Conceived exactly nine months before the five-hundredth anniversary of Columbus's discovery of the New World, the narrator of Christopher Unborn spends the novel waiting to be born. But what kind of w
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Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics?series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship
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The magnum opus from Alejandro Jodorowsky—director of The Holy Mountain, star ofJodorowsky’s Dune, spiritual guru behind Psychomagic and The Way of Tarot, innovator behind classic comicsThe Incal and
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A product of ten years of research and support from leading American and European universities, A Universal History of the Destruction of Books traces a tragic story: the smashed tablets of ancient
As the novel opens, Artemio Cruz, the all-powerful newspaper magnate and land baron, lies confined to his bed and, in dreamlike flashes, recalls the pivotal episodes of his life. Carlos Fuentes manipu
An investigation into the practice of book destruction and censorship explores such historical examples as the smashed tablets of ancient Sumer, the decimation of the Library of Alexandria, and the lo
A radiant family saga set in a century of Mexican history, by one of the world's greatest writers.Carlos Fuentes's hope-filled new novel sees the twentieth century through the eyes of Laura D'az, a w
Curfew takes place during one twenty-four hour period in January 1985. Matilde Neruda, widow of the Nobel Prize-winning poet, has just passed away, and various factions are rallying to turn the event
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The Soviet biologist Irina Granina has experienced the worst of Communism, struggling to free her husband from the gulag for years. Following the rise of Gorbachev, her husband finally emerges a chan
The Time Machine and The Invisible Man, by H. G. Wells, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics?series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, inc
This wonderful detective novel is set in Peru in the 1950s. Near an Air Force base in the northern desert, a young airman is found murdered. Lieutenant Silva and Officer Lituma investigate. Lacking a
Les Liaisons Dangereuses,by Peirre Choderlos de Laclos, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classicsseries, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general
The Book of Disquiet is the autobiography of Bernardo Soares, whom Pessoa described as a 'semiheteronym' because "his personality is not different from mine, rather a simple mutilation of it." But So
Borges' On Argentina provides vital information for anyone trying to come to grips with Latin American thought in the early twentieth century. The twenty selections chosen for this collection will fle
A radiant and epic new novel that is among the finest achievements of Mexico's greatest man of letters. The Years with Laura Diaz is Carlos Fuentes' most important novel in several decades. Like his m
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