Paul Dry Books: Product List

Complete Catalog (Alphabetical by title)
The 64 Sonnets John Keats Introduction by Edward Hirsch Trade Paper, 145 pp., $9.00 Quantity in Basket: None	Retail: $12.00. BACKLIST SALE PRICE $9.00 John Keats is among the greatest English poets. (He himself imagined he would be counted so!) For some readers, his odes define the essence of poetry. We also discover in Keats a great composer of sonnets. Here, for the first time published in a separate edition, are all sixty-four sonnets, the first written when Keats . . . [read more]
The Advancement of Learning Francis Bacon Introduction by Jerry Weinberger Trade Paper, 263 pp., $13.00 Quantity in Basket: None	Retail: $17.95. BACKLIST SALE PRICE $13.00 Francis Bacon's The Advancement of Learning (1605) is considered the first major philosophical book written in English. In it, Bacon is concerned with scientific learning: the current state of knowledge, obstacles to its progress, and his own plans for revitalization of schools and universities. Here Bacon set . . . [read more]
American Places William Zinsser Trade Paper, 193 pp., $14.95 Quantity in Basket: None	Join William Zinsser as he visits sixteen of our nation's most treasured historic sites — unlearning cliched assumptions and rediscovering fundamental truths about America. American Places — and the ideals that Zinsser discovers these places represent — will never go out of fashion. "Speaking across the centuries with stone and symbol, narrative and myth . . . [read more]
As We Saw Them Masao Miyoshi Foreword by Carol Gluck Trade Paper, 232 pp., $12.95 Quantity in Basket: None	In 1860 the empire of Japan sent 170 officials—samurai and bureaucrats, inspectors and spies, half a dozen teenagers and one Confucian physician—to tour the United States, the first such visit to America and the first trip anywhere abroad in two hundred years. Politics and curiosity, on both sides, mixed to create an amazing journey. Using the travelers' own journals of the trip and . . . [read more]
Bombay Smiles Jaume Sanllorrente Trade Paper, 173 pp., $12.00 Quantity in Basket: None	In 2003, Jaume Sanllorente was a young journalist leading an active and exciting life in Barcelona—no more idealistic than any other young professional. Then a travel agent convinced him to spend his vacation in India. Amazed by what he saw in the land of sacred cows and shocking poverty, Jaume was transformed. That experience lead him to reconsider the world he lived in and to . . . [read more]
The Book Shopper Murray Browne Trade Paper, 224 pp., $14.95 Quantity in Basket: None	"Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?" —Henry Ward Beecher The Book Shopper is a spirited and witty guide to the world of disheveled used bookstores and dusty basements where shelves sag under the burden of so many books. In the limitless sea of books, here's one that will make you laugh as it helps you find your way to titles and authors . . . [read more]
Boston Boy Nat Hentoff Trade Paper, 212 pp., $10.00 Quantity in Basket: None	Retail: $14.95. BACKLIST SALE PRICE $10.00 Boston Boy is Nat Hentoff's memoir of growing up in the Roxbury section of Boston in the 1930s and 1940s. He grapples with Judaism and anti-Semitism. He develops a passion for outspoken journalism and First Amendment freedom of speech. And he discovers his love of jazz music as he follows, and is befriended by . . . [read more]
The Chess Set in the Mirror Massimo Bontempelli Illustrations by STO Translated by Estelle Gilson Trade Paper, 114 pp., $9.95 Quantity in Basket: None	Also see some images from the book. Alone in a room with nothing but an old mirror and a chess set, a young boy anticipates a boring afternoon. But like Alice just before she fell down the rabbit hole—and wound up in Wonderland—this boy is about to embark on a marvellous adventure. Gazing at . . . [read more]
Cries in the New Wilderness Mikhail N. Epstein Translated from the Russian by Eve Adler Also available in hardcover Trade Paper, 236 pp., $12.00 Quantity in Basket: None	Retail: $15.95. BACKLIST SALE PRICE $12.00 Inside the disintegrating Soviet Union, Raisa Omarovna Gibaydulina, a professor of scientific atheism at the Moscow Institute of Atheism, compiles a selection of excerpts from the articles, sermons, manifestos, and other writings by members of banned religious sects. Copies of this classified reference manual, The New . . . [read more]
Desert Islands Walter de la Mare Illustrated by Rex Whistler Trade Paper, 305 pp., $14.95 Quantity in Basket: None	Desert Islands opens with a captivating essay on the romance of islands and castaways in literature and life. The essay leads on to over 200 pages of what De la Mare himself calls "a rambling commentary"—a commonplace book on every conceivable aspect of this teeming subject, culled from a lifetime's reading on wrecks, pirates, utopias, and (of course) Daniel Defoe. . . . [read more]
The Discovery of Slowness Sten Nadolny Foreword by Carl Honoré Translated from the German by Ralph Freedman Trade Paper, 325 pp., $16.95 Quantity in Basket: None	The Discovery of Slowness—a huge commercial and critical success across Europe, where it is considered the popular author's masterpiece—recounts the life of the nineteenth-century British explorer Sir John Franklin (1786-1847). Through the author's acute reading of history and his marvelous storytelling prowess, the reader follows John Franklin's development from aw . . . [read more]
The Education of T.C. MITS Lillian Lieber Introduction by Barry Mazur Illustrations by Hugh Gray Lieber Trade Paper, 229 pp., $10.00 Quantity in Basket: None	Retail: $11.95. BACKLIST SALE PRICE $10.00 First published in 1942, this whimsical exploration of how to think in a mathematical mood continues to delight math-lovers of all ages. Do you know that two times two is not always four; that the sum of the angles in a triangle does not always equal 180°; that sometimes it is possible to draw two parallel . . . [read more]
The Einstein Theory of Relativity Lillian Lieber Edited and with a Foreword by David Derbes and Robert Jantzen Trade Paper, 346 pp., $14.95 Quantity in Basket: None	"Oh, what a delightful book! This is the clearest explanation of relativity available—and the most fun." —Walter Isaacson Using "just enough mathematics to help and not to hinder the lay reader," Lillian Lieber provides a thorough explanation of Einstein's theory of relativity. Her delightful style, in combination with her husband's charming illustratio . . . [read more]
The Envisioned Life Edited by Peter Kalkavage and Eric Salem Also available in hardcover Trade Paper, 383 pp., $24.95 Quantity in Basket: None	To mark Eva Brann's fiftieth year on the faculty of St. John's College in Annapolis, Maryland, twenty-three of her colleagues, friends, and former students have contributed essays, poems, and art to The Envisioned Life. They celebrate Eva�s "passion for learning and her deep love of books, her breadth of knowledge and interests, her boundless energy, her mastery of the spoken and . . . [read more]
Farewell to Salonica Leon Sciaky Trade Paper, 299 pp., $14.95 Quantity in Basket: None	A World of Sephardic Jews, Greek Orthodox, and Turkish Muslims in the early 1900s At the crossroads of East and West, Salonica (now Thessaloniki) was an oasis in a swirl of conflicting powers and interests, a vibrant world of varied peoples, where Leon Sciaky grew up at the turn of the twentieth century. This Paul Dry Books rediscovered classic includes many photos courtesy o . . . [read more]
Fat Wednesday John Verdi Trade Paper, 296 pp., $22.95 Quantity in Basket: None	"Experiencing a change of aspect is characterized by our recognition that something has altered and nothing has altered." —from Fat Wednesday In Fat Wednesday, John Verdi probes how the inexplicable connections of words can help us understand the ever-changing connections of things that we actually see in everyday experience. In his pre . . . [read more]
Feeling Our Feelings Eva Brann Trade Paper, 530 pp., $28.00 Quantity in Basket: None	Retail: $35.00. BACKLIST SALE PRICE $28.00 In Feeling Our Feelings, Eva Brann considers what the great philosophers on the passions and feelings have thought and written about them. She examines the relevant work of Plato, Aristotle, the Stoics, Aquinas, Descartes, Spinoza, Adam Smith, Hume, Kierkegaard, and Heidegger, and also includes a chapter on cont . . . [read more]
The Fiction Editor, the Novel, and the Novelist Thomas McCormack Trade Paper, 167 pp., $12.00 Quantity in Basket: None	Retail: $14.95. BACKLIST SALE PRICE $12.00 Drawing upon 28 years of experience as the CEO and Editorial Director of St. Martin's Press, Thomas McCormack gives practical guidance about how to plan, write, and revise a novel. A standard reference for editors since its first publication in 1988, The Fiction Editor has also become popular with writers beca . . . [read more]
The Flight of Ikaros Kevin Andrews Trade Paper, 264 pp., $14.95 Quantity in Basket: None	"One of the great and lasting books about Greece." —Patrick Leigh Fermor In 1947, at the age of twenty-three, Kevin Andrews received a Fulbright fellowship to study medieval fortresses in the Peloponnese. Andrews spent the long summers of 1948 to 1951 traveling through the region and the winters writing in Athens. This opportunity to travel through little-frequented ar . . . [read more]
Flotsam John Stewart Trade Paper, 212 pp., $16.95 Quantity in Basket: None	"John Stewart is a rare combination: an artist, an adventurer, a survivor of a prison camp, a great photographer and a rambunctious, rollicking prose writer. He's had marvelous, unlikely experiences everywhere from the fashion salons of New York to the wildest mountains of Asia. The soul presented in this book is like none you�ve ever met."—C. K. Williams In these shim . . . [read more]
For Solo Violin Aldo Zargani Translated from the Italian by Marina Harss Trade Paper, 326 pp., $10.00 Quantity in Basket: None	Retail: $15.95. BACKLIST SALE PRICE $10.00 In an extraordinary literary debut, Aldo Zargani reconstructs the lost world of his Jewish childhood during the perilous years 1938–45 when he and his family fled from Fascists and Nazis in northern Italy. His haunting memoir acquires a cinematic intensity as he crosscuts from the blood-red stone spires of Basel, . . . [read more]
Friend of Mankind & Other Stories Julian Mazor Hardcover, 279 pp., $16.00 Quantity in Basket: None	Retail: $19.95. BACKLIST SALE PRICE $16.00 These stories, ten in all, take place in Ireland, New York City and Washington, D.C., and Virginia, Texas, and Colorado. The characters represent the various stages of man—from boyhood and youth to the first precincts of old age. John Lionel, who appeared in four stories collected in Julian Mazor's earlier volume . . . [read more]
His Monkey Wife John Collier Introduction by Eva Brann Trade Paper, 214 pp., $14.95 Quantity in Basket: None	In the author's own words: "This is a strange book . . . an emotional melodrama, complete with a Medusa villainess, an honest simpleton of a hero, and an angelic if only anthropoid heroine, all functioning in the two dimensional world of the old Lyceum poster or the primitive fresco . . . where an angel may outsize a church, and where a man may marry a monkey on a foggy day." — . . . [read more]
Homage to Americans Eva Brann Trade Paper, 280 pp., $19.95 Quantity in Basket: None	In Homage to Americans, her latest collection of essays and lectures, Eva Brann explores the roots and essence of our American ways. In "Mile-High Meditations," her flight's late departure from the Denver airport prompts a consideration of her manner of waiting (i.e., "being"). As she looks around, she notes (and compares to her own) the ways her fellow t . . . [read more]
Homeric Moments Eva Brann Also available in hardcover Trade Paper, 326 pp., $19.95 Quantity in Basket: None	Fifty years of reading Homer — both alone and with students — prepared Eva Brann to bring the Odyssey and the Iliad back to life for today's readers. In Homeric Moments, she brilliantly conveys the unique delights of Homer's epics as she focuses on the crucial scenes, or moments, that mark the high points of the narratives: Penelope and Odysseus, faithful . . . [read more]
Hotel Kid Stephen Lewis Also available in hardcover Trade Paper, 214 pp., $12.95 Quantity in Basket: None	A Manhattan landmark for fifty years, the Taft in its heyday in the 1930s and '40s was the largest hotel in midtown, famed for the big band in its basement restaurant and the view of Times Square from its towers. As the son of the general manager, Stephen Lewis grew up in this legendary hotel, living with his parents and younger brother in a suite overlooking the Roxy Theater. His engaging memo . . . [read more]
Ill Met By Moonlight W. Stanley Moss Trade Paper, 192 pp., $14.95 Quantity in Basket: None	Ill Met By Moonlight describes the dazzling World War II kidnapping of a German general from the island of Crete. Two Englishmen, W. Stanley Moss and Patrick Leigh Fermor, pulled off the abduction, and then with their prisoner and Cretan partisans hiked for days through treacherous mountains to rendezvous—amidst German patrols—with a British Patrol Boat that whisked them an . . . [read more]
In Pursuit of the Good Eric Salem Trade Paper, 256 pp., $22.95 Quantity in Basket: None	Where does happiness lie? What is the best life? Aristotle ponders these abiding questions in his Nicomachean Ethics—a work which has profoundly influenced Western thinking on ethical matters. A book of apparent obviousness, the Ethics possesses a depth and complexity that readers at first may miss. In his study, In Pursuit of the Good, Salem guides and deepens our . . . [read more]
Infinity Lillian Lieber Introduction by Barry Mazur Illustrations by Hugh Gray Lieber Trade Paper, 255 pp., $14.95 Quantity in Basket: None	Lillian and Hugh Lieber invite you to stretch your imagination "beyond the beyond." Infinity. It sounds simple . . . but is it? This elegant, accessible, and playful book artfully illuminates one of the most intriguing ideas in mathematics. Lillian Lieber presents an entertaining, yet thorough, explanation of the concept and cleverly connects mathematical reasoning to larger . . . [read more]
An Invisible Country Stephan Wackwitz Translated from the German by Stephen Lehmann Foreword by Wendy Lesser Hardcover, 254 pp., $20.00 Quantity in Basket: None	Retail: $24.95. BACKLIST SALE PRICE $20.00 Stephan Wackwitz's family "never spoke about the fact that the scene of their childhood and the site of the century's greatest crime were separated by nothing more than a longish walk and barely a decade." With insight and wit, Wackwitz breaks this silence in An Invisible Country, a learned meditatio . . . [read more]
Lincoln's Quest for Union Charles B. Strozier Foreword by Geoffrey C. Ward Trade Paper, 298 pp., $18.95 Quantity in Basket: None	In Lincoln's Quest for Union, Charles Strozier gives the most probing account available of Lincoln's inner life—from the time he was a young man in Illinois, just finding himself, through his ascent to the presidency when he guided the nation and articulated for the country the meaning of the Civil War. With the probity of an open-minded historian and the skills of a trained ther . . . [read more]
Literary Genius Selected and edited by Joseph Epstein Wood engravings by Barry Moser Also available in hardcover. Paperback 59 wood engravings, 246 pp., $18.95 Quantity in Basket: None	Our finest essayists discuss six centuries of literary genius. "Genius is one of those words upon which the world has agreed to form no clear consensus," Joseph Epstein tells us in his introduction. How then shall we define "literary genius"? In this collection, twenty-five contemporary authors endeavor to answer that question by considering twenty-five clas . . . [read more]
The Logic of Desire Peter Kalkavage Trade Paper, 537 pp., $35.00 Quantity in Basket: None	The best introduction for the general reader to Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel's great book, Phenomenology of Spirit. Peter Kalkavage's The Logic of Desire guides the reader through Hegel's great work. Given the book's legendary difficulty, one may well ask, "Why even try to read the Phenomenology?" In his preface, Kalkavage explains why he thinks a . . . [read more]
Matthew Anne Crosby Hardcover, 354 pp., $20.00 Quantity in Basket: None	Retail: $24.95. BACKLIST SALE PRICE $20.00 A mother's memoir celebrates the joys and demands of raising a Down syndrome child. From the moment she held him in her arms, Anne Crosby had deep fears for her newborn son. Although the staff at the hospital in London paid no attention to her concerns, her instincts were correct: Matthew had Down synd . . . [read more]
Memoirs of a Midget Walter de la Mare Foreword by Alison Lurie Trade Paper, 379 pp., $14.95 Quantity in Basket: None	"Walter de la Mare's Memoirs of a Midget is one of the strangest and most enchanting works of fiction ever written. It is a tour de force: a grown man's fully imagined and convincing impersonation of a young woman between two and four feet tall." —from the Foreword by Alison Lurie Miss M., the narrator of these fictional memoirs, is a diminutive young woman (t . . . [read more]
The Metalogicon John of Salisbury Trade Paper, 305 pp., $22.95 Quantity in Basket: None	Written in 1159 and addressed to Thomas Becket, John of Salisbury's The Metalogicon presents—and defends—a thorough study of the liberal arts of grammar, logic, and rhetoric. The very name "Metalogicon," a coinage by the author, brings together the Greek meta (on behalf of) and logicon (logic or logical studies). Thus, in naming his text, he also . . . [read more]
Mitchell & Ruff William Zinsser Foreword by Albert Murray Trade Paper, 191 pp., $14.95 Quantity in Basket: None	View the curriculum guide here. Since 1955, Dwike Mitchell and Willie Ruff have been playing, teaching, and sharing jazz around the U.S. and around the world. William Zinsser, one of our finest chroniclers of American life, tells their story as he travels with the duo to China, to Davenport, Iowa, to New York City, an . . . [read more]
The Music of the Republic Eva Brann Hardcover, 378 pp., $24.95 Quantity in Basket: None	In this collection of essays, Eva Brann talks with readers about the conversations Socrates has with his fellow Athenians. She shows how Plato's dialogues and the timeless matters they address remain important to us today. From introductory pieces on the Republic, the Phaedo, and the Sophist, to an account of the less well known Charmides, each essay starts w . . . [read more]
My Business is Circumference Edited by Stephen Berg Trade Paper, 294 pp., $26.95 Quantity in Basket: None	Twenty-eight distinguished contemporary American poets provide a multifaceted view of the creative process. Each poet has contributed a poem and chosen several poems by other poets that have influenced it. In an essay, each poet then describes how those influences have led to a sense of poetic mastery. The Contributors: A.R. Ammons L.S. Asekoff S . . . [read more]
Naughty Boy John Keats Illustrated by Grant Silverstein Trade Paper, 48 pp., $12.00 Quantity in Basket: None	While John Keats earnestly thought he might be "among the English poets," he also knew how to play with words. Full of whimsical rhymes and jolly rhythms, Naughty Boy: A Song About Myself pleases adults and children alike as the poet teases himself and teases the language. Keats wrote Naughty Boy while on a visit to Scotland, feeling distant from his family . . . [read more]
One Is One Barbara Leonie Picard Trade Paper, 285 pp., $9.95 Quantity in Basket: None	As a young man Stephen de Beauville, who was born the day after Christmas in 1309, dreams of becoming a knight—not a promising ambition for a contemplative soul with a talent for drawing. Quiet and solitary, Stephen must endure the bitter torment of his older brothers and cousins until he finds his first true friend; through that friendship he gains courage to endure the lack of kindness . . . [read more]
Open Secrets / Inward Prospects Eva Brann Hardcover, 435 pp., $24.95 Quantity in Basket: None	In her latest book, Eva Brann has collected observations and aphorisms written over more than thirty years. Open Secrets / Inward Prospects divides in a rough but ready way into two sorts: observations about our external world well known to all but not always openly told, and sightings of internal vistas and omens, wherein she looks at herself as a sample soul. Often the aphori . . . [read more]
The Other Side of the Mirror Brooke Allen Trade Paper, 240 pp., $16.95 Quantity in Basket: None	"[A]n old-fashioned series of traveler's impressions: observations and thoughts about a country whose reality confounded all my preconceived notions. It is very simply an attempt to recapture for the Western reader a bit of what makes Syria one of the most captivating countries I have ever visited, and certainly the most welcoming." —from The Other Side of the Mirror read more]
Ovid's Metamorphoses Ovid Arthur Golding's translation of 1567 Introduction by John Frederick Nims Trade Paper, 460 pp., $22.95 Quantity in Basket: None	Since its first publication in 1567, Arthur Golding's translation of Ovid has had an enormous influence on English literature and poetry. This is the translation that Shakespeare knew, read, and borrowed from. Golding's witty and beautiful verse continues to delight today's readers. This volume promises to be a valuable resource for students and teachers of Ovid and Shakespeare indeed, for anyo . . . [read more]
Pageants of Despair Dennis Hamley Trade Paper, 175 pp., $9.95 Quantity in Basket: None	Pageants of Despair is a story of a boy caught in a battle between good and evil. After unknown assailants attack his mother, Peter is sent by train to stay with his grandparents. On that ride an uncanny figure leads him back in time to the fourteenth century village of Dunfield, where Peter will take part in a mysterious play in which the actors become the characters they portray. Pet . . . [read more]
The Parnas Silvano Arieti Foreword by Rabbi Harold S. Kushner Trade Paper, 147 pp., $14.95 Quantity in Basket: None	View the curriculum guide here. View the cover image large. The Parnas recreates the final days of Giuseppe Pardo Roques, the lay leader, or parnas, of the Sephardic Jewish community of Pisa, Italy, who was killed in his home by the . . . [read more]
Philadelphia Architecture John Andrew Gallery Paper, 228 pp., $25.00 Quantity in Basket: None	This updated, comprehensive guide to Philadelphia's architecture will appeal to tourists and locals alike. "The architectural heritage of over 300 years is visible on every street in every section of the city: Philadelphia is quite literally a museum of American architecture. Its �collection� includes . . . virtually every important style found throughout the United States . . . [read more]
The Planning of Center City Philadelphia John Andrew Gallery Paperback Black & white maps, photographs, and illustrations throughout, 96 pp., $17.95 Quantity in Basket: None	When William Penn founded the colony of Pennsylvania in 1682, he created a visionary plan for its principal city, Philadelphia, and the immediate surrounding region. Over the past 325 years Penn's plan of the city has been modified by many individuals to reflect an evolving vision of a city both beautiful and practical. The Planning of Center City Philadelphia: From William Penn to . . . [read more]
Ransom for a Knight Barbara Leonie Picard Trade Paper, 318 pp., $14.95 Quantity in Basket: None	In 14th-century England, Alys de Renneville sits alone in the loft of her manor house mourning her father and brother who are thought to have been killed in battle in Scotland. Late one evening, a strange knight appears and tells Alys that her father and brother are alive and being held for ransom by the Scots. When no one believes her story, she sets off secretly to rescue them herself. . . . [read more]
The Republic Jacob Howland Trade Paper, 187 pp., $14.95 Quantity in Basket: None	In the Republic, Plato addresses the deepest questions about the human soul and human community, the proper objects of worship and reverence, the nature of philosophy, and the relationship between the philosopher and the political community. As presented in the Republic, Socratic philosophizing is eternally unfinished, paradoxical, and ambiguous. According to Jacob Howland, th . . . [read more]
Rocky Stories Michael Vitez Photographs by Tom Gralish Foreword by Sylvester Stallone Oversized Paperback, 129 pp. 100 full color photographs, $20.00 Quantity in Basket: None	Retail: $22.95. BACKLIST SALE PRICE $20.00 Pulitzer Prize-winners Michael Vitez and Tom Gralish of the Philadelphia Inquirer spent a year visiting the Philadelphia Museum of Art to capture the stories of "Rocky runners," who come from all over the world to run up America's most famous steps—just as Sylvester Stallone did in Rockyread more]
A Russian Schoolboy Sergei Aksakov Translated by J. D. Duff Trade Paper, 191, $11.95 Quantity in Basket: None	"The happiness of childhood is the Golden Age, and the recollection of it has power to move the old man's heart with pleasure and with pain. Happy the man who once possessed it and is able to recall the memory of it in later years!" Thus Sergei Aksakov recalls the "magic world" of youth, as he portrays the delights and tumults of Russian country life at the turn of t . . . [read more]
Sacred Sites of Center City John Andrew Gallery Photography by Tom Crane Paper, fold-out map, 51 color photographs, 28 pp., $9.95 Quantity in Basket: None	Center City Philadelphia contains a concentration and diversity of religious places unmatched by any other area of similar size in the country. Sacred Sites of Center City describes the history and architecture of these landmarks. The guide includes color photographs of each building and offers five walking tours that enable the visitor to experience the neighborhood environments in wh . . . [read more]
The Secret of Fame Gabriel Zaid Translated from the Spanish by Natasha Wimmer Hardcover, 182 pp., $14.95 Quantity in Basket: None	"Gabriel Zaid is a marvelously elegant and playful writer—a cosmopolitan critic with sound judgment and a light touch. He is a jewel of Latin American letters, which is no small thing to be. Read him—you�ll see." —Paul Berman In So Many B . . . [read more]
Seven Conversations with Jorge Luis Borges Fernando Sorrentino Translated from the Spanish by Clark M. Zlotchew Trade Paper, 196 pp., $16.95 Quantity in Basket: None	These wide-ranging conversations have an open and intimate tone, giving readers a uniquely personal glimpse of one of the most fascinating figures in contemporary world literature. Interviewer Fernando Sorrentino, an Argentinian writer and anthologist, displays literary acumen, sensitivity, urbanity, and an encyclopedic knowledge of Borges' work. (In his prologue, Borges jokes that So . . . [read more]
Shakespeare's Use of the Arts of Language Sister Miriam Joseph Now available in paperback Hardcover, 423 pp., $34.95 Quantity in Basket: None	Grammar-school students in Shakespeare's time were taught to recognize the two hundred figures of speech that Renaissance scholars had derived from Latin and Greek sources (from amphibologia through onomatopoeia to zeugma). This knowledge was one element in their thorough grounding in the liberal arts of logic, grammar, and rhetoric, known as the trivium. In Shakespeare's Use of the Arts of . . . [read more]
The Six-Cornered Snowflake Johannes Kepler Trade Paper, 150 pp., $12.00 Quantity in Basket: None	In 1611, the famous astronomer Johannes Kepler wrote The Six-Cornered Snowflake, which was the first scientific reference to snow crystals. Kepler wondered why snow crystals always exhibit a six-fold symmetry. It would be 300 years before Kepler's question could finally be answered, but in the process of failing to solve its mystery, The Six-Cornered Snowflake raises a remarkable . . . [read more]
So Many Books Gabriel Zaid Translated from the Spanish by Natasha Wimmer Trade Paper, 144 pp., $12.00 Quantity in Basket: None	"Reading liberates the reader and transports him from his book to a reading of himself and all of life. It leads him to participate in conversations, and in some cases to arrange them . . . It could even be said that to publish a book is to insert it into the middle of a conversation." —from So Many Books Join the conversation! In So Many Books, Gabriel . . . [read more]
Strange Relation Rachel Hadas Trade Paper, 250 pp., $16.95 Quantity in Basket: None	In 2004 Rachel Hadas's husband, George Edwards, a composer and professor of music at Columbia University, was diagnosed with early-onset dementia at the age of sixty-one. Neurodegenerative ailments are a murky matter; it isn't clear even now whether George was suffering from Alzheimer's disease or frontotemporal dementia. Nor is it possible to determine when the illness began its slow, insidiou . . . [read more]
Style: An Anti-Textbook Richard A. Lanham Trade Paper, 212 pp., $14.95 Quantity in Basket: None	Why do so many writing courses, with their earnest handbooks and narrow focus on "clarity," bore students and fail to teach them how to write well? Richard Lanham provides answers, and an antidote, in the seven witty and provocative chapters of Style: An Anti-Textbook. 1. THE PROSE PROBLEM AND "THE BOOKS" 2. THE USES OF OBSCURITY ¤ 3. THE OP . . . [read more]
The Tables of the Law Thomas Mann Newly translated from the German by Marion Faber and Stephen Lehmann. Afterword by Michael Wood. Trade Paper, 120 pp., $12.00 Quantity in Basket: None	"Beautiful . . . one of the best short novels he has written." —New York Times Book Review "Can rank with the best of Mann's writing" —Boston Globe * * * "His senses were hot, and so he yearned for spirituality, purity, and holiness—the invisible, which seemed to him spiritual, holy, and pure."read more]
The Telescope in the Parlor James McConkey Trade Paper, 196 pp., $10.00 Quantity in Basket: None	Retail: $14.95. BACKLIST SALE PRICE $10.00 In this collection of essays, James McConkey—novelist, professor, and memoirist—writes about the authors and experiences that have meant the most to him. In "Three Autobiographical Essays" and "A Story for a Child," McConkey poignantly recalls events of courting and family life that rema . . . [read more]
To a Distant Island James McConkey Introduction by Jay Parini Trade Paper, 203 pp., $10.00 Quantity in Basket: None	Retail: $14.95. BACKLIST SALE PRICE $10.00 In 1890 Anton Chekhov—thirty years old and already a famous writer—left his home and family in Moscow to travel 6,500 miles across Russia, over frozen land and sea, by train, ferry, and troika, to visit the island of Sakhalin, a penal colony off the coast of Siberia. What was Chekhov seeking by un . . . [read more]
The Tree of Life Hugh Nissenson Introduction by Margo Jefferson Trade Paper, 189 pp., $10.00 Quantity in Basket: None	Retail: $14.95. SALE PRICE $10.00 Nominated for The National Book Award and The Pen Faulkner Award Read Alan Berger's essay on Nissenson's work. From Margo Jefferson�s Introduction: "A beautifully paced book . . . [it] allows the shocks and resonanc . . . [read more]
The Trivium Sister Miriam Joseph Edited by Marguerite McGlinn Trade Paper, 292 pp., $18.95 Quantity in Basket: None	The Trivium guides the reader through a clarifying and rigorous account of logic, grammar, and rhetoric. A thorough presentation of general grammar, propositions, syllogisms, enthymemes, fallacies, poetics, figurative language, and metrical discourse — accompanied by lucid graphics and enlivened by examples from Shakespeare, Milton, Plato, and others — makes The Trivium . . . [read more]
Up in the Hills Lord Dunsany Afterword by Michael Grenke Trade Paper, 215, $14.95 Quantity in Basket: None	Up in the Hills "is too richly humorous, too full of wit, wisdom, gentle irony, salutary satire and the wonder which Spring offers to the welcoming eye to be read only by Dunsany's devotess."—New York Times [T]he hills stood for untameable things, things wild and no more to be checked by laws than the bright clouds that sparkled above them, and whose sha . . . [read more]
The Verb 'To Bird' Peter Cashwell Also available in hardcover Trade Paper, 273 pp., $16.95 Quantity in Basket: None	All around the world, birds are the subject of intense, even spiritual, fascination, but relatively few people see the word bird as a verb. Peter Cashwell is one who does, and with good reason: He birds (because he can't help it), and he teaches grammar (because he's paid to). An English teacher by profession and an avid birder by inner calling, Cashwell has written a whimsical and cri . . . [read more]
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John Keats

Introduction by Edward Hirsch

Francis Bacon

Introduction by Jerry Weinberger

William Zinsser

Masao Miyoshi

Foreword by Carol Gluck

Jaume Sanllorrente

Murray Browne

Nat Hentoff

Massimo Bontempelli

Illustrations by STOTranslated by Estelle Gilson

Mikhail N. Epstein

Translated from the Russian by Eve AdlerAlso available in hardcover

Walter de la Mare

Illustrated by Rex Whistler

Sten Nadolny

Foreword by Carl HonoréTranslated from the German by Ralph Freedman

Lillian Lieber

Introduction by Barry Mazur Illustrations by Hugh Gray Lieber

Lillian Lieber

Edited and with a Foreword by David Derbes and Robert Jantzen

Edited by Peter Kalkavage and Eric Salem

Also available in hardcover

Leon Sciaky

John Verdi

Eva Brann

Thomas McCormack

Kevin Andrews

John Stewart

Aldo Zargani

Translated from the Italian by Marina Harss

Julian Mazor

John Collier

Introduction by Eva Brann

Eva Brann

Eva Brann

Also available in hardcover

Stephen Lewis

Also available in hardcover

W. Stanley Moss

Eric Salem

Lillian Lieber

Introduction by Barry Mazur Illustrations by Hugh Gray Lieber

Stephan Wackwitz

Translated from the German by Stephen LehmannForeword by Wendy Lesser

Charles B. Strozier

Foreword by Geoffrey C. Ward

Selected and edited by Joseph EpsteinWood engravings by Barry MoserAlso available in hardcover.

Peter Kalkavage

Anne Crosby

Walter de la Mare

Foreword by Alison Lurie

John of Salisbury

William Zinsser

Foreword by Albert Murray

Eva Brann

Edited by Stephen Berg

John Keats

Illustrated by Grant Silverstein

Barbara Leonie Picard

Eva Brann

Brooke Allen

Ovid

Arthur Golding's translation of 1567Introduction by John Frederick Nims

Dennis Hamley

Silvano Arieti

Foreword by Rabbi Harold S. Kushner

John Andrew Gallery

John Andrew Gallery

Barbara Leonie Picard

Jacob Howland

Michael Vitez

Photographs by Tom GralishForeword by Sylvester Stallone

Sergei Aksakov

Translated by J. D. Duff

John Andrew Gallery

Photography by Tom Crane

Gabriel Zaid

Translated from the Spanish by Natasha Wimmer

Illustrations by STO
Translated by Estelle Gilson

Translated from the Russian by Eve Adler
Also available in hardcover

Foreword by Carl Honoré
Translated from the German by Ralph Freedman

Introduction by Barry Mazur
Illustrations by Hugh Gray Lieber

Introduction by Barry Mazur
Illustrations by Hugh Gray Lieber

Translated from the German by Stephen Lehmann
Foreword by Wendy Lesser

Selected and edited by Joseph Epstein
Wood engravings by Barry Moser
Also available in hardcover.

Arthur Golding's translation of 1567
Introduction by John Frederick Nims

Photographs by Tom Gralish
Foreword by Sylvester Stallone