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With half a million copies in print, How to Read a Book is the best and most successful guide to reading comprehension for th...

Illusions - The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah - bk2062; Arrow Books; Richard Bach; pocket_book; 1998

People who make their own rules when they know they're right...people who get a special pleasure out of doing something well (e...

The authoritative edition of King Lear from The Folger Shakespeare Library, the trusted and widely used Shakespeare series fo...

OW A SIX-PART MINISERIES ON MASTERPIECE ON PBS

The only completely unabridged paperback edition of Victor Hugo’s masterpiece...

Rilke's timeless letters about poetry, sensitive observation, and the complicated workings of the human heart.

Born in 1875,...

The Number 1 New York Times bestseller!

Now a Hulu original series starring Reese Witherspoon and Kerry Washington.

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A love story, an adventure, and an epic of the frontier, Larry McMurtry’s Pulitzer Prize- winning classic, Lonesome Dove, the...

From Cory Doctorow, the New York Times bestselling author of Little Brother, the repackaged trade paperback of Makers, a ...

"Perhaps the greatest testament of personal devotion published in this century." — The New York Times

A powerful journal...

Teeming with ideas and imagery, and with its extraordinary intensity sustained by mischievous irony and moments of exquisite be...

The Great Recession has shuffled Clay Jannon out of his life as a San Francisco Web-design drone―and serendipity, sheer curiosi...

"One Hundred Years of Solitude is the first piece of literature since the Book of Genesis that should be required reading for...

“Egan is determined to make sense of everything – to understand the whole world as an intelligible, rational, material (and fin...

“Stephenson has a once-in-a-generation gift: he makes complex ideas clear, and he makes them funny, heartbreaking, and thrillin...

A systematic introduction into the mimetic theory of the French-American literary theorist and philosophical anthropologist Ren...

In a fascinating analysis of critical themes in Feodor Dostoevsky’s work, René Girard explores the implications of the Russian ...

Be noisy. Natalie Savage grew up hearing these words from her beloved father, who admired Walter Cronkite so much he named th...

The classic novel of a quest for knowledge that has delighted, inspired, and influenced generations of readers, writers, and th...

Slaughterhouse-Five, an American classic, is one of the world’s great antiwar books. Centering on the infamous firebombing of D...