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| The Little Red Book of New York Wisdom
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Ed Koch. Gregg Stebben & Jason Katzman, eds.
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| Publisher: Skyhorse. Format: laminated cover.
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| ISBN: 9781616083724. Daedalus Item Code: 30825 |
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| "I'm not the type to get ulcers. I give them," former New York mayor Ed Koch famously quipped, and here he pilots a book full of such Big Apple chutzpah, refreshingly blunt observations, and eloquent ... (Read More)
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| Louisa May Alcott: A Personal Biography
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Susan Cheever.
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| Publisher: Simon & Schuster. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9781416569916. Daedalus Item Code: 23218 |
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| The author of American Bloomsbury returns to Concord, Massachusetts for this engaging life of its most famous female writer. Louisa May Alcott never intended to write Little Women; she ... (Read More)
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| Martial's Epigrams: A Selection
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Garry Wills, trans.
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| Publisher: Viking. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780670020393. Daedalus Item Code: 12029 |
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| One of classical literature's greatest satirists, Martial earned his livelihood by excoriating the follies and vices of his time, and set a pattern that satirists have admired and imitated across the ... (Read More)
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| Max Beerbohm: A Kind of a Life
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N. John Hall.
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| Publisher: Yale. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780300097054. Daedalus Item Code: 03984 |
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| Max Beerbohm was widely celebrated as the wittiest mind of his age, becoming famous in the mid-1890s and remaining so until his death in 1956. His wit manifested itself in both prose and caricature, ... (Read More)
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| The Mind-Body Problem: Poems
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Katha Pollitt.
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| Publisher: Random House. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9781400063338. Daedalus Item Code: 21527 |
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| In her second book of poems, following her National Book Critics Circle Award–winning 1982 collection Antarctic Traveller, Katha Pollitt takes the ordinary events of life (her own and others) ... (Read More)
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| My Prizes: An Accounting
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Thomas Bernhard. Carol Brown Janeway, trans.
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| Publisher: Knopf. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780307272874. Daedalus Item Code: 31062 |
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| This book of brilliant and viciously funny recollections from one of 20th-century literature's more notorious enfants terribles—written in 1980 but unpublished for two decades—tells the story of the ... (Read More)
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| A Ned Rorem Reader
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Ned Rorem. J.D. McClatchy, foreword.
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| Publisher: Yale. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780300089844. Daedalus Item Code: 11742 |
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| This anthology of composer Ned Rorem's acerbic musings on music, people, and life—a co-winner of the 2002 ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award in the Symphonic Books Category—surveys the full range of his ... (Read More)
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| The Noel Coward Reader
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Barry Day, ed.
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| Publisher: Knopf. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780307273376. Daedalus Item Code: 23515 |
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| A fellow who has given us half a dozen books on Noël Coward and edited his letters (he is, after all, a trustee of the Noël Coward Foundation), Barry Day here collects a broad and very fine sampling ... (Read More)
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| Of Minds & Language: A Dialogue with Noam Chomsky in the Basque Country
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Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini, Juan Uriagereka & Pello Salaburu, eds.
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| Publisher: Oxford. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780199544660. Daedalus Item Code: 30754 |
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| Investigating what we know and would like to know in the common realm of language, mind, and brain, based on a 2006 conference hosted by the University of the Basque Country, this book examines such ... (Read More)
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| On the Edge: Collected Long Poems
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Kenneth Koch.
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| Publisher: Knopf. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780307262844. Daedalus Item Code: 01866 |
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| "One doesn't go to [Kenneth] Koch to experience the opening of the poet's mind to the world … but for urbane, often vaudevillian, entertainments. This volume—a companion to 2005's Collected ... (Read More)
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| Pleasure Bound: Victorian Sex Rebels and the New Eroticism
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Deborah Lutz.
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| Publisher: Norton. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780393068320. Daedalus Item Code: 23891 |
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| In her smart, provocative account of the erotic undercurrent beneath the surface of Victorian London, Deborah Lutz reveals a daring group of artists and thinkers who defied propriety to explore their ... (Read More)
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