Third Printing) for kindle
The Birds Fall Down by Rebecca West (Third Printing) List Price: $ 14.95 Price: $ 14.95
August 30th, 2011
Mao II: A Novel for kindle
Mao II: A Novel Escaping the failed novel he has been working on for years, reclusive writer Bill Gray enters the world of political violence, terrorists, revolutionaries, and modern-day chaos. By the author of Libra. Reprint. NYT. Don DeLillo’s follow-up to Libra, his brilliant fictionalization of the Kennedy assassination, Mao II is a series of [...]
August 30th, 2011
Quo Vadis for kindle
Quo Vadis Henryk Sienkiewicz was a Polish journalist and Nobel Prize-winning novelist–in fact, one of the most popular writers at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, who received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1905 for his “outstanding merits as an epic writer.” In “Quo Vadis” the author gives us pictures of the [...]
August 30th, 2011
If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler (Everyman’s Library (Cloth)) for kindle
If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler (Everyman’s Library (Cloth)) (Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) Introduction by Peter Washington; Translation by William Weaver Italo Calvino’s masterpiece combines a love story and a detective story into an exhilarating allegory of reading, in which the reader of the book becomes the book’s central character. Based on a witty [...]
August 29th, 2011
Life and Times of Michael K: A Novel for kindle
Life and Times of Michael K: A Novel ISBN13: 9780140074482 Condition: New Notes: BRAND NEW FROM PUBLISHER! 100% Satisfaction Guarantee. Tracking provided on most orders. Buy with Confidence! Millions of books sold! First published in 1983 and winner of the Booker Prize. Set in a turbulent South Africa, a young gardener decides to take his [...]
August 29th, 2011
The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories (Oxford World’s Classics) for kindle
The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories (Oxford World’s Classics) These four novellas–Family Happiness, The Kreutzer Sonata, The Cossacks, and Hadji Murad–each unique in form, show Tolstoy at his creative height. This edition uses the acclaimed Maude translations, (except for Family Happiness, translated by J.D. Huff), modernized and corrected against modern Russian editions to create this [...]
August 28th, 2011
Hangover Square for kindle
Hangover Square “Hamilton . . . is a sort of urban Thomas Hardy: . . . always a pleasure to read, and as social historian he is unparalleled.”-Nick Hornby “A much better writer than Auden, Isherwood . . . and his novels are still true now. You can go into any pub today and see [...]
August 28th, 2011
The Charterhouse of Parma (Signet Books) for kindle
The Charterhouse of Parma (Signet Books) The French literary master’s work depicting young Fabrizio’s struggles to keep his love for Clelia a secret in the small court of Parma.Officer, diplomat, spy, journalist, and intermittent genius, Marie Henri Beyle employed more than 200 aliases in the course of his crowded career. His most famous moniker, however, [...]
