Overview :The world's oldest and most widely read guide to the pleasures and techniques of sex, the Kama Sutra was compiled in the fourth century A.D.... Read More
Overview :"Dazai's brand of egoistic pessimism dovetails organically with the emo chic of this cultural moment and with the inner lives of teenagers o... Read More
Overview :This is one of the most important works by the most important American philosopher: Henry David Thoreau, vital figure in the Transcendentali... Read More
Overview :'- What is your nation if I may ask, says the citizen.- Ireland, says Bloom. I was born here. Ireland.' Ulysses, one of the greatest novels ... Read More
Overview :Features "Trial by Fire," the basis for the true crime major motion picture starring Jack O'Connell, Laura Dern, Emily Meade and Jeff Perry ... Read More
Overview :The John McPhee Reader, first published in 1976, is comprised of selections from the author's first twelve books. In 1965, John McPhee publi... Read More
Overview :Philosopher, naturalist, poet and rugged individualist, Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) has inspired generations of readers to think for the... Read More
Overview :New York Times bestselling author of The House of the Spirits, Isabel Allende celebrates the pleasures of the sensual life in this rich, joy... Read More
Overview :From civil rights to free love, JFK to LSD, Woodstock to the Moonwalk, the Sixties was a time of change, political unrest, and radical exper... Read More
Overview :Crossley-Holland--the widely acclaimed translator of Old English texts--introduces the Anglo-Saxons through their chronicles, laws, letters,... Read More
Overview :Includes Native Son, now an HBO original movie by Rashid Johnson, with a screenplay by Suzan-Lori Parks and starring Ashton Sanders. Native ... Read More
Overview :Humanist, skeptic, acute observer of himself and others, Michel de Montaigne (1533--92) was the first to use the term "essay" to refer to th... Read More
Overview :This important collection reveals as never before the quality, extent, and variety of the Italian American contribution to American literatu... Read More
Overview :The Tenth Edition introduces diverse, compelling, relevant texts--from Civil War songs and stories to The Turn of the Screw to The Great Gat... Read More
Overview :Paris, 1640, the gifted and charismatic poet Cyrano de Bergerac finds himself deeply in love with the beautiful and intellectual Roxane. Con... Read More
Overview :One of the most original American writers, Edgar Allan Poe shaped the development of both the detectvie story and the science-fiction story.... Read More
Overview :"Lynsay Sands spins a funny, laughable tale."--Eloisa James on Taming the Highland BrideAdrian Montfort, Earl of Mowbray, had been warned th... Read More
Overview :Born in Prague when it was part of the Austro-Hungarian empire and recognized today as a master of verse, poet Rainer Maria Rilke was consid... Read More