A rich collection of classic American literature potraying the beauty of a 19th-century New England town.A female writer comes one summer to Dunnet Landing, a Maine seacoast town, where she follows the lonely inhabitants of once-prosperous coastal...

The more than 600 stories written by O. Henry provided an embarrassment of riches for the compilers of this volume. The final selection of the thirty-eight stories in this collection offers for the reader's delight those tales honored almost unanimously...

Difficult Fruit names and claims the fruits of a passage intowomanhood. This is a journey which includes coming to termswith sexual violence and loss, celebrating love and connection,and bearing witness to the world that shaped that journey. Thesepoems...

Named one of the New York Times Book Review’s 100 Notable Books of the Year ** Publishers Weekly’s Best Fiction Books of 2014 ** NPR Best Books of 2014 ** Kirkus Reviews Best Literary Fiction Books of 2014 ** Washington Post Top 50 Fiction Books of 2014...

Filled with the bestselling, award-winning author's trademark wordplay and inventive storytelling, here is the dizzyingly entertaining, wickedly humorous story of a mysterious stranger whose sudden appearance during a family’s summer holiday transforms...

Honored as one of "10 Favorite Books of 2014" —Dwight Garner, The New York TimesHonored as a "Standout Book of 2014" —American Poet magazine“Belieu oscillates between dark humor, self-consciousness, and pointed satire in a fourth collection that’s...

F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote in a friend's copy of Tender Is the Night, "If you liked The Great Gatsby, for God's sake read this. Gatsby was a tour de force but this is a confession of faith." Set in the South of France in the decade after World War I,...

From playwright, novelist, spoken-word star, and the youngest-ever winner of the Ted Hughes Award, an electrifying poem-sequence based on the myth of the gender-switching prophet Tiresias.My heart throws its head against my ribs, / it's denting every...

NOW COLLECTED INTO ONE VOLUME FOR THE FIRST TIME, ALL FIVE INSTALLMENTS OF EDWARD ST. AUBYN'S CELEBRATED PATRICK MELROSE NOVELSNow a Showtime TV series starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Blythe DannerEdward St. Aubyn has penned one of the most acclaimed...

A BRILLIANT NEW COLLECTION OF SHORT STORIES FROM THE "CONSPICUOUSLY TALENTED" (TIME) RIVKA GALCHENWinner of the Danuta Gleed Literary AwardA New York Times Book Review Notable BookChosen as one of fifteen remarkable books by women that are shaping the...

A scabrously funny and fiercely intelligent satire of the literary world from the acclaimed author of the Patrick Melrose novels.Edward St. Aubyn is "great at dissecting an entire social world" (Michael Chabon, Los Angeles Times)Edward St. Aubyn's...

A #1 New York Times Bestseller, Louise Penny's The Long Way Home is an intriguing Chief Inspector Gamache Novel.Happily retired in the village of Three Pines, Armand Gamache, former Chief Inspector of Homicide with the Sûreté du Québec, has found a peace...

Regarded as the preeminent prose satirist in the English language, Jonathan Swift (1667–1745) intended this masterpiece, as he once wrote Alexander Pope, to "vex the world rather than divert it." Savagely ironic, it portrays man as foolish at best, and...

Winner of the Nobel Prize for literature in 1907, Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936) drew upon his experiences in Anglo-Indian Society for much of his writing. This volume presents five of Kipling's best early stories, including "The Phantom Rickshaw," a...

The third volume ―the book that made Karl Ove Knausgaard a phenomenon in the United States―in the addictive New York Times bestselling series, My Struggle.A family of four―mother, father, and two boys―move to the south coast of Norway, to a new house on...

The spellbinding classic that started it all, from the #1 New York Times bestselling author—the inspiration for the hit television series “A magnificent, compulsively readable thriller . . . Rice begins where Bram Stoker and the Hollywood versions leave...

A pioneering, dazzling satire about a biracial black girl from Philadelphia searching for her Jewish father in New York City Oreo is raised by her maternal grandparents in Philadelphia. Her black mother tours with a theatrical troupe, and her Jewish...

Robert Bloch's Psycho captivated a nation when it appeared in 1959. The story was all too real-indeed this classic was inspired by the real-life story of Ed Gein, a psychotic murderer who led a dual life. Alfred Hitchcock too was captivated, and turned...

This classic picture book from Pulitzer Prize–winning poet Gwendolyn Brooks, paired with full-color illustrations by Caldecott Honor artist Faith Ringgold, explores the lives and dreams of the children who live together in an urban neighborhood.In 1956,...

"Dazzling. The novelistic equivalent of a Turner watercolor." --Washington Post Penelope Fitzgerald's Booker Prize-winning novel of loneliness and connecting is set among the houseboat community of the Thames. This edition includes a new introduction...