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Mason's Retreat
A Novel

Picador
A New York Times Book Review Notable BookThe year is 1936, and the world is on the brink of war. American expatriot Edward Mason, owner of a failing machine...
  
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My Son's Story
A Novel

Picador
When Will skips school to slip off to a movie theater near Johannesburg, he is shocked to see his father. An ordinary mishap, but his father is no ordinary...
  
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Jump and Other Stories

Picador
"Ms. Gordimer's South Africa is conveyed in passages of relentless sensual and emotional fidelity. Moments matter, deserve the painstaking eye for detail, the...
  
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Suddenly, a Knock on the Door
Stories

FSG Originals
Bringing up a child, lying to the boss, placing an order in a fast-food restaurant: in Etgar Keret’s new collection, daily life is complicated, dangerous, and...
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Mythologies
The Complete Edition, in a New Translation

Hill and Wang
“No denunciation without its proper instrument of close analysis,” Roland Barthes wrote in his preface to Mythologies. There is no more proper instrument of...
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Writing Degree Zero

Hill and Wang
Is there any such thing as revolutionary literature? Can literature, in fact, be political at all? These are the questions Roland Barthes addresses in Writing...
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Mourning Diary

Hill and Wang
“In the sentence ‘She’s no longer suffering,’ to what, to whom does ‘she’ refer? What does that present tense mean?” —Roland Barthes, from his diary The day...
  
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At Last
A Novel

Farrar, Straus and Giroux
One of The Telegraph’s Best Fiction Books 2011 Here, from the writer described by The Guardian as “our purest living prose stylist” and whom Alan Hollinghurst...
  
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The Druggist of Auschwitz
A Documentary Novel

Picador
The Druggist of Auschwitz is a frighteningly vivid portrayal of the Holocaust as seen through the eyes of criminal and victim alike. Adam, "the last Jew of...
  
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The Intimates
A Novel

Picador
The Intimates is about Maize and Robbie, who meet in high school and hold fast to each other as they stumble through amorous adventures, first jobs, and...
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Middlesex
A Novel

Picador
"I was born twice: first, as a baby girl, on a remarkably smogless Detroit day of January 1960; and then again, as a teenage boy, in an emergency room near...
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Freedom
A Novel

Picador
#1 National Bestseller Winner of the John Gardner Fiction Award A National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist A Los Angeles Times Book Prize...
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The Night Trilogy
Night, Dawn, Day

Hill and Wang
Night is one of the masterpieces of Holocaust literature. First published in 1958, it is the autobiographical account of an adolescent boy and his father in...
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Gilead
A Novel

Picador
Twenty-four years after her first novel, Housekeeping, Marilynne Robinson returns with an intimate tale of three generations from the Civil War to the...
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The Corrections
A Novel

Picador
Stretching from the Midwest at midcentury to the Wall Street and Eastern Europe of today, The Corrections brings an old-fashioned world of civic virtue and...
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The Brothers Karamazov

Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks
The award-winning translation of Dostoevsky's last and greatest novel.
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Sophie's World
A Novel About the History of Philosophy

Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks
A page-turning novel that is also an exploration of the great philosophical concepts of Western thought, Sophie’s World has fired the imagination of readers...
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The Virgin Suicides
A Novel

Picador
Jeffrey Eugenides evokes the emotions of youth with haunting sensitivity and dark humor and creates a coming-of-age story unlike any of our time.
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The Uncommon Reader
A Novella

Picador
From one of England's most celebrated writers, the author of the award-winning The History Boys, a funny and superbly observed novella about the Queen of...
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The Complete Stories

Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks
Winner of the National Book Award The publication of this extraordinary volume firmly established Flannery O'Connor's monumental contribution to American...
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Housekeeping
A Novel

Picador
A modern classic, Housekeeping is the story of Ruth and her younger sister, Lucille, who grow up haphazardly, first under the care of their competent...
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Wise Blood
A Novel

Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Wise Blood, Flannery O’Connor’s astonishing and haunting first novel, is a classic of twentieth-century literature. Focused on the story of Hazel Motes, a...
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Slouching Towards Bethlehem
Essays

Farrar, Straus and Giroux
The first nonfiction work by one of the most distinctive prose stylists of our era, Slouching Towards Bethlehem remains, forty years after its first...
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The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail
A Play

Hill and Wang
A reissue of a now classic American drama. If the law is of such a nature that it requires you to be an agent of injustice to another, then I say, break the...