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A posthumous collection of essays about the modern world from one of Europe's greatest, and best-selling, literary figures Umberto Eco was an international cultural superstar.

Ursula K.

An emotionally searing novel of second chances from an author whose "gorgeous and wise prose" (Cheryl Strayed) will stay with you long after you're done June is in transition, reelin

Through Mandelbaum's poetic artistry, this gloriously entertaining achievement of literature-classical myths filtered through the worldly and far from reverent sensibility of the Roman poet Ov

Pete Ferry, our narrator, teaches high school English in the wealthy Chicago suburb of Lake Forest and moonlights as a travel writer.

For two decades, first at Wellesley and then at Cornell, Nabokov introduced undergraduates to the delights of great fiction.

The author's observations on the great nineteenth-century Russian writers-Chekhov, Dostoevsky, Gogol, Gorky, Tolstoy, and Turgenev. "This volume...'ever once fails to instruct and stimulate.

Personal encounters with one of the most influential and iconic figures of the Beat Generation During the 1970s, William Burroughs, author of Junky and Naked Lunch, lived in a loft on the Bowery in

Once a celebrated war photographer, Lucas Zane is burnt out after covering twenty years of war.

Author Ray Smith has correlated the recent electronic version of the Confession with the Dubai Typescript and the even earlier Hong Kong Holograph.

Peter Bayle - heavy drinker, philosopher to-be, anemic lover - somehow finds himself in Kansas, writing a feature article on middle America's newfound love for hockey.

'So,' she says. 'Who died tonight?' Sam Samson, meet Samantha. Sam's a novelist: his dad has Alzheimer's, his mother died of stroke, his wife was killed seventeen months ago in a car crash.

Jusqu'à deux ans et demi, Amélie se décrit comme un tube digestif, inerte et végétatif. Puis vient l'événement fondateur qui la fait chuter dans l'univers enfantin.

Une île. Un vieil homme et une jeune fille y vivent à l'abri de tout reflet. Une infirmière survient pour soigner la jeune fille.

Par une nuit de décembre, l'urgentiste Romain Bellerose soigne un jeune homme qui vient de faire une chute sur un trottoir glacé.