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Accused of political subversion as a young man, Dostoyevsky was sentenced to 4 years of hard labor at a Siberian prison camp. Years later, he developed this semi-autobiographical memoir of a man condemned to penal servitude for murdering his wife. This haunting and remarkable work ranks amoung Dostoyevskys greatest masterpieces.?ÿ
This is Elizabeth Gaskells first novel, a widely acclaimed work based on the actual murder, in 1831, of a progressive mill owner. It follows Mary Barton, daughter of a man implicated in the murder, through her adolescence, when she suffers the advances of the mill owner, and later through love and marriage. Set in Manchester, […]
Now in a handsome and newly revised hardcover edition: the extraordinary travelogue that has enthralled readers for more than seven centuries. Marco Polo??s vivid descriptions of the splendid cities and people he encountered on his journey along the Silk Road through the Middle East, South Asia, and China opened a window for his Western readers […]
Kurt Vonneguts absurdist classic?ÿSlaughterhouse-Five?ÿintroduces us to Billy Pilgrim, a man who becomes unstuck in time after he is abducted by aliens from the planet Tralfamadore. In a plot-scrambling display of virtuosity, we follow Pilgrim simultaneously through all phases of his life, concentrating on his (and Vonneguts) shattering experience as an American prisoner of war who […]
Ferus Olins allegiance is to the Jedi. But when hes summoned to see the Emperor, the Sith Lord makes him an offer he cant refuse. If he can manage to prevent a planet from lunging into chaos, the Empire will spare feruss capture friends. And if he doesnt- theyll die. Another heart-stopping Jedi adventure from […]
Perry Bergman is president of Benthic Marine and a passenger aboard The Benthic Explorer, a 450-foot research ship endeavoring to drill into, and sample for the first time, the earths magma core. Also onboard are the lovely Dr. Suzanne Newell; ex-navy commander and present submersible skipper Donald Fuller; and navy-cum-Neanderthal divers Richard Adams and Michael […]
This brilliant satire of the women??s rights movement in America is the story of the ravishing inspirational speaker Verena Tarrant and the bitter struggle between two distant cousins who seek to control her. Will the privileged Boston feminist Olive Chancellor succeed in turning her beloved ward into a celebrated activist and lifetime companion? Or will […]
Trapped in an unhappy marriage, a Minnesota housewife indulges in a weekend at a luxurious spa-and a man wholl bring her most intimate fantasies to life. Calling herself Julia Reeves, she hires a gorgeous man-whom she calls William-through the Internet, rents a red Lamborghini, splurges on some ultra-sexy lingerie, and escapes on her clandestine adventure.?ÿ […]
“A brilliant and humane philosophy for our confused age.”??Samantha Power, author of?ÿA Problem from Hell Kwame Anthony Appiahs landmark new work, featured on the cover of theNew York Times Magazine, challenges the separatist doctrines espoused in books like Samuel Huntingtons?ÿThe Clash of Civilizations. Reviving the ancient philosophy of “cosmopolitanism,” a school of thought that dates […]
Heir to the Enlightenment tradition, Chomsky has introduced new perspectives on language, the creative individual and the nature of human freedom in society.
One measure, perhaps, of a books worth, is its intergenerational pliancy: do new readers acquire it and interpret it afresh down through the ages? The?ÿMeditations?ÿof Marcus Aurelius, translated and introduced by Gregory Hays, by that standard, is very worthwhile, indeed. Hays suggests that its most recent incarnation–as a self-help book–is not only valid, but may […]