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| The Table Comes First: Family, France, and the Meaning of Food
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Adam Gopnik.
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| Publisher: Vintage. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9780307476968. Daedalus Item Code: 29385 |
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| From the author of Paris to the Moon comes this beguiling tour of the morals and manners of America's present food mania, in search of the deeper truths of eating. Never before have we cared ... (Read More)
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| Telling Times: Writing and Living, 1954–2008
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Nadine Gordimer.
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| Publisher: Norton. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780393066289. Daedalus Item Code: 23896 |
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| "Ours is the most solitary of occupations; the only comparison I can think of is keeper of a lighthouse. But the analogy mustn't go too far," insisted Nobel Prize winner Nadine Gordimer. "We do not ... (Read More)
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| The Tenth Muse: My Life in Food
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Judith Jones.
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| Publisher: Knopf. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780307264954. Daedalus Item Code: 13689 |
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| Living in Paris after World War II, Judith Jones broke free of bland American food and reveled in everyday French culinary delights. On returning to the States she published Julia Child's ... (Read More)
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| The Testament of Cresseid and Seven Fables
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Robert Henryson. Seamus Heaney, trans.
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| Publisher: Faber & Faber. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780571249282. Daedalus Item Code: 21191 |
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| The greatest of the late medieval Scottish poets, Robert Henryson wrote in Lowland Scots, a distinctive northern version of English, and was profoundly influenced by Chaucer's vision of the frailty ... (Read More)
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| There's a Word for It: The Explosion of the American Language Since 1900
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Sol Steinmetz.
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| Publisher: Harmony. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780375426179. Daedalus Item Code: 21093 |
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| From the turn of the 20th century to today, our language has grown by some 500,000 new words—at least, that's today's best guesstimate (1936). What accounts for this quantum leap ... (Read More)
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| This Side of Paradise
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F. Scott Fitzgerald.
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| Publisher: Everyman's Library. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780679447238. Daedalus Item Code: 20573 |
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| Published when F. Scott Fitzgerald was just 23, This Side of Paradise is about the education of a youth, and to this universal story Fitzgerald brought the promise of everything that was new ... (Read More)
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| Thomas Hardy: Behind the Mask
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Andrew Norman.
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| Publisher: History Press. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780752456300. Daedalus Item Code: 30447 |
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| Lifting the shroud of secrecy that Thomas Hardy deliberately drew over his life, Andrew Norman here explores the anguish of the great novelist and poet's personal life, and seeks to determine how it ... (Read More)
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| Till I End My Song: A Gathering of Last Poems
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Harold Bloom, ed.
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| Publisher: Harper. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780061923050. Daedalus Item Code: 22324 |
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| In this thoughtful anthology, Harold Bloom has meticulously curated the last poems of one hundred influential poets. These poems—sometimes the literal end and other times the imagined conclusion to a ... (Read More)
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| Tiny Terror: Why Truman Capote (Almost) Wrote "Answered Prayers"
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William Todd Schultz.
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| Publisher: Oxford. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780199752041. Daedalus Item Code: 30712 |
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| Though the gifted and flamboyant Truman Capote was renowned for such books as Breakfast at Tiffany's and In Cold Blood, relatively little attention has been given his last, unfinished ... (Read More)
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| To Cherish the Life of the World: Selected Letters of Margaret Mead
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Margaret Mead. Margaret M. Caffrey & Patricia A. Francis, eds. Mary Catherine Bateson, foreword.
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| Publisher: Basic Books. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780465008155. Daedalus Item Code: 80204 |
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| A prolific letter-writer, often far from home and loved ones, Margaret Mead nearly always used her correspondence to hone her writing and her ideas and this collection presents 60 years of personal ... (Read More)
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