World Literature

The first and only story of love and looming apocalypse set in the aisles of an office supply superstore.In Douglas Coupland’s ingenious new novel–sort ...

The Booker finalist and beloved novel that has taken the world by storm is now a major motion picture starring Hugh Laurie. Thirteen-year-old Matilda lives ...

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...

Pak Wan-so ; Translated By Yu Young-nan.Categories: Literature & Fiction History & CriticismComparative Literature

hardcover bookCategories: Literature & Fiction World LiteratureCanadian

The book is a love story--of a long marriage. At each turn of events, the marriage is different. In the beginning, you wonder how Augusta can stand her life...

Here are two thousand years of London’s history and folklore, its chroniclers and criminals and plain citizens, its food and drink and countless pleasures...

A Woman Recalls Her Long And Eventful Life While Caring For The Five-year-old Girl Who Is Abandoned On Her Trailer Park Doorstep.Categories: Literature &...

Beautifully written and elegantly paced, The Story of Edgar Sawtelle is a coming-of-age novel about the power of the land and the past to shape our lives. I...

La Compañía se ha disuelto y sus integrantes emprenden caminos separados. Frodo y Sam continúan solos su viaje a lo largo del río Anduin, perseguidos po...

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...

Eduardo Mendicutti.Categories: Education & TeachingSchools & Teaching

From The Author Of Fugitive Pieces, A Spellbinding Love Story Set In Canada And Egypt, With Flashbacks To England And Poland After The War, That Juxtaposes ...

This is a paperback from Knopf Canada and was released in 2000. It's written by Salman Rushdie and has at least 592 pages.Categories: Literature & Ficti...

Published To Rave Reviews, With Weeks On The Bestseller Lists And A Place As A Globe And Mail Book Of The Year, October Is An Extraordinary Meditation On Mo...

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 ...

The most beguilingly seductive novel to date from the author of The Passion and Sexing the Cherry. Winterson chronicles the consuming affair between the nar...

In this enormously engaging, vibrant, and richly researched biography of Albert Camus, the French writer and journalist Olivier Todd has drawn on personal c...

Berlin in Lights, chosen as a New York Times Notable Book, is the collection of German aristocrat Harry Kessler's diaries between the two world wars. Count ...

V. 1.the Letters Of Samuel Beckett Offers For The First Time A Comprehensive Range Of Letters Of One Of The Greatest Literary Figures Of The Twentieth Centu...

Now, in Pia Pera's controversial new book, Lolita speaks for herself in her own naked voice. Listening to her tale, readers enter a universe in which events...

Most of the commonly read Greek texts address "pollution". The pollution theme appears in tragedies, historical texts, and political oratory. Purity is a co...

A Tel Aviv shopkeeper visits his parents' Polish birthplace in an attempt to come to terms with their complex legacy--and is completely unprepared for what ...

In all six of its volumes The Broadview Anthology of British Literature presents British literature in a truly distinctive light. Fully grounded in sound l...

Text: SpanishCategories: Literature & Fiction World Literature EuropeanSpanish & Portuguese

M.G. Vassanji’s magnificent new novel provides further proof of his unique, wide ranging and profound genius. The Assassin’s Songis a shining study of t...

Kevin Mccabe, Editor. Includes Index.Categories: Literature & Fiction History & Criticism Regional & CulturalCanadian

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...

Suite Française is both a brilliant novel of wartime and an extraordinary historical document. An unmatched evocation of the exodus from Paris after the G...

The Road to Cana, Anne Rice’s second book in her hugely ambitious life of Christ, begins before his baptism in the Jordan and concludes with the mirac...

In this pithy, powerful parable, the masterly Naguib Mahfouz explores life's secrets and the mysterious maze of the human heart—a mystical and lyrical Pil...

Caligula, An Attractive Prince, Upon The Death Of His Sister And Mistress, Tries, Through Murder And The Systematic Perversion Of All Values, To Practice A ...

Each facsimile page of the original manuscript is accompanied here by a typeset transcript on the facing page. This book shows how the original, which was...

The literary adventure of D.A.F. (1740-1814) is unique and paradoxical. He was widely read in the nineteenth century, but his books disappeared almost com...

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...

"Belcher’s volume contains a much needed and extremely well-integrated overview and discussion of a vast inter-related West African culture complex that ...

Koyashi Issa (1763–1827), long considered amoung Japan’s four greatest haiku poets (along with Basho, Buson, and Shiki) is probably the best loved. This...

They're fan favorites, the hockey greats of days gone by who still put on a super show. Every year, a team of ex-NHLers, including such legends as Bobby Hul...

A subtle and powerful work of contemporary fiction.Combe Island off the Cornish coast has a bloodstained history of piracy and cruelty but now, privately ow...

This book is no longer in print circulation.Categories: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense Thrillers & Suspense CrimeMurder

Foreword / Michael Palmer -- Year's End -- Absent -- Brass Of A Summer's Day -- Midnight Singer -- Advertising -- Autumn World In Turmoil -- Beyond -- For T...

In Homer’s account in The Odyssey, Penelope--wife of Odysseus and cousin of the beautiful Helen of Troy--is portrayed as the quintessential faithful wife,...

from The Exiled Kenyan Novelist, Playwright, Poet, And Literary Critic—a Magisterial Comic Novel That Is Certain To Take Its Place As A Landmark Of Postco...

An Epic Tale Of Fathers And Sons, Of Friendship And Betrayal, That Takes Us From Afghanistan In The Final Days Of The Monarchy To The Atrocities Of The Pres...

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 ...

Lumière des oiseaux: Histoires naturelles du Nouveau Monde t2Categories: Literature & Fiction World LiteratureCanadian

Giller Prize Winner 2001. Richard B. Wright. A Phyllis Bruce Book.Categories: Literature & Fiction World LiteratureCanadian