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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
