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George Saunders
The extraordinary first novel by the bestselling, Folio Prize-winning, National Book Award-shortlisted George Saunders, about Abraham Lincoln and the death of his eleven year old son, Willie, at the dawn…
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a literary master class on what makes great stories work and what they can tell us about ourselves - and our world today.
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THE 2017 MAN BOOKER-SHORTLISTED AUTHOR OF LINCOLN IN THE BARDO In his first collection, George Saunders’ vision of our near future is as black and funny as you can get…
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A collection of stories which includes Home, a wryly whimsical account of a soldier’s return from war; Victory lap, a tale about an inventive abduction attempt, and the title story…
In the same vein as his much-loved weekly column for the Guardian Magazine, this is a hilarious and incisive collection of essays from George Saunders.
A couple live and work in a caveman theme-park, where speaking is an instantly punishable offence. A born loser attends a self-help seminar where he is encouraged to rid himself…
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The first short story collection in ten years from the Man Booker Prize-winning, New York Times-bestselling author of Lincoln in the Bardo
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‘Here’s something I know to be true, although it’s a little corny, and I don’t quite know what to do with it: What I regret most in my life are…
A call-and-response between Lutz's photography of labor conditions in America and Saunders' writings
In Orange Blossom Trail, American writer George Saunders (born 1958) and American photographer Joshua Lutz (born 1975)…
Besides being one of America’s most celebrated living authors, George Saunders is also an excellent interview subject. In the fourteen interviews included in this volume, covering nearly twenty years of…
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Grace Paley
Regarded as one of the finest American short story writers and admired by George Saunders, Susan Sontag and Salman Rushdie, this volume presents Paley’s collected works. Published as part of…
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
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The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the…
Charles Holdefer
Award-winning author Charles Holdefer writes about George Saunders’ seminal, futuristic short story collection about capitalism run amok.
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This timely volume explores the signal contribution George Saunders has made to the development of the short story form in books ranging from CivilWarLand in Bad Decline (1996) to Tenth…
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Booker Prize winner George Saunders returns with a collection of short stories that grapple with the complexities of our increasingly troubled world, his first since the New York Times bestseller…
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MacArthur genius and Booker Prize-winner George Saunders returns…
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""Builder and Blunderer: A Study of Emperor William's Character and Foreign Policy"" is a historical book written by George Saunders in 1914. The book aims to analyze the character and…
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing’s Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because…
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The stories in this work were originally published in Harper’s Magazine, McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern, The New Yorker, and Story Magazine –Title page verso.
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Accounts by veterans of the struggle in the 1920s and early 1930s to continue Lenin’s revolutionary course, and by leaders of the opposition movement of the 1970s.
This new collection of stories - his best work yet - comes from the acclaimed and mind-bendingly hilarious George Saunders.
One of our most inventive purveyors of the form returns with pitch-perfect, genre-bending stories that stare into the abyss of our national character… . An exquisite work from a writer…
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * "One of our most inventive purveyors of the form returns with pitch-perfect, genre-bending stories that stare into the abyss of our national character…
Saunderss first foray into nonfiction is comprised of essays on literature, travel, and politics. At the core of this unique collection are his travel essays based on his trips to…
By the highly acclaimed cult author of Pastoralia comes a novella and short-story collection
This new collection of stories–his best work yet–comes from the acclaimed and mind-bendingly hilarious George Saunders.
The “devastatingly moving” (People) first novel from the author of Tenth of December: a moving and original father-son story featuring none other than Abraham Lincoln, as well as an unforgettable…
Saunders surpasses his New York Times Notable Book, CivilWarLand in Bad Decline , with this bestselling collection of stories set against a warped, hilarious, and terrifyingly recognizable American landscape.
An utterly different kind of novel from the beloved author of Pastoralia and CivilWarLand in Bad Decline.
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * This inspiring meditation on kindness from the author of Lincoln in the Bardo is based on his popular commencement address.
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Paired with stories by Chekhov, Turgenev, Tolstoy, and Gogol, these essays are intended for anyone interested in how fiction works and why it’s more relevant than ever in these turbulent…
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Tenth of December by George Saunders: Conversation Starters
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EVERY GOOD BOOK CONTAINS A WORLD FAR DEEPER than the surface of its pages. The characters and their…
