Portnoy's Complaint "n." after Alexander Portnoy (1933- )] A disorder in which strongly-felt ethical and altruistic impulses are perpetually warring w......
The annotated text of this modern classic. It assiduously illuminates the extravagant wordplay and the frequent literary allusions, parodies, and cros......
" Zamyatin's] intuitive grasp of the irrational side of totalitarianism- human sacrifice, cruelty as an end in itself-makes We] superior to Huxley's B......
Albinus, a respectable, middle-aged man and aspiring filmmaker, abandons his wife for a lover half his age: Margot, who wants to become a movie star h......
The Everyman's Library Pocket Poets hardcover series is popular for its compact size and reasonable price which does not compromise content. Poems: Sh......
Includes a new forward by the screenwriter Mary Bing?In Anton Chekhov’s The Duel the escalating animosity between two men with opposed philosophies of......
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) Introduction by Nicholas Rance...
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Mickey Sabbath, the hero in Sabbath's Theater, the winner of the 1995 National Book Award, makes a concerted effort to be bad. Like Alexander Portnoy,......
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) Introduction by Rosemary Ashton The isolated, misanthropic, miserly weaver Silas Marner is one of George Eliot's greate......
Joyce Carol Oates's Wonderland Quartet comprises four remarkable novels that explore social class in America and the inner lives of young Americans. I......
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(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) Along with Blake and Dickens, Mark Twain was one of the nineteenth century's greatest chroniclers of childhood. These t......
Random's Modern Library is reproducing this Hardy standard as a tie-in to a Masterpiece Theater presentation and offering a quality hardcover for a re......
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) Aanton Chekhov, widely hailed as the supreme master of the short story, also wrote five works long enough to be called ......
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) "Jane Austen remains the most misunderstood of great English writers . . . Austen's is an extended, exploratory, danger......
Louisa May Alcott's beloved tale about Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy is presented in a beautiful Everyman's Library Children's Classics edition. The story of......
In this striking tragedy of political conflict, Shakespeare turns to the ancient Roman world and to the famous assassination of Julius Caesar by his r......
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Starred Review. A long-lost Shakespeare play surfaces in Phillips's wily fifth novel, a sublime faux memoir framed as the introduction to the play's f......
