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The Pillowman: A Play
Martin McDonagh · 2004
While still in his twenties, the Anglo-Irish playwright Martin McDonagh has filled houses in New York and London, been showered with the theatre world's most prestigious accolades, and electrified audiences with his cunningly crafted and outrageous tragicomedies. With echoes of Stoppard and Kafka, his latest drama, The Pillowman, is the viciously funny and seriously disturbing tale of a writer in an unnamed totalitarian state who is interrogated about the gruesome content of his short stories and their similarities to a number of child-murders occurring in his town.
Oranges are Not the Only Fruit
Jeanette Winterson · 1987
Chronicle of a Death Foretold
Gabriel García Márquez · 2003
The Uncensored Picture of Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde · 2011
The Silent Traveller in Boston
Chiang Yee · 1959
A Library Book for Bear
Bonny Becker · 2021
From Ted to Tom: The Illustrated Envelopes of Edward Gorey
Edward Gorey · 2025
Hieronymus Bosch. The Complete Works. 40th Ed.
Stefan Fischer · 2021
Dance Dance Dance
Haruki Murakami · 2010
The Hobbit
J. R. R. Tolkien · 2012
Inside New York: Discovering New York's Classic Interiors
Joe Friedman, Richard Berenholtz · 1992
Leonora Carrington
Susan L. Aberth · 2010
Lie With Me
Philippe Besson · 2019
The Last Days of Judas Iscariot: A Play
Stephen Adly Guirgis · 2005
Species of Spaces and Other Pieces
Georges Perec · 2008
The Tattoo Artist: A Novel
Jill Ciment · 2006
Wuthering Heights
Emily Brontë · 1850
Blue Nights
Joan Didion · 2011
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A work of stunning frankness about losing a daughter, from the bestselling, award-winning author of The Year of Magical Thinking and Notes to John. A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the Century Richly textured with memories from her own childhood and married life with her husband, John Gregory Dunne, and daughter, Quintana Roo, this new book by Joan Didion is an intensely personal and moving account of her thoughts, fears, and doubts regarding having children, illness and growing old. As she reflects on her daughter’s life and on her role as a parent, Didion grapples with the candid questions that all parents face, and contemplates her age, something she finds hard to acknowledge, much less accept. Blue Nights—the long, light evening hours that signal the summer solstice, “the opposite of the dying of the brightness, but also its warning”—like The Year of Magical Thinking before it, is an iconic book of incisive and electric honesty, haunting and profound.
A Confederacy of Dunces
John Kennedy Toole · 1987
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize<br/><br/>“A masterwork . . . the novel astonishes with its inventiveness . . . it is nothing less than a grand comic fugue.”The New York Times Book Review<br/><br/>A Confederacy of Dunces is an American comic masterpiece. John Kennedy Toole's hero, one Ignatius J. Reilly, is "huge, obese, fractious, fastidious, a latter-day Gargantua, a Don Quixote of the French Quarter. His story bursts with wholly original characters, denizens of New Orleans' lower depths, incredibly true-to-life dialogue, and the zaniest series of high and low comic adventures" (Henry Kisor, Chicago Sun-Times).
Norwegian Wood
Haruki Murakami · 2011
Bad Dreams and Other Stories
Tessa Hadley · 2022
Poems by Emily Dickinson
Emily Dickinson · 1955
Jonathan Livingston Seagull
Richard Bach · 1973
Dubliners
James Joyce · 1914
Sense and Sensibility
Jane Austen · 1811
Persuasion
Jane Austen · 2003
Northanger Abbey
Jane Austen · 2007
Elmer Gantry
Sinclair Lewis · 1927
The Woman in White
Wilkie Collins · 1860
Spoon River Anthology
Edgar Lee Masters · 1962
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Muriel Spark · 1961
Jamaica Inn
Daphne Du Maurier · 1936
Rebecca
Daphne Du Maurier · 1971
The House of the Seven Gables
Nathaniel Hawthorne · 1851
The Iliad
Homer · 2007
The Phantom of the Opera
Gaston Leroux · 1987
No Exit and Three Other Plays
Jean-Paul Sartre · 1989
The Temptest
Shakespeare, William · 2007
The Barber of Seville and The Marriage of Figaro
Pierre-Augustin Beaumarchais · 1964
The Fall
Albert Camus, Justin O’brien · 1956
Crime and Punishment
Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Constance Black Garnett · 1994
Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read<br/><br/>A desperate young man plans the perfect crime—the murder of a despicable pawnbroker, an old women no one loves and no one will mourn. Is it not just, he reasons, for a man of genius to commit such a crime, to transgress moral law—if it will ultimately benefit humanity? So begins one of the greatest novels ever written: a powerful psychological study, a terrifying murder mystery, a fascinating detective thriller infused with philosophical, religious and social commentary. Raskolnikov, an impoverished student living in a garret in the gloomy slums of St. Petersburg, carries out his grotesque scheme and plunges into a hell of persecution, madness and terror. Crime and Punishment takes the reader on a journey into the darkest recesses of the criminal and depraved mind, and exposes the soul of a man possessed by both good and evil . . . a man who cannot escape his own conscience.
The Sonnets: Poems of Love
William Shakespeare · 1980
T.S. Eliot once wrote that, "Shakespeare gives the greatest width of human passion," and it is this passion that has traditionally made The Sonnets appealing to literati and laymen alike. Surrounded by mystery, these poems of devotion and jealousy, of a young courtier and a Dark Lady, have been the subject of endless speculation. They are highly mystical and at the same time highly honest; as W. H. Auden wrote, "...what is astonishing about the sonnets, especially when one remembers the age in which they were written, is the impression they make of naked autobiographical confession."<br/><br/>Because they are witty, passionate, personal, and often ever bawdy, The Sonnets stand as one of the greatest poetic tributes ever written to a beloved. Elegantly presented in deluxe edition, these 154 beautiful poems are the perfect gift for any man or woman who has ever been in love.
Antwerp
Roberto Bolaño · 2002
“It’s hard to think of a writer who has multiplied the possibilities more times than Roberto Bolaño . . . [Antwerp is] exceptional and moving.” ―Nicole Krauss, The Guardian<br/><br/>Oft called the “big bang” of Roberto Bolaño’s universe, Antwerp is his first novel―or the shattered remnants of one. Written when he was just twenty-seven years of age, it was so intensely strange and solitary that he tucked it away for more than twenty years, certain that any publisher would slam the door in his face. It proceeds in hallucinatory sketches: a lonely highway, a desolate campground, a freshly abandoned hotel room; a tryst, an interrogation, a murder; and somewhere just out of reach, a young, feverish writer named Roberto Bolaño drifting in and out of view. A radical, sui generis effort by a burgeoning genius, Antwerp is an essential part of Bolaño’s oeuvre.
