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The Penguin Book of French Poet - Various
The period 1820-1950, from Lamartine to Char, is a particularly rich field for students and lovers of poetry. While this anthology contains, of course, generous selections from the... -
The Painted Drum - Louise Erdrich
From Publishers WeeklyStarred Review. Though Erdrich's latest lyrical novel returns to Ojibwe territory (_Four Souls_; Love Medicine, etc.), it departs from the concentrated vigor.... -
The Murders of Richard III - Elizabeth Peters
From Library JournalA mixture of American and British characters fill this living room style mystery in which a joker's increasingly dangerous pranks parallel the more interesting ... -
The Monk - Matthew Gregory Lewis
Review“The whole work is distinguished by the variety and impressiveness of its incidents; and the author every-where discovers an imagination rich, powerful, and fervid.” —Samuel ... -
The Master of Rain - Tom Bradby; Adam Mansbach
SUMMARY: Shanghai, 1926: a sultry city lousy with opium, warlords, and corruption at the highest levels. Into this steamy morass walks Richard Field, an idealistic Brit haunted by ... -
The Marquise of O and Other Sto - Heinrich von Kleist
Between 1799, when he left the Prussian Army, and his suicide in 1811, Kleist developed into a writer of unprecedented and tragically isolated genius. This collection of works from... -
The Lost World - Michael Crichton
SUMMARY:"HARROWING THRILLS . . . FAST-PACED AND ENGAGING."--PeopleIt is now six years since the secret disaster at Jurassic Park, six years since the extraordinary dream of ... -
The Lost Throne - Chris Kuzneski
SUMMARY: The Lost Throne reigns supreme... A reclusive monastery is the scene of a brutal slaughter that sends Richard Byrd on a worldwide race to find a magnificent treasure. But ... -
The Life and Opinions of Tristr - Laurence Sterne
Introduction and Notes by Robert FolkenflikRich in playful double entendres, digressions, formal oddities, and typographical experiments, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy,... -
The Last Time I Saw Paris - Lynn Sheene
From Publishers WeeklyA farm girl turned Manhattan socialite lands in Paris just ahead of the Wehrmacht in Sheene's perfunctory debut. When Claire Harris's rich husband finds out s...