Michael Sebastian Available in English for the first time, Mihail Sebastian's classic 1934 novel delves into the mind of a Jewish student in Romania during the fraught years preceding World...

PG Wodehouse  At Deverill Hall, an idyllic Tudor manor in the picture-perfect village of King's Deverill, impostors are in the air. The prime example is man-about-town Bertie Wooster, doing a...

Thomas Pynchon Winner of the coveted William Faulkner Foundation First Novel Award in 1963, V. is an ever popular novel by one of America's great modernists.V. is a wild, macabre...

Simon Sebag Montefiore   Winter, 1916: In St Petersburg, Russia on the brink of revolution. Outside the Smolny Institute for Noble Young Ladies, an English governess is waiting for her...

Roberto Bolano Composed in the last two years of Bolaño's life, 2666 has been greeted as his greatest achievement, surpassing even his previous work in its strangeness,beauty, and scope. Its throng of...

Thomas Pynchon A group of Americans in Northern California in 1984 are struggling with the consequences of their lives in the sixties, still run by the passions of those times—sexual...

Anthony Burgess In a sweeping historical novel moving from the sinking of the "Titanic" to World War II and the birth of Israel, two families--one Welsh and one Irish--are bound...

Ernest Hemingway The quintessential novel of the Lost Generation, The Sun Also Rises is one of Ernest Hemingway's masterpieces and a classic example of his spare but powerful writing style.A poignant look...

Sir Walter Scott  Romance and Adventure! King Richard the Lion-Hearted. . . Robin Hood. . . the fair princess Rowena. . . the bewitching Rebecca. . . and the most...

Milton Steinback A Behrman paperback. Milton Steinberg's only novel, published in 1939, in which he uses drama to illustrate the Jewish mind of the 1940's. First published January 1, 1939...

Arthur Conan Doyle Sherlock Holmes is a fictional detective of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, who first appeared in publication in 1887. He is the creation of Scottish...

Thomas S Szasz, MD A classic work that has revolutionized thinking throughout the Western world about the nature of the psychiatric profession and the moral implications of its practices. "Bold...