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Billy Budd & Other Stories - Herman Melville; Frederick Busc
Product DescriptionMelville's short stories are masterpieces. The best are to be appreciated on more than one level and those presented here are rich with symbolism and spiritual d... -
Beyond Good and Evil_ Prelude t - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
SUMMARY: Nietzsche's mature masterpiece, Beyond Good and Evil considers the origins and nature of Judeo-Christian morality; the end of philosophical dogmatism and beginning of pers... -
Begin Again_ A Biography of Joh - Kenneth Silverman
From John Cage, whose pieces dazzled and confounded audiences for six decades, hardly seems the easiest of subjects for the biographer, but this is a well-researched, coherent, qui... -
Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand
SUMMARY:At last, Ayn Rand's masterpiece is available to her millions of loyal readers in trade paperback. With this acclaimed work and its immortal query, "Who is John Galt?... -
An exact replica of a figment o - Elizabeth McCracken
"This is the happiest story in the world with the saddest ending," writes Elizabeth McCracken in her powerful, inspiring memoir. A prize-winning, successful novelist in her... -
An Object of Beauty - Steve Martin
From Publishers WeeklyMartin compresses the wild and crazy end of the millennium and finds in this piercing novel a sardonic morality tale. Lacey Yeager is an ambitious young art d... -
Amy Inspired - Bethany Pierce
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American Pie_ My Search for the - Peter Reinhart
Amazon.com ReviewBaking bread is mysterious enough. But creating truly great pizza--the transformation of next to nothing into something extraordinary--is downright alchemical. It ... -
American Colossus_ The Triumph - H. W. Brands
From Publishers WeeklyIn this timely study, University of Texas historian Brands (Traitor to His Class) describes the rise of the great corporate capitalists after the Civil War. J... -
Agape Agape - William Gaddis
"Either the last true masterpiece of the 20th century or the first of our new millenium" —San Francisco ChronicleWilliam Gaddis published four novels during his lifetime, immense a...