By Michael Chabon
Joe Kavalier, a young Jewish artist who has also been trained in the art of Houdini-esque escape, has just smuggled himself out of Nazi-invaded...
By Muriel Barbery,
Alison Anderson (Translator)
A moving, funny, triumphant novel that exalts the quiet victories of the inconspicuous among us.We are in the center of Paris, in an elegant...
By C.S. Lewis,
Pauline Baynes (Illustrator)
Journeys to the end of the world, fantastic creatures, and epic battles between good and evil—what more could any reader ask for in one book? The...
By Giovanni Boccaccio,
G.H. McWilliam (Editor, Translator, Introduction), L.A.J. Burgersdijk (Editor)
The Decameron (c.1351) is an entertaining series of one hundred stories written in the wake of the Black Death. The stories are told in a country...
By John Steinbeck
They are an unlikely pair: George is “small and quick and dark of face”; Lennie, a man of tremendous size, has the mind of a young child. Yet they...
By George Orwell,
Erich Fromm (Afterword)
1984 has come and gone, but George Orwell's prophetic, nightmarish vision in 1949 of the world we were becoming is timelier than ever. 1984 is still...
By Ray Bradbury,
Neil Gaiman (Introduction)
Sixty years after its publication, Ray Bradbury's internationally acclaimed novel Fahrenheit 451 stands as a classic of world literature set in a...
By John Lithgow
Following the success of New York Times bestseller Dumpty comes award-winning actor and national bestselling author John Lithgow's next book of...