The modern Italian classic discovered and championed by James Joyce, "Zeno's Conscience" is a marvel of psychological insight, published here in a fine new translation by William Weaver-the first in more than seventy years. Italo Svevo's masterpiece tells the story of a hapless, doubting, guilt-ridd[...]
Responding to his therapist's suggestion that he use writing as therapy, Zeno chronicles his own long struggle with quitting smoking. Originally published as The Confessions of Zeno in 1923. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.[...]
Elizabeth Hardwick's elegant and wise novel, narrated by a woman piecing her life together from scraps, is one that delights in startling juxtapositions and the music of the American language.[...]
The novelist and essayist Elizabeth Hardwick is one of contemporary America's most brilliant writers, and Seduction and Betrayal, in which she considers the careers of women writers as well as the larger question of the presence of women in literature, is her most passionate and concentrated work of[...]