Author: Ed Cray The life and career of the most recognized and beloved folk musician of the twentieth century are recalled here, with details of his hobo days as well...
Authors: Arthur Krystal, Wystan Hugh Auden, Jacques Barzun, Lionel Trilling An anthology of essays, criticism, and reviews, unpublished for fifty years, includes Trilling's thoughts on "The Wind in the Willows,"...
Author: Emma Larkin A profile of the police state in Burma and its effect on the writings of George Orwell discusses the author's mother's origins in Burma, Orwell's work with...
Author: Doris Lessing Synopsis: A collection of 13 short stories which offer a humorous study of humanity. The subject matter ranges from a tale of adultery to an analysis of...
Author: Nathanael West Synopsis: Tod Hackett is a brilliant young artist - and a man in danger of losing his heart. Brought to an LA studio as a set-designer, he...
Author: Tennessee Williams As mirrors of his emotional and imaginative life, the plays of Tennessee Williams explore the darker side of human nature and are haunted by the pervasive theme...
Author: Jean-Paul Sartre NAUSEAby Jean-Paul Satrepublished by Penguin Nausea is both the story of the troubled life of an introspective historian, Antoine Roquentin, and an exposition of one of the...
Author: James Baldwin First published in 1957, this book attempts to tackle the conflict between homosexual and heterosexual love. It tells of David, a young man awakening to his true...
Author: Aharon Apelfeld Karl, an ambitious young civil servant, plans to convert from Judaism, like most of his friends, in order to remove all obstacles to advancement, but an unexpected...
Author: Daniele Varè A Peking love story first published in 1935, The Maker of Heavenly Trousers tells the story of an unnamed foreign bachelor who lives in a courtyard dwelling...
Author: 靖·井上 Inoue tells about the last decade of his mother's life. It follows the mother's aging, senility, and death, up to the late age of 89. Describes the difficulties...
Author: Toni Morrison The epitome of a group of women's ideals about love, fatherhood, and friendship, wealthy hotel owner Bill Cosey finds his life compromised by his troubled past and...
Author: John Heilpern Based on intimate journals and letters, a biography of the late dramatist explores his youth, brief journalism career, work in the theater, and his turbulent personal life,...
Author: D. M. Thomas A well-known poet, translator, and novelist in his own right combines exhaustive research with an easy novelistic style in an epic portrait of Alexander Solzhenitsy, an...
Authors: Richard Peter Treadwell Davenport-Hines, Richard Treadwell Davenport-Hines Profiles the twentieth-century English poet, librettist, and essayist, describing how his works reflected the political, spiritual, and sexual attitudes of his time...
Author: Rohinton Mistry In mid-1990s Bombay, Nariman Vakeel lives in a crumbling apartment with his two middle-aged stepchildren--the mild-mannered Jal and his domineering sister, Coomy, who plots to turn over...
Author: V. S. Naipaul Synopsis: First published in 1979, A Bend in the River is a profound and richly observed novel of the politics and society of postcolonial Africa. Salim,...
Author: Stephen Batchelor Synopsis: Stephen Batchelor's seminal work on humanity's struggle between good and evil In the national bestseller Living with the Devil, Batchelor traces the trajectory from the words of the Buddha and...
Author: Anthony Venn-Brown We are all living a life of unlearning: unlearning the things we have accepted without question, but which have no truth in our lives. On the surface,...
Authors: Jon Ortner, Ian W. Mabbett Built between the ninth and the thirteenth centuries by a succession of twelve Khmer kings, Angkor spreads over 120 square miles in Southeast Asia...
Author: Kate Grenville Moving between the slums of nineteenth-century London and the convict colonies of Australia, chronicles the lives and fortunes of the early pioneers of New South Wales, in...
Author: Kelvin Jarvis V. S. Naipaul is probably the most controversial writer to emerge from the Caribbean. This is the first substantial compilation on Naipual, consisting of over 1,000 annotated...
Author: Evans-Wentz, W Y (Walter Yeeling), 1878-1965 Synopsis: Autobiography of a Yogi is a fascinating read that is sure to challenge the way you look at the world and open...
Author: Rebecca West Written during the last two decades of West's life, this memoir traces the lives of the novelist's ancestors, recounting the family history that became the root and...
Author: Amitav Ghosh Presents a novel of life in modern India, chronicling the interwoven journey of an American marine biologist and a Delhi businessman who travel to the remote Sundarban...
Author: D'Arcy Niland His style is realistically forthright and uninhibited, his prose crisp, and, at times, tremendously vivid' Walkabout A shiralee is a swag, a burden, a bloody millstone –...
Authors: Hermann Hesse, Walter Sorell This story of the humanization of a middle-aged misanthrope was described in the New York Times as a savage indictment of bourgeois society. The self...
Authors: Virginia Woolf, Kate Flint Tracing the lives of a group of friends, this novel follows their development from childhood to middle age. Social events, individual achievements and disappointments form...
Author: Evelyn Waugh The bright young things of Mayfair exercise their inventive minds and vile bodies in every kind of capricious escapade in this story. The characters are an assortment...
Author: Evelyn Waugh Sent down from Oxford in outrageous circumstances, Paul Pennyfather is oddly unsurprised to find himself qualifying for the position of schoolmaster at Llanabba Castle. His colleagues are...
Author: Evelyn Waugh Lord Copper, newspaper magnate and proprietor of 'The Daily Beast', has always prided himself on his intuitive flair for spotting ace reporters. That is not to say...
Author: Evelyn Waugh Upper class scoundrel Basil Seal, mad, bad and dangerous to know, creates havoc wherever he goes, much to the despair of the three women in his life...
Author: Simone de Beauvoir Synopsis: A resistance leader during the German occupation of France looks back on his relationship with a woman whom he has sent on a deadly mission...
Author: Richard Adams Tells the story of a motley band of rabbits who desert their ancient warren when the gentle Fiver predicts imminent destruction of all who remain. Led by...
Author: Saul Bellow Saul Bellow's American masterpiece, The Adventures of Augie March includes an introduction by Christopher Hitchens in Penguin Modern Classics. A penniless and parentless Chicago boy growing up...
Author: Seyyed Hossein Nasr This anthology of Seyyed Hossein Nasr's most representative essays, edited by William C. Chittick, distills the essence of this leading scholar's thoughts on the subjects of...
Author: C. Roy Hunter Hunter discusses several approaches to hypnotherapy, including regression therapy and (in detail) the parts theory of Charles Tebbetts, as well as providing practical instruction in hypnotherapeutic...
Author: Ian Frazier
The author profiles the storied Great Plains of the American Midwest, relating the history, the lore, and the stories of the current inhabitants of the area
Authors: Cheryl Katz, Jeffrey Katz
"A nostalgic collection of photographs accompanied by short essays featuring the well-worn and beloved toys, dolls, and stuffed animals of childhood"--Provided by publisher.
Author: Katherine Mansfield Synopsis: In a German Pension is a remarkable collection of short stories, displaying all Katherine Mansfield’s skill in the genre. Written shortly after the author visited Germany...
Author: Kazuo Ishiguro Synopsis: When We were Orphans Review&colon When 9-year-old Christopher Banks's father--a British businessman involved in the opium trade--disappears from the family home in Shanghai, the boy and...
Authors: Michael Hinz, Jessica Hinz Featuring sections on family, relationships, finances, career, and health, two life coaches and psychologists show readers how to achieve stability and organization in everyday life...
Author: Robert Price A must have for any competitive tennis player looking to accelerate his or her skills. Complete with year-round workout programmes designed specifically for tennis, there is no...
Author: Czeslaw Milosz Selected Poems: 1931-2004 celebrates Czeslaw Milosz's lifetime of poetry. Widely regarded as one of the greatest poets of our time, Milosz is a master of expression and...
Author: Pema Chodron
Inspired by the Buddhist tradition of the 108-day retreat, a Tibetan Buddhist nun offers instruction and meditations for achieving compassion and awareness in everyday living.
