London, United Kingdom: Penguin Books Ltd, 2009. -. -. Paperback. Henry James's highly charged study of adultery, jealousy and possession, The Golden Bowl is edited with an introduction and notes by Ruth Bernard Yeazell in Penguin Classics. Maggie Verver, a young American heiress, and her widowed father Adam, a billionaire... More about The Golden Bowl
New Jersey, United States: Princeton University Press, 2010. Paperback. The idea of human cruelty to animals so consumes novelist Elizabeth Costello in her later years that she can no longer look another person in the eye: humans, especially meat-eating ones, seem to her to be conspirators in a crime of... More about The Lives of Animals
New York, United States: Penguin Books, 2010. Paperback. A modern classic by Nobel Laureate J.M. Coetzee. His latest novel, The Schooldays of Jesus, is now available from Viking. Late Essays: 2006-2016 will be available January 2018. Waiting for the Barbarians centers on the crisis of the conscience of the Magistrate--a... More about Waiting for the Barbarians
New York, NY, United States: Penguin Putnam Inc, 2005. -. Paperback. At the age of seventy, after a gap of twenty years, Jorge Luis Borges returned to writing short stories. In Brodie's Report, he returned also to the style of his earlier years with its brutal realism, nightmares, and bloodshed... More about Brodie's Report
London, United Kingdom: Penguin Books Ltd, 2011. -. -. Paperback. A great work of art, radiant and rapturous, affirming the power of love and imagination' The New York Times Book Review. Ada or Ardor is a romance that follows Ada from her first childhood meeting with Van Veen on his... More about Ada or Ardor
Boston, MA, United States: HOUGHTON MIFFLIN, 2002. -. -. Paperback. For two decades, first at Wellesley and then at Cornell, Nabokov introduced undergraduates to the delights of great fiction. Here, collected for the first time, are his famous lectures, which include Mansfield Park, Bleak House, and Ulysses. Edited and with... More about Lectures on Literature
New York, United States: New Directions Publishing Corporation, 1997. -. English Edition. Reprint. Paperback. The four long narratives in W.G. Sebald's The Emigrants at first appear to be the straightforward biographies of four people in exile: a painter, an elderly Russian, the author's schoolteacher as well as his eccentric great-uncle... More about The Emigrants
London, United Kingdom: Vintage Publishing, 2011. -. Paperback. At first The Emigrants appears simply to document the lives of four Jewish emigres in the twentieth century. But gradually, as Sebald's precise, almost dreamlike prose begins to draw their stories, the four narrations merge into one overwhelming evocation of exile and... More about The Emigrants
