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“Exhilarating….Profoundly moving, occasionally angry, and often hilarious….A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius is, finally, a finite book of jest, which is why it succeeds so brilliantly” (The New York Times Book Review).A Heartbreaki… more

The most beguilingly seductive novel to date from the author of The Passion and Sexing the Cherry. Winterson chronicles the consuming affair between the narrator, who is given neither name nor gender, and the beloved, a complex and confused… more

According to a profile in The Guardian, Mary Midgley is ‘the foremost scourge of scientific pretensions in this country; someone whose wit is admired even by those who feel she sometimes oversteps the mark’. Considered one of Britain’s fine… more

Here is the beloved, bestselling compendium of Kingsley Amis’s wisdom on the cherished subject of drinking. Along with a series of well-tested recipes (including a cocktail called the Lucky Jim) the book includes Amis’s musings on The Hango… more

First published in French as a serial in 1909, “The Phantom of the Opera” is a riveting story that revolves around the young, Swedish Christine Daaé. Her father, a famous musician, dies, and she is raised in the Paris Opera House with his d… more

This classic work examines the issues surrounding military theory, war crimes, and the spoils of war from the Athenian attack on Melos to the My Lai massacre. A revised and updated classic treatment of the morality of war written by one of… more

“The plot twists ingeniously…chilling.” (The New York Times Book Review)

“Lots of fun.”—The New York Times Book Review

In this powerfully affecting Flaubert’s Parrot gives readers a brilliant take on the deceptions that make up the quivering substrata of erotic love. “An interplay of serious thought and dazzling wit… . It’s moving, it’s funny, it’s frig… more

“A faithful rendering that is simultaneously an original and gripping poem in its own right.” —New York Times Book ReviewThe national bestseller and winner of the Whitbread Award. Composed toward the end of the first millennium, Beowulf is … more

Winner of the 2010 Pulitzer Prize”A magisterial work…You can’t help thinking about the economic crisis we’re living through now.” —The New York Times Book Review It is commonly believed that the Great Depression that began in 1929 result… more

A lively and cinematic twentieth-century epic, Red Poppies focuses on the extravagant and brutal reign of a clan of Tibetan warlords during the rise of Chinese Communism. The story is wryly narrated by the chieftain’s son, a self-professed … more

“May be the most exciting mash-up of literary genres since David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas.”(The New York Times Book Review)Shining at the Bottom of the Sea is a vibrant evocation of a fictional country, Sanjania—from the birth pangs of its fi… more

P{MARGIN:0in;MARGIN-BOTTOM:.0001pt;}BLOCKQUOTE{MARGIN-TOP:0in;MARGIN-BOTTOM:0in;} “FALLING LEAVES, Yen Mah’s first book, reads as a fresh and haunting account of a childhood that nearly paralyzed its author for life.”(The Sunday Oregonia… more

A highly personal story of the eminent British writer returning to her African roots that is “brilliant … [and] captures the contradictions of a young country.”—New York Times Book Review

The wild, macabre tale of the twentieth century and of two men—one looking for something he has lost, the other with nothing much to lose—and “V.,” the unknown woman of the title.

THE PAIN AND the Great One hardly agree on anything. But deep down, they know they can count on each other, especially at school, where it often takes two to figure things out. Like when that first baby tooth falls out on the school bus. Or… more

“Luckily for Edward Eager’s fans, the children in his latest book are just as lively and literary as those in Half Magic.”—The New York Times Book Review

The acclaimed author of The Face of Battle examines centures of conflict in a variety of diverse societies and cultures. “Keegan is at once the most readable and the most original of living military historians … A History of Warfare is … more

“{Janice Daugharty’s books} work a miracle. By resurrecting Southern spirits that looked gone for good, they restore the redemptive and violent country of Flanner O’Connor…” The New York Times Book ReviewA teenage boy who feels like a mis… more