The masterpiece of travel writing that revolutionized the genre and made its author famous overnight An exhilarating look at a place that still retains the exotic mystery of a far-off,...
Kate Chopin's groundbreaking depiction of a woman who dares to defy the expectations of society in the pursuit of her desireWhen The Awakening was first published in 1899, charges of...
William H. Gass has written of Donald Barthelme that "he has permanently enlarged our perception of the possibilities open to short fiction. " In Forty Stories, the companion volume...
Full of philosophical puzzles and supernatural surprises, these stories contain some of Borges's most fully realized human characters. With uncanny insight he takes us inside the minds...
J. M. Barrie's classic tale of the "boy who would not grow up" Peter Pan originally appeared as a baby living a magical life among birds and fairies in J. M. Barrie's sequence of stories,...
The first volume of one of the greatest novels of the twentieth century, in Lydia Davis's award-winning translation Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time is one of the most entertaining...
"Hale knew, before he had been in Brighton three hours, that they meant to murder him... " Graham Greene's chilling exposé of violence and gang warfare in the pre-war underworld is...
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction - A New York Times bestseller "The CIA itself would be hard put to beat his grasp of global events ... Deeply satisfying. " --The New York...
"Anyone who enjoys novels that are scary, erotic, touching, tragic and thrilling should rush right out to the nearest bookstore and pick up The Shadow of the Wind. Really, you should...
Just when the clamor over "traditional" marriage couldn't get any louder, along comes this groundbreaking book to ask, "What tradition?" In Marriage, a History, historian and marriage...
A transcendent tale of a woman's self-discovery--the New York Times-bestselling second work of fiction by the author of The Secret Life of Bees and The Book of Longings Inside the church...
A #1 New York Times bestseller by Kim Edwards, The Memory Keeper's Daughter is a brilliantly crafted novel of parallel lives, familial secrets, and the redemptive power of love Kim...
"An intriguing amalgam of personal memoir, philosophical speculation, natural lore, cultural history, and art criticism. " --Los Angeles Times From the award-winning author of Orwell's...
Winner of the 2006 Orange Prize for fiction, another bestselling masterwork from the celebrated author of Swing Time and White Teeth "In this sharp, engaging satire, beauty's only skin-deep,...
Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize - Winner of the Council on Foreign Relations Arthur Ross Book Award - One of the New York Times' Ten Best Books of the Year "Impressive ... Mr. Judt...
"Remarkable... mesmerizing... compelling... An entire world unfolds in Tolstoyan tide of event and detail... Give yourself over to the world Ms. Tan creates for you. " --The New York...
"Outstanding ... The most accessible distillation of that conflict yet written. " --The Boston Globe "Energetically written and lucid, it makes an ideal introduction to the subject...
The New York Times bestseller - a "crystal-clear, constantly engaging" (Jared Diamond) exploration of the role that religious belief plays in our lives and our interactions For all...
The second volume of In Search of Lost Time, one of the greatest novels of the twentieth century James Grieve's acclaimed new translation of In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower will...
"[Sigrid Undset] should be the next Elena Ferrante. " --Slate The turbulent historical masterpiece of Norway's literary master A Penguin Classic In her great historical epic Kristin...
"The definitive African book of the twentieth century" (Moses Isegawa, from the Introduction) by the Nobel Prize-nominated Kenyan writer The puzzling murder of three African directors...
The fourth volume of one of the greatest novels of the twentieth century John Sturrock's acclaimed new translation of Sodom and Gomorrah will introduce a new generation of American...
A firsthand account of Scott's disastrous Antarctic expedition The Worst Journey in the World recounts Robert Falcon Scott's ill-fated expedition to the South Pole. Apsley Cherry-Garrard--the...
*Includes "The Little Mermaid, " now a major motion picture from Disney starring Halle Bailey and directed by Rob Marshall* The famous tales of Hans Christian Andersen--some of the...
A riveting novel of labor strife and apocalyptic violence, now a major motion picture starring James Franco, Bryan Cranston, Selena Gomez, and Zach Braff A Penguin Classic At once a...
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