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"... Absolution is a penetrating and profound effort to articulate life in primal and dark conflict." -The New York Time......more
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"But the question of love in the night was the thing nearest his heart...there was a lovely unknown girl concerned in it......more
This riveting historical fiction depicts a soldier in Alexander the Great’s army, and was written using the authentic Ma......more
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"Non-fiction is a form of literature that lies half-way between fiction and fact." -F. Scott Fitzgerald, The I.O.U. (192......more
"Carrol’s arrogance, her coldness, her growing dislike for him, had been beyond endurance. He was short- tempered himsel......more
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"You see, this is the beauty I want. Beauty has got to be astonishing, astounding-it’s got to burst in on you like a dre......more
"The particular Myra whom this story concerns will have to have a paragraph of history. I will get it over with as swift......more
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"It’s like that idea of saving your life by losing it. You see we sort of feel that the less human a man is, in your sen......more
"Cutting corners meant rejecting the old childhood principles that success came from faithfulness to duty, that evil was......more
"Then she kissed him until the sky seemed to fade out and all her smiles and tears to vanish in an ecstasy of eternal se......more
"He had no plans, no definite intentions, except to kiss her lips again, to hold her in his arms." ―F. Scott Fitzgerald,......more
"It was astonishing to think that life had once been the sum of her current love-affairs. It was now the sum of her curr......more
"Even the grief he could have borne was left behind in the country of illusion, of youth, of the richness of life, where......more
"He had been bored with the President, he had been bored and not a little embarrassed with the duchesses-nevertheless, t......more
"...the public was pleased to know that they were ugly monsters for all their money, and everyone was satisfied all arou......more
"’Forty days, ’ she sighed. ’It seems such a long time-when everybody else is always having fun. If I could only sleep f......more
"Reclining lazily in an armchair not two yards away sat a gold-and-ivory little beauty with dark eyes and a moving, chil......more
"There are all kinds of love in the world, but never the same love twice." -F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Sensible Thing (192......more
"In the early morning on the lake sitting in the stern of the boat with his father rowing, he felt quite sure that he wo......more
"...the kind of face that makes up crowds, gray in color with ears that shrank back against the head as if fearing the c......more
"He hated you, you know. He used to wish you’d die. I told him that if he ever said so to me again I’d never see him any......more
"Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me. They possess and enjoy early, and it does some......more
"The inner sense of his own destiny which had never deserted him whispered that he was going to be a rich man. But at th......more
"But she might hold him. That was all that mattered now. To hold him. To hold him. Not to let him go. Make him stay." -E......more
Written 75 years ago, 1984 was George Orwell’s chilling prophecy about the future. And while 1984 has come and gone, his......more
Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for Caxton Press A new generation has discovered that Rand s Anthem i......more
Since its first printing in 1954, this outstanding anthology has been the book of choice by teachers, students, and love......more
Here the spirituality of the East and the West have met in a novel that enfigures deep human wisdom with a rich and colo......more
Con la gracia y la sabiduria de las fabulas clasicas, el Popol Vuh es el mas precioso legado, mitico y teogonico, de la ......more
In the depths of the Utah desert, long after the Flame Deluge has scoured the earth clean, a monk of the Order of Saint ......more
The inspiration for the major motion picture Ithaca, directed by and starring Meg Ryan--with a cast that includes Sam Sh......more
"Ah," said Hassan, "I don’t believe in the world. There’s another world where life is different." These are stories of t......more
Uncle Tom s Cabin was the first American novel to sell over a million copies. By calling attention to the issue of slave......more
"No American fiction of the year merits recognition more than this Russian’s stories of Yiddish life. ... [Mr. Cahan] is......more
Les Fables occupent une place singuli re dans notre m moire: par le souvenir que nous gardons de ces po mes devant lesqu......more
A cop s-eye view of police brutality . . . courage and compassion . . . fascinating. --The New York Times He s big and b......more
Mine has been a life of much shame. I can’t even guess myself what it must be to live the life of a human being. Portray......more
H. P. Lovecraft (1890-1937), the most important American supernaturalist since Poe, has had an incalculable influence on......more
The classic first novel by Robin Cook, the New York Times bestselling "master of the medical thriller." "Dr. Peters, the......more
First published in 1959, this touching fable tells of Auguste, a famous clown who could make people laugh but who sought......more
Willa Cather’s first published novel, set in Boston, London, and Paris, is the story of a man unable to resolve the cont......more
Abducted from a life of privilege, she was sold into slavery in a distant land. For Lady Janet Leslie there would be no ......more
Isaiah Berlin’s translation of the legendary Russian novella of growing up and heartbreak When the down-at-heel Princess......more
Over 2 million copies sold! Hinds’ Feet on High Places remains Hannah Hurnard’s best known and most beloved book: a time......more
After discovering six gold Roman coins buried in the mud of the Devil s Dyke, Barnabas Sackett enthusiastically invests ......more
Sleepy Hollow is a strange little place...some say bewitched. Some talk of its haunted valleys and streams, the ghostly ......more