The essential masterwork that has provoked and inspired generations of men and women. "From Eve’s ap... more

A terrific new translation--Murnaghan s Medea is both terrifying and sympathetic, an emotionally com... more

Kaiser Wilhelm II (1859-1941) was a key figure in German history as it followed its fatal course fro... more

Des Menschen Werk auf Erden kann vergehen, Doch Leben stets im Wandel wird bestehen. Heinrich Walter... more

Frederick Langlois could be that geeky 17-year-old found in every high school -- the one who closely... more

In 1872, Jacob Burckhardt, one of the preeminent historians of classical and Renaissance culture, pr... more

, Euripides, Aristophanes, and Menander. The translations in this volume are by Sheila D’Atri, Palmer Bovie, and Richard Elman....... more

"This is a fascinating and unusual collection that deserves attention." --Bloomsbury Review " . . . ... more

Sheila Delany’s spirited translation of Osbern Bokenham’s Legendys of Hooly Wummen (1443-1447) makes available in...... more

This book throws new light on post-colonial evaluations of the Partition and its effect on eastern I... more

This book throws new light on post-colonial evaluations of the Partition and its effect on eastern I... more

Julia Kristeva is a true polymath, an intellectual of astonishingly wide range whose erudition and i... more

Like man, woman is a human being. When The Second Sex was first published in Paris in 1949--groundb... more

Portrait of a Husband with the Ashes of His Wife addresses themes of destiny and the repercussions o... more

, celebrated translator Sheila Fischman brings Blais’ novel to life for English-speaking readers. A sun-drenched paradise in the...... more

Una novela entra able y fresca en la que las mujeres dejan de lado sus tradiciones y dejan volar su ... more

Una batalla intergaláctica. Una alianza forzosa. Una pasión imposible. Sueñan los androides con amor... more

Una saga familiar con amores, enfrentamientos, luchas de poder, pasiones prohibidas, penalidades y d... more

Alone with their authoritarian father on an immense estate surrounded by a forest, a pair of sibling... more

Maréchal’s lifetime. With thorough notes and introduction by Sheila Delany, this first translation of Maréchal’s novella...... more

The author of The Bicycle Eater shares "a fluid and troubling fable" of brotherhood, tragedy, and th... more

A triumph of poetic beauty and a moving meditation on how love and food are inextricably entwined, M... more

The story continues ... The second in Michel Tremblay’s new series of novels presents two very diffe... more

In the days of Roch s childhood, winters in the village of Ste. Justine were long. Life centered aro... more

Edgar, a timid, asocial thirty-something, witnesses the brutal rape of a young woman and subsequentl... more

of the person. In this moving trilogy, Roch Carrier’s savage vision comes across with great urgency and Sheila Fischman’s...... more

Winner of the Governor General s Literary Award for Fiction Winner of 2015 Canada Reads Prize Winner... more

The Hockey Sweater, the title story in this 20-story collection, has become an enduring classic: a Q... more

In the tradition of Seamus Heaney s Beowulf and Marie Borroff s Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Sheila Fisher s The...... more

One of Jacques Poulin s masterpieces, this tender and perceptive tale explores the textures of solit... more

A sparkling, inventive debut novel inspired by Sir John Franklin s grand -- but ultimately failed --... more

Today, Maybe is a story about a little girl who is waiting for someone, a friend. She doesn’t yet kn... more

Exploring contemporary life and the penetrating energy of youth, this novel follows Anna, an introsp... more

A quietly affecting modern fairy tale told with humor and warmth, Translation is a Love Affair is a ... more

A human wolf who operates outside the bounds of conventional morality stalks human prey in this spel... more

Peacefully employed on an uninhabited island, Teddy Bear, a translator of comic strips, lives in the... more

New York, at the end of the 1920s. Xavier X. Mortanse, a seventeen-year-old apprentice demolition ma... more

Atonement is Sheila Fischman’s translation of Gaetan Soucy’s brilliant novel, originally published in French as L...... more

In the heart of the Latin Quarter, meeting place of marginal characters of all sorts, Céline Poulin ... more