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Travels Without My Aunt
Description not available.Infused with humor and political insight, a riveting travel memoir details the author's experiences as she follows in the footsteps of Graham Greene, who, intrigued by depravity and unpredictability and terrified by the thought of family life, traveled to some of the most perilous and uncared for parts of the world, where he found himself immersed in dark times, from Argentina at war to Cuba on the verge of the revolution. Reprint.
PUBLISHER: St. Martin's Press, LLC
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Fiction

The Selected Poems of Wendell Berry by Wendell Berry
The 100 poems in this volume represent the best of Berry's work, and focus mainly on nature as Berry has observed it in his 35 years of writing.

AUTHOR: Wendell Berry
PUBLISHER: Basic Books
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Fiction

Ben-Hur (Tale of Christ) by Lew Wallace
Wallace`s 1880 blockbuster follows the fortunes of Judah Ben-Hur, who lived in the time of Jesus. Made into a famous film, BEN-HUR is an inspirational tale that manages to also be a gripping adventure.

AUTHOR: Lew Wallace
PUBLISHER: N A L
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Fiction

Fox by Adrienne Rich
Two long poems, Veteran`s Day and Terza Rima, join several others, along with the title poem, in this volume of work produced in the last breaths of the 20th century by a poet who helped establish the bounds of poetry during the second half of it. Here she further elucidates the themes of her career--history, the roles of art, the nature of gender, and the multifaceted meanings of humanity.

AUTHOR: Adrienne Rich
PUBLISHER: Norton, W. W. & Company, Incorporated
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Fiction

The Cider House Rules by Grover Gardner, John Irving
Wilbur Larch is an abortionist at St. Cloud`s orphanage who, in addition to doing his job humanely and conscientiously, struggles with his relationship with his apprentice and adopted son, Homer Wells. The debate over abortion is an important aspect of this novel, in which both sides are presented with sympathy.

AUTHOR: Grover Gardner, John Irving
PUBLISHER: Random House, Incorporated
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Fiction

Novels, 1886-1890 by Daniel M. Fogel, Henry James
The orphaned Hyacinth Robinson, in THE PRINCESS CASAMASSIMA, is raised by a spinster, Mrs. Pynset, in lower-class London. Inspired by the anarchist movement, Robinson pledges his life to the cause. When he meets the Princess Casamassima, separated from her wealthy Italian husband, he sees in her a kindred spirit, one whose proud artistic and aristocratic temperament is accompanied by a profound sympathy for the downtrodden. The satiric short novel THE REVERBERATOR is about a brash American journalist named George M. Flack, an ingenue named Francine Dosson, and the Parisian society that surrounds them. Based on two newspaper scandals of 1887, it is one of James's most comic and lighthearted works. THE TRAGIC MUSE is about two people who risk everything for art: a successful politician who gives up politics for painting, and a woman who chooses acting over marriage. Essentially about the failure that so often is part of an artist's personal life, it was neither a critical nor a popular success.

AUTHOR: Daniel M. Fogel, Henry James
PUBLISHER: Library of America, The
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Fiction