Patrick O'Brian
Volume(s): Book 7
"Vividly detailed 19th-century settings and dramatic tension punctuated with flashes of wry humor make O'Brian's nautical adventure a splendid treat."—Publishers WeeklyMore
Patrick O'Brian
Volume(s): Book 8
"O'Brian is one author who can put a spark of character into the sawdust of time, and The Ionian Mission is another rattling good yarn." —Stephen Vaughan, The ObserverMore
Daniel Defoe, Paula R. Backsheider
This Norton Critical Edition of one of Defoe’s most important works
reprints the 1722 text, the only edition published in Defoe’s lifetime.More
Adrienne Rich
Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize.More
Ishmael Reed, Kathryn Trueblood, Shawn Wong
This anthology includes 30 selections from a decade of award-winning fiction.More
Ronald A. Sharp, Eudora Welty
This anthology collects the world's classic and literary instances of friendship and intimacy.More
François Rabelais, Burton Raffel
Biting and bawdy, smart and smutty, lofty and low, Gargantua and Pantagruel is fantasy on the grandest of scales, told with an unquenchable thirst for all of human experience.More
Patrick O'Brian
Volume(s): Book 5
"The relationship [between Aubrey and Maturin]...is about the best thing afloat....For Conradian power of description and sheer excitement there is nothing in naval fiction to beat the stern chase as the outgunned Leopard staggers through mountain waves in icy latitudes to escape the Dutch seventy-four."—Stephen Vaughan, ObserverMore
Patrick O'Brian
Volume(s): Book 6
"A marvellously full-flavoured, engrossing book, which towers over its current rivals in the genre like a three-decker over a ship's longboat."—Times Literary SupplementMore
Michael Burkard
Written as a notebook, My Secret Boat is a collage of stories, poems, dreams, and sketches. Among Burkard's subjects are childhood, the sea, family, alcoholism, love.More
Richard Hugo, William Kittredge
The definitive collection of a major American poet’s work.More
Walter Mosley
It's 1953 in Red-baiting, blacklisting Los Angeles, a moral tar pit ready to swallow "Easy Rawlins."More
Robin Morgan
“Audacious, courageous, poignant, wry—Robin Morgan's collection of poems is all this and more. A large audience will welcome them. So will historians in the future who need to know what the poetry of this time and place was like.”—Catharine R. Stimpson
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Patrick O'Brian
Volume(s): Book 3
"Few, very few books have made my heart thud with excitement. H.M.S. Surprise managed it."—Helen Lucy Burke, Irish PressMore
Patrick O'Brian
Volume(s): Book 4
"Jack's assignment: to capture the Indian Ocean islands of Réunion and Mauritius from the French. That campaign forms the narrative thread of this rollicking sea saga. But its substance is more beguiling still..."—Elizabeth Peer, NewsweekMore