Patrick O'Brian
Volume(s): Book 16
The sixteenth volume in the Aubrey/Maturin series, and Patrick O'Brian's first bestseller in the United States.More
José Donoso, Gregory Rabassa
These striking novellas are the witty crystallizations of José Donoso's concerns over a lifetime of writing.More
Mary Wollstonecraft
In Maria, Wollstonecraft pursues in fictional form themes set forth in 'A Vindication of the Rights of Woman.'More
B. Comfort
A picaresque community is disturbed by a pair of crimes.More
Edward Allen
A novel of sex, gambling, and higher education.More
Nicholas Meyer
"As authentically, irresistibly gripping as anything Conan Doyle ever wrote. . . . Don't miss it."—CosmopolitanMore
Thomas Mann, Clayton Koelb
Thomas Mann is widely acknowledged as the greatest German novelist of
this century. His 1912 novella Death in Venice is the most frequently
read example of Mann's early work.More
Rick Bass
These quirky, brilliant stories launched Rick Bass on his literary career.More
Jean Rhys
Rhys's voice is starkly simple, yet sharp as nails.More
Bill James
Volume(s): Book 6
Bill James's Come Clean, the fifth novel in his stunning series of British police procedurals, was greeted with unprecedented critical acclaim upon its American publication in 1993. Readers eager for the next in the series will be amply rewarded with Take, an equally powerful portrait of men and women on both sides of the law.More
May Sarton
Friendship, marriage, and intertwined lives in a small New Hampshire town.More
May Sarton
"May Sarton's provocative novel is about a wife who has outgrown her husband, and after twenty-seven years of marriage decides that she has had enough. . . . she is altogether believable." —The AtlanticMore
Henry James, S P. Rosenbaum
Second Edition
This revised and expanded Norton Critical Edition of The Ambassadors
again includes the author's preface as well as the most significant
variants of the three earlier editions of the novel published in
James's lifetime.More
Jerome Beaty, J. Paul Hunter
Second Edition
An introduction to literature and also a text for courses in composition, multicultural, or contemporary American literature.More
John Nichols
"John Nichols has remarkable insight into life's crazy blend of comedy and tragedy. . . . Pure pleasure to read." —New York Times Book ReviewMore