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"John Sturrock's new translation of Sodom and Gomorrah will introduce a new generation of American readers to the literary riches of Marcel Proust. the fourth volume in this edition of In Search of Lost Time - the first completely new translation of Proust's masterpiece since the 1920s - brings us a more comic and lucid prose than English readers have previously been able to enjoy." "Sodom and Gomorrah takes up for the first time the theme of homosexual love - male and female - and dwells on how destructive sexual jealousy can be for those who suffer it. Proust's novel is also an unforgiving analysis of both the decadent high society of Paris and the rise of a philistine bourgeoisie that is on the way to supplanting it. Characters who had lesser roles earlier now reappear in a different light and take center stage, notably Albertine, with whom the narrator believes he is in love, and the insanely haughty Baron de Charlus."--BOOK JACKET.

O’Hara did for fictional Gibbsville, Pennsylvania what Faulkner did for Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi: surveyed its social life and drew its psychic outlines, but he did it in utterly worldly terms, without Faulkner’s taste for mythic inference or the basso profundo of his prose. Julian English is a man who squanders what fate gave him. He lives on the right side of the tracks, with a country club membership and a wife who loves him. His decline and fall, over the course of just 72 hours around Christmas, is a matter of too much spending, too much liquor, and a couple of reckless gestures. That his calamity is petty and preventable only makes it more powerful. In Faulkner, the tragedies all seem to be taking place on Olympus, even when they’re happening among the low-lifes. In O’Hara, they could be happening to you.

Although world-famous for his novels Sister Carrie and Jennie Gerhardt, Theodore Dreiser was also highly accomplished in journalism, autobiography, and travel writing. In 1919, having recently accepted the publishing contract of a new publisher, Dreiser proposed to publish a "book of characters" that would collect twelve biographical sketches of individuals who were major influences on Dreiser, both as a man and as a writer. The resulting narratives combine the best attributes of the character sketch, the autobiography, and the short story into miniature masterpieces of prose. The men profiled in Twelve Men are a diverse and colorful group: from Dreiser's equally famous brother, the song-writer Paul Dreiser's ("My Brother Paul"), to the entirely obscure railroad foreman Michael Burke ("The Mighty Rourke"), on whose work crew Dreiser had labored in 1903. The twelve narratives are compelling portraits of the men portrayed, but they also reveal many insights into Dreiser's own life and work.

White nights. -- The honest thief. -- The Christmas tree and a wedding. -- The peasant Marey. -- Notes from the underground. -- A gentle creature. -- The dream of a ridiculous man.

Microform, original printed as XVIII, (2), 501p.

The question, "What is society?" is one that was pondered long before there was such a word as sociology. This book shows some of the ways mankind has answered that question throughout history. The range is from Plato and Aristotle to more modern leading figures--Znaniecki, Park, Sorokin, Maclver, Mannheim, Lundberg, Becker, Parsons--and the introduction by Robert Biersted traces the history of sociological theory.

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A combined volume of Oscar Wilde's fairy tales and prose poems.

TOC: A doll's house -- Ghosts -- An enemy of the people -- The master builder -- Pillars of society -- Hedda Gabler -- John Gabriel Borkman -- The wild duck -- The league of youth -- Rosmersholm -- Peer Gynt.

"Twelve years ago, Chester Morton disappeared from his hometown in Mattuck, New York, leaving no trace and never to be heard from again. For the past twelve years, his mother has kept the search for her son alive--paying for a billboard overlooking the local community college, putting up new flyers every week, hounding every law enforcement agency she can get to listen. Her determination has made his disappearance very high profile but it's also been damaging to her family, her children and to herself. Now, Chester's body is finally found--hanging from the very billboard that has been advertising his disappearance. Chester's corpse, however, is recent--meaning that Chester had been alive, somewhere, until very recently. Under pressure and with limited resources, the local police turn to Gregor Demarkian--a former FBI agent and a frequent consultant on such cases--to try and unravel the truth buried within this very complex and tragic case and find out once and for all what really happened all those years ago"--

These stories of giants and dwarves, heroes and villains, knights-errant and dragons, kind fairies and evil witches coaches and pumpkins, secret potions and magic wands go beyond belief and into the realm of the imagination, where fantasy is more important than credibility, where symbols become realities and wishes become horses on which the lowliest can ride to their castles in the air.

73 stories: The Unparalleled Adventure of One Hans Pfaall The Gold-Bug The Balloon-Hoax [Von Kempelen and His Discovery]( [Mesmeric Revelation]( [Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar]( [Thousand-and-Second Tale of Scheherazade]( MS. Found in a Bottle . [Descent into the Maelstrom]( The Murders in the Rue Morgue . The Mystery of Marie Roget [Purloined Letter]( [Black Cat]( [Fall of the House of Usher]( [Pit and the Pendulum]( [Premature Burial]( [Masque of the Red Death]( [Cask of Amontillado]( [Imp of the Perverse]( [Island of the Fay]( The Oval Portrait [Assignation]( [Tell-tale Heart]( The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether The Literary Life of Thingum Bob, Esq. . How to Write a Blackwood Article A Predicament Mystification . X-ing a Paragrab Diddling The Angel of the Odd Mellonta Tauta . Loss of Breath The Man that Was Used Up The Business Man . Maelzel's Chess-Player . The Power of Words The Colloquy of Monos and Una . . The Conversation of Eiros and Charmion . Shadow—A Parable . [Silence — A Fable]( Philosophy Of Furniture A Tale of Jerusalem The Sphinx The Man of the Crowd . Never Bet the Devil Your Head Thou Art the Man Hop-Frog Four Beasts in One; The Homo-Camelopard . Why the Little Frenchman Wears His Hand in a Sling . Bon-Bon . Some Words with a Mummy Review of Stephens' "Arabia Petræa" . Magazine-Writing—Peter Snook The Quacks of Helicon—A Satire . Astoria [Domain of Arnheim]( [Landor's Cottage]( [William Wilson]( [Berenice]( [Eleonora]( Ligeia . Morella Metzengerstein A Tale of the Ragged Mountains . The Spectacles Duc De L'Ome1ette The Oblong Box . King Pest Three Sundays in a V.•eek The Devil in the Belfry . Lionizing . Narrative of A. Gordon Pym Preface to the Poems The Poetic Principle . The Rationale of Verse . [Raven]( Lenore Hymn . A Valentine . The Coliseum To Helen . Ulalume The Bells An Enigma [Annabel Lee]( To My Mother . The Haunted Palace The Conqueror Worm . To S. 0—1) To One in Paradise . The Valley of Unrest The City in the Sea . The Sleeper Silence A Dream Within a Pream Dream-Land . To Zante . Eulalie Eldorado Israfel . For Annie To Bridal Ballad . To F— Scenes from "Politian" POEMS WRITTEN IN YOUTH Sonnet—To Science . A1 Aaraaf . To the River — Tamerlane To A Dream . Romance . Fairy-Land The Lake-.ro — Song To M.L.S. Spirits of the Dead To Helen . Evening Star . The Happiest Day Imitation . Hymn to Aristogeiton and Harmodius. Greek Dreams In Youth I Have Known One A Paean . To Isadore Alone

Poems by AMY LOWELL EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON WALLACE STEVENS EDNA ST VINCENT MILLAY WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS MAXWELL BODENHEIM ANNA HEMPSTEAD BRANCH H. D. EMILY DICKINSON T. S. ELIOT JOHN GOULD FLETCHER ROBERT FROST VACHEL LINDSAY ARTURO GIOVANNITTI ALFRED KREYMBORG

The Complete and Unabridged texts of 12 all-time favorite short stories, by many of the world's most popular authors ranging in dates from the late 19th century through mid 20th century.

Translators of poems include Stephen Edward De Vere, John Dryden, Francis William Newman, Theodore Martin, Philip Francis, Anna Seward, Francis Howes, Arthur S. Way, Alexander Falconer Murison, John Conington, John Charles Baring, E.C. Cox, Franklin P. Adams, Roswell Martin Field, William Dowe, Louis Untermeyer, Elizabeth Carter, Austin Dobson, Lucius Morris Beebe, Thomas Charles Baring, Edward Yardley, William Sinclair Marris, Edward Sullivan, J.H. Deazeley, Warren H. Cudworth, John Paul Bocock, Samuel Johnson, Margaret M. FitzGerald, Enola Brandt, T. Rutherford Clark, John Parke, Charles Stuart Calverly, Hugh Vibart MacNaghten, Baxter Mow, Bryan Waller Proctor, John Osborne Sargent, Roselle Mercier Montgomery, Ben Jonson, Christopher Smart, Alfred B. Lund, Francis Wrangham, George John Whyte-Melville, and Arthur W. Fox.

Une des choses les plus burlesques de la glorieuse epoque ou nous avons le bonheur de vivre est incontestablement la rehabilitation de la vertu entreprise par tous les journaux, de quelque couleur qu'ils soient, rouges, verts ou tricolores. La vertu est assurement quelque chose de fort respectable, et nous n'avons pas envie de lui manquer, Dieu nous en preserve! La bonne et digne femme! - Nous trouvons que ses yeux ont assez de brillant a travers leurs besicles, que son bas n'est pas trop mal tire, qu'elle prend son tabac dans sa boite d'or avec toute la grace imaginable, que son petit chien fait la reverence comme un maitre a danser. - Nous trouvons tout cela. - Nous conviendrons meme que pour son age elle n'est pas trop mal en point, et qu'elle porte ses annees on ne peut mieux. - C'est une grand-mere tres agreable, mais c'est une grand-mere - -. - Il me semble naturel de lui preferer, surtout quand on a vingt ans, quelque petite immoralite bien pimpante, bien coquette, bien bonne fille, les cheveux un peu defrises, la jupe plutot courte que longue, le pied et l'oeil agacants, la joue legerement allumee, le rire a la bouche et le coeur sur la main. - Les journalistes les plus monstrueusement vertueux ne sauraient etre d'un avis different ; et, s'ils disent le contraire, il est tres probable qu'ils ne le pensent pas. Penser une chose, en ecrire une autre, cela arrive tous les jours, surtout aux gens vertueux.

The making of the novel, with letters, newspaper clippings and other supporting material, was documented by Gide in his 1927 Journal of The Counterfeiters.

Based on Mailer’s own experience of military service in the Philippines during World War Two, The Naked and the Dead is a graphically truthful and shattering portrayal of ordinary men in battle. First published in 1949, as America was still basking in the glories of the Allied victory, it altered forever the popular perception of warfare. Focusing on the experiences of a fourteen-man platoon stationed on a Japanese-held island in the South Pacific during World War II, and written in a journalistic style, it tells the moving story of the soldiers' struggle to retain a sense of dignity amidst the horror of warfare, and to find a source of meaning in their lives amidst the sounds and fury of battle.

Contains: - Antony and Cleopatra - Cymbeline - [Hamlet]( - King Lear - Othello - Pericles

Parnassus on wheels is the story of Roger Mifflin who drives his traveling book wagon, named Parnassus, through the New England countryside of 1915 on a self-imposed mission of enlightenment.

The first Westerner to meet Mao Tse-tung and the Chinese Communist leaders in 1936, Edgar Snow came away with the first authorized account of Mao?s life, as well as a history of the famous Long March and the men and women who were responsible for the Chinese revolution.

Julian the Apostate (1682) is written by Samuel Johnson (1649–1703), a political writer, sometimes called "the Whig" to distinguish him from the later acclaimed author and lexicographer of the same name. In Julian the Apostate Johnson attacked King James II, for which he was illegally deprived of his orders, flogged and imprisoned. He continued, however, his attacks on the Government by pamphlets, and did much to influence the public mind in favour of the "Glorious Revolution" of 1688. Dryden gave him a place in Absalom and Achitophel as "Benjochanan." After the Revolution he was restored to his orders and received a pension, but considered himself insufficiently rewarded by a Deanery, which he declined. He was married for many years, suffered from many illnesses. (from Wikipedia)

Supposedly based on Beethoven, Jean-Christophe Krafft's life, personality, and artistic development are the themes of this series of volumes, along with the difficulties of the artist in society.

The Forty Days of Musa Dagh (German: Die vierzig Tage des Musa Dagh) is a 1933 novel by Austrian-Bohemian writer Franz Werfel based on events that took place in 1915, during the second year of World War I and at the beginning of the Armenian Genocide. ([Wikipedia](

A collection of important work of Thomas Paine with sympathetic introduction and historical context by Howard Fast. Published in 1943.

Presents the text of George Meredith's classic satirical novel along with critical essays by Robert Mayo, Virginia Woolf, and others, textual notes, and background essays by the author.

Because Chekhov's plays convey the universally recognizable, sometimes comic, sometimes dramatic, frustrations of decent people trying to make sense of their lives, they remain as fresh and vigorous as when they were written a century ago. Gathered here in superb new renderings by one of the most highly regarded translators of our time--versions that have been staged throughout the United States, Canada, and Great Britain--are Chekhov's four essential masterpieces for the theater.From the Trade Paperback edition.

Translations selected from the Levy ed.(London,1921);arrangement based on the Schlechts ed.(Munich,1954-56).

"Father Urban, a man of the cloth, is also a man of the world. Charming, with an expansive vision of the spiritual life and a high tolerance for moral ambiguity, Urban enjoys a national reputation as a speaker on the religious circuit and has big plans for the future. But then the provincial head of his dowdy religious order banishes him to a retreat house in the Minnesota hinterlands. Father Urban soon bounces back, carrying God's word with undaunted enthusiasm through the golf courses, fishing lodges, and backyard barbecues of his new turf. Yet even as he triumphs his tribulations mount, and in the end his greatest success proves a setback from which he cannot recover."--BOOK JACKET.

This is a collection of 22 tales of intrigue and romance from long ago, reminiscent of the types of stories one might find in the Arabian Nights. The titles are spelled exactly as they appear in the book.

The Best American Humorous Short Stories features tales from Oliver Wendell Holmes, Edgar Allan Poe, Mark Twain and many other well known writers. From the editor:This volume does not aim to contain all "the best American humorous short stories"; there are many other stories equally as good, I suppose, in much the same vein, scattered through the range of American literature. I have tried to keep a certain unity of aim and impression in selecting these stories. In the first place I determined that the pieces of brief fiction which I included must first of all be not merely good stories, but good short stories. I put myself in the position of one who was about to select the best short stories in the whole range of American literature, but who, just before he started to do this, was notified that he must refrain from selecting any of the best American short stories that did not contain the element of humor to a marked degree. But I have kept in mind the wide boundaries of the term humor, and also the fact that the humorous standard should be kept second - although a close second - to the short story standard.

The link does not lead to the Kaufman/Hart book, but to 'Diary of a Journey from the Missisippi to the Coasts of the Pacific' by Baldwin Mollhausen. Not even close.

The Ego and Its Own (German: Der Einzige und sein Eigentum; meaningfully translated as The Individual and his Property, literally as The Unique and His Property) is an 1844 work by German philosopher Max Stirner. It presents a radically nominalist and individualist critique of Christianity, nationalism, and traditional morality on one hand; and on the other, humanism, utilitarianism, liberalism, and much of the then-burgeoning socialist movement, advocating instead an amoral (although importantly not inherently immoral or antisocial) egoism. It is considered a major influence on the development of anarchism, existentialism, nihilism, and postmodernism.

A collection of stories with a mediaeval theme rather after the style of Rabelais. Early editions were illustrated by Gustav Dore and were published by Garnier Freres of Paris. The stories range from the absurd to the downright grim but the illustrations give them a life of their own. Rather off-putting to the reader used to modern French, the stories are written in an archaic French that is not always easy to interpret.

"Here is Friedrich Nietzsche's great masterpiece The Anti-Christ, wherein Nietzsche attacks Christianity as a blight on humanity. This classic is essential reading for anyone wishing to understand Nietzsche and his place within the history of philosophy ..."--Description from www.amazon.com

The complete writings of the great 3rd century Roman historian Tacitus.

"An economic and social analysis of capitalism."--Pref."First Modern library edition.""A note on American events since the first publication of this book [Feb. 1933]": p. 396-407.

THE ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER Take a lighthearted, nostalgic trip to a simpler time, seen through the eyes of a very special boy named Tom Sawyer. It is a dreamlike summertime world of hooky and adventure, pranks and punishment, villains and first love, filled with memorable characters. Adults and young readers alike continue to enjoy this delightful classic of the promise and dreams of youth from one of America’s most beloved authors. [Adventures of Huckleberry Finn] ( He has no mother, his father is a brutal drunkard, and he sleeps in a barrel. He’s Huck Finn—liar, sometime thief, and rebel against respectability. But when Huck meets a runaway slave named Jim, his life changes forever. On their exciting flight down the Mississippi aboard a raft, the boy nobody wanted matures into a young man of courage and conviction. As Ernest Hemingway said of this glorious novel, “All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn.” --back cover

An Englishman's childhood, education, poverty, literary success, and marriage.

The Enormous Room is Cummings’s autobiographical narrative of the time he spent in La Ferté Mace, a French concentration camp a hundred miles west of Paris. Cummings and a friend, both members of an American ambulance corps in France during World War I, were erroneously suspected of treasonable correspondence and were imprisoned from August, 1917, until January, 1918. In this book, Cummings describes the prisoners with whom he shared his captivity, the captors who subjected their victims to enormous cruelty, and the filthy surroundings of the prison camp.

Designed by Bruce Rogers. 1. 1820-1824 -- 2. 1824-1832 -- 3. 1833-1835 -- 4. 1836-1838 -- 5. 1838-1841 -- 6. 1841-1844 -- 7. 1845-1848 -- 8. 1849-1855 -- 9. 1856-1863 -- 10. 1864-1876.

Emma Mansfield Park Northanger Abbey Persuasion [Pride and Prejudice]( Sense and Sensibility

Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826), the third president of the United States, left a vast literary legacy in the form of journal entries, notes, addresses, and seventy thousand letters. Jefferson remains one of the country's most extraordinary figures; as well as president he was a brilliant statesman, architect, scientist, naturalist, educator, and public servant. At a dinner for Nobel Prize recipients, John F. Kennedy said that his guests were "the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered at the White House, with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone. This volume of his works, edited by Adrienne Koch and William Peden, represents many of Jefferson's most important contributions to American political thought. It includes the Autobiography, which contains the original and revised version of the Declaration of Independence; the Anas, or Notes (1791-1809); Biographical Sketches; selections from Notes on Virginia, the Travel Journals, and Essay on Anglo-Saxon; a portion of his public papers, including his first and second inaugural addresses, and over two hundred letters. The editors have provided a general introduction and introductory notes that precede the major works.

Contains (order varies by edition): Novels: Blithedale Romance Fanshawe House of the Seven Gables Marble Faun Scarlet Letter From Twice-Told Tales: Ambitious Guest David Swan [Dr. Heidegger's Experiment]( Endicott and the Red Cross Gentle Boy Gray Champion Great Carbuncle Hollow of the Three Hills Legends of the Province House May-Pole of Merry Mount [Minister's Black Veil]( Mr. Higginbotham's Catastrophe Peter Goldthwaite's Treasure Shaker Bridal Wakefield Wedding Knell From [Mosses from an Old Manse]( Artist of the Beautiful [Birth-Mark]( Celestial Railroad Drowne's Wooden Image Egotism ; Or, the Bosom Serpent Feathertop : a Moralized Legend Mrs. Bullfrog Procession of Life [Rappaccini's Daughter]( Roger Malvin's Burial [Young Goodman Brown]( From Snow Image: Canterbury Pilgrims Devil in Manuscript Ethan Brand Great Stone Face My Kinsman, Major Molineux Snow Image : a Childish Miracle

The thirteen essays in this Modern Library edition comprise a complete survey of the golden age of English philosophy. The anthology begins in the early seventeenth century with Francis Bacon's comprehensive program for the total reorganization of all knowledge; it culminates, some two hundred and fifty years later, with John Stuart Mill. The thinkers represented here are the creators of the twentieth-century world. Indebted to them is a long line of economists, sociologists, and political leaders whose work has profoundly influenced the life and thought of our own time. Included are the excerpts from Francis Bacon's The Great Instauration, Thomas Hobbes's Leviathan, Jeremy Bentham's An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation, and John Locke's An Essay Concerning Human Understanding. The complete texts are provided for Locke's second "Treatise of Government", George Berkeley's "Treatise Concerning the Principle's of Human Knowledge", David Hume's "Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding" and "Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion", John Gay's "Concerning the Fundamental Principle of Virtue or Morality", James Mill's "Government", and John Stuart Mill's "Utilitarianism" and "On Liberty". With an introduction as well as nine biographical prefaces by Edwin A. Burtt.

In Wilder's first novel, The Cabala (1926), Samuele, an American student, spends a year in the fabulously decadent world of post-World War I Rome. He experiences first-hand the waning days of a secret community--a "cabala" composed of decaying European royalty, eccentric expatriate Americans, even a great cardinal of the Roman Church. The vivid portraits he paints of these characters, whom he views as the vestigial representatives of the gods and goddesses of Ancient Rome, launched Thornton Wilder's career as a celebrated storyteller and literary stylist. --ww.thorntonwilder.com.

On the centennial of Joseph Mitchell's birth, here is a new edition of the classic collection containing his most celebrated pieces about New York City. Fifty years after its original publication, The Bottom of the Harbor is still considered a fundamental New York book. Every story Mitchell tells, every person he introduces, every scene he describes is illuminated by his passion for the eccentrics and eccentricities of his beloved adopted city.All of the pieces here are connected in one way or another--some directly, some with a kind of mysterious circuitousness--to New York's fabled waterfront, the terrain that Mitchell brilliantly made his own. They tell of a life that has passed--of vacant hotel rooms, deserted communities, once-thriving fishing areas that are now polluted and studded with wrecks. Included are "Up in the Old Hotel," a portrait of Louis Morino, the proprietor of a restaurant called (to his disgust) Sloppy Louie's; "The Rats on the Waterfront," which has inspired countless writers to attempt portraits of these most demonized New Yorkers; and "Mr. Hunter's Grave," widely considered to be the finest single piece of nonfiction to have ever appeared in the pages of The New Yorker.Here is the essential work of a legendary writer.From the Hardcover edition.