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An anti-war novel in which Billy Pilgrim, prisoner of war, optometrist and time-traveller is the hero. This is a story of innocence faced with apocalypse.... More

Reality merges with fantasy in this hilarious comic novel about the world of radio soap operas and the pitfalls of forbidden passion by the bestselling author of The Storyteller. Sexy, sophisticated, older Aunt Julia, now divorced, seeks a new mate who can support her in high style. She finds instea... More

The United States has been engaged in what the great historian Charles A. Beard called "perpetual war for perpetual peace." The Federation of American Scientists has catalogued nearly 200 military incursions since 1945 in which the United States has been the aggressor. In a series of penetrating and... More

"A gripping and poignant new novel from one of Latin America’s greatest writers.Ricardo Somocurcio is in love with a bad girl. He loves her as a teenager known as 'Lily' in Lima in 1950, when she arrives one summer out of the blue, claiming to be from Chile but vanishing the moment her cla... More

In the brilliant sequel to his acclaimed, bestselling memoir, "Palimpsest," the celebrated novelist, essayist, and critic ranges freely over his remarkable life with the signature wit and literary elegance that is uniquely his.The brilliant sequel to Gore Vidal's acclaimed, bestselling memoir, "Pali... More

Celebrated for more than 50 years as a world-renowned novelist, essayist, and political figure and commentator, Vidal's short fiction offers a portrait of the young artist in the 1940s and 1950s.Celebrated for more than fifty years as a world-renowned novelist, essayist, and political figure and com... More

Gore Vidal's Narratives of Empire series spans the history of the United States from the Revolution to the post-World War II years. With their broad canvas and large cast of fictional and historical characters, the novels in this series present a panorama of the American political and imperial exper... More

"Slaughterhous-Five is one of the world's great anti-war books. Centering on the infamous fire-bombing of Dresden, Billy Pilgrim's odyssey through time reflects the mythic journey of our own fractured lives as we search for meaning in what we are afraid to know."Slaughterhous-Five" is one of the wor... More

Raised by a fierce she-ape of the tribe of Kerchak deep in the African jungle, the baby Tarzan grew to learn the secrets of the wild to survive--how to talk with animals, swing through trees, and fight against the great predators. He grew to the strength and courage of his fellow apes. And in time, ... More

This book brings the cat out of the bag and it is for the candidates to bell it. The book unravels the mysteries of the test clean the track and lays down the roadmap for this prestigious entrance test for business education. The author has framed questions by keeping the level of the actual test an... More

From ratty attic to Auschwitz and back again, Mother Night is the confessions of Howard W Campbell Jr -- an American, a notorious Nazi propagandist, and a US counter-spy -- not a moral man. This mournful, macabre and diabolically funny tale of unsung heroism uses acrid humour to underline the horror... More

Explores the tragicomic relationship between two artists and their material. While each feeds off the other, the narratives of Mario are nourished by the life around him, those of Camacho by the fantasies engendered by his disintegrating mind. The author's other works include "The Storyteller".... More

Urania Cabral, a New York lawyer, returns to the Dominican Republic after a lifelong self-imposed exile. Urania’s own story alternates with the powerful climax of dictator Rafael Trujillo’s reign. In 1961, Trujillo’s decadent inner circle—which includes Urania’s soon-to-be disgraced fat... More

Before the Golden Age of magazines drew to a close half a century ago, a young PR man at General Electric sold his first short story to one of the doomed publications. By the time he'd sold his third, he decided to quit GE and join the likes of Hemingway and Fitzgerald and Faulkner, and try to make ... More