Malcolm Bradbury In October 1993, a novelist is invited to go to Stockholm and Russia to take part in what is enigmatically referred to as the Diderot Project. In Stockholm...

  William Shakespeare After defeat at the Battle of Shrewsbury the rebels regroup. But Prince Hal’s reluctance to inherit the crown threatens to destroy the ailing Henry IV’s dream of...

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn The First Circle of Dante’s Hell—where the souls of the pre-Christian philosophers are doomed to exist throughout eternity—stands in this novel as a metaphor for certain penal institutions...

Mike Evans As a young girl, Sarah Batsheva was infatuated with the handsome teenage boy who lived down the street. That teenage boy was Adolf Eichmann. It all seemed innocent...

Carol Shields and Blanche Howard For Jocelyn and Charles, the demands of family and career mean a ten-month separation, during which they decide to communicate with one another by writing...

Marek Halter A family saga with a difference. "The Book of Abraham opens on the backdrop of a burning Jerusalem in 70 AD as Abraham the Temple scribe flees the...

Sophie Kinsella Becky has a fabulous flat in London's trendiest neighborhood, a troupe of glamorous socialite friends, and a closet brimming with the season's must-haves. The only trouble is that...

John Saul   Fifteen-year-old Alison Shaw may not be beautiful, but she doesn’t really care: She’d much rather read a good book than primp in front of a mirror. But...

Robert Penn Warren (Editor), Albert Erskine (Editor) Since its first printing in 1954, this outstanding anthology has been the book of choice by teachers, students, and lovers of short fiction. Surveying stories...

Liz Byrski Gayle and Sonya are complete opposites: one reserved and cautious, the other confident and outspoken. But their very different lives will converge when they impulsively join a belly...

Rosie Thomas Rosie Thomas, a "master storyteller" ( Cosmopolitan ) has been delighting readers with her globe-spanning romantic sagas for more than three decades. Here, in Iris and Ruby ,...

William Shakespeare “Why, then the world’s mine oyster.”—The Merry Wives of Windsor Eminent Shakespearean scholars Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen provide a fresh new edition of this popular comedy of love,...