Murasaki Shikibu In the eleventh century Murasaki Shikibu, a lady in the Heian court of Japan, wrote the world's first novel. But The Tale of Genji is no mere artifact....

Franz Kafka

Alexandre Dumas Book Six in the Musketeers Cycle of Lawrence Ellsworth’s new translations of Alexandre Dumas’ novels of d’Artagnan and the Three Musketeers. Conspiracy swirls around the young King Louis...

Harry Kemelman Rabbi Small once again becomes a murder detective.

F Scott Fitzgerald   Particularly notable for the letters to Zelda Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway and Maxwell Perkins (among others). Editor's introduction; includes biographical chronology and index.

Erskine Childers Brimming with heart-stopping action, "The Riddle of the Sands" is one the earliest spy novels. This spell-binding story is set in the period before the start of the...