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The Great Man
Published: 2008-05-13
Paperback: 320 pages
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Winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction Oscar Feldman, the renowned figurative painter, has passed away. As his obituary notes, Oscar is survived by his wife, Abigail, their son, Ethan, and his sister, the well-known abstract painter Maxine Feldman. What the obituary does not note, ...
The Great Man: A Novel
Published: 2007-08-14
Hardcover: 320 pages
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From the acclaimed author of The Epicure's Lament, a novel of literary rivalry in which two competing biographers collide in their quest for the truth about a great artist.Oscar Feldman, the "Great Man," was a New York city painter of the heroic generation of the forties and fifties. But i...
The Great Medieval Heretics: Five Centuries of Religious Dissent
Published: 2008-06-01
Hardcover: 256 pages
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Great Mortality
Published: 2005-02-21
Hardcover: 384 pages
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A compelling and harrowing history of the Black Death's apocalyptic sweep through Europe in the mid-14th century, from its arrival in Sicily to its devastation of medieval Britain. 'The bodies were sparsely covered that the dogs dragged them forth and devoured them! And believing it to be the end of...
The Great Mortality : An Intimate History of the Black Death, the Most Devastating Plague of All Time
Published: 2005-02-01
Hardcover: 384 pages
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In October 1347, at about the start of the month, twelve Genoese galleys put in to the port of Messina [Italy]. So begins, in almost fairy-tale fashion, a contemporary account of the worst natural disaster in European history -- what we call the Black Death, and what the generation who liv...
The Great Mortality: An Intimate History of the Black Death, the Most Devastating Plague of All Time (P.S.)
Published: 2006-01-31
Paperback: 364 pages
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La moria grandissima began its terrible journey across the European and Asian continents in 1347, leaving unimaginable devastation in its wake. Five years later, twenty-five million people were dead, felled by the scourge that would come to be called the Black Death. The Great Mortality i...
Great Negotiations: Agreements that Changed the Modern World
Published: 2010-04-15
Hardcover: 304 pages
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"In a time when negotiations, both great and small, continue to shape our world, this book provides an excellent opportunity to learn from the past and understand the present."--Kofi Annan, Nobel Peace Prize Winner and former Secretary General of the United States "A thought-provoking, ...
Great Pretender
Published: 1991-01
Paperback: 199 pages
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The Great Pretender
Published: 2002-09
Paperback: 316 pages
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ONE MAN… TWO LIVES… For over six years, Reginald Brooks has managed to pull it off. Having two families, leading two lives. Now, the pretending must stop. But how? THE GREAT PRETENDER…an electrifying tale of how one man tries to untangle his life, setting a full-fled...
The Great Railway Bazaar
Published: 2006-06-01
Paperback: 352 pages
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First published more than thirty years ago, Paul Theroux's strange, unique, and hugely entertaining railway odyssey has become a modern classic of travel literature. Here Theroux recounts his early adventures on an unusual grand continental tour. Asia's fabled trains -- the Orient Express,...
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