Somerset Maugham
A Life
Written by Jeffrey Meyers

Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: April 12, 2005
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-1-4000-3052-1 (1-4000-3052-8)

An instinctive and magnificent storyteller, Somerset Maugham was one of the most popular and successful writers of his time. He published seventy-eight books—including the undisputed classics Of Human Bondage and The Razor’s Edge—which sold over 40 million copies in his lifetime.

Born in Paris to sophisticated parents, Willie Maugham was orphaned... Read more >

The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket

Written by Edgar Allan Poe
Introduction by Jeffrey Meyers

Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
Publisher: Modern Library
On Sale: May 14, 2002
Price: $9.95
ISBN: 978-0-375-76007-5 (0-375-76007-5)

“It is Poe’s greatest work.”—Jorge Luis Borges

After reading an 1836 newspaper account of a shipwreck and its two survivors, Edgar Allan Poe penned his only novel, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket, the story of a stowaway on a Nantucket whaleship who finds himself enmeshed in the dark... Read more >

Under Western Eyes

Written by Joseph Conrad
Introduction by Jeffrey Meyers

Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
Publisher: Modern Library
On Sale: July 10, 2001
Price: $11.95
ISBN: 978-0-375-75735-8 (0-375-75735-X)

Hailed as one of Joseph Conrad's finest literary achievements, this is the story of a young man unwittingly caught in the political turmoil of pre-Revolutionary czarist Russia.

A gripping novel that ultimately questions our capacity for moral strength and the depths of human integrity. This new edition includes commentary and a... Read more >