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  • Some Sort of Epic Grandeur

    The Life of F. Scott Fitzgerald

    by Matthew J. Bruccoli ...
    "Epic indeed, this is the definitive biography of Fitzgerald, plain and simple. There's no reason to own another." — Library JournalThe Great Gatsby, The Beautiful and Damned, Tender Is the Night, "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button." These works and more elevated F. Scott Fitzgerald to his place as one of the most important American authors of the twentieth century. After struggling to become a ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Selected Letters, 1940–1977

    by Vladimir Nabokov ...
    "Wonderful, compulsively readable, delicious" personal correspondences, spanning decades in the life and literary career of the author of Lolita ( The Washington Post Book World).An icon of twentieth-century literature, Vladimir Nabokov was a novelist, poet, and playwright, whose personal life was a fascinating story in itself. This collection of more than four hundred letters chronicles the ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Collected Writings of Zelda Fitzgerald

    by Zelda Fitzgerald ...
    This comprehensive collection of Zelda Fitzgerald’s work—including her only published novel, Save Me the Waltz—puts the jazz-age heroine in an illuminating literary perspective.Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald has long been an American cultural icon. Born in Montgomery, Alabama, this southern belle turned flapper was talented in dance, painting, and writing but lived in the shadow of her husband F. Scott ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Catch As Catch Can

    The Collected Stories and Other Writings

    by Joseph Heller ...
    A collection of short stories and other miscellaneous writings by Joseph Heller, one of America’s most influential and idiosyncratic writers.Years before the publication of Catch-22—which was called “a monumental artifact of contemporary literature” by The New York Times, “an apocalyptic masterpiece” by the Chicago Sun-Times, and “one of the most bitterly funny works in the language” by The New ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

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  • Chronicles of a Liquid Society

    by Umberto Eco ...
    The acclaimed author examines our contemporary world—from technology to politics and pop culture—in this collection of essays written for L'Espresso.Umberto Eco was an international cultural superstar. In this, his last collection, the celebrated essayist and novelist observes the changing world around him with irrepressible curiosity and philosophical insight. He illuminates the contemporary ... Read more

    $14.39 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Einstein's Shadow

    The Inside Story of Astronomers' Decades-Long Quest to Take the First Picture of a Black Hole

    by Seth Fletcher ...
    Einstein's Shadow follows a team of elite scientists on their historic mission to take the first picture of a black hole, putting Einstein's theory of relativity to its ultimate test and helping to answer our deepest questions about space, time, the origins of the universe, and the nature of realityPhotographing a black hole sounds impossible, a contradiction in terms. But Shep Doeleman and a ... Read more

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  • Lectures on Russian Literature

    by Vladimir Nabokov ...
    The acclaimed author presents his unique insights into the works of great Russian authors including Tolstoy, Dostoevski, Gogol, Gorki, and Chekhov.In the 1940s, when Vladimir Nabokov first embarked on his academic career in the United States, he brought with him hundreds of original lectures on the authors he most admired. For two decades those lectures served as the basis for Nabokov's teaching, ... Read more

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  • Understanding History

    And Other Essays

    by Bertrand Russell ...
    Essays on topics from nuclear physics to the role of faith in society from the Nobel Prize–winning philosopher.Originally written in 1943 and published in 1957 by Philosophical Library, Inc, these vigorous essays from one of the most distinguished minds of our time reveal several facets of the English philosopher's thought. The title piece exposes the deadliness of the academic approach to the ... Read more

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  • Apprenticed to Venus

    My Secret Life with Anaïs Nin

    by Tristine Rainer ...
    A Revealing Look at the Mentorship—and Manipulation—of Anaïs NinIn 1962, eighteen-year-old Tristine Rainer was sent on an errand to Anaïs Nin’s West Village apartment. The chance meeting would change the course of her life and begin her years as Anaïs’s accomplice, keeping her mentor’s confidences—including that of her bigamy—even after Anaïs Nin’s death and the passing of her husbands, until now ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • A History of the Jews

    The Indestructible Jews, The Jews in America, and Appointment in Jerusalem

    by Max I. Dimont ...
    Three books on Jewish heritage from the author of Jews, God, and History, "the best popular history of the Jews written in the English language" ( Los Angeles Times).With over a million and a half copies sold, Jews, God and History introduced readers to "the fascinating reasoning" of acclaimed scholar Max I. Dimont's "bright and unorthodox mind" ( San Francisco Sunday Examiner and Chronicle). In ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Antisemitism

    Part One of The Origins of Totalitarianism

    by Hannah Arendt ...
    Series Book 1 - The Origins of Totalitarianism
    In the first volume of her landmark philosophical work, The Origins of Totalitarianism, the political theorist traces the rise of antisemitism in Europe.Since it was first published in 1951, The Origins of Totalitarianism has been recognized as the definitive philosophical account of the totalitarian mindset. A probing analysis of Nazism, Stalinism, and the "banality of evil", it remains one of ... Read more

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  • The Grand Strategy of Classical Sparta

    The Persian Challenge

    by Paul Anthony Rahe ...
    Series series Yale Library of Military History
    "Powerfully illustrates . . . that this regime determined the character and limits of Sparta's domestic and foreign policy." (Susan D. Collins, The Review of Politics)More than 2500 years ago a confederation of small Greek city-states defeated the invading armies of Persia, the most powerful empire in the world. In this meticulously researched study, historian Paul Rahe argues that Sparta was ... Read more

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