W. W. Norton

Classic Feynman: All the Adventures of a Curious Character

An omnibus edition celebrating a great scientific mind and a legendary American original including a live recording. Richard Feynman (1918-1988) thrived on outrageous adventures. In the phenomenal national bestsellers “Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman!” and “What Do You Care What Other People Think?” the Nobel Prize-winning physicist recounted in an inimitable voice his adventures trading ideas on atomic …

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Fight Club: A Novel

The first rule about fight club is you don’t talk about fight club.In his debut novel, Chuck Palahniuk showed himself to be his generation’s most visionary satirist. Fight Club’s estranged narrator leaves his lackluster job when he comes under the thrall of Tyler Durden, an enigmatic young man who holds secret boxing matches in the basement of bars. …

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Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare

“Greenblatt knows more about [Shakespeare] than Ben Jonson or the Dark Lady did.”―John Leonard, ?Harper’s A young man from a small provincial town moves to London in the late 1580s and, in a remarkably short time, becomes the greatest playwright not of his age alone but of all time. How is an achievement of this magnitude to be …

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