By J.R.R. Tolkien,
Christopher Tolkien (Editor), Ted Nasmith (Illustrator)
The story of the creation of the world and of the First Age, this is the ancient drama to which the characters in The Lord of the Rings look back and...
By Ovid,
David Raeburn (Translation), Denis Feeney (Contributor)
Prized through the ages for its splendor and its savage, sophisticated wit, The Metamorphoses is a masterpiece of Western culture--the first attempt...
Reveals low-wage America in all its tenacity, anxiety, and surprising generosity--a land of Big Boxes, fast food, and a thousand desperate stratagems...
Back in 1957, Theodor Geisel responded to an article in Life magazine that lamented the use of boring reading primers in schools. Using the pseudonym...
Bennie is an aging former punk rocker and record executive. Sasha is the passionate, troubled young woman he employs. Here Jennifer Egan brilliantly...
At thirty-six, Quoyle, a third-rate newspaperman, is wrenched violently out of his workaday life when his two-timing wife meets her just deserts. He...
