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Dry Tears
The Story of a Lost Childhood
Paperback
ISBN: 0195035003
The author describes how her family escaped the Nazi destruction of the Polish Jewish community by pretending to be Christians and hiding out with Catholic families
Jefferson Writings
Autobiography Notes on the State of Virginia Public and Private Papers Addresses Letters
Hardcover
ISBN: 094045016x
Gathers Jefferson's letters to politicians, scientists, and family members, public speeches, travel essays, and political writings
Novels 1871-1880
Hardcover
ISBN: 0940450135
Five novels dramatize the interaction of Americans with more sophisticated Europeans
City of Glass
Paperback
ISBN: 0140097317
A late-night phone call from a stranger involves Quinn, a mystery writer, in a baffling murder case stranger than his novels
Nights at the Circus
Paperback
ISBN: 0140077030
American journalist Jack Walser travels with an enchanted circus that features literate chimpanzees, tragic clowns, idealist brigands, a structuralist Siberian shaman, and a six-foot, two-inch blond aerialist who is part swan and part woman
The Nine Tailors
Changes Rung on an Old Theme in Two Short Touches and Two Full Peals
Paperback
ISBN: 0156658992
Tale of suspense in which the famous Lord Peter Wimsey is called upon to solve the murder of an unknown man in East Anglia
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
An Authoritative Text, Backgrounds and Sources, Composition and Publication, Criticism
Paperback
ISBN: 0393951375
A nineteenth century New Englander's experiences in sixth century Britain are accompanied by critical essays
Mr. Midshipman Hornblower
Paperback
ISBN: 0316289124
The inauspicious beginnings of Midshipman Hornblower and his spectacular rise to Lieutenant are described in this novel of adventure on the high seas
The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter
Paperback
ISBN: 0156188767
Twenty-seven short stories by the Pulitizer Prize-winning writer
The Brothers Karamazov
The Constance Garnett Translation Revised by Ralph E. Matlaw : Backgrounds and Sources, Essays in Criticism
Paperback
ISBN: 0393092143
A newly revised and annotated text of Dostoevsky's classic novel is accompanied by excerpts from the author's letters and notebooks and critical and interpretive essays by American and European scholars and novelists
