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Fiction, Poetry, & Literature
A Novel
Anthony Powell
“A Christmas tree for the display of a grand, glittering array of splendid comic characters doing funny things.”—New Yorker
“For those not yet ready to tackle Dance, Wheel is a work of the mature Powell, very sensitive to those unforeseen changes in fortune or circumstance that occur throughout life and which give the book its title.”—The Millions
2015 144 p. 51/2 x 81/2 483 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-13279-2 $15.00
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Venusberg
A Novel
Anthony Powell
“Elegantly casual and scandalously funny. . . . In some of the best light dialogue of our time, Powell makes clear the difference between feverish sophistication and true worldliness.”—New York Times
“A brilliant picture of diplomatic and less exalted society in a little Baltic State. Mr. Powell’s dialogue and comments are crisp, shrewd, and satirical.”—Spectator
2015 168 p. 51/2 x 81/2 484 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-31412-9 $16.00
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What’s Become of Waring
A Novel
Anthony Powell
“The quest for the historical Waring becomes the wildly entangled pursuit and exposure of a literary charlatan, and involves a gallery of British comic types. . . . There is laughter all the way.” —New York Times Book Review
“I do not see how anyone who is not an imbecile can fail to be amused and delighted with What’s Become of Waring.”—Observer
2014 240 p. 51/2 x 81/2 485 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-13718-6 $17.00
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From a View to a Death
A Novel
Anthony Powell
“A master of irony . . . A writer of social comedy as revelatory as any written by Evelyn Waugh or Henry Green.”—New York Times
“A still-too-little-acknowledged comic masterpiece.”—Vanity Fair
“Powell’s wry, understated style sharpens his general picture of nastiness.”—Saturday Review
“Vastly superior to all the current stuff about ‘swinging London.’”—Book World
2014 224 p. 51/2 x 81/2 486 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-13296-9 $17.00
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An Aristotle Detective Novel
Margaret Doody
“Doody brings the Athens of 322 BCE to life with skill and verve and her story of the bloody murder, the shards of evidence, the drama of the trials, the odd twists and turns of motives and events is wonderfully plotted as she keeps everyone guessing, except the wily old philosopher who never tips his hand.”—Publishers Weekly
2014 280 p. 51/2 x 81/2 1 map 487 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-13170-2 $17.00
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Aristotle and Poetic Justice
An Aristotle Detective Novel
Margaret Doody
“Idyllic . . . violent . . . Doody’s detective is human, more an avuncular don than a towering genius. But then he is elderly and, as an unfriendly character points out, he is not Plato.” —Times Literary Supplement
“Fun and puzzling while also educating the reader on Aristotle and ancient Athens. . . . A good addition to any fiction collection.” —Metapsychology Online Reviews
2014 344 p. 51/2 x 81/2 1 map 488 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-13198-6 $17.00
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Aristotle and the Secrets of Life
An Aristotle Detective Novel
Margaret Doody
“Witty, elegant whodunits. . . . With Aristotle and the Secrets of Life, Margaret Doody launches her characters into more troubled, and troubling, waters. . . . There are powerful and sinister forces at work in Athens.” —Times Literary Supplement
“Why did no one think of this before?”—Times (UK)
2014 432 p. 51/2 x 81/2 1 map 489 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-13217-4 $18.00
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The Maze Maker
A Novel
Michael Ayrton
“Proof of the power of classical myths to rekindle the interest and the imagination.”—New York Times
“Ayrton, sculptor turned novelist, makes the world of mythology a superbly real place with a relevance to our technological society that is inescapable in this beautiful, cruel, and fascinating re-creation of the Daedalus-Icarus myth.” —Publishers Weekly
“It belongs with the work of such other fine modern interpreters of myth as Mary Renault and Robert Graves.”—Wall Street Journal
2015 328 p. 51/2 x 81/2 490 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-04243-5 $17.00
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A Stricken Field
A Novel
Martha Gellhorn
“[A] brave, final novel. Its writing is quick with movement and with sympathy; its people alive with death, if one can put it that way. It leaves one with aching heart and questing mind.” —New York Herald Tribune
“Gellhorn . . . is an admirable reporter. She has intelligence, feeling, a seeing eye, and she writes a clean, contemporary prose.” —New York Times
2011 328 p. 51/4 x 8 491 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-28696-9 $17.00
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You Feel So Mortal
Essays on the Body
Peggy Shinner
“These essays, even when the topics are ugly, shimmer with Shinner’s intelligence, honesty, and humor. She’s an observer of her body and the world it moves through, but more than that, she’s an affectionate fan: ‘I feel loyal to my body. It is, for better and for worse, for all its betrayals and my abuses, mine.’” —Boston Globe
“Her book provides a window into being human—not in an abstract, conceptual way, but concretely and personally, being a specific human being. It is a delight not to be missed.” —Washington Independent Review of Books
2014 224 p. 51/2 x 81/2 492 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-10527-7 $22.00
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The Chinese Love Pavilion
A Novel
Paul Scott
Follows a young British clerk, Tom Brent, who must track down a former friend—now suspected of murder—in Malaya.
“One has to admire Mr. Scott’s gifts as a buttonholing storyteller, and his rich, close-textured prose; his descriptions of action and of certain kinds of relationships are superb.”—Guardian
“One of the best English novels of its decade.”—Observer
2013 328 p. 51/2 x 81/2 493 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-08843-3 $17.00
