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On the envelopes of letters sent to a dear friend, the famed artist and writer Edward Gorey drew dozens of original illustrations-illustrations now collected in this volume along with marvelously playful selections from the correspondence, all never before seen by the public until now.
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Now in paperback, Ingri and Edgar Parin d’Aulaires’ beloved, wondrously illustrated collection of Norse mythology.
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A celebrated translation of the first volume of Proust’s In Search of Lost Time.
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Colette’s celebrated novels about an older courtesan and her young lover, now in a new translation and published in one volume.
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The thirteenth-century Persian sage Rumi was chiefly known as a preacher and a man of serious and sober views. But at the age of forty, his encounter with the poet Shams of Tabriz left him utterly transformed.
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The Chinese Cultural Revolution began in 1966 and led to a ten-year-long reign of Maoist terror throughout China, in which millions died or were sent to labour camps in the country or subjected to other forms of extreme discipline and humiliation. Ji Xianlin was one of them.
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Now back in print, a beautifully illustrated collection of twelve reimagined fairy tales, including classics like “Beauty and the Beast” and literary tales like Oscar Wilde’s “The Happy Prince.”
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Peek inside one of New York City’s grandest homes-that of Benjamin Sonnenberg, Sr., the inventor of modern public relations-in this smart and hilarious memoir of privilege and excess, told by the son of a powerful and seductive man.
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‘The Milk of Dreams’ contains nine stories of the wondrous and strange that the famed surrealist painter and writer Leonora Carrington wrote and illustrated for her own children, here translated from the Spanish by the author herself. These quirky and enchanting tales will delight parents and children alike.
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In ‘Masscult and Midcult’ MacDonald turns his critical attention to what he saw as a new and potentially catastrophic development in the history of Western civilization, the influence of mass culture on high culture.
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In this story about a Greek couple in Nazi-occupied Athens who must share their living quarters with a German officer, Wescott stages an intense and unsettling drama of accommodation and rejection, resistance and compulsion.