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“Archer plots with skill, and keeps you turning the pages.”―The Boston Globe “Archer is a master entertainer.”―Time ONE MAN. TWO LIVES. . . Rus...

WINNER OF CBC CANADA READSHere’s the set up: A burnt-out politcal aide quits just before an election--but is forced to run a hopeless campaign on the way...

Esta arrolladora novela cuenta dos milenios de historia de una de las ciudades más fascinantes del mundo: Londres. Desde la fundación de un pequeño asentam...

Thirty Years After Her British Bomber Pilot Father Parachuted From His Stricken Plane Into German-occupied Tuscany, Joanna Embarks On A Healing Journey To L...

"Master and Commander raised almost dangerously high expectations, Post Captain triumphantly surpasses them...a brilliant book."—Mary Renault "We've bea...

The biography sensitive to the tragic pattern of the story of a great subject: Oscar Wilde - psychologically and sexually complicated, enormously quotable,...

Secrets, mystery and wedding bells at Dovecote Hatch!\1933, Dovecote Hatch, England. Florence Norris knows she has found a good man in George ‘Birdie’ B...

The moment he saw her at the assembly in Meryton, he knew he loved her. WHEN FITZWILLIAM DARCY MEETS ELIZABETH BENNET in the fateful autumn of 1811, their...

Widely regarded as the finest poet of his generation, Seamus Heaney is the subject of numerous critical studies, but no book-length portrait has appeared be...

The Dramatic Story Of The 20th Century Through Ursula's Beloved Younger Brother Teddy--would-be Poet, Heroic Pilot, Husband, Father, And Grandfather--as He ...

Drawing On Victoria's Own Diaries, Which She First Started Reading When She Was A Student At Cambridge University, Daisy Goodwin Brings Us The Brilliantly I...

In 1930s France, a free-spirited mother undertakes to derail her very proper daughter’s engagement Julia Packett has barely laid eyes on her daughter, Su...

Bedroom7:00 p.m. I am so depressed and bored I may even have to do some homework. My new address is: Georgia NicolsonCrap HouseCrapton-on-SeaCrapshireCrapl...

The Season has yet to begin, and the second member of the Bastion Club, tall, handsome Anthony Blake, Viscount Torrington, is already a target for every ma...

'A brother is as easily forgotten as an umbrella.'-James Joyce, Ulysses 1918Audrey Death-feminist, socialist and munitions worker at Woolwich Arsenal-falls...

Played out against the backdrop of Paris before the start of the First World War, Tarr tells the blackly comic story of the lives and loves of two artistsâ...

The Saga [of The Pillars Of The Earth And World Without End] Now Continues With Follett's... A Column Of Fire. In 1558, The Ancient Stones Of Kingsbridge Ca...

"I have been reading Lady Julian of Norwich," declares C.S. Lewis in a letter to his former pupil, the Benedictine mystic Bede Griffiths. "A dangerous boo...

Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) was a Romantic poet of radical imaginings, living in an age of change. His tempestuous life and friendship with Byron, and ...

Instant National Bestseller A Suspenseful New Novel Of Love, Lies, And Loyalty, Set Against The Sweeping Backdrop Of The Early Jacobite Rebellions, From New...

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Secret Keeper comes a “moody, suspenseful page-turner” (People, Best Book Pick) filled with mystery an...

Recounts The Adventures Of A Young English Boy At Rugby School In The Early Nineteenth Century.Categories: Literature & FictionBritish & Irish

Life ashore may once again be the undoing of Jack Aubrey in Patrick O'Brian's long-awaited sequel to his bestseller The Commodore. Aubrey, now a considerabl...

Jeannette Winterson. First Published In Great Britain In 1989 By Bloomsbury Publishing Ltd.--t.p. Verso.Categories: Literature & FictionContemporary

In 670 A.D. Fidelma of Cashel is asked to act as an advisor to the Irish delegation to a church council hostile to the Celtic Church. In an abbey in Burgu...

Everyone's Talking About Feminism And Gender. But To Make Up Your Own Mind, You Need To Discover The She Devil For Yourself. In 1983, Fay Weldon Published H...

Noah Gordon nacio el 11 de noviembre de 1926 en Worcester Massachusetts (Estados Unidos). Acudio a la Universidad de Boston para estudiar medicina como asi ...

Frances Burney ; Edited By Stewart J. Cooke. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 488-490).Categories: Literature & Fiction History & Criticism R...

A New, Feminist Translation Of Beowulf By The Author Of The Much-buzzed-about Novel The Mere Wife Nearly Twenty Years After Seamus Heaney’s Translation Of...

Written over the course of 1904-6, Soseki's comic masterpiece, I Am a Cat, satirizes the follies of upper-middle-class Japanese society during the Meiji e...

For close to forty years, The Norton Anthology of English Literature, The Major Authors, has introduced students to the principal authors of the English lit...

With more than 3.5 million copies sold, Penny Vincenzi is one of the world’s preeminent writers of popular fiction―and American readers no longer have t...

“The first ten years of my life I was not black.” Thus begins this startlingly eloquent and beautiful tale based on the true story of Kwasi Boachi, a 19th-...

A Comedy On An Englishwoman's Quest For Self-improvement. Single And Thirty-something Bridget Diets, Keeps Tabs On Her Tobacco And Alcohol Consumption, Visi...

"The Magic of Saida is the sort of novel that, upon finishing, one wants to immediately read again, to examine, to study just how Vasssanji works his narra...

Here is a lively look at how Shakespeare's treatment of human sexuality in his plays and poems relates to the sexual conventions, sexual mores, and actual...

Contains 9,000 Alphabetical Entries Including Biographical Information On Authors, Composers And Artists, 2,000 Plot Summaries, Movements In Literature, Lit...

Interpreting The Genre: The Elegy And The Work Of Mourning -- Spenser: The Shepheardes Calendar And Astrophel -- Where Words Previal Not: Grief, Revenge, An...

The eleventh novel in Winston Graham's classic Poldark saga, now a major TV series from Masterpiece PBS.Cornwall 1815 Demelza sees a horseman riding down t...

Georgiana Darcy has gone missing. Lizzy Bennet knows just what to do to find her. ‘Tis no secret that Lizzy Bennet has dreams. The uniquely talented daugh...

This edition is the first to reproduce John Addington Symonds's Memoirs in its entirety. It offers a panoramic view of middle-class Victorian life, shedding...

Lara Lington has always had an overactive imagination, but suddenly that imagination seems to be in overdrive. Normal professional twenty-something young w...

Now a television miniseries, as seen on Masterpiece on PBS Set in seventeenth century Amsterdam—a city ruled by glittering wealth and oppressive religion...

The public too often hears about a new life-saving therapy, only to be told that the treatment won’t be available for many years. The Life Extension Found...

For over a generation, the illustrious Dr. Foth has dispensed doses of his irrepressible wit and pith in the most eagerly devoured columns to appear in the...

Pt. I Influences On Malthus -- [divine Mandates For Humanity] / King James Bible -- From Concerning The Causes Of The Greatness And Magnificence Of Cities (...

Abandoned pregnant and penniless on the teeming streets of London, 16-year-old Amber St. Clare manages, by using her wits, beauty, and courage, to climb to...

One minute, silly Heather Babcock had been babblingon at her movie idol, the glamorous MarinaGregg. The next, Heather suffered a massive seizure,poisoned b...