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or, Sketches from the Life of a Free BlackWith a New Preface, Introduction, and Notes by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.New Afterword by Barbara WhiteA fascinating fusion of two literary models of the nineteenth century, the sentimental novel and the slave narrative, Our Nig, apart from its historical significance, is a deeply ironic and highly readable...

Latin America NowAn extraordinarily vivid, unflinching series of portraits of South America today, written from the inside out, by the award-winning New Yorker journalist and widely admired author of Samba.From the Trade Paperback edition....

A new selection for the NEA's Big Read program A compact selection of Poe's greatest stories and poems, chosen by the National Endowment for the Arts for their Big Read program. This selection of eleven stories and seven poems contains such famously chilling masterpieces of the storyteller's art as ';The Tell-tale Heart,' ';The Fall of the House of...

A Novel of the Snopes FamilyThis is the second volume of Faulkner's trilogy about the Snopes family, his symbol for the grasping, destructive element in the post-bellum South. Like its predecessor The Hamlet, and its successor The Mansion, The Town is completely self-contained, but it gains resonance from being read with the other two. The...

The Hunting StoriesThe Bear, The Old People, A Bear Hunt, Race at Morning--some of Nobel Prize-winning author William Faulkner's most famous stories are collected in this volume--in which he observed, celebrated, and mourned the fragile otherness that is nature, as well as the cruelty and humanity of men. Contains some of Faulkner's best work.From...

From the O. Henry Awardwinning author of the story collection The Bostonsa New York Times Notable Book, Los Angeles Times Book of the Year and winner of the PEN/Robert Bingham Fellowship for Writersan exquisite first novel set at a disintegrating New England prep school.Its 1968. The prestigious but cash-strapped Goode School in the town of Cape...