E. M. Forster s celebrated social comedy explores romantic intrigue and prim propriety among a color... more

Detective fans of all races and creeds, of all tastes and fancies will delight in the exploits of th... more

The Kingdom is the story of a country--a country of astonishing contrasts, where routine computer pr... more

This masterful biography by one of Germany s best known journalists was the leading nonfiction bests... more

One of the classic volumes of autobiography, My Early Life is a lively and colourful account of a yo... more

They are icons of the literary world whose soaring works have been discussed and analyzed in countle... more

Charlie Gauntlet is a retired lawyer recently married to the much younger Rebecca Bex Olesker, a d... more

How is it that the small continent of Europe, with its rich multiplicity of cultures and traditions,... more

Over the centuries, two important beliefs arose in Europe: a faith that man could order his own dest... more

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A twisted tale of love lost, alluring demons, idiotic servants, beautiful ladies, magicians, spells,... more

J. M. Roberts, one of our greatest historians, brings us an engrossing one-volume history of the ext... more

Since childhood, Paolo Tullio has returned each year to his hometown of Gallinaro, to the labyrinthi... more

An unlikely con man wagers wife, wealth, and sanity in pursuit of one of art s elusive old masters. ... more

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Graham, an 1890s radical pamphleteer, was a young man when he finally resorted to medication for his... more

It is 1793 in France--the year of the guillotine. Already, Louis XVI has been sentenced to the scaff... more

A body on the London Underground; the strange disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax; a parcel contain... more

St. Augustine was the greatest Western philosopher for 1,000 years and a dominant influence on the h... more

Since the time of Voltaire and Rousseau, the secular intellectual has increasingly filled the vacuum... more

It is Inspector Ghote s bad luck to be landed with the case of the perfect murder at the start of hi... more

The nearest Wodehouse ever came to a serious story, The Coming of Bill is a fascinating blend of soc... more

This is a good example of early Wodehouse. It is here that Jeeves makes his first appearance with th... more

In this sequel to the highland adventure Kidnapped, young David Balfour must defend himself and his ... more

They called him unfit to rule--a lowborn, callow boy, Uther s bastard. But his coming had been foret... more

This is the story of an artist who was willing to sacrifice everything for the sake of art. Charles ... more

With flawless construction and impeccable detail, Germinal chronicles the conflicts, lusts, and depr... more

Pretty, impecunious Sally Nicholas never dreamed a fortune could prove a disadvantage, until she bec... more

Charles Paris, middle-aged actor turned amateur sleuth, is vacationing at a small English seaside to... more

Byron s exuberant masterpiece narrates the exploits of Don Juan, a handsome and charming young man n... more

This magnificent volume by veteran European correspondent Don Cook is the first major biography of d... more

In 1963, Samuel Eliot Morison, long one of our most distinguished historians, was awarded the first ... more

James Joyce paints vivid portraits of the poorer classes of Dublin in a collection of stories whose ... more

One of the most distinctive periods in poetry occurred in England early in the 1800s. This is now re... more

Since its first publication in 1989, Matt Kramer s extraordinarily accessible guide to wine has beco... more