In ",The Paradiso,", Dante explores the goal of human striving: the merging of individual destiny with universal order. One of the towering creations of world...
No one has ever done moody better than the New Romantics of the 1980s, who found ways to gender bend and thwart authority while looking...
Jane Austen’s&,nbsp,Persuasion&,nbsp,(1818) is the author’s most biting and ironic work. In the novel, Austen gives us a satisfying love story while also turning a critical...
The archetype of the appealing anti-hero is encapsulated in Gil Blas, the star of Alain-René Lesage’s 18th-century picaresque novel. Lesage’s work was influenced by the...
George Bernard Shaw demanded truth and despised convention. He punctured hollow pretensions and smug prudishness coating his criticism with ingenious and irreverent wit. In ",Mrs....
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James Patterson’s BookShots. Short, fast-paced, high-impact entertainment.Jack Morgan is visiting Peter Knight and the team in the London branch of his investigation agency, Private.At a...
Celtic mythology and breathtaking animation unite in a first-of-its-kind stationery collection created in partnership with Irish animation studio Cartoon Saloon. Reproduced here is artwork from&,nbsp,The...
The midnight hour approaches. You lie in bed and try to sleep, but there is the howling of the wind outside, the creak of a...
A comprehensive collection of Mark Twain's earlier writings, now in an affordable new edition from Signet Classics. This richly entertaining and comprehensive collection presents sixty-five...
The epic poem of honor and bravery Written by an anonymous fourteenth-century poet, ",Sir Gawain and the Green Knight", is recognized as an equal to...
In these wonderfully illustrated tales, renowned storyteller Howard Pyle carries us back to the enchanting world of King Arthur and his Round Table. The book...
This memorable collection gathers the plays of the great social satirist and playwright Moliere, representing the many facets of his genius and offering a superb...
'Wives in the avocados, babies in the tomatoes!-and you, García Lorca, what were you doing by the watermelons?' Profane and prophetic verses...
Edith Wharton (1862–1937) wrote carefully structured fiction that probed the psychological and social elements guiding the behavior of her characters. Her portrayals of upper-class New...
From the awe-inspiring story of the Creation to the defeats and triumphs of the Children of Israel and the life, death, and Resurrection of Jesus,...
'Time is a catastrophe, perpetual and irreversible.' Science and fiction interweave delightfully in these playful Cosmicomic short stories. Penguin Modern: fifty...
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