Literary

Winner of the academy of American Poets 1991 Landon Translation Award, this masterful new verse translation of Homer's classic story of the Trojan War has ...

FROM THE #1 BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE HARRY BOSCH AND LINCOLN LAWYER SERIESAn electrifying standalone thriller that breaks all the rules! With an introduct...

The Penguin Classics debut that inspired a classic film and a current Broadway revival Reginald Rose's landmark American drama was a critically acclaimed ...

Skandal in Venedigs Opernhaus 'La Fenice': In der Pause vor dem letzten Akt der 'Traviata' wird der deutsche Stardirigent Helmut Wellauer tot aufgefunden. I...

One Of The Most Original American Writers, Edgar Allan Poe Shaped The Development Of Both The Detective Story And The Science-fiction Story. Some Of His Poe...

The #1 Bestseller That Gripped The World--soon To Be A Major Film From Fox Starring Amy Adams, Julianne Moore, And Gary Oldman. “astounding. Thrilling. Am...

"Sentimental, heartfelt….the exploration of Henry’s changing relationship with his family and with Keiko will keep most readers turning pages...A timel...

New York Times bestselling author Jodi Picoult is widely acclaimed for her ability to tap into the hearts and minds of real people. Now she explores what h...

It's the most annoying question and they just can't help asking you:Why are you single? On a brisk October morning in New York, Julie Jenson, a single ...

Over the course of three decades, Tom Clancy created a world alive with prescient action and remarkable individuals. In Tom Clancy Support and Defend, cove...

Let the chase begin! Fleeing to an abbey isn’t reallySeonaid Dunbar’s first choice. She’d been trained alongside her brother as a Scottish w...

“Lisa See begins to do for Beijing what Sir Arthur Conan Doyle did for turn-of-the-century London or Dashiell Hammett did for 1920s San Francisco: She dis...

A heart-warming novel inspired by real life events, about the brave women during WWI who worked in the historic grounds of London's Kew Gardens. Can the wom...

The First Explosive Thriller Featuring Peter Ash, A Veteran Who Finds That The Demons Of War Aren't Easily Left Behind... Lots Of Characters Get Compared To...

a Fully Restored American Political Classic. . . . Now We Can Read It As It Was Written.—chicago Tribune winner Of The 1947 Pulitzer Prize, all The King's...

the Year Is 1947. The Great Fire Of The Second World War Has Convulsed Europe And Asia. In Its Wake, Aldred Leith, An Acclaimed Hero Of The Conflict, Has ...

When Billy, A Troubled Young Man, Comes To Private Eye Cormoran Strike's Office To Ask For His Help Investigating A Crime He Thinks He Witnessed As A Child,...

The Man in the High CastleCategories: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense Thrillers & Suspense Spies & PoliticsEspionage

Diane Johnson, two-time finalist for both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, a noted observer of our times, has written a sparkling contempora...

Overview: The Remains Of The Day Is A Profoundly Compelling Portrait Of The Perfect English Butler And Of His Fading, Insular World Postwar England. At The ...

Charged with comic energy and a steely disregard for any pieties whatsoever, Barney's Version is a major Richler novel, the most personal and feeling book o...

How does marriage work? If convention is set aside and is no longer there to guide…what then?Stephanie Laurens, #1 New York Times bestselling author of th...

From Ethan Hawke, four-time Academy Award nominee—twice for writing and twice for acting—an unforgettable fable about a father's journey and a timeless ...

A Brilliant And Strikingly Original Reimagining Of The Classic Whodunit (a La Agatha Christie) With A Contemporary Mystery Wrapped Around It-- After Working...

the National Bestseller: A Medieval Murder Mystery Full Of The Wonders Of The Time—and Lessons For Our Own Time—by A Master Storyteller. publishers Weekly ...

Roland And His Band Have Narrowly Escaped The City Of Lud And Boarded Blaine, A Train That Will Take Them To, Of All Places, Kansas, Where The Ghost City Of...

from The Beloved new York Times- Bestselling Author, A Quintessential Nick Hornby Tale Of Music, Superfandom, And The Truths And Lies We Tell Ourselves Ab...

the Wild Boys Is A Futuristic Tale Of Global Warfare In Which A Guerrilla Gang Of Boys Dedicated To Freedom Battles The Organized Armies Of Repressive Pol...

Jack Kerouac.Categories: Literature & Fiction Ancient & Medieval LiteratureGreek

While men have long been credited with producing the first abstract paintings, the true creator was actually a woman - Swedish artist Hilma af Klint, who wa...

This Highly Acclaimed Post-apocalyptic Novel Of Hope And Terror From Award-winning Author Octavia E. Butler Pairs Well With 1984 Or The Handmaid's Tale (joh...

The New Novel--a Book That Sold More Than A Million Copies The First Week It Went On Sale In Japan--from The Internationally Acclaimed Author, His First Sin...

Jack O'Malley is a fireman who is fearless when it comes to facing an inferno. But when an arsonist begins targeting his district, his shift, and his friend...

By Using Breath And Drawing Upon The Color In Everyday Objects, All Manner Of Miracles And Mischief Can Be Accomplished. It Will Take Considerable Quantitie...

A Disgruntled Corporate Functionary, Three Brothers And Their Different Fates, And An American Pilot Struggling With A Mexican Crime Lord Articulate Harriso...

Stories From A Mind-bending Australian Master, “a Genius On The Level Of Beckett” (teju Cole) Never Before Available To Readers In This Hemisphere, Thes...

Finalist for the 2009 National Book Award in Fiction and the 2009 Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction: a major literary debut that ex...

A riveting, beautifully written, fugue-like novel of AIs, memory, violence, and mortality Not far in the future the seas have risen and the central latitud...

In the world of his large family, affluent Tamils living in Colombo, Arjie is an oddity, a 'funny boy' who prefers dressing as a girl to playing cricket wit...

Two thieves want answers. Riyria is born...For more than a year Royce Melborn has tried to forget Gwen DeLancy, the woman who saved him and his partner Had...

It Is Winter 1863, And Richard Shenstone, Aged Seventeen, Has Been Sent Down--'rusticated'--from Cambridge Under A Cloud Of Suspicion. Addicted To Opium And...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER\#1 bestselling author Lisa Scottoline offers a sweeping and shattering epic of historical fiction fueled by shocking true events, ...

The “Guermantes Way,” in this the third volume of In Search of Lost Time, refers to the path that leads to the Duc and Duchess de Guermantes’s châte...

The story of Pecola Breedlove profiles an eleven-year-old Black girl growing up in an America that values blue-eyed blondes and the tragedy that results fro...

This collection, unique to the Modern Library, gathers seven of Dostoevsky's key works and shows him to be equally adept at the short story as with the nov...

First published in 2006, Jo Walton’s Farthing was hailed as a masterpiece, a darkly romantic thriller set in an alternate postwar England sliding into...

From the author of A Gathering of Old Men and The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman comes a deep and compassionate novel. A young man who returns to 1940...

The inspiring international bestseller of a seemingly ordinary woman who uses her talent and courage to transform herself first into a prestigious couturie...