The Book Company: New Products - Literary

The Unquiet Grave (A Word Cycle by Palinurus)

Sun, 31 Jul 2016 07:08:57 +0000

Cyril Connolly (1903-1974) was one of the most influential book reviewers and critics in England, contributing regularly to The New Statesmen, The Observer, and The Sunday Times. His essays have been collected in book form and published to wide acclaim on both sides of the Atlantic. The Unquiet Gr..

Price: $14.95

Travels in Vermeer (A Memoir)

Sat, 30 Jul 2016 23:45:36 +0000

A lyrical and intimate account of how a poet, in the midst of a bad divorce, finds consolation and grace through viewing the paintings of Vermeer, in six world cities. In the midst of a divorce (in which the custody of his young daughter is at stake) and over the course of a year, the poet Michael..

Price: $17.95

Nâzim Hikmet (The Life and Times of Turkey's World Poet)

Sat, 30 Jul 2016 22:43:45 +0000

Nâzim Hikmet (1902–1963), Turkey’s best-loved poet and a commanding presence in its public life, lived through a turbulent era—the end of the Ottoman Empire, the rise of Communist Russia, and the birth of the Turkish Republic. Born into the Ottoman elite, Hikmet embraced Communist ideals and joine..

Price: $27.95

Charles Dickens (His Journals)

Sat, 30 Jul 2016 21:14:21 +0000

Adapted from the collected writing of Charles Dickens, this new book paints a portrait of the celebrated writer as he might have been in his youth, offering a glimpse of his early experiences and the quick wits that helped him survive. For readers unfamiliar with the author's work, this is a remar..

Price: $24.95

Red Ribbon on a White Horse (My Story)

Sat, 30 Jul 2016 19:02:18 +0000

Here is Anzia Yezierska's life story, from the Polish ghetto to the sweatshops of New York's Lower East Side, from success as a writer in Hollywood in the 1920s to disillusionment and a return to poverty. With courage and emotion, Yezierska reveals what success and failure felt like and what they ..

Price: $11.95

My Life as a Russian Novel (A Memoir)

Mon, 25 Jul 2016 17:21:13 +0000

An unsparingly truthful account of love, betrayal, and the traps we set for ourselves, by France's master of psychological suspense

In work after work, the critically acclaimed author Emmanuel Carrère has trained his unblinking gaze on the lives of others as they fight a losin..

Price: $25.00

My Father's Fortune (A Life)

Mon, 25 Jul 2016 17:10:02 +0000

For the first time, Michael Frayn, the "master of what is seriously funny,"* turns his humor and narrative genius on his own family's story, to re-create the world that made him who he is

Whether he is deliriously funny or philosophically profound, as a novelist and a playwright M..

Price: $25.00