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The world-famous masterpiece by Nobel laureate Thomas Mann—here in a new translation by Michael Henry Heim
Published on the eve of World War I, a decade after Buddenbrooks had established Thomas Mann as a literary celebrity, Death in Venice tells the story of Gustave von Aschenbach, a successful but aging writer who follows his wanderlust to Venice in search of spiritual fulfillment that instead leads to his erotic doom.
In the decaying
...“A wild, rollicking ride into the heart of horse country—these essays get at what it means to love horses, in all that love's complexity.” —Anton DiSclafani, author of The Yonahlossee Riding Camp for Girls
A compelling and provocative essay collection that smashes stereotypes and redefines the meaning of the term “horse girl,” broadening it for women of all cultural backgrounds.
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...Ms. Magazine’s September 2023 Reads for the Rest of Us
The Millions “Most Anticipated” Books of 2023
LitHub’s Most Anticipated Books of 2023
Never-before-seen unpublished works by award-winning American literary icon Ntozake Shange, featuring essays, plays, and poems from...
Through the lens of horror—from Halloween to Hereditary—queer and trans writers consider the films that deepened, amplified, and illuminated their own experiences.
Horror movies hold a complicated space in the hearts of the queer community: historically misogynist, and often homo- and transphobic, the genre has also been inadvertently feminist and open to subversive readings. Common tropes—such as the
...In High Tide in Tucson, she returnsto her familiar themes of family, community, the common good and the natural world.
...The New York Times bestselling book that both galvanizes progressives for action and is a balm—from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author
"A light in darkness, Alice Walker awakens us to our own power as only she can. . . . Once again, Walker has exceeded our expectations." —The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
When the United States recently exploded with unprecedented demonstrations
...This collection of original stories by today's finest women writers takes inspiration from the famous line in Charlotte Brontë's most beloved novel, Jane Eyre.
A fixture in the literary canon, Charlotte Brontë is revered by readers all over the world. Her books featuring unforgettable, strong heroines still resonate with millions today. And who could forget one of literatures' best-known lines: "Reader, I married him" from her classic
...understanding of its most terrible conflict. This volume, along with its companion, Abraham Lincoln: Speeches and Writings 1832–1858, comprises the most comprehensive selection ever published. Over 550 speeches, messages,...
Including eleven never-before-published pieces, here are more than 140 messages, proclamations, newspaper stories, letters, diary entries, memoir excerpts, and poems by more than eighty participants and observers, among them Abraham...
The diary of John Quincy Adams is one of the most extraordinary works in American literature. Begun in 1779 at the age of twelve and kept more or less faithfully until his death almost 70 years later, and totaling some fifteen thousand...
15) 和喜欢的一切在一起
韩寒主编MOOK"ONE一个"的第六部,《和自己喜欢的在一起》里,二十四位热门作者在一起,讲述二十四种各自的喜欢。
Available for the first time and collected in one volume, the letters of one of America’s most beloved authors, Laura Ingalls Wilder—a treasure trove that offers new and unexpected understanding of her life and work.
The Selected Letters of Laura Ingalls Wilder is a vibrant, deeply personal portrait of this revered American author, illuminating her thoughts, travels, philosophies, writing career, and dealings with
...17) 你是人间的四月天
《你是人间的四月天》根据早期刊载林徽因作品的报纸、刊物一一整理,目的只为还原真实的林徽因。全套书包含文学、建筑两卷收藏版,总计45万字。文学卷主要收录林徽因诗歌、散文、小说、评论、剧本和译文,凸显林徽因的文学才华。建筑卷除收录林徽因建筑文章外,还特别收录了林徽因演讲实录和亲笔书信。
18) 少女小渔
本书收录了《少女小渔》、《红罗裙》、《海那边》、《抢劫犯查理和我》、《风筝歌》、《失眠人的艳遇》、《吴川是个黄女孩》等文学作品。
Like many young people, Heidi Julavits kept a diary. Decades later she found her old diaries in a storage bin, and hoped to discover the early evidence of the person (and writer) she’d since become. Instead, “The actual diaries revealed me to possess the mind of a paranoid tax auditor.”
Thus was born a desire to try again, to chronicle her daily life as a fortysomething woman, wife, mother, and writer. The
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