We are such volatile creatures that we finally feel the sentiments we feign. First published in 1816, Adolphe is the story of a young man with all the privileges and advantages of a noble birth, bt
Set mostly in Manhattan - although also featuring Atlantic City, Brooklyn, GMail Chat, and Gainsville, Florida - this autobiographical novella, spanning two years in the life of a young writer with a
But my father, my beloved and most wretched father... Would he never overcome the fierce passion that now held pitiless dominion over him?With its shocking theme of father-daughter incest, Mary Shell
While still concerned with the depiction of the underside of Parisian life, as is most of Balzac's oeuvre, The Girl with the Golden Eyes considers not the working lives of the poor, but the sex lives
The Aeronauts is the true story behind the forthcoming Major Motion Picture of the death-defying adventures of pioneering Victorian balloonist and scientist James GlaisherIn 1862, ambitious scientist
A completely original guide to the screenwriter's art -- as only the writer of Blade Runner could concieve it.The master speaks, in this unique guide for screenwriters -- and writers and artists of al
THE HIGHLY ANTICIPATED SECOND NOVEL FROM THE WRITER EMILY ST. JOHN MANDEL (STATION ELEVEN) CALLS “SHARP, WITTY, AND IMMENSELY ENTERTAINING”?Is a new life possible? Because Shira Greene’s life hasn’t q
I imagined him in his beloved Brooklyn, strolling in Prospect Park and preaching to chance comers about his gospel of good books."When you sell a man a book," says Roger Mifflin, the sprite-like book
The rugged mountains of 19th-century Afghanistan serve as the backdrop for this humorous and action-packed tale of two happy-go-lucky Britons who take over a remote kingdom. The colorful inhabitants a
Told from the viewpoint of a European colonial trader who has moved to a South Sea island, this novella critiques the colonialism and economic imperialism of the 19th century. The story builds from th
Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson solve the mystery of a terrifying, ancient curse and its deadly ramifications for the Baskerville family in this tale set in the dark and murky English moors.This beauti
Vivid realism captures the attitudes of Felicite the housemaid and her life of domestic servitude in this deceptively simple tale.This beautifully packaged series of classic novellas includes the work
Herman Melville's final masterpiece, found unpublished on his desk at his death.Billy Budd, Sailor would emerge, after its publication in 1924, as one of Melville's best-loved books--and one of his m
An undisputed French master of the fantastic—as prolific as Stephen King; as original as Philip K. Dick—now in English for the first time They call them “mediums”—professional dreamers who “dive” int
A brilliant modernist classic--now available for the first time in a stand-alone editionThis dreamy, formally audacious story of a summer's day in the life of one family is a small masterpiece by Kath
Even the most pious Jew need not shed so many tears over the destruction of Jerusalem as the women were in the habit of shedding when Stempenyu was playing.The first work of Sholom Aleichem’
"Why, you simple creatures, the weakest of all weak things is a virtue which has not been tested in the fire."Written on hotel stationary while in Europe on the run from American creditors, soon afte
"You know as well as you sit there that you'd put a pistol-ball into your brain if you had written my books!"Exemplifying Henry James's famous belief that "Art makes life," The Lesson of the Master i
