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Spanning the period between the Chicago World's Fair of 1893 and the years just after World War I, Against the Day moves from the labor troubles in Colorado to turn-of-the-century New York to London and Gottingen, Venice and Vienna, the Balkans, Central Asia, Siberia at the time of the mysterious Tu... More

Set in the closing years of World War II, this is a story of labyrinthine interconnections involving a Nazi Lieutenant Weissmann (once V.'s lover in another Pynchon novel), disguised as Captain Blicero, and an American sleuth, Lieutenant Tyrone Slothrop, while V-2 rockets fall on London.... More

Charles Mason (1728 -1786) and Jeremiah Dixon (1733-1779) were the British Surveyors best remembered for running the boundary between Pennsylvania and Maryland that we know today as the Mason-Dixon Line. Here is their story as re-imagined by Thomas Pynchon, in an updated eighteenth-century novel fea... More

While some of the phantasms, shades and specters in this volume of ghost stories merely haunt houses, others invade the darkest corners of the soul. Throughout this collection, writers explore the literary possibilities of the classic ghost story to deliver taut suspense, psychological terror and ee... More

This wide-ranging collection of twenty-four spine-tingling stories draws on the best traditions of classic horror, from powerful myths and folktales to contemporary stories of man-made terrors. With contributions by writers of the calibre of John Steinbeck, Edgar Allen Poe, Charles Dickens, T. H. Wh... More

'As close to being a definitive English version of the great novel as we are likely to get. This new edition will serve to introduce new generations of readers to what Somerset Maugham rightly described as the greatest novel of our century'. Allan Massie, A new, definitive text of Marcel Proust's no... More

'As close to being a definitive English version of the great novel as we are likely to get. This new edition will serve to introduce new generations of readers to what Somerset Maugham rightly described as the greatest novel of our century'. Allan Massie, A new, definitive text of Marcel Proust's no... More

Oedipa Maas, recent heiress, enquires into the nature of her inheritance: trying to understand her own life and the motivation of her dead lover, she is led on am ambiguous trail of clues. The moment of revelation hovers on the horizon like a mirage. Pynchon's shortest novel, and one of his best.... More

A haunting tale of abuse and the quiet strength of loveWhen Aniket Nair bumps into an old friend and her daughter in a departmental store, he is delighted at the thought of being a part of her life again. Still susceptible to Maya’s easy charm and disarming vulnerability, Aniket slips eas... More

This extraordinary work--echoing Plath's own experiences as a rising writer/editor in the early 1950s--chronicles the nervous breakdown of Esther Greenwood: brilliant, beautiful, enormously talented, successful, but slowly going under, and maybe for the last time."The Bell Jar" chronicles the crack-... More

This collection of 73 short stories and 48 poems includes such masterpieces as The Fall of the House of Usher, The Purlained Letter, The Tell-Tale Heart, The Raven, and The Murders in the Rue Morgue.This collection of 73 short stories and 48 poems includes such masterpieces as The Fall of the House ... More

Asher Lev is a Ladover Hasid who keeps kosher, prays three times a day and believes in the Ribbono Shel Olom, the Master of the Universe. Asher Lev is an artist who is compulsively driven to render the world he sees and feels even when it leads him to blasphemy.In this stirring and often visionary n... More

Most readers know Truman Capote as the author of "Breakfast at Tiffany's and "In Cold Blood; or they remember his notorious social life and wild and witty public appearances. But he was also the author of superb short tales that were as elegant as they were heartfelt, as grotesque as they were compa... More

E. Annie Proulx focuses on a Newfoundland fishing town in a tale about a third-rate newspaperman and the women in his life-- his elderly aunt and two young daughters-- who decide to resettle in their ancestral seaside home. The transformation each of the character undergoes following move is profoun... More

This ingeniously useful compendium--organized to suit whatever time that the reader has available at that moment--offers reading material to fill those gray, in-between moments in life with beauty, wonder, insight, and emotion.From "the biggest little magazine in the world" comes an addictively clev... More

Including THE GUERMANTES WAY and CITIES OF THE PLAIN.... More