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Vineland (Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin)
Thomas Pynchon
Tristes Tropiques
John Weightman, Doreen Weightman, Patrick Wilcken, Claude Lévi-Strauss
Richard III
William Shakespeare
The Dwarf
Alexandra Dick, Pär Lagerkvist
The Collected Poems of Wilfred Owen
Wilfred Owen, Cecil Day-Lewis
Labyrinths
Richard Wolin
Giotto to Dürer: Early Renaissance Painting in the National Gallery
Jill Dunkerton, Susan Foister, Dillian Gordon, Nicholas Penny
Michel Foucault: Beyond Structuralism and Hermeneutics
Hubert L. Dreyfus, Paul Rabinow
Gravity's Rainbow
Thomas Pynchon
A Gravity's Rainbow Companion: Sources and Contexts for Pynchon's Novel
Steven Weisenburger
Scribes and Scholars: A Guide to the Transmission of Greek and Latin Literature - L.D. Reynolds This is THE book to read on the problem of the transmission of antiquity -- it is written for the educated layman, yet is a book of scholarly authority. If one gets interested in the subject, the next thing is to find a copy of Lemerle's Byzantine Humanism -- published in French, but translated into (and publ. in) English by the Aussies --. The other thing to read is vol I of Pfeiffer's History of Classical Scholarship, which is a bit denser than Reynolds, however. (Vol. II was never written, and vol. III is not nearly as meaty).