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What's a strong, independent-minded woman supposed to do in a world of insipid dating guides? Witty feminist and academic Sinéad Murphy responds by asking: Who has more time-tested secrets than Jane Austen, whose novels continue to captivate us—read after read—almost two hundred years later?Whether you can recite paragraphs from Pride and Prejudice...

A Novel of the Iran-Iraq War';Dowlatabadi draws a detailed, realist picture of Iranian life ... in language that is complex and lyrical.' The Financial TimesIn the midst of the IranIraq War, an Iraqi journalist is given a tour of a military prison. The Major in charge of the camp informs the writer of what is expected: he is to write a...

He asked himself what is a woman standing on the stairs in the shadow, listening to distant music, a symbol of.Often cited as the best work of short fiction ever written, Joyce's elegant story details a New Year's Eve gathering in Dublin that is so evocative and beautiful that it prompts the protagonist's wife to make...

A NovelHilda Hilst (19302004) was one of the greatest Brazilian writers of the twentieth century, but her books have languished untranslated, in part because of their formally radical nature. This translation of With My Dog-Eyes brings a crucial work from her oeuvre into English for the first time. With My Dog-Eyes is an account of an unravelingof...

';He has an evening suit, but never an occasion to wear it, so he puts it on when he paints his pictures.'Insel, the only novel by the surrealist master Mina Loy, is a book like no otherabout an impossible friendship amid the glamorous artistic bohemia of 1930s Paris.German painter Insel is a perpetual sponger and outsiderprone to writing...

A NovelHailed by his famous contemporaries including Edith Wharton, H.G. Wells, Katherine Mansfield, Graham Greene, and Evelyn Waugh, who called him a "e;genius,"e; William Gerhardi is one of the twentieth century's forgotten masters, and his lovely comedy Futility one of the century's neglected masterpieces. It tells the story of...