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This American underground classic is a rollicking cosmic mystery featuring Albert Einstein and James Joyce as the ultimate space/time detectives. One fateful evening in a suitably dark, beer-soaked Swiss rathskeller, a wild and obscure Irishman named James Joyce would become the drinking partner of an unknown physics professor called Albert Einstein. And on that same momentous night, Sir John Babcock, a terror-stricken young Englishman, would rush through the tavern door bringing a mystery that only the two most brilliant minds of the century could solve . . . or perhaps bringing only a figment of his imagination born of the paranoia of our times. An outrageous, raunchy ride through the twists and turns of mind and space, Masks of the Illuminati runs amok with all our fondest conspiracy theories to show us the truth behind the laughter . . . and the laughter in the truth. Praise for Masks of the Illuminati “I was astonished and delighted . . . Robert Anton Wilson managed to reverse every mental polarity in me, as if I had been pulled through infinity.”—Philip K. Dick “[Wilson is] erudite, witty, and genuinely scary.”—Publishers Weekly   “A dazzling barker hawking tickets to the most thrilling tilt-a-whirls and daring loop-o-planes on the midway to a higher consciousness.”—Tom Robbins “Wilson is one of the most profound, important, scientific philosophers of this century—scholarly, witty, hip, and hopeful.”—Timothy Leary

"A thoughtful, intricate, ambivalent novel with the reach of greatness in it." —John Updike"It is impossible to do justice here to the subtleties, comedy, and wisdom of this very beautiful novel. Milan Kundera is an artist, clearly one of the best to be found anywhere, who says that the good (and evil) that issues from men's souls matters much more than the deeds of a State. And he says it with passion, with good humor, and with love." —Salman RushdieAll too often, this brilliant novel of thwarted love and revenge miscarried has been read for its political implications. Now, more than a quarter century after The Joke was first published and several years after the collapse of the Soviet-imposed Czechoslovak regime, it becomes easier to put such implications into perspective in favor of valuing the book (and all Milan Kundera 's work) as what it truly is: great, stirring literature that sheds new light on the eternal themes of human existence.This edition provides English-language readers an important further means toward revaluation of The Joke. For reasons he describes in his Author's Note, Milan Kundera devoted much time to creating a completely revised translation that reflects his original as closely as any translation possibly can: reflects it in its fidelity not only to the words and syntax but also to the characteristic dictions and tonalities of the novel's narrators. The result is nothing less than the restoration of a classic.

“A free-wheeling vehicle . . . an unforgettable ride!”—The New York TimesCat’s Cradle is Kurt Vonnegut’s satirical commentary on modern man and his madness. An apocalyptic tale of this planet’s ultimate fate, it features a midget as the protagonist, a complete, original theology created by a calypso singer, and a vision of the future that is at once blackly fatalistic and hilariously funny. A book that left an indelible mark on an entire generation of readers, Cat’s Cradle is one of the twentieth century’s most important works—and Vonnegut at his very best.“[Vonnegut is] an unimitative and inimitable social satirist.”—Harper’s Magazine“Our finest black-humorist . . . We laugh in self-defense.”—Atlantic Monthly

This remarkable book by one of the great writers of the twentieth century includes essays on a proposed universal language, a justification of suicide, a refutation of time, the nature of dreams, and the intricacies of linguistic forms. Borges comments on such literary figures as Pascal, Coleridge, Cervantes, Hawthorne, Whitman, Valéry, Wilde, Shaw, and Kafka. With extraordinary grace and erudition, he ranges in time, place, and subject from Omar Khayyam to Joseph Conrad, from ancient China to modern England, from world revolution to contemporary slang.

Presents an illustrated tale, told in various books and folded sheets, about the residents in a three-story Chicago apartment building, including a lonely single woman, a couple who are growing to despise each other, and an elderly landlady.

Self-destruction and human suffering are the central themes in this novel about man and war

The second in a two volume collection of short stories by the acclaimed author of 'Empire of the Sun', 'Crash' and 'Super-Cannes'. The new edition is introduced by Adam Thirwell. With eighteen novels over four decades - from 'The Drowned World' in 1962 to his final novel 'Kingdom Come' in 2006 - J.G. Ballard is known as one of Britain's most celebrated and original novelists. However, during his long career he was also a prolific writer of short stories; in fact, many people consider that he is at his best in the short-story format. These highly influential stories have appeared in magazines such as New Worlds, Amazing Stories and Interzone, and in several separate collections, including 'The Terminal Beach', 'The Venus Hunters', 'Vermilion Sands', 'Low-Flying Aircraft' and 'Myths of the Near Future'. Set out in the original order of publication and frequently the point of conception for ideas he further developed in his novels, these stories provide an unprecedented opportunity to see the imagination of one of Britain's greatest writers at work. This edition is part of a new commemorative series of Ballard's works, featuring introductions from a number of his admirers (including Robert Macfarlane, Iain Sinclair, James Lever and Ali Smith) and brand-new cover designs from the artist Stanley Donwood.

“Dorsey’s brilliantly, profanely funny 11th novel…zips along like P.G. Wodehouse’s best work.” —Richmond Times-Dispatch Tim Dorsey’s outrageously zany, gleefully violent, and uproariously funny Nuclear Jellyfish marks the triumphant return of lovable, thrill-killing Florida historian and tireless civic booster Serge A. Storms. The bestselling author of Atomic Lobster, Triggerfish Twist, and Florida Roadkill, Dorsey can match Carl Hiaasen punch-for-punch when it comes to fictionally depicting Sunshine State madness—and he’s taken his rightful place alongside Christopher Moore in the pantheon of top American humorists. Nuclear Jellyfish is a veritable WMD of radioactive hilarity—as Denver’s Rocky Mountain News so aptly puts it, “It doesn’t get any better.”

List of titles included in this boxed set are- Africa's Tarnished Nameby Chinua Achebe An Advertisement for Toothpasteby Ryszard Kapuscinski Create Dangerouslyby Albert Camus Dark Daysby James Baldwin Daydream and Drunkenness of a Young Ladyby Clarice Lispector Death the Barberby William Carlos Williams Fameby Andy Warhol Foodby Gertrude Stein Four Russian Short Storiesby Various Glittering Cityby Cyprian Ekwensi I Have More Souls Than Oneby Fernando Pessoa Investigations of a Dogby Franz Kafka Lanceby Vladimir Nabokov Leaving the Yellow Houseby Saul Bellow Letter from Birmingham Jailby Martin Luther King Letter to My Motherby Georges Simenon Madame du Deffand and the Idiotsby Javier Marias New York City in 1979by Kathy Acker Notes on Campby Susan Sontag Notes on Nationalismby George Orwell Of Dogs and Wallsby Yuko Tsushima Piers of the HomelessNight by Jack Kerouac Television Was a Baby Crawling Toward That Deathchamberby Allen Ginsberg The Black Ballby Ralph Ellison TheBreakthroughby Daphne Du Maurier The Cracked Looking-Glassby Katherine Anne Porter The Custard Heartby Dorothy Parker The Dialogue of Two Snailsby Federico Garcia Lorca The Distance of theMoonby Italo Calvino The Duke in His Domainby Truman Capote TheEndby Samuel Beckett The Fingerby William S. Burroughs The Garden of Forking Pathsby Jorge Luis Borges The Gigoloby Francoise Sagan The Great Hungerby Patrick Kavanagh The Haunted Boyby Carson McCullers The Legend of the Sleepersby Danilo Kis The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's Houseby Audre Lorde The Missing Girlby Shirley Jackson The Problem that Has No Nameby Betty Friedan The Red Tenda of Bolognaby John Berger The Skeleton's Holidayby Leonora Carrington The Survivorby Primo Levi The Three Electroknightsby Stanislaw Lem The Veiled Womanby Anais Nin The Vigilanteby John Steinbeck Three Japanese Short Storiesby Various Till September Petronellaby Jean Rhys Why Do You Wear a Cheap Watch?by Hans Fallada Why I Am Not Going to Buy a Computerby Wendell Berry