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The Great Gatsby (Wisehouse Classics Edition)
F. Scott Fitzgerald - -
THE GREAT GATSBY is a 1925 novel written by American author F. Scott Fitzgerald that follows a cast of characters living in the fictional town of West Egg on prosperous Long Island in the summer of 1922. The story primarily concerns the young and mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby and his quixotic passion and ...
The Blind Owl (Authorized by The Sadegh Hedayat Foundation - First Translation into English Based on the Bombay Edition)
Sadegh Hedayat - -
Widely regarded as Sadegh Hedayat's masterpiece, the Blind Owl is the most important work of literature to come out of Iran in the past century. On the surface this work seems to be a tale of doomed love, but with the turning of each page basic ...
Self-Portrait in Bloom
Niloufar Talebi - -
In the aftermath of World War II, “a new dynamism” was taking shape in Persian poetry. Award-winning translator Niloufar Talebi explains how Iranian poets were increasingly instrumental in “freeing Persian poetry from the state of decline and stagnation.” Into this backdrop emerges the poet Ahmad Shamlou in this part-memoir, part-biography, ...
The Big Book of In-Your-Face Gay Etiquette
Daniel Curzon - -
In some places it is the best of times to be gay. In other places it is the worst. If you have chosen to be gay - and why wouldn't you? - remember to 1) be proud, but watch your back at all times, and 2) to be good, except when you shouldn't. This is the 3rd and completely updated 21st Century Edition of the classic, ...
