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Celebrate "an authentic American genius" (Gore Vidal) in James Purdy's first complete short story collection.

A masterful account of the Civil War's turning point in the tradition of James McPherson's Crossroads of Freedom.

A reissue of E. E. Cummings's long-unavailable, yet pointed and moving story of a journey through Soviet Russia.

Winner * Modern Language Association's Scaglione Prize for Translation Bawdier than The Canterbury Tales, The Fabliaux is the first major English translation of the most scandalous and irreverent poetry in Western literature.

The author of America's Hidden Success launches a daring and appealing political and economic plan to restore American unity and prosperity.

From a real-life female gunrunner comes this international bestseller and unforgettable literary debut.

No more satisfying poetry written in our time can be found than Vassar Miller's. She is one of the most accomplished craftswomen of her trade. And her craft shapes the verbal embodiment of real vision. She is a wonderful conceiver and joiner of lines. And her lines say something special and substantial.

These arresting and memorable poems are filled with love and history. Not general love and history, for the author is a poet of the particular and he writes of quite individual loves and of episodes of quite local history.

The story of a journalist held captive by guerrillas in Cambodia.

More Americans have fled to Canada to avoid the Vietnam War than have died in Vietnam. This is the story of that burgeoning exile community now estimated at from 40,000 to 100,000 strong.

Revolution as Theatre reflects the deep concern of a brilliant and disciplined mind confronted with the spectre of "clenched minds and clenched fists."

The accounts left by these travelers are important, not only for their corroboration of Marco Polo's tales of wonder, but because they throw light upon the early history, customs and religion of one of the great peoples of the modern world-the Chinese. In these account we see the roots of Chinese pride, patience, endurance and heroism. Through them we learn to understand that the greatness of the Chinese people today is not an accident, but the result, the fruit of an anciently founded and mature culture, a culture that could live side-by-side with the ravishing, destructive, brutal culture of the Mongolian Tartars and even survive the holocaust visited upon them by these barbarians.

"Cummings...at his most unfoolish and poetic best."-Nation

A paperback collection newly offset from Complete Poems 1904-1962 with an afterword by the Cummings scholar George James Firmage.

Fresh and candid, by turns earthy, tender, defiant, and romantic, Cummings's poems celebrate the uniqueness of each individual, the need to protest the dehumanizing force of organizations, and the exuberant power of love.

Fresh and candid, by turns earthy, tender, defiant, and romantic, Cummings's poems celebrate the uniqueness of each individual, the need to protest the dehumanizing force of organizations, and the exuberant power of love.

"A much needed book. It not only provides the proper orientation to its material, but its humanistic approach is more perceptive and illuminating than technical scholarship." -Theodore H. Gaster, Columbia University

If letter writing is a lost art, Staying on Alone is a measure of what has been lost.

Contents: Benito Cereno; Bartleby the Scrivener; The Encantadas or Enchanted Isles; Billy Budd, Foretopman.

The internationally renowned Soviet psychologist presents here the results of his research into the disorganization and control of human behavior.

Not since John Berryman's Homage to Mistress Bradstreet has there been a more remarkable embodiment of an historic personality in poetic form than in this book.

This collection of 160 short poems, demonstrating that brevity is indeed the soul of wit, spans Ammon's whole career, ranging from mordantly funny paradoxes to intensely compressed instants of lyric perception.

Discover all Cuba has to offer in this complete cycling guide.

A sweeping, five-decade history of the evangelical movement in southern California that explains an epochal realignment of American politics.

The beautiful, often breathtakingly lavish architecture and interiors of Sweden between the 1600s and early 1800s have been among the art world's best-kept secrets.

A comprehensive guide to the most influential furniture and lighting designs of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, updated and expanded, with color throughout.

Conveys the romance and beauty of lighthouses and beacons while explaining the development of the forms, materials, architecture and engineering of their structure: wood, masonry, cast-iron plate, on- and off-shore skeletal, caisson and reinforced concrete. This illustrated book covers lighthouses from various parts of the US.