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Following The Broken Estate, The Irresponsible Self, and How Fiction Works books that established James Wood as the leading critic of his generation The Fun Stuff confirms Woods pre-eminence, not only as a discerning judge but also as an appreciator of the contemporary novel.

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A powerful collection of personal essays on displacement, being different and living between two worlds, told with humour and self-reflection.

'A book for our times, written with wit, lyricism, cynicism and tenderness.' Rachel House

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Depicting the lives of the saints in an array of both factual and fictional stories, "The Golden Legend" was perhaps the most widely read book, after the Bible, during the late Middle Ages. This title captures the immediacy of this image-filled work, and offers an important guide for readers interested in medieval art and literature.

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Depicting the lives of the saints in an array of both factual and fictional stories - some preposterous, some profound, and some shocking - "The Golden Legend" was perhaps the most widely read book, after the Bible, during the late Middle Ages. This title presents an English translation of the complete text.

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Jacob Burckhardt (1818-97) was one of the greatest historians of classical and Renaissance art, architecture and culture. The Greeks and Greek Civilization describes, in detail, the lives of the ancient Greeks and the origins of their culture. This book has never appeared before in English.

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"From Abdera (an ancient city in Thrace) to Zeus (chief god of the Greeks), this authoritative handbook covers all the major aspects of Greek and Roman literature, mythology, and civilization. It featu"

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This collection of passionate and polemical essays deal with drama, from its origin in the human mind to its use in history and the present. It elucidates on the hidden working of drama behind the state, religion, family, crime and war.

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An anthology of nearly two hundred "hieroglyphics," or allegorical emblems, said to have been used by the Pharaonic scribes in describing natural and moral aspects of the world. This work tells how various types of natural phenomena, emotions, virtues, philosophical concepts, and human character-types were symbolized.

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These essays cover a range of topics, including art and architecture, religion, and literature in a collage of ideas, commentary, and criticism from snake handling to Wallace Stevens.

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This book offers a selection of superb photographs by the famous turn-of-the-century photographer Herbert Gleason. Retracing one of Thoreau's early journeys, Gleason produced moving and dramatic pictures of life along the rivers of New England. Originally published in 1984. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology t

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A great American writers confrontation with a great European critic a personal and intellectual awakening.

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The funniest, freshest essayist since David Sedaris examines American culture and present-day gender relations in all their confusing, heartbreaking, and hilarious glory.

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The snapshots from that year are woven together with narrative describing the year's most important milestones, including events in Moscow, results of new polls, new social trends, and revelations in the Soviet mass media.

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Jesus was a street preacher who taught by way of sayings, or logia, using irony and paradox. His powerful words resound in this translation drawn from Greek texts, including the Gospels. The book contains more than 100 sayings, each one aphoristic, metaphoric, self-contained and memorable.

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A Da Capo original: The extraordinary writings of one of the most vigorous, effective-and overlooked-shapers of American history, and the rediscovery of an American visionary.

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These essays by the poet and critic Theodore Weiss explore a problem already powerful in Lucretius, conspicuous with Shakespeare, and more than ever a concern for modern writers--the place; and price of poetry in a prose-minded world. Originally published in 1982. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again ma

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From the author of Now We Are Sixty comes this collection of verse anecdotes which gently pokes fun at the pesto-loving middle classes.

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More than 20 years of Nat Hentoff's dazzling and provocative writings on jazz, politics, and American thought