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The Country Girls Trilogy and Epilogue
FSG Classics
Edna O'Brien; With a new introduction by Eimear McBride
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
A treasure of world literature back in print, featuring a new introduction by Eimear McBride
The country girls are Caithleen “Kate” Brady and Bridget “Baba” Brennan, and their...
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Available 11/14/2017
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The Kingdom of This World
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Alejo Carpentier; Translated from the Spanish by Pablo Medina; Introduction by Edwidge Danticat
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
A masterful new translation of a haunting novel of nineteenth-century Haiti
A few years after its liberation from harsh French colonial rule in 1803, Haiti endured a period of great...
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Available 11/07/2017
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Lives of the Monster Dogs
FSG Classics
Kirsten Bakis; With a new introduction by Jeff VanderMeer
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
The twentieth anniversary of a postmodern classic, blending the gothic novel with bleeding-edge science fiction
After a century of cruel experimentation, a haunted race of genetically...
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Lions and Shadows
FSG Classics
Christopher Isherwood
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Lions and Shadows blends autobiography and fiction to describe the true education of a writer evolving from precocious schoolboy to dropoutatlarge in London’s bohemia of the 1920s. Forced...
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Kathleen and Frank
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Christopher Isherwood
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Kathleen and Frank is a love story set in the glory days of the British Empire, the last decades before World War I
It is the story of Christopher Isherwood’s parents, the...
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Cancer Ward
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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn; Translated from the Russian by Nicholas Bethell and David Burg
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
The Russian Nobelist's semiautobiographical novel set in a Soviet cancer ward shortly after Stalin's death
One of the great allegorical masterpieces of world literature, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's...
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Stories and Prose Poems
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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn; Translated by Michael Glenny
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
A new edition of the Russian Nobelist's collection of novellas, short stories, and prose poems Stories and Prose Poems collects twenty-two works of wide-ranging style and character...
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Christopher and His Kind
FSG Classics
Christopher Isherwood
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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Prater Violet
FSG Classics
Christopher Isherwood
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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77 Dream Songs
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John Berryman; Edited by Daniel Swift; Introduction by Henri Cole
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
A wild, masterful Pulitzer Prize-winning cycle of poems that half a century later still shocks and astounds
John Berryman was hardly unknown when he published 77 Dream Songs, but...
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The Dream Songs
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John Berryman; Edited by Daniel Swift; Introduction by Michael Hofmann
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
The complete Dream Songs-hypnotic, seductive, masterful-as thrilling to read now as they ever were
John Berryman's Dream Songs are perhaps the funniest, saddest, most intricately...
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August 1914: A Novel
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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn; Translated by H.T. Willetts
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
The Russian Nobelist's major work, back in print for the centenary of World War I and the Russian Revolution
In his monumental narrative of the outbreak of the First World...
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November 1916: A Novel
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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn; Translated from the Russian by H. T. Willetts
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
In time for the centenary of the beginning of the Russian Revolution, a new edition of the Russian Nobelist's major work
The month of November 1916 in Russia was outwardly quiet—the...
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One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn; Translated by H. T. Willetts; Introduction by Katherine Shonk
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
For the centenary of the Russian Revolution, a new edition of the Russian Nobelist's most accessible novel
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich is an undisputed...
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Mood Indigo
FSG Classics
Boris Vian; Translated from the French by Stanley Chapman
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
The basis of the new major movie from Michel Gondry, starring Audrey Tautou, the beloved French modern classic hailed as "the most poignant love story of our time" by Raymond Queneau
The...
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Slaves in the Family
FSG Classics
Edward Ball
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Fifteen years after its hardcover debut, the FSG Classics reissue of the celebrated work of narrative nonfiction that won the National Book Award and changed the American conversation about race,...
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A Meeting by the River
FSG Classics
Christopher Isherwood
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Isherwood's final work of fiction—an epistolary novel that explores sexual identity and Eastern mysticism
After a long separation, two English brothers meet in India. Oliver, the idealistic...
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The World in the Evening
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Christopher Isherwood
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
A deeply introspective book about war, religion, and sexuality
Against the backdrop of World War II, The World in the Evening charts the emotional development of Stephen Monk,...
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The White Goddess
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Robert Graves; A new edition edited by Grevel Lindop
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
The definitive edition of one of the more extraordinary and influential books of our time
This labyrinthine and extraordinary book, first published more than sixty years ago, was the...
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Down There on a Visit
FSG Classics
Christopher Isherwood
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Bremen, 1928. The Greek Islands, 1932. London, 1938. California, 1940. Four portraits, four settings, four narrators all named Christopher Isherwood. Here are the postcards home from a spiritual...
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A Single Man
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Christopher Isherwood
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Welcome to sunny suburban 1960s Southern California. George is a gay middle-aged English professor, adjusting to solitude after the tragic death of his young partner. He is determined to persist...
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The Memorial
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Christopher Isherwood
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Set in the aftermath of World War I, Christopher Isherwood's The Memorial is the witty, almost forensic portrayal of the dissolution of a tradition-bound English family. On the cusp of adulthood,...
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The Autobiography of My Mother
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Jamaica Kincaid
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
From the recipient of the 2010 Clifton Fadiman Medal, an unforgettable novel of one woman's courageous coming-of-age
Powerful, disturbing, stirring, Jamaica Kincaid's novel is the deeply...
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Poet in New York
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Federico Garcia Lorca; Edited by Christopher Maurer; Translated by Greg Simon and Steven F. White
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
A newly revised edition of the insightful poetic cycle by one of the key figures of modern literature
Written while Federico García Lorca was a student at Columbia University in 1929–30,...
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The Towers of Trebizond
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Dame Rose Macaulay
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Hailed as "an utter delight, the most brilliant witty and charming book I have read since I can't remember when" by The New York Times when it was originally published in 1956, Rose Macaulay's...
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A Sorrow Beyond Dreams
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Peter Handke; Introduction by Jeffrey Eugenides; Translated from the German by Ralph Manheim
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
"The Sunday edition of the Kärntner Volkszeitung carried the following item under ‘Local News': ‘In the village of A. (G. township), a housewife, aged 51, committed suicide on Friday...
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Selected Stories
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Robert Walser; Foreword by Susan Sontag; Translated from the German by Christopher Middleton and others
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
In her preface to Robert Walser's Selected Stories, Susan Sontag describes Walser as "a good-humored, sweet Beckett." The more common comparison is to "a comic Kafka." Both formulations effectively...
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To the Finland Station
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Edmund Wilson
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
One of the great works of modern historical writing, the classic account of the ideas, people, and politics that led to the Bolshevik Revolution
Edmund Wilson's To the Finland Station...
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The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down
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Anne Fadiman
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down explores the clash between a small county hospital in California and a refugee family from Laos over the care of Lia Lee, a Hmong child diagnosed with...
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The White Album
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Joan Didion
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
First published in 1979, The White Album records indelibly the upheavals and aftermaths of the 1960s. Examining key events, figures, and trends of the era—including Charles Manson, the Black...
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The Temptation of Eileen Hughes
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Brian Moore
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Eileen Hughes, twenty years old and never before out of Northern Ireland, has arrived in London for a week's holiday with Bernard and Mona McAuley, who are not only her employers but also, she believes,...
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Dom Casmurro
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Machado de Assis; Translated from the Portuguese by Helen Caldwell
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
First published in 1900, Dom Casmurro, widely considered Machado de Assis's greatest novel and a classic of Brazilian literature, is a brilliant retelling of the classic adultery tale—a...
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The Collected Stories of Peter Taylor
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Peter Taylor; Introduction by Richard Bausch
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Described by Anne Tyler as "the undisputed master of the short story form," Peter Taylor imbued his stories with a powerful sense of the conflicts between the old rural society and the increasingly...
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On Poetry and Poets
FSG Classics
T. S. Eliot
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
T. S. Eliot was not only one of the greatest poets of the twentieth century—he was also one of the most acute writers on his craft. In On Poetry and Poets, which was first published in 1957,...
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The Collected Stories of Caroline Gordon
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Caroline Gordon
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
The complete collection of short fiction from a literary stylist who captured the nuances of life in the American South of the early twentieth century, The Collected Stories of Caroline Gordon...
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Berlin/Wall
FSG Classics
David Hare
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
In two contrasted readings for the stage, David Hare visits a place where a famous wall has come down, and a place where a wall is going up.
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For his whole adult life, David...
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Property Of
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Alice Hoffman
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
When Property Of was first published in 1977, Kirkus Reviews described it as "that precious commodity, the first novel of great promise." In telling the story of a young outsider who is...
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Field Work
FSG Classics
Seamus Heaney
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Field Work is the record of four years during which Seamus Heaney left the violence of Belfast to settle in a country cottage with his family in Glanmore, County Wicklow. Heeding "an early...
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The Golden Ass
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Apuleius; Translated from the Latin by Robert Graves
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
The story of The Golden Ass is that of Lucius Apuleius, a young man of good birth who encountered many strange adventures while disporting himself along the roads to Thessaly. Not the least...
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The Death of Artemio Cruz
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Carlos Fuentes; Translated from the Spanish by Alfred MacAdam
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
As the novel opens, Artemio Cruz, the all-powerful newspaper magnate and land baron, lies confined to his bed and, in dreamlike flashes, recalls the pivotal episodes of his life. Carlos Fuentes manipulates...
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Slouching Towards Bethlehem
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Joan Didion
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
The first nonfiction work by one of the most distinctive prose stylists of our era, Joan Didion's Slouching Towards Bethlehem remains, decades after its first publication, the essential portrait...
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Danube
FSG Classics
Claudio Magris; Translated from the Italian by Patrick Creagh
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
In this acclaimed international bestseller, Claudio Magris tracks the Danube River, setting his finger on the pulse of Central Europe, the crucible of a culture that draws on influences of East and...
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Break It Down
FSG Classics
Lydia Davis
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
The thirty-four stories in this seminal collection powerfully display what have become Lydia Davis's trademarks—dexterity, brevity, understatement, and surprise. Although the certainty of her prose...
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House of Mist
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María Luisa Bombal
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
House of Mist stands as one of the first South American novels written in the style that was later called magical realism. Of this story of a young bride struggling with her marriage to an...
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The Men's Club
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Leonard Michaels
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Seven men, friends and strangers, gather in a house in Berkeley. They intend to start a men's club, the purpose of which isn't immediately clear to any of them; but very quickly they discover a powerful...
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Epitaph of a Small Winner
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Machado De Assis; Translated by William L. Grossman; Foreword by Susan Sontag
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
In these memoirs, Braz Cubas, a wealthy nineteenth-century Brazilian, examines (from beyond the grave) his rather undistinguished life in 160 short chapters that are filled with philosophical digressions...
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Shadows on the Hudson
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Isaac Bashevis Singer; Translated by Joseph Sherman
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
"A piercing work of fiction with a strong claim to being Singer's masterpiece" (Richard Bernstein, The New York Times), Shadows on the Hudson traces the intertwined lives of a group of Jewish refugees...
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Poems
FSG Classics
Hermann Hesse; Selected, translated, and with an introduction by James Wright
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Few American readers seem to be aware that Hermann Hesse, author of the epic novels Steppenwolf and Siddhartha, among many others, also wrote poetry, the best of which the poet James...
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Geography III
FSG Classics
Elizabeth Bishop
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Whether writing about waiting as a child in a dentist's office, viewing a city from a plane high above, or losing items ranging from door keys to one's lover in the masterfully restrained "One Art,"...
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Hunger
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Knut Hamsun; Translated from the Norwegian and with an afterword by Robert Bly; Introduction by Paul Auster
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
A true classic of modern literature that has been described as "one of the most disturbing novels in existence" (Time Out), Hunger is the story of a Norwegian artist who wanders the...
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A Fanatic Heart
FSG Classics
Edna O'Brien; Foreword by Philip Roth
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
In these selections from twenty years of her best short fiction, Edna O'Brien's A Fanatic Heart pulls the reader into a woman's experience. Her stories portray a young Irish girl's view of obsessive...
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Wise Children
FSG Classics
Angela Carter
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
In their heyday on the vaudeville stages of the early twentieth century, Dora Chance and her twin sister, Nora—unacknowledged daughters of Sir Melchior Hazard, the greatest Shakespearean actor...
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The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick
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Peter Handke; Translated by Michael Roloff
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
The first of Peter Handke's novels to be published in English, The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick is a true modern classic that "portrays the…breakdown of a murderer in ways that...
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Collected Poems, 1919-1976
FSG Classics
Allen Tate; Introduction by Christopher Benfey
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
One of the early-twentieth century Southern intellectuals and artists of the early twentieth century known as the Agrarians, Allen Tate wrote poetry that was rooted strongly in that region's past—in...
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Life Studies and For the Union Dead
FSG Classics
Robert Lowell
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Robert Lowell, with Elizabeth Bishop, stands apart as the greatest American poet of the latter half of the twentieth century—and Life Studies and For the Union Dead stand as among his most...
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The Violent Bear It Away
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Flannery O'Connor
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
A brilliant, innovative novel, acutely alert to where the sacred lives—and where it does not
First published in 1960, The Violent Bear It Away is a landmark in American literature—a...
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Sylvia
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Leonard Michaels; Introduction by Diane Johnson
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
First acclaimed as a story-length memoir, then expanded into a novel, Sylvia draws us into the lives of a young couple whose struggle to survive Manhattan in the early 1960s involves them...
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Selected Poems
FSG Classics
Randall Jarrell; Edited by William H. Pritchard
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Poet, novelist, literary critic, and teacher, Randall Jarrell was a writer with many facets, but most of all, he was a poet with a unique voice, one that was by turns imaginative, realistic, sensitive,...
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Selected Poems
FSG Classics
James Schuyler; Introduction by John Ashbery
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
In Selected Poems, we experience the full range of James Schuyler's achievement, confirming that he was among the late twentieth century's truly vital and distinctive poetic voices. One of...
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Darkness Visible
FSG Classics
William Golding; Introduction by A. S. Byatt
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
A reissue of the tour de force by the Nobel laureate that is "a vision of elemental reality so vivid we seem to hallucinate the scenes" (The New York Times Book Review). It opens during the...
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The Man with Night Sweats
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Thom Gunn; Introduction by August Kleinzahler
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
The Man with Night Sweats is a haunting depiction of a world ravaged by illness that is part elegy for those who have been lost and part evocation of the changes that await those who survive....
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The Collected Stories
FSG Classics
Grace Paley
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
This reissue of Grace Paley's classic collection—a finalist for the National Book Award—demonstrates her rich use of language as well as her extraordinary insight into and compassion for her...
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The Family Moskat
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Isaac Bashevis Singer; Translated from the Yiddish by A. H. Gross
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
The vanished way of life of Eastern European Jews in the early part of the twentieth century is the subject of this extraordinary novel. All the strata of this complex society were populated by powerfully...
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Sophie's World
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Jostein Gaarder; Translated by Paulette Møller
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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 all over the world, with more than...
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Wise Blood
FSG Classics
Flannery O'Connor
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Flannery O'Connor's haunting first novel of faith, false prophets, and redemptive wisdom
Wise Blood, Flannery O'Connor's astonishing and haunting first novel, is a classic...
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The Old Gringo
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Carlos Fuentes; Translated from the Spanish by Margaret Sayers Peden and the Author
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
One of Carlos Fuentes's greatest works, The Old Gringo tells the story of Ambrose Bierce, the American writer, soldier, and journalist, and of his last mysterious days in Mexico living among...
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Palm-of-the-Hand Stories
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Yasunari Kawabata; Translated from the Japanese by Lane Dunlop and J. Martin Holman
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1968, the novelist Yasunari Kawabata felt the essence of his art was to be found not in his longer works but in a series of short stories—which he...
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A Sport and a Pastime
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James Salter; Introduction by Reynolds Price
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
"As nearly perfect as any American fiction I know," is how Reynolds Price (The New York Times) described this classic that has been a favorite of readers, both here and in Europe, for almost...
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Mysteries
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Knut Hamsun; Introduction by Sven Birkerts; Afterword by Isaac Bashevis Singer / Translated from the Norwegian by Gerry Bothmer
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
In a Norwegian coastal town, society's carefully woven threads begin to unravel when an unsettling stranger named Johan Nagel arrives. With an often brutal insight into human nature, Nagel draws...
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A Cool Million and The Dream Life of Balso Snell
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Nathanael West
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Nathanael West was only thirty-seven when he died in 1940, but his depictions of the sometimes comic, sometimes horrifying aspects of the American scene rival those of William Faulkner and Flannery...
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Passage to Ararat
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Michael J. Arlen; Introduction by Geoffrey Wolff
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
In Passage to Ararat, which received the National Book Award in 1976, Michael J. Arlen goes beyond the portrait of his father, the famous Anglo-Armenian novelist of the 1920s, that he created...
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The Kingdom of This World
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Alejo Carpentier; Introduction by Edwidge Danticat; Translated by Harriet de Onís
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
A few years after its liberation from the brutality of French colonial rule in 1803, Haiti endured a period of even greater brutality under the reign of King Henri-Christophe, who was born a slave...
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Christ Stopped at Eboli
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Carlo Levi; Translated by Frances Frenaye; Introduction by Mark Rotella
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
It was to Lucania, a desolate land in southern Italy, that Carlo Levi—a doctor, painter, philosopher, and man of letters—was confined as a political prisoner because of his opposition to Italy's...
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Gimpel the Fool
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Isaac Bashevis Singer; Translated by Saul Bellow; Introduction by Allegra Goodman
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Isaac Bashevis Singer's first collection of stories, Gimpel the Fool, is a landmark work that has attracted international acclaim since it was first published in 1957. In Saul Bellow's masterly...
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Play It As It Lays
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Joan Didion; Introduction by David Thomson
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
A ruthless dissection of American life in the late 1960s, Joan Didion's Play It as It Lays captures the mood of an entire generation, the ennui of contemporary society reflected in spare prose...
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Fierce Attachments
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Vivian Gornick; Introduction by Jonathan Lethem
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
In this deeply etched and haunting memoir, Vivian Gornick tells the story of her lifelong battle with her mother for independence. There have been numerous books about mother and daughter, but none...
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The Collected Stories of Jean Stafford
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Jean Stafford; Introduction by Joyce Carol Oates
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
These Pulitzer Prize-winning stories represent the major short works of fiction by one of the most distinctively American stylists of her day. Jean Stafford communicates the small details of loneliness...
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The Sabbath
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Abraham Joshua Heschel; Introduction by Susannah Heschel; illustrated by Ilya Schor
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Elegant, passionate, and filled with the love of God's creation, Abraham Joshua Heschel's The Sabbath has been hailed as a classic of Jewish spirituality ever since its original publication-and...
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Memoirs of Hadrian
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Marguerite Yourcenar; Translated from the French by Grace Frick in collaboration with the Author
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Both an exploration of character and a reflection on the meaning of history, Memoirs of Hadrian has received international acclaim since its first publication in France in 1951. In it, Marguerite...
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Remembering Denny
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Calvin Trillin; Afterword by John Gregory Dunne
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
A reissue of Calvin Trillin's memoir of his relationship with a brilliant but tragic Yale classmate that is also a rumination on social change in the 1950s and 1960s
Remembering Denny...
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God's Grace
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Bernard Malamud; Introduction by Dara Horn
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
God's Grace (1982), Bernard Malamud's last novel, is a modern-day dystopian fantasy, set in a time after a thermonuclear war prompts a second flood -- a radical departure from Malamud's...
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The Lottery and Other Stories
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Shirley Jackson; With an Introduction by A. M. Homes
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
One of the most terrifying stories of the twentieth century, Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery” created a sensation when it was first published in The New Yorker in 1948. "Power and haunting,"...
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The Asiatics
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Frederic Prokosch; Introduction by Pico Iyer
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
André Gide praised The Asiatics as "an authentic masterpiece"; Thomas Mann called it "brilliant." First published in 1935 and virtually unavailable for years, this extraordinary novel tells...
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The Dead Father
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Donald Barthelme; Introduction by Donald Antrim
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
The Dead Father is a gargantuan half-dead, half-alive, part mechanical, wise, vain, powerful being who still has hopes for himself--even while he is being dragged by means of a cable toward...
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Axel's Castle
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Edmund Wilson; With a New Introduction by Mary Gordon
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published in 1931, Axel's Castle was Edmund Wilson's first book of literary criticism--a landmark book that explores the evolution of the French Symbolist movement and considers its influence...
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A New Life
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Bernard Malamud; Introduction by Jonathan Lethem
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
"An overlooked masterpiece. It may still be undervalued as Malamud's funniest and most embracing novel." --Jonathan Lethem
In A New Life, Bernard Malamud--generally thought of as a...
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Selected Verse
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Federico García Lorca; Edited by Christopher Maurer
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Selected verse from the poet who "expanded the scope of lyric poetry" (Rafael Campo, The Washington Post).
The work of Federico García Lorca, Spain's greatest modernist poet,...
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The Fixer
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Bernard Malamud; Introduction by Jonathan Safran Foer
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
The Fixer is the winner of the 1967 National Book Award for Fiction and the 1967 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
The Fixer (1966) is Bernard Malamud's best-known...
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The Tenants
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Bernard Malamud; Introduction by Aleksandar Hemon
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
With a new introduction by Aleksandar Hemon
In The Tenants (1971), Bernard Malamud brought his unerring sense of modern urban life to bear on the conflict between blacks and Jews then...
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Dubin's Lives
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Bernard Malamud; Introduction by Thomas Mallon
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
With a new introduction by Thomas Mallon
Dubin's Lives (1979) is a compassionate and wry commedia, a book praised by Christopher Lehmann-Haupt in The New York Times as Malamud's...
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The Assistant
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Bernard Malamud; Introduction by Jonathan Rosen
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
The Assistant, Bernard Malamud's second novel, originally published in 1957, is the story of Morris Bober, a grocer in postwar Brooklyn, who "wants better" for himself and his family. First...
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The Magic Barrel
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Bernard Malamud; Introduction by Jhumpa Lahiri
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Winner of the National Book Award for Fiction
Introduction by Jhumpa Lahiri
Bernard Malamud's first book of short stories, The Magic Barrel, has been recognized as a classic...
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The Natural
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Bernard Malamud; Introduction by Kevin Baker
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
The classical novel (and basis for the acclaimed film) now in a new edition
Introduction by Kevin Baker
The Natural, Bernard Malamud's first novel, published in 1952, is...
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Collected Poems
FSG Classics
Federico García Lorca; Edited by Christopher Maurer
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
A revised edition of this major writer's complete poetical work
And I who was walking
with the earth at my waist,
saw two snowy eagles
and a naked girl.
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An Obedient Father
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Akhil Sharma
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Corrosive, funny, and frightening--one of the year's most absorbing first novels
"My general incompetence and laziness at work had been apparent for so long that I now think it was...
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The Complete Stories
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Bernard Malamud; With an Introduction by Robert Giroux
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
New York Times Notable Book of the Year
Publishers Weekly Best Book of 1997
With an Introduction by Robert Giroux, The Complete Stories of Bernard Malamud is "an essential...
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Robert Lowell
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
A pivotal book in Robert Lowell's groundbreaking career, Notebook is, as Seamus Heaney has written, "a massive accumulation of unrhymed sonnets, poems of immeditae, unprepossessing, blunt-edged...
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Three Plays
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Federico García Lorca; The New Authorized English Translations by Michael Dewell and Carmen Zapata; Introduction by Christopher Maurer
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Newly repackaged, three plays by Federico García Lorca
In these three plays, Federico García Lorca's acknowledged masterpieces, he searched for a contemporary mode of tragedy and reminded...
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King Jesus
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Robert Graves
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King Jesus, long out of print, is one of the most controversial historical novels of all time. In it, Robert Graves has summoned his superb narrative powers, his painstaking scholarship, his...
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The Complete Stories
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Flannery O'Connor; Introduction by Robert Giroux
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Winner of the National Book Award
The publication of this extraordinary volume firmly established Flannery O'Connor's monumental contribution to American fiction. There are thirty-one...
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Mystery and Manners
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Flannery O'Connor; Selected and Edited by Sally and Robert Fitzgerald
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
This bold and brilliant collection is a must for all readers, writers, and students of American literature
When she died in 1964, Flannery O'Connor left behind a body of...
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Everything That Rises Must Converge
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Flannery O'Connor; Introduction by Robert Fitzgerald
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Everything That Rises Must Converge (1965) is nine posthumous stories. The introduction is by Robert Fitzgerald.
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Idiots First
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Bernard Malamud
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
This collection of short stories by Bernard Malamud includes:
Idiots First
Black Is My Favorite Color
Still Life
The Death of Me
A Choice of Profession
Life Is Better...
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