Charles Dickens, Fred Kaplan
This Norton Critical Edition of a Dickens favorite reprints the 1846
text, the last edition of the novel substantially revised by Dickens
and the one that most clearly reflects his authorial intentions.More
May Sarton
"I am not mad, only old. . . . I am in a concentration camp for the old."More
Patrick O'Brian
Volume(s): Book 12
"Fine stuff...[The Letter of Marque] leaves the devotee of naval fiction eager for sequels."—Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post Book WorldMore
Patrick O'Brian
Volume(s): Book 13
"In length the series is unique; in quality—and there is not a weak link in the chain—it cannot but be ranked with the best of twentieth century historical novels."—T. J. Binyon, IndependentMore
Jean Rhys
The fortieth anniversary reissue of the best-selling "tour de force" (Walter Allen, New York Times Book Review).More
Tom Hazuka, Denise Thomas, James Thomas
"These stories are not merely flashes in the pan; there's pay dirt here!" —DeWitt Henry, editor of PloughsharesMore
Patrick O'Brian
Volume(s): Book 11
"An overwhelming, outstanding novel...!"—Irish TimesMore
Phoebe Atwood Taylor, Alice Tilton
Leonidas Witherall, offbeat detective, is haunted by neighbors, strangers, blondes and a most unlikely corpse.More
Walter Mosley
Andrew Vachss called Devil in a Blue Dress, Walter Mosley's debut mystery featuring Easy Rawlins, a tough black private detective in L.A.'s Watts section, "the most self-assured, uniquely-voiced first novel I've ever read." The Wall Street Journal said of its sequel, A Red Death: "Remarkable...proves Mr. Mosley's debut was no fluke." Readers and critics agree that Walter Mosley is writing novels fit to stand alongside the giants of the L.A. hardboiled tradition.More
Josef Skvorecky
This energetic and hilarious novel is made even more important by the current final thawing of the long, Communist winter in Czechoslovakia.More
Jean Rhys
"Reading such stories as a group . . . can be overwhelming. Yet it is precisely this intense immersion in experience that is the essence of Rhys' art. The force of her stories lies in the fusion of elegant prose with an uncanny penetration of the darker reaches of the soul."—Washington Post Book WorldMore
Simone de Beauvoir, Leonard M. Friedman
Probably de Beauvoir's strangest and most compelling novel, this is the captivating story of a beautiful young actress who revives a downcast stranger at a French resort.More
Denise Giardina
Dillon Freeman returns from World War II to Blackberry Creek, West Virginia, where he confronts the coal mining industry as a union organizer and falls in love with his conventional cousin, Rachel. By the author of Storming Heaven.More
Rainer Maria Rilke
Rilke's haunting images focus on the difficulty of communion with the ineffable in an age of disbelief, solitude, and profound anxiety.More
Montserrat Fontes
Mexican-American writer Fontes tells a startling tale of the clashes between men and women, rich and poor, Mexican and American in this dark story of life just south of the Texas border.More