The extraordinary writings of Phillis Wheatley, a slave girl turned published poet In 1761, a young girl arrived in Boston on a slave ship, sold to the Wheatley family, and given the...
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"[Sigrid Undset] should be the next Elena Ferrante. " --Slate A Penguin Classic Kristin Lavransdatter interweaves political, social, and religious history with the daily aspects of...
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The Nobel Prize-winning Egyptian writer Naguib Mahfouz refashions the classic tales of Scheherazade into a novel written in his own imaginative, spellbinding style. Here are genies...
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From one of the most brilliant writers and thinkers of the twentieth century comes a collection of "passionate, probing, controversial" essays (The Atlantic) on topics ranging from...
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A strikingly original collection of short stories and accompanying vignettes that marked Ernest Hemingway's American debut. When In Our Time was first published in 1925, it was widely...
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In this simultaneously hilarious and poignant companion volume to The Wapshot Chronicle, the members of the Wapshot family of St. Botolphs drift far from their New England village into...
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#26 on The Guardian's list of 100 best nonfiction books of all time, the essays explore what it means to be Black in America In an age of Black Lives Matter, James Baldwin's essays...
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With magnificent language, Virginia Woolf explores the ways that illness transforms our perceptionsThis new publication of On Being Ill with Notes from Sick Rooms presents Virginia...
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The October Country is Ray Bradbury's own netherworld of the soul, inhabited by the horrors and demons that lurk within all of us. Renowned for his multi-million-copy bestseller, Fahrenheit...
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75th Anniversary Edition--Includes a New Introduction by Téa Obreht George Orwell's timeless and timely allegorical novel--a scathing satire on a downtrodden society's blind march towards...
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From one of the most highly acclaimed novelists of the twentieth century: a truly remarkable book" (The New York Times), an epic story of a life lived simply in the silence of the southwestern...
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A lyrical and bittersweet novel of a middle-aged man losing control of his life that's a brilliant study in emotional dislocation and renewal--from one of the most highly acclaimed...
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Willa Cather's novel of seventeenth-century Quebec is a luminous evocation of North American origins, and of the men and women who struggled to adapt to a new world even as they clung...
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This volume brings together three of Nobel Prize winner Samuel Beckett's major short stories and thirteen shorter pieces of fiction that he calls "texts for nothing. " Here, as in all...
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Literary Nonfiction. Essays. Winner of the 2015 Essay Collection Competition, Selected by Wayne Koestenbaum. Rarely have I come across tenderness, venom, and fire held so intimately,...
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The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sympathizer, Viet Thanh Nguyen, called on 17 fellow refugee writers from across the globe to shed light on their experiences, and the result...
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National Book Award Longlist Winner of the Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction Winner of the Foreword INDIE Editor's Choice Prize for Nonfiction "Rebecca Solnit is essential feminist reading...
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p The quintessential novel of the Lost Generation, The Sun Also Rises (Fiesta) is one of Ernest Hem...
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p As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning, fromrestless dreams he found himself recast in hisbed into a g...
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p strong It's 1516 and Scotland and England are teetering on the brink of yet another war. /strong...
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p This collection includes five fiction and eight non-fiction works, of varied length: flash fictio...
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Collected together here in "Candide and Other Stories" we have a collection of philosophical fiction by 18th century French author Voltaire. In the author's best known work, "Candide",...
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A motley assortment of characters seek peace and salvation in this early masterpiece by the Booker Prize-winning author of The Sea, The Sea A lay community of thoroughly mixed-up people...
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Speculative essays that probe the mythology of the face by the author of The Old Drift...
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First published in 1911, Ethan Frome is widely regarded as Edith Wharton's most revealing novel and her finest achievement in fiction. Set in the bleak, barren winter landscape of New...
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