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Madam Bovary, dealing with the themes of love, marital discord, medical mistakes, narrative as method, sexuality, even suicide, was once condemned for its pointed telling of the protagonist’s immoral behavior. Emma Bovary is deluded by literature. Her drama is the gap between illusion and reality,... More

This issue of Granta excavates histories both personal and political: repressed memories, unexplored lives, forgotten wars. Repressed personal experiences, neglected battles, forgotten civilizations: an issue of Granta that excavates the unfairly buried event, the secret life, the overlooked war. Wi... More

This edition, containing an extensive introduction, notes, the French original, and a new translation of Cesaire's poetry--the complex and challenging later works as well as the famous Notebook--will remain the definitive Cesaire in English.This edition, containing an extensive introduction, notes, ... More

This is the first edition ever published of Trimalchio, an early and complete version of F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic novel The Great Gatsby. Fitzgerald wrote the novel as Trimalchio and submitted it to Maxwell Perkins, his editor at Scribner's, who had the novel set in type and sent the galleys to... More

The story of Thomas Sutpen, an enigmatic stranger who came to Jefferson in the early 1830s to wrest his mansion out of the muddy bottoms of the north Mississippi wilderness. He was a man, Faulkner said, "who wanted sons and the sons destroyed him."Absalom, Absalom is the story of Thomas Sutpen and h... More

Agent Sydney Bristow goes undercover to untangle a twisted plot of betrayal, terror, and revenge. Thrown into a dysfunctional, powerful family, she must determine which members are trustworthy and which are out for blood before another murder-for-hire occurs.After one botched assassination attempt l... More

This exquisite novel tells the story of one of the most compelling heroines in modern literature--Emma Bovary. Unhappily married to a devoted, clumsy provincial doctor, Emma revolts against the ordinariness of her life by pursuing voluptuous dreams of ecstasy and love. But her sensuous and sentiment... More

The Love of the Last Tycoon, edited by the preeminent Fitzgerald scholar Matthew J. Bruccoli, is a restoration of the author's phrases, words, and images that were excised from the 1940 edition, giving new luster to an unfinished literary masterpiece. It is the story of the young Hollywood mogul Mon... More

Written for Esquire magazine late in Fitzgerald's career, The Pat Hobby Stories is a bittersweet, humorous recollection of a down-and-out Hollywood screenwriter trying to break back into show business who has better success breaking into bars.A fascinating study in self-satire that brings to life th... More

With "The Sportswriter," in 1986, Richard Ford commenced a cycle of novels that ten years later--after "Independence Day "won both the Pulitzer Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award--was hailed by "The Times "of London as "an extraordinary epic that] is nothing less than the story of the twentieth centu... More

Bridget Jones is back! In The Edge of Reason Bridget discovers what it's like when you have the man of your dreams actually living in your flat... The Wilderness Years are over. But not for long. At the end of Bridget Jones's Diary, Bridget hiccuped off into the sunset with man-of-her-dreams Mar... More

Written between 1920 and 1937, when F. Scott Fitzgerald was at the height of his creative powers, these ten lyric tales represent some of the author's finest fiction. In them, Fitzgerald creates vivid, timeless characters -- a dissatisfied southern belle seeking adventure in the north; the tragic he... More

In 1997, Charles Frazier's debut novel "Cold Mountain" made publishing history when it sailed to the top of "The New York Times" best-seller list for sixty-one weeks, won numerous literary awards, including the National Book Award, and went on to sell over three million copies. Now, the beloved Amer... More