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As the first novel opens, Titus, heir to Lord Sepulchrave, has just been born: he stands to inherit the miles of rambling stone and mortar that stand for Gormenghast Castle. Inside, all events are predetermined by a complex ritual, lost in history, u... Read more about Titus Groan

Every morning of the year, between the hours of nine and ten, he may be found, seated in the Stone Hall, it is there, at the long table that he takes his breakfast. The table is raised upon a dais, an...

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"A fierce and beautiful story of rage and compassion, betrayal and loyalty, damage and love…A fairy tale for adults, one you'll never forget."-Alice Hoffman, New York Times bestselling author of The Rules of Magic

The only daughter of a beloved king... Read more about Deerskin

MANY YEARS LATER SHE REMEMBERED HOW HER PARENTS HAD looked to her when she was a small child: her father as tall as a tree, and merry and bright and golden, with her beautiful black-haired mother at h...

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#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK

"A WISE, SPIRITED NOVEL . . . [IN WHICH] SMILEY PLUMBS THE WONDROUSLY

STRANGE WORLD OF HORSE RACING." -People

"ONE OF THE PREMIER NOVELISTS OF HER GENERATION, possessed of a mastery... Read more about Horse Heaven

“Smiley has written wonderful books before, but in this one she’s stretched her legs, charged forward, and won the race.… Horse Heaven is slyly hilarious—epic in length but never heavy in tone.… Featu...

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This Newbery Honor Book by master storyteller Gary Paulsen is now available in this After Words paperback edition! Following the turn of the seasons, eleven year old Eldon traces the daily routines of his life on a farm and his relationship with his ... Read more about The Winter Room

Wayne is my older brother by two years and so he thinks he knows more than I can ever know. He said Miss Halverson, who teaches eighth grade, told him spring was a time of awakening, but I think she’s...

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Le Spleen de Paris parut en 1869, deux ans apr's la mort de son auteur. Baudelaire avait con u d' crire un volume de po mes en prose d's 1857. Il peina jusqu' la fin de sa vie pour terminer ce livre. La presque totalit des textes fut cependant publi ... Read more about Le Spleen De Paris

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"The happiness I feel in offering these to you is vast as a savanna," Pablo Neruda wrote his adored wife, Matilde Urrutia de Neruda, in his dedication of One Hundred Love Sonnets. Set against the backdrop of his beloved Isla Negra, these joyfully sen... Read more about 100 Love Sonnets

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Selected by Nobel poet laureate Czeslaw Milosz, an inspiring collection of 300 poems from writers around the world.

Czeslaw Milosz's A Book of Luminous Things??-??his personal selection of poems from the past and present??-??is a testament to the st... Read more about A Book of Luminous Things

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"The indispensable critic on the indispensable writer." -Geoffrey O'Brien, New York Review of Books... Read more about Shakespeare

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The complete Divine Comedy (Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso) in one volume from Vintage Classics. The greatest poem of the Middle Ages, in the standard Carlyle-Okey-Wickstead translation, with full notes.

Dante's Divine Comedy relates the allegorical t... Read more about The Divine Comedy

For each canto in these notes, the reader will find broadly factual information and cross-references to texts cited by Dante that are worth reading alongside Dante’s own. The asterisks in the poem tex...

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