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...

Selected by Naomi Shihab Nye A collection of poetry and artistic works by people from the Middle East invites readers to explore a mosaic of culture, tradition, and common human...

Liza DalbyThe Tale of Murasaki is an elegant and brilliantly authentic historical novel by the author of Geisha and the only Westerner ever to have become a geisha.In the eleventh...

Author: William Shakespeare Renowned as Shakespeare's most boisterous comedy, The Taming of the Shrew is the tale of two young men, the hopeful Lucentio and the worldly Petruchio, and the...

Margaret AtwoodThe short fiction pieces brought together in 'The Tent' cover a broad range of subjects, reflecting contemporary life and society with accuracy and precision.159 pages, HardcoverFirst published January 1,...

Sam TaplinA beautiful treasury of poetry for older children, featuring a selection of work from both classic and modern poets, including Shakespeare, Byron, Ted Hughes and Wendy Cope, alongside all...

Virginia WoolfSet on the coast of England against the vivid background of the sea, The Waves introduces six characters—three men and three women—who are grappling with the death of a...

Allen R Grossman The Woman on the Bridge over the Chicago River  is Allen Grossman’s first collection with New Directions. His voice is astonishingly contemporary, his often dissociated imagery bordering...

Maurice BlonchotModern history is haunted by the disasters of the century—world wars, concentration camps, Hiroshima, and the Holocaust—grief, anger, terror, and loss beyond words, but still close, still impending. How...

Editor: Patricia Wayant Starting on the day she is born, a granddaughter brings immeasurable joy into a grandparent's life. She is a miracle in the making, and while there is...

Geoffery ChaucerConsidered one of Chaucer’s finest poems, second only to The Canterbury Tales in richness and depth, Troilus and Cressida is a tragic love story set against the background of...