World Literature

roberto Bolaño's Masterpiece Is An Utterly Unique Achievement—a Modern Epic Rich In Character And Event. . . . [he Is] The Most Important Writer To Emerge...

One Of The First Russian Writers To Make A Name For Herself On The Internet, Linor Goralik Writes Conversational Short Works That Conjure The Absurd In All ...

By Isaac Bashevis Singer ; Translated From The Yiddish By A.h. Gross. Originally Published: New York : Knopf, 1950.Categories: Science Fiction & Fantasy...

Winner of the 2007 Crime Writers’ Association Debut DaggerA delightfully dark English mystery, featuring precocious young sleuth Flavia de Luce and her e...

A haunting novel about identity, love, and loss by the author of Three Day Road Will Bird is a legendary Cree bush pilot, now lying in a coma in a hospita...

Roddy Doyle.Categories: Literature & Fiction World Literature EuropeanBritish & Irish

Set During The Tumultuous Years Of The Napoleonic Wars, The Passion Intertwines The Destinies Of Two Remarkable People: Henri, A Simple French Soldier, Who ...

Maintaining a bedside vigil for her comatose uncle, Annie Bird remembers a painful search for her missing model sister; while her uncle Will, a legendary Cr...

Dostoevsky’s Most Revolutionary Novel, Notes From Underground Marks The Dividing Line Between Nineteenth- And Twentieth-century Fiction, And Between The V...

Includes six titles: Mere Christianity, The Screwtape Letters, A Grief Observed, The Problem of Pain, Miracles, and The Great Divorce.Categories: Literature...

The Glass Bead Game, For Which Hesse Won The Nobel Prize For Literature In 1946, Is The Author’s Last And Crowning Achievement, The Most Imaginative And P...

It is the summer of 1940, and all of England fears an invasion by Hitler’s army. Norah lies in bed listening to the anxious voices of her parents downsta...

An introduction by Agnes Cardinal, Prince Myshkin returns to Russia from an asylum in Switzerland. As he becomes embroiled in the frantic amatory and financ...

Book by Rose Bonne, Alan MillsCategories: Literature & Fiction World LiteratureCanadian

Jean-paul Sartre ; Translated From The French By Lloyd Alexander ; Introduction By Richard Howard.Categories: Literature & Fiction World Literature Euro...

In an Arizona desert a man wanders in a daze, speaking words that make no sense. Within twenty-four hours he is dead, his body swiftly cremated by his only ...

What you seek is seeking you. The true reality is right in front of you, though hidden. You need only turn on the light of awareness, banish the illusions, ...

155pages. poche. poche.Categories: Teen & Young AdultLiterature & Fiction

LES GRANDS TEXTES DU XXe SIÈCLE Devenu, avec Le Désert des Tartares, un classique du XXe siècle, Le K ouvre un recueil de 50 contes fantastiques où l'...

set In Postwar Germany, the Reader Is A Provocative, Morally Challenging, And Deeply Moving Novel About A Young Boy's Erotic Awakening In A Clandestine Lov...

In these fresh, vibrant new translations of Chekhov's four greatest plays: Seagull, Uncle Vanya, Three Sisters, and Cherry Orchard—the brilliant theatrica...

Book by Merritt, Susan E.Categories: Literature & Fiction World LiteratureCanadian

Charlotte Taylor lived in the front row of history. In 1775, at the young age of twenty, she fled her English country house and boarded a ship to Jamaica wi...

A new edition of Mary Shelley's 1818 classic, Frankenstein.Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus tells the story of Victor Frankenstein, a young scientist...

An integral part of Chinese thought for more than 2,000 years, the Tao Te Ching teaches individual peace and harmony through meditation. One of the most i...

Five classic masterpieces showcase the beauty and passionate imagination of these two extraordinary nineteenth-century novelists. Includes Jane Eyre, Wuther...

Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that is the inheritor of our fear. Let him not love the earth too deeply. Let him not laugh too gladly when...

Having achieved considerable success with his first novel, River Thieves, Michael Crummey has written a book that is equally stunning and compelling. The Wr...

Told in elegant, sensual prose, this is an enthralling historical novel of great passion and suspense, driven by an extraordinary cast of characters. Set a...

Precious Ramotswe is beset by problems, from a strange intruder in her house on Zebra Drive to the baffling appearance of a pumpkin, in the sixth novel of T...

A keepsake collection of Lord John Grey’s shorter adventures and a spectacular addition to any Gabaldon fan’s library, Lord John and the Hand of Devils ...

By the early l940s, when Ukrainian-born Irène Némirovsky began working on what would become Suite Française—the first two parts of a planned five-part ...

Now that her business, the No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency, is firmly established, the agency's founder, Precious Ramotswe, can look upon her life with pride:...

Set in an unnamed Caribbean seaport, Garcia Marquez's extraordinary Love in the Time of Cholera (1988) relates one of literature's most remarkable stories ...

Winner of the 2015 Scotiabank Giller Prize Finalist for the 2015 Toronto Book Awards Winner of the 2015 Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize "[Alexis] devis...

From the author of the beloved #1 national bestseller Crow Lake comes an exceptional new novel of jealously, rivalry and the dangerous power of obsession.Tw...

set In Postwar Germany, the Reader Is A Provocative, Morally Challenging, And Deeply Moving Novel About A Young Boy's Erotic Awakening In A Clandestine Lov...

From the pen of a master — the #1 bestselling, Booker Prize–winning author of Atonement — comes an astonishing novel that captures the fine balance of...

Red Bear stood close to the fire and stretched toward the sky, every muscle in his body straining. The veins in his neck stood out like electrical cords. Hi...

Sixteen-year-old Nomi Nickel longs to hang out with Lou Reed and Marianne Faithfull in New York City’s East Village. Instead she’s trapped in East Villa...

Dissent rises in the kingdom of King Henry VIII of England. The king's ongoing dispute with the papacy over a desire for annulment is about to incite the R...

Sukeroku: Flower Of Edo.--saint Narukami And The God Fudō.--chronicle Of The Battle Of Ichinotani.--love Letter From The Licensed Quarter.--the Scarlet Pri...

A wonderful history of the Red Indians of Newfoundland. Exciting in its detail, this book shares all available information conce ing every aspect of Beothuk...

Sweden’s bestselling and award-winning author Henning Mankell joins Vintage Canada with the first Kurt and Linda Wallander Mystery.Linda Wallander is bore...

In the same manner as alchemists obsessed over the philosopher's stone, a tooth puller from Seville reaches the Peruvian viceroyalty in search of the worm t...

Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that is the inheritor of our fear. Let him not love the earth too deeply. Let him not laugh too gladly when...

The Book of Salt serves up a wholly original take on Paris in the 1930s through the eyes of Binh, the Vietnamese cook employed by Gertrude Stein and Alice B...

Along with Hamlet, King Lear, and Macbeth, Othello is one of Shakespeare's four great tragedies. What distinguishes Othello is its bold treatment of racia...