Egyptian Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz draws on his homeland's rich engagement with the afterlife-and his own near-death experience at the hands of a ......
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For two thousand years, the brief ministry of a young Nazarene preacher has remained the largest single determinant of Western civilization's triumphs......
In The Crossing, Cormac McCarthy fulfills the promise of All the Pretty Horses and at the same time give us a work that is darker and more visionary, ......
In this celebrated novel, Nobel Prize-winning author Toni Morrison created a new way of rendering the contradictory nuances of black life in America. ......
Larry Darrell is a young American in search of the absolute. The progress of his spiritual odyssey involves him with some of Maugham's most brilliant ......
Amid the cactus wilds some two hudred miles from Hollywood lies a privileged oasis called Desert D'Or. It is a place for starlets and would-be starlet......
In one of the most important novels of his long and illustrious career, Nobel Prize winner Naguib Mahfouz tells the story of a delightful Egyptian fam......
Merry Christmas, everyone "Bah " said Scrooge. "Humbug " With those famous words unfolds a tale that renews the joy and caring that are Christmas. Whe......
Now in his mid-thirties, Nathan Zuckerman, a would-be recluse despite his newfound fame as a bestselling author, ventures onto the streets of Manhatta......
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) Introduction by Barbara Hardy...
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The Gift is the last of the novels Nabokov wrote in his native Russian and the crowning achievement of that period in his literary career. It is also ......
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) A spectacular best seller and now a classic, "The Name of the Rose "catapulted Umberto Eco, an Italian professor of sem......
Hailed as one of Joseph Conrad's finest literary achievements, this is the story of a young man unwittingly caught in the political turmoil of pre-Rev......
Charles Dickens's satirical masterpiece, "The Pickwick Papers," catapulted the young writer into literary fame when it was first serialized in 1836-37......
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) Introduction by Catherine Peters...
For the first time: the Nobel Prize winner’s stunning short fiction collected in one volume, with an introduction by the author. Over the course of ......
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) Though its fame as an icon of twentieth-century literature rests primarily on the brilliance of its narrative technique......
