Random House New Releases - Classics

The Belly of Paris by Mark Kurlansky

2009-05-12T00:30:00-05:00

The Belly of Paris
Written by Emile Zola
Translated by Mark Kurlansky

Trade Paperback, 368 pages | Modern Library | Fiction - Classics | $16.00 | 978-0-8129-7422-5 (0-8129-7422-0)

Part of Emile Zola’s multigenerational Rougon-Macquart saga, The Belly of Paris is the story of Florent Quenu, a wrongly accused man who escapes imprisonment on Devil’s Island. Returning to his native Paris, Florent finds a city he barely recognizes, with its working classes displaced to make way for broad boulevards and bourgeois flats. Living with his brother’s family in the newly rebuilt Les Halles market, Florent is soon caught up in a dangerous maelstrom of food and politics. Amid intrigue among the market’s sellers–the fishmonger, the charcutière, the fruit girl, and the cheese vendor–and the glorious culinary bounty of their labors, we see the dramatic difference between “fat and thin” (the rich and the poor) and how the widening gulf between them strains a city to the breaking point.

Translated and with an Introduction by the celebrated historian and food writer Mark Kurlansky, The Belly of Paris offers fascinating perspectives on the French capital during the Second Empire–and, of course, tantalizing descriptions of its sumptuous repasts.

The Dark Side by Jane Mayer

2009-05-05T00:30:00-05:00

The Dark Side The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned Into a War on American Ideals
Written by Jane Mayer

Trade Paperback, 432 pages | Anchor | History - United States - 21St Century; Political Science - Political Freedom & Security - Terrorism | $15.95 | 978-0-307-45629-8 (0-307-45629-3)

One of The New York Times 10 Best Books of the Year

National Bestseller
With a New Afterword

National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist

A Best Book of the Year: Salon, Slate, The Economist, The Washington Post, Cleveland Plain-Dealer

The Dark Side is a dramatic, riveting, and definitive narrative account of how the United States made terrible decisions in the pursuit of terrorists around the world—decisions that not only violated the Constitution, but also hampered the pursuit of Al Qaeda. In spellbinding detail, Jane Mayer relates the impact of these decisions by which key players, namely Vice President Dick Cheney and his powerful, secretive adviser David Addington, exploited September 11 to further a long held agenda to enhance presidential powers to a degree never known in U.S. history, and obliterate Constitutional protections that define the very essence of the American experiment.

PEN/ O. Henry Prize Stories 2009 by Laura Furman

2009-05-05T00:30:00-05:00

PEN/ O. Henry Prize Stories 2009
Edited by Laura Furman

Trade Paperback, 464 pages | Anchor | Fiction - Literary | $15.00 | 978-0-307-28035-0 (0-307-28035-7)

A collection of the twenty best contemporary short stories selected by series editor Laura Furman from hundreds of literary magazines, The PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories 2009 features unforgettable tales in settings as diverse as post-war Vietnam, a luxurious seaside development in Cape Town, an Egyptian desert village, and a permanently darkened New York City. Also included are essays from the eminent jurors on their favorite stories, observations from the winners on what inspired them, and an extensive resource list of magazines.

Antony and Cleopatra by Eric Rasmussen

2009-04-14T00:30:00-05:00

Antony and Cleopatra
Written by William Shakespeare
Edited by Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen

Trade Paperback, 256 pages | Modern Library | Drama | $5.95 | 978-0-8129-6918-4 (0-8129-6918-9)

Written at the pinnacle of Shakespeare’s career and featuring his most soaring poetic idiom, Antony and Cleopatra is both an immortal love story and a political drama played out on a global scale.

Under the editorial supervision of Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen, two of today’s most accomplished Shakespearean scholars, this Modern Library series incorporates definitive texts and authoritative notes from William Shakespeare: Complete Works. Each play includes an Introduction as well as an overview of Shakespeare’s theatrical career; commentary on past and current productions based on interviews with leading directors, actors, and designers; scene-by-scene analysis; key facts about the work; a chronology of Shakespeare’s life and times; and black-and-white illustrations.

Ideal for students, theater professionals, and general readers, these modern and accessible editions from the Royal Shakespeare Company set a new standard in Shakespearean literature for the twenty-first century.

King Lear by Eric Rasmussen

2009-04-14T00:30:00-05:00

King Lear
Written by William Shakespeare
Edited by Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen

Trade Paperback, 272 pages | Modern Library | Drama | $5.95 | 978-0-8129-6911-5 (0-8129-6911-1)

King Lear is Shakespeare’s bleakest and profoundest tragedy, a searing dramatization of humankind at the edge of apocalypse that explores the family and the nature of being with passion, poetry, and dark humor.

Under the editorial supervision of Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen, two of today’s most accomplished Shakespearean scholars, this Modern Library series incorporates definitive texts and authoritative notes from William Shakespeare: Complete Works. Each play includes an Introduction as well as an overview of Shakespeare’s theatrical career; commentary on past and current productions based on interviews with leading directors, actors, and designers; scene-by-scene analysis; key facts about the work; a chronology of Shakespeare’s life and times; and black-and-white illustrations.

Ideal for students, theater professionals, and general readers, these modern and accessible editions set a new standard in Shakespearean literature for the twenty-first century.

Macbeth by Eric Rasmussen

2009-04-14T00:30:00-05:00

Macbeth
Written by William Shakespeare
Edited by Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen

Trade Paperback, 224 pages | Modern Library | Drama | $5.95 | 978-0-8129-6916-0 (0-8129-6916-2)

One of Shakespeare’s most popular plays, filled with fierce, violent action, Macbeth is a human drama of ambition, desire, and guilt in a world of blood and darkness, with whispers of the supernatural.

Under the editorial supervision of Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen, two of today’s most accomplished Shakespearean scholars, this Modern Library series incorporates definitive texts and authoritative notes from William Shakespeare: Complete Works. Each play includes an Introduction as well as an overview of Shakespeare’s theatrical career; commentary on past and current productions based on interviews with leading directors, actors, and designers; scene-by-scene analysis; key facts about the work; a chronology of Shakespeare’s life and times; and black-and-white illustrations.

Ideal for students, theater professionals, and general readers, these modern and accessible editions from the Royal Shakespeare Company set a new standard in Shakespearean literature for the twenty-first century.

The Winter's Tale by Eric Rasmussen

2009-04-14T00:30:00-05:00

The Winter's Tale
Written by William Shakespeare
Edited by Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen

Trade Paperback, 240 pages | Modern Library | Drama | $5.95 | 978-0-8129-6919-1 (0-8129-6919-7)

One of the last plays Shakespeare penned on his own, The Winter’s Tale is a transcendent work of death and rebirth, exploring irrational sexual jealousy, the redemptive world of nature, and the magical power of art.

Under the editorial supervision of Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen, two of today’s most accomplished Shakespearean scholars, this Modern Library series incorporates definitive texts and authoritative notes from William Shakespeare: Complete Works. Each play includes an Introduction as well as an overview of Shakespeare’s theatrical career; commentary on past and current productions based on interviews with leading directors, actors, and designers; scene-by-scene analysis; key facts about the work; a chronology of Shakespeare’s life and times; and black-and-white illustrations.

Ideal for students, theater professionals, and general readers, these modern and accessible editions from the Royal Shakespeare Company set a new standard in Shakespearean literature for the twenty-first century.

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

2009-04-07T00:30:00-05:00

Jane Eyre
Written by Charlotte Bronte

Trade Paperback, 624 pages | Vintage | Fiction - Literary | $7.95 | 978-0-307-45519-2 (0-307-45519-X)

Charlotte Brontë's most beloved novel describes the passionate love between the courageous orphan Jane Eyre and the brilliant, brooding, and domineering Rochester.

The loneliness and cruelty of Jane's childhood strengthens her natural independence and spirit, which prove invaluable when she takes a position as a governess at Thornfield Hall. But after she falls in love with her sardonic employer, her discovery of his terrible secret forces her to make a heart-wrenching choice. Ever since its publication in 1847, Jane Eyre has enthralled every kind of reader, from the most critical and cultivated to the youngest and most unabashedly romantic. It lives as one of the great triumphs of storytelling and as a moving and unforgettable portrayal of a woman's quest for self-respect.

Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

2009-04-07T00:30:00-05:00

Wuthering Heights
Written by Emily Bronte

Trade Paperback, 400 pages | Vintage | Fiction - Literary | $7.95 | 978-0-307-45518-5 (0-307-45518-1)

Perhaps the most haunting and tormented love story ever written, Wuthering Heights is the tale of the troubled orphan Heathcliff and his doomed love for Catherine Earnshaw.

Published in 1847, the year before Emily Bronte's death at the age of thirty, Wuthering Heights has proved to be one of the nineteenth century's most popular yet disturbing masterpieces. The windswept moors are the unforgettable setting of this tale of the love between the foundling Heathcliff and his wealthy benefactor's daughter, Catherine. Through Catherine's betrayal of Heathcliff and his bitter vengeance, their mythic passion haunts the next generation even after their deaths. Incorporating elements of many genres—from gothic novels and ghost stories to poetic allegory—and transcending them all, Wuthering Heights is a mystifying and powerful tour de force.

Karnak Caf� by Naguib Mahfouz

2008-12-02T00:30:00-05:00

Karnak Caf�
Written by Naguib Mahfouz

Trade Paperback, 112 pages | Anchor | Fiction - Literary | $12.95 | 978-0-307-39045-5 (0-307-39045-4)

In this gripping and suspenseful novella from the Egyptian Nobel Prize-winner, three young friends survive interrogation by the secret police, only to find their lives poisoned by suspicion, fear, and betrayal.

At a Cairo café in the 1960s, a legendary former belly dancer lovingly presides over a boisterous family of regulars, including a group of idealistic university students. One day, amid reports of a wave of arrests, three of the students disappear: the excitable Hilmi, his friend Ismail, and Ismail's beautiful girlfriend Zaynab. When they return months later, they are apparently unharmed and yet subtly and profoundly changed. It is only years later, after their lives have been further shattered, that the narrator pieces together the young people's horrific stories and learns how the government used them against one another. In a riveting final chapter, their torturer himself enters the Café and sits among his former victims, claiming a right to join their society of the disillusioned. Now translated into English for the first time, Naguib Mahfouz's tale of the insidious effects of government-sanctioned torture and the suspension of rights and freedoms in a time of crisis is shockingly contemporary.

War and Peace by Larissa Volokhonsky

2008-12-02T00:30:00-05:00

War and Peace
Written by Leo Tolstoy
Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky

Trade Paperback, 1296 pages | Vintage | Fiction - Literary | $19.95 | 978-1-4000-7998-8 (1-4000-7998-5)

From the award-winning translators of Anna Karenina and The Brothers Karamazov comes this magnificent new translation of Tolstoy's masterwork.

War and Peace broadly focuses on Napoleon’s invasion of Russia in 1812 and follows three of the most well-known characters in literature: Pierre Bezukhov, the illegitimate son of a count who is fighting for his inheritance and yearning for spiritual fulfillment; Prince Andrei Bolkonsky, who leaves his family behind to fight in the war against Napoleon; and Natasha Rostov, the beautiful young daughter of a nobleman who intrigues both men.

A s Napoleon’s army invades, Tolstoy brilliantly follows characters from diverse backgrounds—peasants and nobility, civilians and soldiers—as they struggle with the problems unique to their era, their history, and their culture. And as the novel progresses, these characters transcend their specificity, becoming some of the most moving—and human—figures in world literature.

The Canterbury Tales by John Miles Foley

2008-11-18T00:30:00-05:00

The Canterbury Tales
Written by Geoffrey Chaucer
Translated by Burton Raffel
Introduction by John Miles Foley

Hardcover, 672 pages | Modern Library | Poetry - Single Author - British & Irish; Poetry - Ancient, Classical & Medieval | $36.00 | 978-0-679-64355-5 (0-679-64355-9)

It would be impossible to overstate the influence of Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales. A work with one metaphorical foot planted in the Florentine Renaissance literary tradition of Boccaccio’s Decameron and the other in works ranging from John Bunyan, Voltaire, and Mark Twain to the popular entertainments of our own time, The Canterbury Tales stands astride the cultures of Great Britain and America, and much of Europe, like a benign colossus.

Beyond its importance as a cultural touchstone and literary work of unvarnished genius, Chaucer’s unfinished epic poem is also one of the most beloved works in the English language–and for good reason: It is lively, absorbing, perceptive, and outrageously funny–an undisputed classic that has held a special appeal for generations of readers. Chaucer has gathered twenty-nine of literature’s most indelible archetypes–from the exalted Knight to the bawdy Wife to the besotted Miller to the humble Plowman–in a vivid group portrait that captures the full spectrum of late-medieval English society and both informs and expands our discourse on the human condition.

Presented in these pages in a new unabridged translation by the esteemed poet, translator, and scholar Burton Raffel–whose translation of Beowulf has sold more than a million copies–this Modern Library edition also features an Introduction by the well-known and widely influential medievalist and author John Miles Foley that discusses Chaucer’s work as well as to his life and times.

Despite the brilliance of Geoffrey Chaucer’s work, the continual evolution of our language has rendered his words unfamiliar to many of us. Burton Raffel’s magnificent new translation brings Chaucer’s poetry back to life, ensuring that none of the original’s wit, wisdom, or humanity is lost to the modern reader.

The Long Embrace by Judith Freeman

2008-11-11T00:30:00-05:00

The Long Embrace Raymond Chandler and the Woman He Loved
Written by Judith Freeman

Trade Paperback, 368 pages | Vintage | Biography & Autobiography - Literary | $14.95 | 978-1-4000-9517-9 (1-4000-9517-4)

Raymond Chandler was among the most original and enduring crime novelists of the twentieth century. Yet much of his pre-writing life, including his unconventional marriage, has remained shrouded in mystery. In this compelling, wholly original book, Judith Freeman sets out to solve the puzzle of who Chandler was and how he became the writer who would create in Philip Marlowe an icon of American culture.

Visiting Chandler's many homes and apartments, Freeman uncovers vestiges of the Los Angeles that was Chandler's terrain and inspiration for his imagination. She also uncovers the life of Cissy Pascal, the older, twice-divorced woman Chandler married in 1924. A revelation of a marriage that was a wellspring of need, illusion, and creativity, The Long Embrace provides us with a more complete picture of Raymond Chandler's life and art than any we have had before.

Other Colors by Orhan Pamuk

2008-11-11T00:30:00-05:00

Other Colors Essays and a Story
Written by Orhan Pamuk

Trade Paperback, 464 pages | Vintage | Literary Criticism & Collections - Essays | $15.95 | 978-0-307-38623-6 (0-307-38623-6)

In the three decades that Nobel prize-winning author Orhan Pamuk has devoted himself to writing fiction, he has also produced scores of witty, moving, and provocative essays and articles. He engages the work of Nabokov, Kundera, Rushdie, and Vargas Llosa, among others, and he discusses his own books and writing process. We also learn how he lives, as he recounts his successful struggle to quit smoking, describes his relationship with his daughter, and reflects on the controversy he has attracted in recent years. Here is a thoughtful compilation of a brilliant novelist's best nonfiction, offering different perspectives on his lifelong obsessions with loneliness, contentment, and the books and cities that have shaped his experience.

Being Shelley by Ann Wroe

2008-11-04T00:30:00-05:00

Being Shelley The Poet's Search for Himself
Written by Ann Wroe

Trade Paperback, 464 pages | Vintage | Biography & Autobiography - Literary | $16.95 | 978-0-307-28052-7 (0-307-28052-7)

From Ann Wroe, a biographer of the first rank, comes a startlingly original look at one of the greatest poets in the Western tradition.

Being Shelley aims to turn the poet's life inside out: rather than tracing the external events of his life, she tracks the inner journey of a spirit struggling to create. In her quest to understand the radically unconventional Shelley, Wroe pursues the questions that consumed the poet himself. Shelley sought to free and empower the entire human race; his revolution was meant to shatter illusions, shock men and women with new visions, find true love and liberty—and take everyone with him. Now, for the first time, this passionate quest is put at the center of his life. The result is a Shelley who has never been seen in biography before.

Paradiso by Jean Hollander

2008-09-09T00:30:00-05:00

Paradiso
Written by Dante
Translated by Robert Hollander and Jean Hollander

Trade Paperback, 1024 pages | Anchor | Poetry - Single Author - Continental European; Fiction - Classics | $19.95 | 978-1-4000-3115-3 (1-4000-3115-X)

With his journeys through Hell and Purgatory complete, Dante is at last led by his beloved Beatrice to Paradise. Where his experiences in the Inferno and Purgatorio were arduous and harrowing, this is a journey of comfort, revelation, and, above all, love-both romantic and divine.

Robert Hollander is a Dante scholar of unmatched reputation and his wife, Jean, is an accomplished poet. Their verse translation with facing-page Italian combines maximum fidelity to Dante's text with the artistry necessary to reflect the original's virtuosity. They have produced the clearest, most accurate, and most readable translation of the three books of The Divine Comedy, with unsurpassable footnotes and introductions, likely to be a touchstone for generations to come.

Anne of Green Gables by Jack Zipes

2008-06-10T00:30:00-05:00

Anne of Green Gables
Written by L.M. Montgomery
Introduction by Jack Zipes

Trade Paperback, 320 pages | Modern Library | Fiction - Classics | $8.00 | 978-0-8129-7903-9 (0-8129-7903-6)

“Matthew had taken the scrawny little hand awkwardly in his; then and there he decided what to do. He could not tell this child with the glowing eyes that there had been a mistake. . . .”

When eleven-year-old Anne Shirley arrives at Green Gables with nothing but a carpetbag and an overactive imagination, she knows that she has found her home. But first she must convince the Cuthberts to let her stay, even though she isn’t the boy they’d hoped for. The loquacious Anne quickly finds her way into their hearts, as she has with generations of readers, and her charming, ingenious adventures in Avonlea, filled with colorful characters and tender escapades, linger forever in our memories.

This Modern Library edition of the first of L. M. Montgomery’s beloved and immensely popular Avonlea novels features the restored original text and an Introduction by the noted children’s literature scholar Jack Zipes.

The Thief and the Dogs by Naguib Mahfouz

2008-06-03T00:30:00-05:00

The Thief and the Dogs
Written by Naguib Mahfouz

Trade Paperback, 160 pages | Anchor | Fiction - Literary | $12.95 | 978-0-385-26462-4 (0-385-26462-3)

Naguib Mahfouz's haunting novella of post-revolutionary Egypt combines a vivid pychological portrait of an anguished man with the suspense and rapid pace of a detective story.

After four years in prison, the skilled young thief Said Mahran emerges bent on revenge. He finds a world that has changed in more ways than one. Egypt has undergone a revolution and, on a more personal level, his beloved wife and his trusted henchman, who conspired to betray him to the police, are now married to each other and are keeping his six-year-old daughter from him. But in the most bitter betrayal, his mentor, Rauf Ilwan, once a firebrand revolutionary who convinced Said that stealing from the rich in a unjust society is an act of justice, is now himself a rich man, a respected newspaper editor who wants nothing to do with the disgraced Said. As Said's wild attempts to achieve his idea of justice badly misfire, he becomes a hunted man so driven by hatred that he can only recognize too late his last chance at redemption.

Edith Wharton by Hermione Lee

2008-04-08T00:30:00-05:00

Edith Wharton
Written by Hermione Lee

Trade Paperback, 912 pages | Vintage | Biography & Autobiography - Women; Biography & Autobiography - Literary | $20.00 | 978-0-375-70287-7 (0-375-70287-3)

From Hermione Lee, the internationally acclaimed, award-winning biographer of Virginia Woolf and Willa Cather, comes a superb reexamination of one of the most famous American women of letters.

Delving into heretofore untapped sources, Lee does away with the image of the snobbish bluestocking and gives us a new Edith Wharton-tough, startlingly modern, as brilliant and complex as her fiction. Born into a wealthy family, Wharton left America as an adult and eventually chose to create a life in France. Her renowned novels and stories have become classics of American literature, but as Lee shows, Wharton's own life, filled with success and scandal, was as intriguing as those of her heroines. Bridging two centuries and two very different sensibilities, Wharton here comes to life in the skillful hands of one of the great literary biographers of our time.

Shakespeare & Co. by Stanley Wells

2008-03-18T00:30:00-05:00

Shakespeare & Co. Christopher Marlowe, Thomas Dekker, Ben Jonson, Thomas Middleton, John Fletcher and the Other Players in His Story
Written by Stanley Wells

Trade Paperback, 304 pages | Vintage | Literary Criticism & Collections - Shakespeare; Drama - Shakespeare; Literary Criticism & Collections - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh | $14.95 | 978-0-307-28053-4 (0-307-28053-5)

From the dean of Shakespeare studies comes a lively, entertaining work of biography that firmly locates Shakespeare within the hectic, exilarating world in which he lived and worked.

Theatre in Shakespeare's day was a growth industry. Everyone knew everyone else, and they all sought to learn, borrow, or steal from one another. Stanley Wells explores the theatre world from behind the scenes, examining how the great actors of the time influenced Shakespeare's work. He writes about the lives and works of the other major writers of the day and discusses Shakespeare's relationships-sometimes collaborative—with each of them. Throughout, Wells shares his vast knowledge of the period, re-creating and celebrating the sheer richness and variety of the social and cultural milieus that gave rise to the greatest writer in our language.

Random House New Releases - Classics

The Belly of Paris by Mark Kurlansky

The Belly of Paris Written by Emile Zola Translated by Mark Kurlansky

The Dark Side by Jane Mayer

The Dark Side The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned Into a War on American IdealsWritten by Jane Mayer

PEN/ O. Henry Prize Stories 2009 by Laura Furman

PEN/ O. Henry Prize Stories 2009 Edited by Laura Furman

Antony and Cleopatra by Eric Rasmussen

Antony and Cleopatra Written by William Shakespeare Edited by Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen

King Lear by Eric Rasmussen

King Lear Written by William Shakespeare Edited by Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen

Macbeth by Eric Rasmussen

Macbeth Written by William Shakespeare Edited by Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen

The Winter's Tale by Eric Rasmussen

The Winter's Tale Written by William Shakespeare Edited by Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

Jane Eyre Written by Charlotte Bronte

Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

Wuthering Heights Written by Emily Bronte

Karnak Caf� by Naguib Mahfouz

Karnak Caf� Written by Naguib Mahfouz

War and Peace by Larissa Volokhonsky

War and Peace Written by Leo Tolstoy Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky

The Canterbury Tales by John Miles Foley

The Canterbury Tales Written by Geoffrey Chaucer Translated by Burton Raffel Introduction by John Miles Foley

The Long Embrace by Judith Freeman

The Long Embrace Raymond Chandler and the Woman He LovedWritten by Judith Freeman

Other Colors by Orhan Pamuk

Other Colors Essays and a StoryWritten by Orhan Pamuk

Being Shelley by Ann Wroe

Being Shelley The Poet's Search for HimselfWritten by Ann Wroe

Paradiso by Jean Hollander

Paradiso Written by Dante Translated by Robert Hollander and Jean Hollander

Anne of Green Gables by Jack Zipes

Anne of Green Gables Written by L.M. Montgomery Introduction by Jack Zipes

The Thief and the Dogs by Naguib Mahfouz

The Thief and the Dogs Written by Naguib Mahfouz

Edith Wharton by Hermione Lee

Edith Wharton Written by Hermione Lee

Shakespeare & Co. by Stanley Wells

Shakespeare & Co. Christopher Marlowe, Thomas Dekker, Ben Jonson, Thomas Middleton, John Fletcher and the Other Players in His StoryWritten by Stanley Wells

The Belly of Paris
Written by Emile Zola
Translated by Mark Kurlansky

The Dark Side The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned Into a War on American Ideals
Written by Jane Mayer

PEN/ O. Henry Prize Stories 2009
Edited by Laura Furman

Antony and Cleopatra
Written by William Shakespeare
Edited by Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen

King Lear
Written by William Shakespeare
Edited by Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen

Macbeth
Written by William Shakespeare
Edited by Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen

The Winter's Tale
Written by William Shakespeare
Edited by Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen

Jane Eyre
Written by Charlotte Bronte

Wuthering Heights
Written by Emily Bronte

Karnak Caf�
Written by Naguib Mahfouz

War and Peace
Written by Leo Tolstoy
Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky

The Canterbury Tales
Written by Geoffrey Chaucer
Translated by Burton Raffel
Introduction by John Miles Foley

The Long Embrace Raymond Chandler and the Woman He Loved
Written by Judith Freeman

Other Colors Essays and a Story
Written by Orhan Pamuk

Being Shelley The Poet's Search for Himself
Written by Ann Wroe

Paradiso
Written by Dante
Translated by Robert Hollander and Jean Hollander

Anne of Green Gables
Written by L.M. Montgomery
Introduction by Jack Zipes

The Thief and the Dogs
Written by Naguib Mahfouz

Edith Wharton
Written by Hermione Lee

Shakespeare & Co. Christopher Marlowe, Thomas Dekker, Ben Jonson, Thomas Middleton, John Fletcher and the Other Players in His Story
Written by Stanley Wells