The Skeptical Romancer

Written by W. Somerset Maugham
Edited by Pico Iyer
Hardcover, 248 pages
Travel
978-0-307-27212-6 (0-307-27212-5)
November 2009
$24.00 W. Somerset Maugham was one of the seminal writers of the twentieth century, and his travel writing has long been considered among his finest work. Now, acclaimed travel writer Pico Iyer maps out a masterful tour of these vivid, evocative pieces that are collected here for the first time.

Maugham worked as... Read more »

A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Books

Written by Charles Dickens
Introduction by Margaret Atwood
Hardcover, 440 pages
Fiction - Literary
978-0-307-27175-4 (0-307-27175-7)
November 2009
$18.00 The final volume in the Everyman’s Library Charles Dickens collection: the timeless story of everyone’s favorite misanthrope, Ebenezer Scrooge, together with four more of Dickens’s Christmas tales and with Arthur Rackham’s classic illustrations.

No holiday season is complete without the story of tightfisted Mr. Scrooge, of his long-suffering and mild-mannered clerk, Bob... Read more »