John Updike On a spring day in Vermont, seventy-nine-year-old painter Hope Chafetz tells the story of her life to Kathryn, a young interviewer from New York. Questions send Hope back...

Arwen Elys Dayton The night Quin Kincaid takes her Oath, she will become what she has trained to be her entire life. She will become a Seeker. This is her...

Edited by Leslie A Marchand Described as 'Mad, bad and dangerous to know' by one of his lovers, Lady Caroline Lamb, Lord Byron was the quintessential Romantic. Flamboyant, charismatic and...

Anton Chekhov Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, the highly acclaimed translators of and which was an Oprah Book Club pick and million-copy bestseller, bring their unmatched talents to a collection...

Nadine GordimerSelected Stories

Gerard De Nerval Gerard de Nerval (1808-1855), a contemporary of Poe, De Quincey, Gogol, and Heine, introduced into French literature a mode of writing rooted in German romanticism yet already...

Bernhard Schlink and Walter PoppAs a young man, Gerhard Self served as a Nazi prosecutor. After the war he was barred from the judicial system and so became a private...

Louis de Bernieres ‘Sharp, funny, engaging’ Financial TimesDiscover the second gripping novel in Louis de Bernières' satricial tragic, hilarious South American trilogy.Dionisio Vivo, a South American lecturer in philosophy, is puzzled...

Jane AustenThe more I know of the world, the more am I convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love. I require so much!'Marianne Dashwood...

Margaret Peterson HaddixThirteen-year-olds Jonah and Chip are reeling from the news that they're both missing children from history, kidnapped from their proper time period, when JB, a time purist, zaps...

Adam BladeFloods. Starvation. Fear. This is what awaits the people of Avantia's coast if Tom and Elenna cannot stop Sepron the Sea Serpent. The huge and terrifying beast lurks in...

Adam Blade Fight the Beasts, Fear the Magic!The time has come for another Battle of the Beasts!Maximus's evil plans to destroy the Good Beasts continues... The seas will boil when...