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Goudge's captivating "New York Times" bestseller taps into the heart of women's fiction with a story brimming with modern-day fantasies. Includes a tantalizing recipe from Goudge's new cookbook, "Something Warm from the Oven.""Can a New York City journalist exchange her subway pass for an SUV and fi... More

The long-awaited and resplendent new poetry collection by Tess Gallagher, whose poems "are a gift of a poet's heart and soul to her readers" (Robert Coles)"" "Don' t sharpen them.Expectation, more dangerousthan any blade.-- " Knives in the Borrowed House" "Fourteen years after "Moon Crossing Bridge"... More

A stranger arrives in a Russian backwater community with a bizarre proposition for the local landowners: cash for their "dead souls," the serfs who have died in their service. Gogol's comic masterpiece offers a vast and satirical painting of 19th-century Russia. A work of great symbolism, it continu... More

This is the major autobiographical statement from Nobel laureate Andre Gide. In the events and musings recorded here we find the seeds of those themes that obsessed him throughout his career and imbued his classic novels The Immoralist and The Counterfeiters." "Gide led a life of uncompromising self... More

In a work that has become a classic reference book for both the serious scholar and the casual inquirer, Graves retells the adventures of the important gods and heroes worshipped by the ancient Greeks. Each entry provides a full commentary which examines problems of interpretation in both historical... More

Opening a door to a bizarre world of broad comedy, fantasy, and social commentary, the title story offers an unforgettable depiction of a lunatic civil servant and his struggles to be noticed by the woman he loves. This excellent introduction to Gogol also features "Nevski Prospect" and "The Portrai... More

The plot turns on Mary's romantic choice between Henry Carson, the son of a rich industrialist, and her working class lover Jem Wilson, and the rivalries between them. The class-divide and the widening gap between rich and poor are central themes in a novel originally named after Mary's father, John... More

In search of the "truth", Gibran could find no single religious tradition which completely revealed its intention. Thus he wove together insights from Eastern Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, American Transcendentalism, and the folklore of his native Lebanon to create his own universal "Anthem of Huma... More

In South Africa, where Blacks and whites are caught in the winds of change, a young woman tries to uphold the radical heritage she received from her martyred parents while carving out a sense of self... More

For Kahlil Gibran, love was a way -- perhaps the supreme way -- of achieving self-realization and completeness as a human being. The Beloved is about transforming one's own life through love's allconsuming power. These exquisite writings on love, marriage, and the spiritual union of souls adds a fre... More

A young artist pursues a search for knowledge through the treatment of homosexuality and the collapse of morality in middle class France.... More

Though he lived most of his life in the remote village of Deya on the island of Mallorca, Robert Graves (1895--1985) was conversant with the most important issues of this century and was acquainted with many of the most powerful people. Jorge Luis Borges called him a soul above. Graves wrote almost ... More

Large format for easy reading. About the literary world that Gissing inhabited in turn-of-the-century England, its intrigues, and its petty quarrels. Gissing's deft juggling of emotional, economic and social concerns makes this one of the finest and most underrated novels of the Victorian era.... More

One of the 20th century's enduring works, Marquez's masterpiece is the ultimate achievement in a Nobel Prize- winning career. Alternately reverential and comical, this novel weaves the political, personal, and spiritual to bring a new consciousness to storytelling."One Hundred Years of Solitude" tel... More

The human heart cries out for help; the human soul implores us for deliverance; but we do not heed their cries, for we neither hear nor understand. But the man who hears and understands we call mad, and flee from him.... More

This is Khalil Gibran’s best and most powerful work ever-written…. Blending the elements of Eastern and Western mysticism, Lebanese – American essayist – Khalil Gibran, in this enriching collection of parables expounds the philosophy of living conveying a strong and beautiful message on ever... More