 | A Man of Parts
Release Date: September 15, 2011 A riveting novel about the remarkable life-and manyloves-of author H. G. Wells.H. G. Wells, author of The Time Machine and War of theWorlds, was one of the twentieth century's most prophetic andcreative writers, a man who immersed himself in socialist politics andfree love, whose meteoric rise to fame brought him into contact withthe most important literary, intellectual, and political figures of histime, but who in later years felt increasingly ignored anddisillusioned in his own utopian visions. Novelist and critic DavidLodge has taken the compelling true s...
 |  | Friedrichsburg: Colony of the German Furstenverein (Jack and Doris Smothers Series in Texas History, Life, and Culture)
Publication Date: May 1, 2012Founded in 1846, Fredericksburg, Texas, was established by German noblemen who enticed thousands of their compatriots to flee their overcrowded homeland with the prospect of free land in a place that was portrayed as a new Garden of Eden. Few of the settlers, however, were prepared for the harsh realities of the Texas frontier or for confrontation with the Comanche Indians. In his 1867 novel Friedrichsburg, Friedrich Armand Strubberg, a.k.a. Dr. Schubbert, interwove his personal story with a fictional romance to capture the flavor of Fredericksburg, Texas, during...
|  | Scenes from Provincial Life: Boyhood, Youth, Summertime
Release Date: April 24, 2012The Nobel Prize–winning author's brilliant trilogy of fictionalized memoirs—now available in one volume for the first timeFew writers have won as much critical acclaim and as many admirers in the literary world as J. M. Coetzee. Yet the celebrated author rarely spoke of himself until the 1997 arrival of Boyhood, a masterly and evocative tale of a young writer's beginnings. Continuing with the fiercely tender Youth and the innovative Summertime, Scenes from Provincial Life is a heartbreaking and often very funny portrait of the artist by one of the worl...
|  | The Maid: A Novel of Joan of Arc
Release Date: October 18, 2011The girl who led an army, the peasant who crowned a king, the maid who became a legend It is the fifteenth century, and the tumultuous Hundred Years’ War rages on. France is under siege, English soldiers tear through the countryside destroying all who cross their path, and Charles VII, the uncrowned king, has neither the strength nor the will to rally his army. And in the quiet of her parents’ garden in Domrémy, a peasant girl sees a spangle of light and hears a powerful voice speak her name. Jehanne . The story of Jehanne d’Arc, the visio...
|  | The Great Indian Novel
Publication Date: September 1, 2011Tharoor has masterfully recast the two-thousand-year-old epic, The Mahabharata, from twentieth-century Indian politics.In this award-winning novel, Tharoor has masterfully recast the two-thousand-year-old epic, The Mahabharata, with fictional but highly recognizable events and characters from twentieth-century Indian politics. Nothing is sacred in this deliciously irreverent, witty, and deeply intelligent retelling of modern Indian history and the ancient Indian epic The Mahabharata. Alternately outrageous and instructive, hilarious and moving, it is a...
|  | Muhammad: A Story of the Last Prophet
Release Date: September 21, 2010In this riveting novel, beloved international bestselling author Deepak Chopra captures the spellbinding life story of the great and often misunderstood Prophet.Islam was born in a cradle of tribal turmoil, and the arrival of one God who vanquished hundreds of ancient Arabian gods changed the world forever. God reached down into the life of Muhammad, a settled husband and father, and spoke through him. Muhammad's divine and dangerous task was to convince his people to renounce their ancestral idols and superstitious veneration of multiple gods. From the firs...
|  | Agnes Grey (Oxford World's Classics)
Publication Date: July 1, 2010| Series: Oxford World's Classics Anne Brontë's first novel, Agnes Grey, combines an astute dissection of middle-class social behavior and class attitudes with a wonderful study of Victorian responses to young children which has parallels with debates about education that continue to this day. In writing the novel, Brontë drew on her own experiences, and one can trace in the work many of the trials of the Victorian governess, often stranded far from home, and treated with little respect by her employers, yet expected to control and educate her young ch...
|  | Childhood; Boyhood; Youth (Penguin Classics)
Release Date: June 26, 2012| Series: Penguin ClassicsA new, definitive translation of Tolstoy's early autobiographical trilogyLeo Tolstoy began his trilogy, Childhood; Boyhood; Youth, in his early twenties. Although he would in his old age famously dismiss it as an 'awkward mixture of fact and fiction', generations of readers have not agreed, finding the novel to be a charming and insightful portrait of inner growth against the background of a world limned with extraordinary clarity, grace and color. Evident too in its brilliant account of a young person's emerging awareness of the world a...
|  | The Snows of Yesteryear (New York Review Books Classics)
Release Date: December 2, 2008| Series: New York Review Books Classics Gregor von Rezzori was born in Czernowitz, a onetime provincial capital of the Austro-Hungarian Empire that was later to be absorbed successively into Romania, the USSR, and the Ukraine—a town that was everywhere and nowhere, with a population of astonishing diversity. Growing up after World War I and the collapse of the empire, Rezzori lived in a twilit world suspended between the formalities of the old nineteenth-century order which had shaped his aristocratic parents and the innovations, uncertainties, and raw t...
|  | The Painter from Shanghai: A Novel
Publication Date: March 31, 2008Reminiscent of Memoirs of a Geisha, a re-imagining of the life of Pan Yuliang and her transformation from prostitute to post-Impressionist.Down the muddy waters of the Yangtze River and into the seedy backrooms of "The Hall of Eternal Splendor," through the raucous glamour of prewar Shanghai and the bohemian splendor of 1920s Paris, and back to a China ripped apart by civil war and teetering on the brink of revolution: this novel tells the story of Pan Yuliang, one of the most talented—and provocative—Chinese artists of the twenti...
|  | Signora Da Vinci
Publication Date: January 6, 2009Following the “absolutely superb”(Diane Haeger, author of The Secret Bride) Mademoiselle Boleyn, novelist Robin Maxwell delves into the life of Caterina—the adventurer, alchemist, and mother of Leonardo da Vinci.Caterina was fifteen years old in 1452 when she bore an illegitimate child in the tiny village of Vinci. His name was Leonardo, and he was destined to change the world forever. Caterina suffered much cruelty as an unmarried mother and had no recourse when her boy was taken away from her. But no one knew the secrets of her own childhood,...
|  | The Wilder Shores of Love
Release Date: October 26, 2010Originally published in 1954, The Wilder Shores of Love is the classic biography of four nineteenth-century European women who leave behind the industrialized west for Arabia in search of romance and fulfillment. Hailed by The Daily Telegraph as "enthralling to read," Lesley Blanch’s first book tells the story of Isabel Burton, the wife and traveling companion of the explorer Richard Burton; Jane Digby, who exchanged European society for an adventure in loving; Aimée Dubucq de Rivery, a Frenchwoman captured by pirates who became a member of the Turkis...
|  | Vintage Baldwin
Release Date: January 6, 2004Vintage Readers are a perfect introduction to some of the great modern writers presented in attractive, accessible paperback editions.“One of the few genuinely indispensable writers.” —The Saturday ReviewIn his internationally acclaimed novels, short stories, plays and essays, James Baldwin was and remains a powerfully prophetic voice in the American literary landscape, fearlessly brooding upon issues such as race, sex, politics, and art. His literary achievement is a lasting legacy about what it means to be American.Vintage Baldwin includes ...
|  | Lionheart: A Novel
Release Date: January 2, 2013NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “The great Crusader king Richard the Lionheart comes alive in all his complex splendor in this masterpiece of medieval tapestry.”—Margaret George A.D. 1189. After the death of his father, Henry II, and the early demise of two of his brothers, Richard is crowned King of England and immediately sets off for the Holy Land. This is the Third Crusade, marked by internecine warfare among the Christians and extraordinary campaigns against the Saracens. Richard’s surviving brother, the younger John, is left...
|  | Elizabeth I: A Novel
Release Date: April 5, 2011New York Times bestselling author Margaret George captures history's most enthralling queen-as she confronts rivals to her throne and to her heart.One of today's premier historical novelists, Margaret George dazzles here as she tackles her most difficult subject yet: the legendary Elizabeth Tudor, queen of enigma-the Virgin Queen who had many suitors, the victor of the Armada who hated war; the gorgeously attired, jewel- bedecked woman who pinched pennies. England's greatest monarch has baffled and intrigued the world for centuries. But what was she really like? ...
|  | A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Oxford World's Classics)
Publication Date: August 1, 2008| Series: Oxford World's Classics James Joyce's Portrait of an Artist is one of the most significant literary works of the twentieth century, and one of the most innovative.Its originality shocked contemporary readers on its publication in 1916 who found its treating of the minutiae of daily life as indecorous, and its central character unappealing.Was it art or was it filth?The novel charts the intellectual, moral, and sexual development of Stephen Dedalus, from his childhood listening to his father's stories through his schooldays and adolescence to the brin...
|  | As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning (Nonpareil Books)
Publication Date: April 1, 2011| Series: Nonpareil Books (Book 109) ''I was nineteen years old, still soft at the edges, but with a confident belief in good fortune. I carried a small rolled-up tent, a violin in a blanket, a change of clothes, a tin of treacle biscuits, and some cheese. I was excited, vain-glorious, knowing I had far to go; but not, as yet, how far. As I left home that morning and walked away from the sleeping village, it never occurred to me that others had done this before me.'' Despite this romantic and optimistic opening, what Lee finds and describes is the most primitiv...
|  | Madame Serpent: A Catherine de' Medici Novel (Catherine De' Medici Trilogy)
Release Date: July 3, 2012| Series: Catherine De' Medici Trilogy Fourteen-year-old Catherine de’ Medici arrives in Marseilles to marry Henry, Duke of Orleans, second son of the King of France. The brokenhearted Catherine has left her true love in Italy, forced into trading her future happiness for marriage into the French royal family. Amid the glittering fÊtes and banquets of the most immoral court in sixteenth-century Europe, the reluctant bride becomes a passionate but unwanted wife. Humiliated and unloved, Catherine spies on Henry and his lover, the infamous Diane de Poitiers...
|  | Drugs: A Novel
Release Date: May 22, 2012A modern homage to William S. Burrough’s classic Junky, the new novel Drugs is the sparse, beautifully unassuming account of one man’s life of drug use. As Robert Crumb, who illustrated the book jacket, says, “J.R. Helton really speaks to me—starkly honest, darkly funny, acutelyobservant, and captures the tragic absurdity of human life. . . . [H]e’sright up there with the best of them.”Thisfictionalized memoir is told in masterfully wry, Spartan prose with noapologies for a drug-user’s lifestyle, and instead looks back on ...
|  | Sally Hemings: A Novel (Rediscovered Classics)
Publication Date: April 1, 2009| Series: Rediscovered Classics One of the greatest love stories in American history is also one of the most controversial. Thomas Jefferson had a mistress for 38 years whom he loved and lived with until he died—the beautiful and elusive Sally Hemings. But it was not simply that Jefferson had a mistress that provoked such a scandal in both his time and ours. It was that Sally Hemings was a quadroon slave and that Jefferson fathered a slave family whose descendants are alive today. In this moving novel, originally published in 1979 and having sold over two ...
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