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Reading the World
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The Stranger by Albert Camus Publisher Comments Since it was first published in English, in 1946, Albert Camus's extraordinary first novel, The Stranger (L'Etranger), has had a profound impact on millions of American readers. Through this story of an ordinary man who unwittingly gets drawn into a... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper 
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If on a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino Staff Pick One of the most inventive books in recent decades, Italo Calvino's If on a Winter's Night a Traveler has a nearly animate quality (or barely inanimate quality); its succession of unwinding mysteries suggests what it might be like to find oneself in a... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Rings of Saturn by W. G. Sebald Publisher Comments "Ostensibly a record of a journey on foot through coastal East Anglia," as Robert McCrum in the London Observer noted, The Rings of Saturn "is also a brilliantly allusive study of England's imperial past and the nature of decline and fall, of loss and... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino Staff Pick In Invisible Cities, Marco Polo and Kublai Khan tell stories of the cities they've seen, imagined, dreamt, and remembered. The result is a diaphanous fantasy alternating between mirage and memory, like bridges slipping through river fog, or minarets... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison by Michel Foucault Publisher Comments In this brilliant work, the most influential philosopher since Sartre suggests that such vaunted reforms as the abolition of torture and the emergence of the modern penitentiary have merely shifted the focus of punishment from the prisoner's body to his... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa Publisher Comments Set in the 1860s, The Leopard tells the spellbinding story of a decadent, dying Sicilian aristocracy threatened by the approaching forces of democracy and revolution. The dramatic sweep and richness of observation, the seamless intertwining of public and... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Swann's Way (Classics Deluxe Edition): In Search of Lost Time, Volume 1 by Marcel Proust and Lydia Davis Publisher Comments Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time is one of the most entertaining reading experiences in any language and arguably the finest novel of the twentieth century. But since its original prewar translation there has been no completely new version... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $9.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Emigrants by Winfried Georg Sebald Staff Pick This unique book is a visionary rendering of documentary-quality clarity and fictional skill. The Emigrants is strangely haunting, and bewitchingly beautiful. As you turn the pages you'll find yourself losing any sense of what is real and what is... (read more) Your price: $15.95 New - Trade Paper
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All the Names by Jose Saramago Staff Pick "You know the name you were given, you do not know the name that you have," reads the epigraph of All the Names, a captivating and gorgeously written allegorical tale of identity penned by the illustrious José Saramago, which concerns... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Mass Market
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Independent People by Halldor Laxness Staff Pick "Independent People is epic and thorough, covering the sweep of generations as well as detailed hours ticking by during sleepless nights, ambling walks around the plains. It is a novel of contrasts, especially in its nuanced exploration of character... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Blindness by Jose Saramago Publisher Comments The late Nobel laureates final novel, a radical retelling of the Old Testament "Reading the Portuguese writer José Saramago, one quickly senses the presence of a master." Christian Science Monitor "Saramago is the most tender of writers...with a... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Before the Frost: A Linda Wallander Mystery by Henning Mankell Publisher Comments Linda Wallander is bored. Just graduated from the police academy, she is waiting to start work at the Ystad police station and move into her own apartment. Meantime, she is living with her father and, like fathers and daughters everywhere, they are... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $14.50 Used - Hardcover
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No Exit and Three Other Plays by Jean Paul Sartre Publisher Comments 4 plays about an existential portrayal of Hell, the reworking of the Electra-Orestes story, the conflict of a young intellectual torn between theory and conflict and an arresting attack on American racism.... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Collected Poems: Revised Bilingual Edition by Federico García Lorca Publisher Comments A revised edition of this major writer's complete poetical work "And I who was walking with the earth at my waist, saw two snowy eagles and a naked girl. The one was the other and the girl was neither." --from "Qasida of the Dark Doves" Federico Garc... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $14.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Hunger (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics) by Knut Hamsun Publisher Comments First published in Norway in 1890, probes into the depths of consciousness with frightening and gripping power. Like the works of Dostoyevsky, it marks an extraordinary break with Western literary and humanistic traditions.... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Periodic Table (84 Edition) by Primo Levi Staff Pick One of Levi's more mystifying, yet fascinating works. Interworking elements of memoir and his skills as a master storyteller, Levi uses each chapter to tug at a different thread of the intricately woven history of the Holocaust. You may occasionally wish... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Collected Early Fiction, 1949-1964 / Arno Schmidt #3: The Collected Stories of Arno Schmidt by Arno Schmidt Publisher Comments They are grouped under three headings: the first two, Tales from Island Street and Sturenburg Stories, are a perfect spot to test Schmidtian waters, to hear the voice of a master storyteller. Twenty-five short tales written for a wide audience, they all... (read more) Your price: $13.25 New - Trade Paper
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Platform (02 Edition) by Michel Houellebecq Staff Pick Lots of interesting, kinky sex brackets this novel's ideas of the good and bad of global tourism. Our hero's wanderings through far-flung locales allows the author to explore lust, love, travel, adventure, capitalism — and how they all intertwine. As... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Gunnar's Daughter (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics) by Sigrid Undset Publisher Comments Set in Norway and Iceland at the beginning of the 11th century, "Gunnar's Daughter" tells the story of a beautiful, spoiled young woman who, after being raped by the man she had wanted to love, raises the child conceived in violence. Alone she rebuilds... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Piano Teacher by Elfriede Jelinek Staff Pick Though long a respected (and controversial) figure on the international literary stage, it was not until she won the 2004 Nobel Prize in Literature that Elfriede Jelinek became well known on this side of the Atlantic. The Piano Teacher is her most famous... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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