This work, first published in 1962, is a scholarly, yet accessible introduction to the metres of Greek verse. It remains a reference manual for students and teachers who wish to arrive at a fuller appreciation of the rhythmical flow of Greek drama and...

"The appearance of these stories in one volume is an event in our literature. To have built up so distinguished a collection, each story excellent in its own way and each an original departure in relation to the others, is a triumph." --Guy Davenport,...

Tense with suspense from the first line, this is one of the great American realist novels. In this page-turning, breathtaking novel, the characters will walk off the page and into your life. And a small house will seem like the most important piece of...

"A European Gone Girl." --The Wall Street JournalAn internationally bestselling phenomenon: the darkly suspenseful, highly controversial tale of two families struggling to make the hardest decision of their lives -- all over the course of one meal.It's a...

Alphabet Versus Goddess : The Conflict Between Word and Image by Leonard Shlain. Penguin Books, Inc.,1998

Rosa Burger grew up in a home under constant surveillance by the South African government. Her parents were detained for their political beliefs; her father died in prison, and her mother, whose health suffered from her time in jail, eventually dies...

When South Africa is riven by war and the Smales, a white couple, take refuge in the village of their former servant July, their relationships are completely transformed

James R. Lawler's elegant introduction deals with Valéry's concerns and his influence, and also with critical interpretations of his work. The volume begins with "The Evening with Monsieur Teste" (1896), from the famous "anti-novel" Monsieur Teste, for...

The celebrated classic by a groundbreaking figure in African literature addresses a critical contemporary issue--the collision of Islamic African values and Western culture. young Samba Diallo, a devout pupil in a Koranic religious school in Senegal...

The Dedalus Book of Lithuanian Literature attempts to reflect the transition of Lithuanian literature since the beginning of the twentieth century, when Lithuania was still an agrarian and colonized country on the margins of Europe, to its present modern...

Danny, a Yale student on Spring Break, who is spending his vacation working in his father's lunch wagon, the Roach Coach, tries to cope with an increasingly complicated love life and an incipient battle with a gang over his father's business. 25,000...

W.S. Merwin, one of the great contemporary English-language poets, turns to prose here in a brilliantly evocative re-creation of a distant past?as well as an exquisite rendering of his own romance with an abandoned farmhouse in the magical countryside of...

These two novelettes look at the state of modern Africa. Dieng experiences bureaucratic incompetence and deceit in "The Money Order" which leads him to a public act of despair, while in "White Genesis", the decline of a way of life is examined through a...