World Literature

Of the two hundred stories that Anton Chekhov wrote, the twenty stories that appear in this extraordinary collection were personally chosen by Richard Ford...

Arthur & George is a masterful novel about low crime and high spirituality, guilt and innocence, identity, nationality and race. Most of all, it’s a ...

First time in the New Canadian Library“Northwest of Montreal, through a valley always in sight of the low mountains of the Laurentian Shield, the Ottawa ...

Fictional autobiography of a writer and traveller who suddenly finds his gender changed overnight. Now female, she meanders through a rich, humane, complica...

The setting is Sri Lanka. Steeped in centuries of cultural achievement and tradition, the country has been ravaged in the late twentieth century by bloody c...

In the Skin of a Lion is a love story and an irresistible mystery set in the turbulent, muscular new world of Toronto in the 20s and 30s. Michael Ondaatje e...

Psychosis: any form of severe mental disorder in which the individual’s contact with reality becomes highly distorted.Douglas Coupland, the author whom To...

the Enchantress Of Florence Is The Story Of A Mysterious Woman, A Great Beauty Believed To Possess The Powers Of Enchantment And Sorcery, Attempting To Co...

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

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...

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...

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:...

Ten-year-old Orphan Mary Lennox Is Sent To Live In A Largely Uninhabited Mansion On The Yorkshire Moors And Discovers An Invalid Cousin And The Mysteries Of...

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...

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 ...

When Stella, A Young Métis Mother, Looks Out Her Window One Evening And Spots Someone In Trouble On The Break--a Barren Field On An Isolated Strip Of Land ...

twenty-three-year-old Veronika Seems To Have Everything She Could Wish For. She Goes To Popular Night Spots, Dates Attractive Men, And Has A Caring Family...

In the ninth century b.c., the Phoenician princess Jezebel orders the execution of all the prophets who refuse to worship the pagan god Baal. Commanded by ...

February In Newfoundland Is The Longest Month Of The Year. Another Blizzard Is Threatening To Tear A Strip Off Downtown St. John's, While Inside The Hazel R...

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...

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'...

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...

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 ...