Helen CresswellWhen they're asked to make a special pie for the king, to feed 200 people, the Rollers are thrown into a frenzy of excited preparations. This will be the...

Gershon Winkler with Lakme Batya Elior A book-length study of the wisdom that Judaism imparts upon relationships with God, self, and others. First published January 1, 1955

Albert CamusA gripping tale of human unrelieved horror, of survival and resilience, and of the ways in which humankind confronts death, The Plague is at once a masterfully crafted novel,...

Dava SobelWith her bestsellers Longitude and Galileo's Daughter, Dava Sobel introduced readers to her rare gift for weaving complex scientific concepts into a compelling narrative. Now Sobel brings her full...

Cardinal EditionA collection of 22 short stories by 22 masters of the short story: Ernest Hemingway; Stephen Vincent Benét; Dorothy Parker; Willa Cather; Sherwood Anderson; Katherine Mansfield; Thomas Mann; W....

WB YeatsPart of the Everyman series which has been re-set with wide margins and easy-to-read type and includes a themed introduction, chronology of the life and times of the author,...

William BlakeSongs of Innocence, and of Experience, and The Book of ThelA DIVINE IMAGECruelty has a human heart,And Jealousy a human face;Terror the human form divine,And Secresy the human dress.The...

Robert Browning With an Introduction by Dr Tim Cook.Robert Browning (1812-1889) represents the intellectual and argumentative strand in English poetry in contrast to the more ornate style of Spenser and...

Edward Snow For the past twenty-five years, North Point Press has been working with Edward Snow, "Rilke's best contemporary translator" (Brian Phillips, The New Republic ), to bring into English...

Edited and Translated by Ernest Barker Aristotle's Politics is a key document in Western political thought. In these first two books Aristotle shows his complete mastery of political theory and...

Niccolò Machiavelli, Peter Bondanella(Editor, Translator), Mark Musa(Editor, Translator)Edited and translated by Peter Bondanella and Mark Musa, "The Portable Machiavelli" not only gives the casual reader a chance to read different...

Muriel SparkAt the staid Marcia Blaine School for Girls in Edinburgh, Scotland, teacher extraordinaire Miss Jean Brodie is unmistakably, and outspokenly, in her prime. She is passionate in the application...