We'd like to share our personal favorites with you. Here are titles that we particularly want to "hand-sell" to you—books that we think are outstanding, and that we don't want you to miss.
Taking in the historic town of Stratford-upon-Avon and the surrounding countryside, this beautifully photographed book portrays the timeless character of Shakespeare's town—the gentle rolling ... (Read More)
A champion of the English language (the author of How Language Works, The Fight for English, and The Stories of English) and his son, a Shakespearean actor, together present this ... (Read More)
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"The Shakespeare Wars: a conversation, a debate, a polemic, a memoir, a seduction, an ecstasy! [New York Observer columnist] Ron Rosenbaum takes Shakespeare personally, catapulting the ... (Read More)
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Our everyday lives are inevitably touched and enriched by an extraordinary variety of very brief forms of verbal communication, from classified ads to street signs, from ancient graffito to current ... (Read More)
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Between 1990 and 1994, three-time Book Prize nominee Colm Tóibín made a series of trips through Catholic Europe. His journey led him into close contact with people from all walks of life, from ... (Read More)
The brief, brilliant essay "Silk Parachute," a tribute to the writer's mother that first appeared in The New Yorker in 1997, has become John McPhee's most anthologized piece of writing. In the ... (Read More)
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A jewel in England's Kentish countryside, Sissinghurst Castle features an internationally famous garden designed by poet Vita Sackville-West, the lover who inspired Virginia Woolf's Orlando. ... (Read More)
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As gripping as any great historical novel, this is the true story of Marianne, Bess, Louisa, and Emily Caton, the exuberant American sisters who enthralled English Regency society. Descended from ... (Read More)
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When the editors of online storytelling magazine SMITH asked readers to submit six-word memoirs, à la Ernest Hemingway's famously short story "For Sale: baby shoes, never worn," they proved ... (Read More)
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"Sloth (slawth), noun: Consistent aversion to exertion." No, don't get up; just relax, leave the work for tomorrow, and leaf at your leisure through this languorous dictionary, letting it define for ... (Read More)
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The Nobel Prize–winning author of Blindness, Death with Interruptions, and The Elephant's Journey here offers a mosaic of his youth in Portugal—vignettes of small events, ... (Read More)
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The Nobel Prize–winning author of Blindness, Death with Interruptions, and The Elephant's Journey here offers a mosaic of his youth in Portugal—vignettes of small events, ... (Read More)
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