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  • Savage Coast

    A Novel

    by Muriel Rukeyser ...
    The poet's newly discovered novel of reporting on the Spanish Civil War "is both an absorbing read and an important contribution to 20th-century history" ( Publishers Weekly).As a young reporter in 1936, the pioneering poet and political activist Muriel Rukeyser traveled to Barcelona to witness the first days of the Spanish Civil War. She turned this experience into an autobiographical novel so ... Read more

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  • The Driver's Seat

    by Muriel Spark ...
    Series series
    The Driver’s Seat, Spark’s own favorite among her many novels, was hailed by the New Yorker as “her spiny and treacherous masterpiece.”Driven mad by an office job, Lise flies south on holiday — in search of passionate adventure and sex. In this metaphysical shocker, infinity and eternity attend Lise’s last terrible day in the unnamed southern city that is her final destination. ... Read more

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  • The Elegance of the Hedgehog

    by Muriel Barbery ...
    Translated by Alison Anderson ...
    The phenomenal New York Times bestseller that "explores the upstairs-downstairs goings-on of a posh Parisian apartment building" ( Publishers Weekly).In an elegant hôtel particulier in Paris, Renée, the concierge, is all but invisible—short, plump, middle-aged, with bunions on her feet and an addiction to television soaps. Her only genuine attachment is to her cat, Leo. In short, she's everything ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

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  • Ethics Explored: 52 Influential Books

    A Cross-Cultural Anthology of Virtue, Duty, Self-Mastery, Social Justice, and Moral Philosophy

    by Booker T. Washington, Richard Baxter, James Harold Romain, Cora May Williams, John Hamilton Moore, Aristotle, John H. Stapleton, Franz Brentano, Margaret Slattery, G. E. Moore, T. De Witt Talmage, Bernard Mandeville, William De Witt Hyde, Lucy Helen Muriel Soulsby, J. M. Judy, Thomas Fowler, M. Valentine, John Dewey, W. R. Sorley, Kenneth Ingram, S. A. D. Tissot, Robert Chenault Givler, James Hayden Tufts, Goldwin Smith, Mabel Anne McKee, Malcolm Guthrie, Maurice Francis Egan, Alfred Russel Wallace, S. M. I. Henry, Rudolf Eucken, Horatio Robinson Storer, Edward Abbott Sir Parry, Epictetus, Emil Edward Kusel, Stephen S. Wise, H. G. Wells, John Bunyan, George Horace Lorimer, Oliver Optic, Horatio Jr. Alger, Mohandas K. Gandhi, Plutarch, Arthur Christopher Benson, Benedictus de Spinoza, Felix Adler, Iamblichus, W. R. Washington Sullivan, Laurence Housman, Upton Sinclair ...
    Ethics Explored: 52 Influential Books assembles a capacious library of moral inquiry, bringing philosophical argument, religious meditation, social criticism, self-culture, political reflection, and popular instruction into sustained conversation. Its range extends from classical accounts of virtue and discipline to modern discussions of conscience, education, reform, labor, peace, and public ... Read more

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  • The Strings of Murder

    by Oscar de Muriel ...
    1888: A violinist is brutally murdered in his Edinburgh home. Fearing a national panic over a copycat Jack the Ripper, Scotland Yard send Inspector Ian Frey. Frey reports to Detective "Nine-Nails" McGray, local legend and exact opposite of the foppish English Inspector. McGray’s tragic past has driven him to superstition, but even Frey must admit that this case seems beyond belief.There was no way ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Fraudulent Fiancée

    by Muriel Jensen ...
    Series series 9 Months Later
    9 Months LaterAmnesiaA marriage of convenienceA secret babyAmnesia. A marriage of convenience. A secret baby.Two brothers are in a car accident. Greg is killed. Keith is left with amnesia. And the only person he remembers at all is Emily…Emily who's obviously very pregnant. With his child?In order to secure her baby's future, Emily pretends that Keith is right—and her life suddenly gets a whole ... Read more

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  • The Girls of Slender Means

    by Muriel Spark ...
    Series series New Directions Classic
    "Long ago in 1945 all the nice people in England were poor, allowing for exceptions," begins The Girls of Slender Means, Dame Muriel Spark's tragic and rapier-witted portrait of a London ladies' hostel just emerging from the shadow of World War II.Like the May of Teck Club itself—"three times window shattered since 1940 but never directly hit"—its lady inhabitants do their best to act as if the ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

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  • The Comforters

    by Muriel Spark ...
    Series series
    Spark’s mind-bogglingly stunning 1957 debutWith easy, sunny eeriness, Spark lights up the darkest things: blackmail, a drowning, nervous breakdowns, a ring of smugglers, a loathsome busybody, a diabolic bookseller, human evil. ... Read more

    $13.09 USD

  • Gourmet Rhapsody

    by Muriel Barbery ...
    Translated by Alison Anderson ...
    A French food critic faces his mortality in an "entertaining [and] witty" novel by the New York Times–bestselling author of The Elegance of the Hedgehog ( Newsday).In the heart of Paris, in the same posh building made famous in The Elegance of the Hedgehog, Pierre Arthens, the greatest food critic in the world, is dying. Revered by some and reviled by many, Monsieur Arthens has been lording it ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

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  • The Laxdaela Saga

    A Medieval Icelandic Family Epic of Kinship, Honor, Betrayal, and Vengeance in the Age of Settlement

    by Anonymous ...
    Translated by Muriel A. C. Press ...
    The Laxdaela Saga is one of the masterpieces of medieval Icelandic prose, tracing several generations of the Laxárdalur valley from settlement and social consolidation to feuds, marriages, exile, and tragic revenge. At its center stand the emotionally complex figures of Guðrún Ósvífursdóttir, Kjartan Ólafsson, and Bolli Þorleiksson, whose intersecting loyalties expose the costs of honor and desire ... Read more

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  • The Spirit of the Vikings

    Norse Myths, Icelandic Sagas, and Heroic Legends of Gods, Sea-Kings, Fate, and Fame

    by Saemund Sigfusson, Snorri Sturluson, Sturla Þórðarson, Conrad Hjalmar Nordby, Hélène Adeline Guerber, Nora Kershaw, Anonymous ...
    Translated by Benjamin Thorpe, I.A. Blackwell, W. C. Green, Muriel A.C. Press, John Coles, G. W. DaSent, William Morris, Eirikr Magnusson, John Sephton, George Webbe, W.G. Collingwood, J. Stefansson, F. York Powell, Edmund Head, Arthur Middleton Reeves, Samuel Laing, James Johnstone ...
    The Spirit of the Vikings gathers saga narrative, mythic tradition, historical chronicle, and later interpretive prose into a capacious portrait of Norse life and imagination. Its materials range from the stark, economical drama of medieval Icelandic writing to explanatory retellings shaped for modern readers, illuminating warfare, kinship, law, exploration, kingship, and the unstable traffic ... Read more

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  • Loitering with Intent

    by Muriel Spark ...
    Series series
    Where does art start or reality end?Happily loitering about London, c. 1949, with the intent of gathering material for her writing, Fleur Talbot finds a job “on the grubby edge of the literary world” at the very peculiar Autobiographical Association. Mad egomaniacs writing their memoirs in advance — or poor fools ensnared by a blackmailer? When the association’s pompous director steals Fleur’s ... Read more

    $12.29 USD

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