Irretrievable

Written by Theodor Fontane
Translated by Douglas Parmee
Introduction by Phillip Lopate

Format: eBook
On Sale: May 2, 2012
Price: $15.95

Opposites attract, and Helmut Holk and Christine Arne, the appealing married couple at the center of this engrossing book by one of Germany’s greatest novelists, could not be less alike. Christine is a serious soul from a devout background. She is brooding and beautiful and devoted to her husband and their... Read more >

Dancing Lessons for the Advanced in Age

Written by Bohumil Hrabal
Translated by Michael Henry Heim
Introduction by Adam Thirlwell

Format: eBook
On Sale: April 25, 2012
Price: $14.00

Rake, drunkard, aesthete, gossip, raconteur extraordinaire: the narrator of Bohumil Hrabal’s rambling, rambunctious masterpiece Dancing Lessons for the Advanced in Age is all these and more. Speaking to a group of sunbathing women who remind him of lovers past, this elderly roué tells the story of his life—or at least unburdens... Read more >

Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allen Poe

Written by Edgar Allan Poe

Format: eBook, 832 pages
On Sale: April 18, 2012
Price: $13.99

This single volume brings together all of Poe's stories and poems, and illuminates the diverse and multifaceted genius of one of the greatest and most influential figures in American literary history.

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A Rose for Emily and Other Stories
A Rose for Emily; The Hound; Turn About; That Evening Sun; Dry September; Delta Autumn; Barn Burning; An Odor of Verbena
Written by William Faulkner

Format: eBook, 36 pages
On Sale: April 18, 2012
Price: $7.99

Here is a classic collection from one of America’s greatest authors. Though these short stories have universal appeal, they are intensely local in setting. With the exception of “Turn About,” which derives from the time of the First World War, all these tales unfold in a small town in Mississippi, William... Read more >

War and Peace

Written by Leo Tolstoy
Translated by Constance Garnett

Format: eBook, 1424 pages
On Sale: April 11, 2012
Price: $11.99

Often called the greatest novel ever written, War and Peace is at once an epic of the Napoleonic Wars, a philosophical study, and a celebration of the Russian spirit. Tolstoy’s genius is seen clearly in the multitude of characters in this massive chronicle—all of them fully realized and equally memorable. Out... Read more >

The Wind in the Willows

Written by Kenneth Grahame
Illustrated by Paul Bransom
Introduction by Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson

Format: eBook, 192 pages
On Sale: April 11, 2012
Price: $8.99

This hardcover edition of the classic tale of THE WIND IN THE WILLOWS has been read and loved by children for generations. Start a new tradition of reading this timeless tale in your home today!
•Fully illustrated in color, bringing each tale to life
•Filled with humor, adventure and imagination for children of... Read more >

Agnes Grey, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

Written by Anne Bronte
Introduction by Lucy Hughes-Hallett

Format: Hardcover, 752 pages
On Sale: April 3, 2012
Price: $26.00

The only one-volume hardcover edition of the two uncommonly powerful novels written by the youngest of the famous Brontë sisters.
 
Anne Brontë wrote these two fantastically successful novels just before her tragically early death, both of them in a much more grittily realistic mode than the more romantic ones favored... Read more >

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass

Written by Lewis Carroll

Format: eBook
On Sale: March 28, 2012
Price: $7.99

Introduction by A. S. Byatt
Illustrations by John Tenniel
Includes commissioned endnotes
 
Conceived by a shy British don on a golden afternoon to entertain ten-year-old Alice Liddell and her sisters, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass have delighted generations of readers in more than eighty languages. “The clue to the enduring fascination...

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Anna Karenina

Written by Leo Tolstoy

Format: eBook
On Sale: March 28, 2012
Price: $7.99

This edition, the famous Constance Garnett translation, has been revised throughout by Leonard J. Kent and Nina Berberova.

"Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."  So begins Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy's great modern novel of an adulterous affair set against the backdrop of Moscow and St... Read more >

The Brothers Karamazov

Written by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Translated by Constance Garnett

Format: eBook, 912 pages
On Sale: March 28, 2012
Price: $12.99

A new translation by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky. This acclaimed new English version of Dostoevsky's last novel does justice to all its levels of artistry and intention. Read more >