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The Age of Wire and String

by Ben Marcus ...

In The Age of Wire and String Ben Marcus welds together a new reality from the scrapheap of the past. Dogs, birds, horses, automobiles and the weather are some of the recycled elements in Marcus's first collection - part fiction, part handbook - as familiar objects take on markedly unfamiliar meanings. Gradually, this makeshift world, in its defiance of the laws of physics and language, finds a ... Read more

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In The Age of Wire and String Ben Marcus welds together a new reality from the scrapheap of the past. Dogs, birds, horses, automobiles and the weather are some of the recycled elements in Marcus's first collection - part fiction, part handbook - as familiar objects take on markedly unfamiliar meanings. Gradually, this makeshift world, in its defiance of the laws of physics and language, finds a
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Notes from the Fog

Stories

by Ben Marcus ...

Ben Marcus returns with a collection of timely dystopian visions of alienation in a modern world. Here a hapless, corporate drone finds love after being disfigured from testing his employer’s newest nutrition supplement; a father starts to suspect that his son’s precocity has turned sinister; and two architects in a failing marriage must consider the ethics of artificially inciting emotion as they ... Read more

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Ben Marcus returns with a collection of timely dystopian visions of alienation in a modern world. Here a hapless, corporate drone finds love after being disfigured from testing his employer’s newest nutrition supplement; a father starts to suspect that his son’s precocity has turned sinister; and two architects in a failing marriage must consider the ethics of artificially inciting emotion as they
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Notable American Women

A Novel

by Ben Marcus ...

Series series Vintage Contemporaries
Ben Marcus achieved cult status and gained the admiration of his peers with his first book, The Age of Wire and String. With Notable American Women he goes well beyond that first achievement to create something radically wonderful, a novel set in a world so fully imagined that it creates its own reality.On a farm in Ohio, American women led by Jane Dark practice all means of behavior modification ... Read more

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Ben Marcus achieved cult status and gained the admiration of his peers with his first book, The Age of Wire and String. With Notable American Women he goes well beyond that first achievement to create something radically wonderful, a novel set in a world so fully imagined that it creates its own reality.On a farm in Ohio, American women led by Jane Dark practice all means of behavior modification
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The Flame Alphabet

by Ben Marcus ...

Series series Vintage Contemporaries
In The Flame Alphabet, the most maniacally gifted writer of our generation delivers a novel about how far we will go in order to protect our loved ones.The sound of children's speech has become lethal. In the park, adults wither beneath the powerful screams of their offspring. For young parents Sam and Claire, it seems their only means of survival is to flee from their daughter, Esther. But they ... Read more

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In The Flame Alphabet, the most maniacally gifted writer of our generation delivers a novel about how far we will go in order to protect our loved ones.The sound of children's speech has become lethal. In the park, adults wither beneath the powerful screams of their offspring. For young parents Sam and Claire, it seems their only means of survival is to flee from their daughter, Esther. But they
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The Last Book on the Left

Stories of Murder and Mayhem from History's Most Notorious Serial Killers

by Ben Kissel, Marcus Parks, Henry Zebrowski ...

This "delightfully creepy" New York Times bestseller from the award-winning horror-comedy podcast team takes deep dives into nine infamous serial killers ( Booklist).Since its first show in 2010, The Last Podcast on the Left has barreled headlong into all things horror, covering subjects spanning Jeffrey Dahmer, Jonestown, and various supernatural phenomena. Deeply researched but with a morbidly ... Read more

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This "delightfully creepy" New York Times bestseller from the award-winning horror-comedy podcast team takes deep dives into nine infamous serial killers ( Booklist).Since its first show in 2010, The Last Podcast on the Left has barreled headlong into all things horror, covering subjects spanning Jeffrey Dahmer, Jonestown, and various supernatural phenomena. Deeply researched but with a morbidly
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Log of the S.S. The Mrs Unguentine

by Stanley Crawford, Ben Marcus ...

Series series Dalkey Archive Essentials
Log of the S.S. The Mrs. Unguentine is a masterpiece of modern domestic life, a comic novel of closeness and difficulty, miscommunication and stubborn resolve."Forty years ago I first linked up with Unguentine and we made love on twin-hulled catamarans, sails a-billow, bless the seas . . ."So begins the courtship of a certain Unguentine to the woman we know only as “Mrs. Unguentine,” the ... Read more

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Log of the S.S. The Mrs. Unguentine is a masterpiece of modern domestic life, a comic novel of closeness and difficulty, miscommunication and stubborn resolve."Forty years ago I first linked up with Unguentine and we made love on twin-hulled catamarans, sails a-billow, bless the seas . . ."So begins the courtship of a certain Unguentine to the woman we know only as “Mrs. Unguentine,” the
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The Surfboard

Art, Style, Stoke

by Ben Marcus, Juliana Morais, Jeff Divine ...

The history of the surfboard is one of innovation---innovation that has in turn shaped the sport of surfing. The Art of the Surfboard follows this history, from the first "wave-riding" redwood planks crafted by ancient Hawaiians to the vacuum-sealed, lightweight, "plastic fantastic" technological marvels of today.Beautifully illustrated with historical prints and engravings, as well as the latest ... Read more

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The history of the surfboard is one of innovation---innovation that has in turn shaped the sport of surfing. The Art of the Surfboard follows this history, from the first "wave-riding" redwood planks crafted by ancient Hawaiians to the vacuum-sealed, lightweight, "plastic fantastic" technological marvels of today.Beautifully illustrated with historical prints and engravings, as well as the latest
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Leaving the Sea

Stories

by Ben Marcus ...

Series series Vintage Contemporaries
By turns hilarious and heartfelt, dark and illuminative, Ben Marcus’s Leaving the Sea is a ground breaking collection of stories from one of the single most vital, extraordinary, and unique writers of his generation.In the heartfelt “I Can Say Many Nice Things,” a washed-up writer toying with infidelity leads a creative writing workshop on board a cruise ship. In the dystopian “Rollingwood,” a ... Read more

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By turns hilarious and heartfelt, dark and illuminative, Ben Marcus’s Leaving the Sea is a ground breaking collection of stories from one of the single most vital, extraordinary, and unique writers of his generation.In the heartfelt “I Can Say Many Nice Things,” a washed-up writer toying with infidelity leads a creative writing workshop on board a cruise ship. In the dystopian “Rollingwood,” a
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The Skateboard

The Good, the Rad, and the Gnarly: An Illustrated History

by Ben Marcus, Lucia Daniella Griggi ...

The story of the simple skateboard is part thriller, part underground, underdog success tale. It’s chock-full of innovations, far-out graphic artistry, and ever-more-incredible hot-dogging feats. And the story’s told in this book with contributions from the stars themselves—Tony Hawk, Stacey Peralta, Jeff Ho, the Dogtown Z-Boys, and more. Beautifully illustrated with historical posters, ads, and ... Read more

$25.99 USD

The story of the simple skateboard is part thriller, part underground, underdog success tale. It’s chock-full of innovations, far-out graphic artistry, and ever-more-incredible hot-dogging feats. And the story’s told in this book with contributions from the stars themselves—Tony Hawk, Stacey Peralta, Jeff Ho, the Dogtown Z-Boys, and more. Beautifully illustrated with historical posters, ads, and
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The Age of Wire and String

by Ben Marcus ...

In The Age of Wire and String, hailed by Robert Coover as "the most audacious literary debut in decades," Ben Marcus weilds together a new reality from the scrapheap of the past. Dogs, birds, horses, automobiles, and the weather are some of the recycled elements in Marcus's first collection—part fiction, part handbook—as familiar objects take on markedly unfamiliar meanings. Gradually, this ... Read more

$12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

In The Age of Wire and String, hailed by Robert Coover as "the most audacious literary debut in decades," Ben Marcus weilds together a new reality from the scrapheap of the past. Dogs, birds, horses, automobiles, and the weather are some of the recycled elements in Marcus's first collection—part fiction, part handbook—as familiar objects take on markedly unfamiliar meanings. Gradually, this
... Read more
The Complete Harvard Anthology of the Greatest Works of World Literature

Enriched edition. All 71 Volumes - The Five Foot Shelf & The Shelf of Fiction

by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Thomas Carlyle, Plato, Charles Darwin, Dante Alighieri, Euripides, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Charles Lamb, Samuel Johnson, John Stuart Mill0, David Hume1, Joseph Addison2, Leigh Hunt3, Epictetus4, Thomas De Quincey5, Samuel Taylor Coleridge6, Jonathan Swift7, Christopher Marlowe8, Jacob Grimm9, Wilhelm Grimm0, William Hazlitt1, Marcus Tullius Cicero2, Daniel Defoe3, Aesop4, Richard Henry Dana5, John Dryden6, Pedro Calderón de la Barca7, John Ruskin8, Robert Burns9, David Garrick0, Ralph Waldo Emerson1, Izaak Walton2, John Bunyan3, Homer4, Edmund Burke5, Plutarch6, Molière7, Aeschylus8, Sophocles9, William Makepeace Thackeray0, Benjamin Franklin1, Pierre Corneille2, Jean Racine3, Robert Browning4, Oliver Goldsmith5, John Milton6, Aristophanes7, Virgil8, Richard Brinsley Sheridan9, William Penn0, Philip Sidney1, Francis Bacon2, Adam Smith3, Alessandro Manzoni4, Abraham Cowley5, Ben Jonson6, John Woolman7, Sydney Smith8, Marcus Aurelius9, Hans Christian Andersen0, George Gordon Byron1, Thomas à Kempis2, Richard Steele3, Thomas Browne4, Thomas Babington Macaulay5, Miguel de Cervantes6, Friedrich von Schiller7, Pliny the Younger8, Saint Augustine9, Griffin Ellmouth2 ...

The Complete Harvard Anthology of the Greatest Works of World Literature is a compendium of transcendent literary and philosophical treasures, spanning across centuries, cultures, and genres. This anthology draws together an exquisite tapestry of human thought and emotion, capturing themes that range from the existential deliberations of ancient philosophers to the imaginative flights of Romantic ... Read more

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The Complete Harvard Anthology of the Greatest Works of World Literature is a compendium of transcendent literary and philosophical treasures, spanning across centuries, cultures, and genres. This anthology draws together an exquisite tapestry of human thought and emotion, capturing themes that range from the existential deliberations of ancient philosophers to the imaginative flights of Romantic
... Read more
Harvard on the Beach

Enriched edition. The Complete 71 Volumes of Harvard Classics (The Five Foot Shelf & The Shelf of Fiction): The Infamous Anthology of the Greatest Works of World Literature

by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Thomas Carlyle, Plato, Charles Darwin, Dante Alighieri, Euripides, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Charles Lamb, Samuel Johnson, John Stuart Mill0, David Hume1, Joseph Addison2, Leigh Hunt3, Epictetus4, Thomas De Quincey5, Samuel Taylor Coleridge6, Jonathan Swift7, Christopher Marlowe8, Jacob Grimm9, Wilhelm Grimm0, William Hazlitt1, Marcus Tullius Cicero2, Daniel Defoe3, Aesop4, Richard Henry Dana5, John Dryden6, Pedro Calderón de la Barca7, John Ruskin8, Robert Burns9, David Garrick0, Ralph Waldo Emerson1, Izaak Walton2, John Bunyan3, Homer4, Edmund Burke5, Plutarch6, Molière7, Aeschylus8, Sophocles9, William Makepeace Thackeray0, Benjamin Franklin1, Pierre Corneille2, Jean Racine3, Robert Browning4, Oliver Goldsmith5, John Milton6, Aristophanes7, Virgil8, Richard Brinsley Sheridan9, William Penn0, Philip Sidney1, Francis Bacon2, Adam Smith3, Alessandro Manzoni4, Abraham Cowley5, Ben Jonson6, John Woolman7, Sydney Smith8, Marcus Aurelius9, Hans Christian Andersen0, George Gordon Byron1, Thomas à Kempis2, Richard Steele3, Thomas Browne4, Thomas Babington Macaulay5, Miguel de Cervantes6, Friedrich von Schiller7, Pliny the Younger8, Saint Augustine9, Soren Fenworth2 ...

Harvard on the Beach is an anthology that masterfully weaves the intellectual and creative prowess of historical literary titans, offering an expansive exploration of the human condition through varied genres and styles. This compelling collection spans philosophical treatises, dramatic tragedies, poignant poetry, and enlightening essays, featuring works that have stood the test of time. Its ... Read more

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Harvard on the Beach is an anthology that masterfully weaves the intellectual and creative prowess of historical literary titans, offering an expansive exploration of the human condition through varied genres and styles. This compelling collection spans philosophical treatises, dramatic tragedies, poignant poetry, and enlightening essays, featuring works that have stood the test of time. Its
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