World Literature

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 ...

Kiam-Kim is three years old when he arrives by ship at Gold Mountain with his father and his grandmother, Poh-Poh, the Old One. It is 1926, and because of f...

Wilde's works are suffused with his aestheticism, brilliant craftsmanship, legendary wit and, ultimately, his tragic muse. He wrote tender fairy stories for...

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 ...

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'...

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...

perfect For Beginning Students Of Spanish, This Affordable Anthology Is Filled With 41 Delightful Stories And Proverbs Based On Works Of Don Juan Manuel, ...

Drawing on contemporary accounts, period photographs, dime novels, and his own prodigious fund of empathy and imagination, Michael Ondaatje's visionary nove...

Lilly, the main character of Camilla Gibb’s stunning new novel, has anything but a stable childhood. The daughter of English/Irish hippies, she was “bor...

The Birth House is the story of Dora Rare, the first daughter to be born in five generations of Rares. As a child in an isolated village in Nova Scotia, sh...

Drawn by some sympathetic not in one of his poems, young people often wrote to Rilke with their problems and hopes. Booknews This classic of sincerity and ...

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...

This volume brings together the major political writings of Mary Wollstonecraft in the order in which they appeared in the revolutionary 1790s. It traces ...

44 SCOTLAND STREET - Book 2The residents and neighbors of 44 Scotland Street and the city of Edinburgh come to vivid life in these gently satirical, wonderf...

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

Edited By Thomas Colchie. Reprint. Originally Published: New York : Dutton, 1991.Categories: Literature & Fiction World LiteratureCaribbean & Latin ...

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

With all the qualities that P. D. James’s readers have come to expect: a masterly psychological and emotional richness of characterization, a vivid evocat...

In this seventh installment in the internationally bestselling, universally beloved series, there is considerable excitement at the shared premises of the N...

This volume includes works by Spenser (excerpts from all books of The Faerie Queene), Shakespeare (including The Tempest), Marlowe (Dr. Faustus, Hero and Le...

This collection includes Death in Venice, Mario and the Magician, Disorder and Early Sorrow, A Man and His Dog, Felix Krull (the basis for a later novel), ...

Book by Roy, ArundhatiCategories: Literature & Fiction World LiteratureCanadian

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...

With superb skill and feeling, Graham Greene retraces the experiences and encounters of his extraordinary life. His restlessness is legendary; as if seeking...

One of the best-known classics of children's literature, a timeless masterpiece and a vital portrait of an age, The Wind in the Willows began originally in ...

In This Illuminating And Deeply Moving Memoir, A Former American Military Intelligence Officer Goes Beyond Traditional Cold War Espionage Tales To Tell The ...

The Ninth Edition Offers More Complete Works, More Teachable Groupings Than Ever Before And The Apparatus Teachers Trust. Read By More Than 8 Million Studen...

At 26, Larry Weller thinks his future lies in flowers. He still lives at home, has a new career as a floral designer, and a girlfriend about whom he is some...

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

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...

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...

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 ...

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 ...

The eighth installment in the universally beloved, internationally bestselling series.In the life of Mma Ramotswe €“ a woman duly proud of her fine trad...

When Stieg Larsson Died, The Author Of The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo Had Been Working On A True Mystery That Out-twisted His Millennium Novels: The Assass...

When tribal chairman Oscar Sweetwater asks Charlie Moon to look into the murder of a fellow Ute, Billy Smoke, Charlie agrees, but he doesn't expect to find ...

Showing the Story collects nonfiction by new writers: clear voices, fresh content, engaging storytelling.This collection shows what people new to writing, ...

In 1904, the Canadian Bank of Commerce transferred teller Robert W. Service to the Yukon Territory. Soon, he was famous as the poet who chronicled the Klond...

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...

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...

The most-trusted literature anthology of all time, now in its 50th year. The Ninth Edition offers more complete works and more teachable groupings than eve...

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...

While The World Was Still Reeling From The Staggering Losses Incurred In The First World War, A Little-known Canadian Sculptor Was Raising A Colossal Monume...

"The first of my father's illusions was that bears could survive the life lived by human beings, and the second was that human beings could survive a life l...

Against the backdrop of Isla Negra - the sea and wind, the white sand with its scattering of delicate wild flowers, the hot sun and salty smells of the Pac...

The hero of Christine Falls, Quirke, is a surly pathologist living in 1950s Dublin. One night, after having a few drinks at a party, he returns to the morgu...

“There is a vast part of this city with mouths buried in it . . . . Mouths capable of speaking to us. But we stop them up with concrete and build over th...

Do you know what's the biggest obstacle preventing many from learning Italian to fluency?It's a lack of vocabulary!Reading in Italian is perhaps the most ef...