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The Name of the Rose
In 1327, finding his sensitive mission at an Italian abbey further complicated by seven bizarre deaths, Brother William of Baskerville turns detective.
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Subculture
This book looks at the UK's postwar, music-centred white working-class subcultures, from teddy boys to mods and rockers to skinheads to punks. (Adapted from back cover) Contents include: - From …
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Rats, Lice and History
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The Ground Beneath Her Feet
Vina Apsara, a famous and much-loved singer, disappears in a devastating earthquake, leaving behind her long-time lover Ormus Cama, who finds, loses, seeks, and finds her again and again throughout …
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The Complete Short Stories Of Robert Louis Stevenson
Collected works include "The Suicide Club," "The Rajah's Diamond," "The Story of a Lie," and "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde."
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Utopia
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Ficciones. C Edited and with an Introduction by Anthony Kerrigan
Seventeen short stories.
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In the Realm of the Diamond Queen
In this highly original and much-anticipated ethnography, Anna Tsing challenges not only anthropologists and feminists but all those who study culture to reconsider some of their dearest assumptions. By choosing …
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Seven Gothic Tales
Originally published in 1934, Seven Gothic Tales, the first book by "one of the finest and most singular artists of our time" (The Atlantic), is a modern classic. Here are …
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A Distant Mirror
A “marvelous history”* of medieval Europe, from the bubonic plague and the Papal Schism to the Hundred Years’ War, by the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Guns of August *Lawrence …
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The Complete Sherlock Holmes #2 Boxed Set
Titles include "Sherlock Holmes, Volume 1" and "Sherlock Holmes, Volume 2".
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The Portable Machiavelli
In the four and a half centuries since Machiavelli’s death, no single and unanimously accepted interpretation of his ideas has succeeded in imposing itself upon the lively debate over the …
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The Communist Manifesto
The text provides a translation of the "The Communist Manifesto", which was drafted on the eve of the 1848 revolutions, and is a political text of literary interest and historical …
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Essays
Reflections by the creator of the essay form display the humane, skeptical, humorous, and honest views of Montaigne, revealing his thoughts on sexuality, religion, cannibals, intellectuals, and other unexpected themes. …