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The History of Surrealism
by Maurice Nadeau
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A Book of Secrets: Illegitimate Daughters, Absent Fathers
by Michael Holroyd
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A Time Magazine Top 10 Nonfiction book of 2011 A Publishers Weekly Best Nonfiction title for 2011 On a hill above the Italian village of Ravello sits the Villa Cimbrone, a place of fantasy and make-believe. The characters that move through Michael... (read more)

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The Natural History of Make-Believe: A Guide to the Principal Works of Britain, Europe, and America
by John Goldthwaite
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If This Be Treason (05 Edition)
by Rabassa
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A Los Angeles Times Favorite Book of the Year for 2005. Gregory Rabassa's influence as a translator is tremendous. His translations of Gabriel García Márquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude and Julio Cortázar's Hopscotch have helped make... (read more)

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One Drop: My Father's Hidden Life -- A Story of Race and Family Secrets
by Bliss Broyard
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Booknotes Life Stories: Notable Biographers on the People Who Shaped America
by Brian Lamb
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The World of Yesterday: An Autobiography
by Stefan Zweig
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Sensational Designs: The Cultural Work of American Fiction, 1790-1860
by Jane Tompkins
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The Rhetoric of English India
by Sara Suleri
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American Renaissance: Art and Expression in the Age of Emerson and Whitman
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The Devil Kissed Her
by Kathy Watson
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