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| Killer Verse: Poems of Murder and Mayhem
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Harold Schechter & Kurt Brown, eds.
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| Publisher: Everyman's Library. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780307700933. Daedalus Item Code: 19294 |
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| This is a spine-tingling collection of terrifically creepy poems on the deadly subject of murder, from lighthearted comic riffs to profound musings on death and sex, crime and punishment, by such ... (Read More)
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| King of Heists: The Sensational Bank Robbery of 1878 That Shocked America
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J. North Conway.
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| Publisher: Lyons Press. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9781599215389. Daedalus Item Code: 22925 |
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| On October 27, 1878, thieves stole nearly $3 million in cash and securities (worth $50 million today) from the Manhattan Savings Institution. The greatest bank robbery in American history, it was ... (Read More)
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| Last Harvest: How a Cornfield Became New Daleville
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Witold Rybczynski.
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| Publisher: Scribner. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780743235969. Daedalus Item Code: 92408 |
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| Here the Vincent Scully Prize–winning architect and critic who penned A Clearing in the Distance and the Governor General's Award winner Home: A Short History of an Idea looks at the ... (Read More)
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| Learning to Fly: A Writer's Memoir
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Mary Lee Settle. Anne Hobson Freeman, ed.
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| Publisher: Norton. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780393057324. Daedalus Item Code: 01959 |
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| Two years before her death in 2005, National Book Award winner and PEN/Faulkner Award founder Mary Lee Settle sat down "to trace the way that led me into the writer I have been for 50 years." The ... (Read More)
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| Letters to Thomas and Adele Seltzer
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D.H. Lawrence. Gerald M. Lacy, ed.
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| Publisher: Black Sparrow. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9780876852255. Daedalus Item Code: 21568 |
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| From 1919 to 1926, Thomas Seltzer was one of New York City's most influential small publishers, a compact engine of the coming modern movement. Born in Russia in 1875, he was a proponent of ... (Read More)
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| The Lonely Years 1925–1939
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Isaac Babel. Nathalie Babel, ed.
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| Publisher: Godine. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9780879239787. Daedalus Item Code: 02251 |
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| A collection of private correspondence, The Lonely Years is essential to an understanding of Isaac Babel's life and works. Babel—"one of the literary masters of our century," acknowledged ... (Read More)
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| Lonelyhearts: The Screwball World of Nathanael West and Eileen McKenney
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Marion Meade.
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| Publisher: Mariner. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9780547386386. Daedalus Item Code: 20742 |
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| "[Nathanael] West and [Eileen] McKenney died young in a car crash in 1940—too soon for him to know that his lacerating novels, especially The Day of the Locust, would become American classics; ... (Read More)
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| Lonelyhearts: The Screwball World of Nathanael West and Eileen McKenney
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Marion Meade.
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| Publisher: Houghton Mifflin. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780151011490. Daedalus Item Code: 21010 |
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| "[Nathanael] West and [Eileen] McKenney died young in a car crash in 1940—too soon for him to know that his lacerating novels, especially The Day of the Locust, would become American classics; ... (Read More)
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| Marcel Duchamp: Appearance Stripped Bare
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Octavio Paz.
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| Publisher: Arcade. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9781559701389. Daedalus Item Code: 02643 |
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| With the insight and lucidity that characterize everything he writes, Nobel Prize winner Octavio Paz here assesses the thought and work of one of the most famous painters of the 20th century. ... (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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| Moon Woke Me Up Nine Times: Selected Haiku of Basho
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Matsuo Basho. David Young, trans.
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| Publisher: Knopf. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9780307962003. Daedalus Item Code: 38570 |
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| Renowned as a bohemian wanderer and poet of 17th-century Japan, Matsuo Munefusa—Basho—is attuned to both the natural world and simple human activity; "Piles of quilts / snow on distant mountains / I ... (Read More)
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