A Far Off Place

Laurens Van Der Post, Van Der Post Laurens

• Paperback | Engels | Harvest/HBJ Book
• The story of a long, perilous journey undertaken by four survivors of a massacre: a teenage boy of European descent, a young white girl, and two Bushm... Lees meer

The Informer

Liam O'Flaherty

• Paperback | Engels | Harvest/HBJ Book
• A tale of temptation, betrayal, and reprisal, this powerful novel is set in the aftermath of the Irish Civil War. It tells of Gypo Nolan, who informs ... Lees meer

The Lost World of the Kalahari

Laurens Van Der Post, Der Post Van Der Post, Van Der Post

• Paperback | Engels | Harvest/HBJ Book
• An account of the author's grueling, but ultimately successful, journey in 1957, through Africa's remote, primitive Kalahari Desert, in search of the ... Lees meer

Lord Weary's Castle

Robert Lowell

• Paperback | Engels | Harvest/HBJ Book
• A combined edition of the poet's early work, including Lord Weary's Castle, a collection of forty-two short poems, which won the 1947 Pulitzer Prize, ... Lees meer

Interpretations & Forecasts 1922-1972

Lewis Mumford, Mumford

• Paperback | Engels | Harvest/HBJ Book
• A personal selection reflecting 50 years of publication by the winner of the National Medal for Literature for 1972. Lees meer

The New Class

Milovan Djilas

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• "The New Class" created a sensation was published in the United States in 1957, because it was the first time that a ranking Communist had publicly an... Lees meer

When God Was a Woman

Merlin Stone

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• Here, archaeologically documented, is the story of the religion of the Goddess. Under her, women's roles were far more prominent than in patriarchal J... Lees meer

Vein of Iron

Ellen Glasgow

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• Set in the historic Great Valley of Virginia during the years 1900 -- 1932, this absorbing novel centers on the love and marriage of Ada Fincastle, da... Lees meer

Invisible Cities

Italo Calvino

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• Italo Calvino's beloved, intricately crafted novel about an Emperor's travels--a brilliant journey across far-off places and distant memory. "Cities, ... Lees meer

The Garden of Finzi-Continis

Giorgio Bassani

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• The haunting, classic novel of Fascist Italy on the brink of World War II, made into an Academy Award-winning film The Finzi-Continis are an aristocra... Lees meer

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

Linda Brent, Harriet Ann Jacobs

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• An authentic autobiographical account of slave life in the South from the 1820s to the 1840s. To escape sexual exploitation by her master, Brent ran a... Lees meer

Sitwells

John Pearson

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• John Pearson has sympathetically portrayed the often turbulent private lives of this remarkable English family of poets, memoirists, critics, and patr... Lees meer

Bright Promises, Dismal Performance

Milton Friedman

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• The noted Nobel Prize-winning economist, Milton Friedman, writes here on current issues of prevailing concern to every American citizen and taxpayer -... Lees meer

Waters of Siloe

Thomas Merton, Merton

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• An examination of the roots of the Cistercian Order, founded in 1098, its development and waning, and the seventeenth-century reforms by the Abbé de R... Lees meer

The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter

Katherine Anne Porter

• Paperback | Engels | Harvest/HBJ Book
• This volume brings together the collections "Flowering Judas; Pale Horse, Pale Rider; " and "The Leaning Tower" as well as four stories not available ... Lees meer

Delta Wedding

Eudora Welty

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• A vivid and charming portrait of a large southern family, the Fairchilds, who live on a plantation in the Mississippi delta. The story, set in 1923, i... Lees meer

Mama's Bank Account

Kathryn Forbes

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• Kathryn Forbes's Mama's Bank Account, based on childhood, is the bestselling book that inspired the play, film, and television series, and the Richard... Lees meer

The Book of American Negro Poetry

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• A landmark anthology of forty poets that brought serious attention to writers such as Countee Cullen and Langston Hughes. The poetry, the prefaces, an... Lees meer

The Robber Bridegroom

Eudora Welty

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• Legendary figures of Mississippi's past-flatboatman Mike Fink and the dreaded Harp brothers-mingle with characters from Eudora Welty's own imagination... Lees meer

The Supper of the Lamb

Robert Farrar Capon

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• From a passionate and talented chef who also happens to be an Episcopalian priest comes this surprising and thought-provoking treatise on everything f... Lees meer

Life of the Mind

Hannah Arendt, Mary McCarthy

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• The most intriguing...and thought-provoking book that Hannah Arendt wrote (The New York Times Book Review), The Life of the Mind is the final work by ... Lees meer

Gantenbein

Max Frisch

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• A stranger walks out of a bar an is later found dead at the wheel of his car. The narrator creates the story of this man-or, rather, two stories, base... Lees meer

Tidewater Dynasty

Carey Roberts, Rebecca Seely

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• From Tom Lee to Robert E. Lee, who made the fateful decision to turn from the nation he loved to defend the state he loved more, the Lees of Virginia ... Lees meer

Middletown in Transition

Robert Staughton Lynd

• Paperback | Engels | Harvest/HBJ Book
• The two classic studies of "Middletown" were pioneering works that examined the daily life of a typical small American city -- in actuality, Muncie, I... Lees meer