World Literature

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...

A Look At The Odyssey From Penelope's Point Of View. Margaret Atwood.Categories: Literature & Fiction World LiteratureCanadian

Read by millions of students over seven editions, The Norton Anthology of English Literature remains the most trusted undergraduate survey of English liter...

With her award-winning debut novel, Purple Hibiscus, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie was heralded by the Washington Post Book World as the “21st century daughter...

One of the saddest, funniest, strangest, and most romantic books. . . . Brilliant!-The Bookseller (UK) All Tom's friends really are superheroes. Tom even m...

One distressing night in Ramsgate, Elizabeth Bennet impulsively offers Georgiana Darcy aid. Scandalous rumours soon surround the ladies and Fitzwilliam Darc...

Fifteen-year-old Meryem lives in a rural village in Eastern Anatolia, Turkey. Her simple, conventional way of life changes dramatically after her uncle, a...

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 ...

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

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:...

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...

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 ...

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...

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

Winner of the 2000 Scotiabank Giller PrizeAs a boy, Sydney Henderson thinks he has killed Connie Devlin when he pushes him from a roof for stealing his sand...

This brilliant novel with universal resonance tells the story of three people trying to survive in a city rife with the extreme fear of desperate times, and...

With her award-winning debut novel, Purple Hibiscus, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie was heralded by the Washington Post Book World as the “21st century daughter...

Truth spoken plainly and powerfully is difficult to dismiss and impossible to ignore. Edited with purpose by Greg Frankson, AfriCANthology: Perspectives of ...

Elizabeth Hay.Categories: Literature & Fiction World LiteratureCanadian

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

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...

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...

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 ...

Brand NEW. We ship worldwideCategories: Literature & Fiction World LiteratureAfrican

A Dialogue Between Two Shepards, Uttered In A Pastoral Show -- Two Songs For An Accession Day Tilt -- Philisides, The Shepard Good And True -- Sing, Neighbo...

DuchessCategories: Literature & Fiction World Literature EuropeanBritish & Irish

This Is A New Edition Of Boccaccio's Decameron Translated By Wayne A. Rebhorn, The First Edition Of Which Was Published By Norton In 2013. It Is Part Of A S...

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...

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...

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

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...

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

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

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...

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 ...

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 ...

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...

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 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

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...

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

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 ...

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...

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...