New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2018. Joshua Billings (ed.), Oliver Taplin (tr.). First Edition. Paperback. “This vivid and accessible translation captures the drama of Aeschylus’ poetry and the excitement of the action in performance.” —VICTORIA WOHL, University of Toronto “This critical edition provides a lavish and fulsome picture..... More
New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 2003. Reprint. Paperback. A PBS Great American Read Top 100 Pick One of the most famous and beloved mysteries from the queen of suspense, Agatha Christie! More than 100 million copies sold and now a Lifetime TV movie. Ten people, each with something..... More
New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 2015. Reprint. Paperback. THE MOST WIDELY READ MYSTERY OF ALL TIME—NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE DIRECTED BY KENNETH BRANAGH AND PRODUCED BY RIDLEY SCOTT! “The murderer is with us—on the train now . . .” Just after midnight, the famous Orient Express is stopped..... More
London: Vintage, 1994. Trade Paperback. With an introduction by Margaret Atwood and David Bradshaw Science. Technology. Want for nothing. Maximum pleasure. Welcome to a world where society exists without war, poverty, sickness or unhappiness, where instant gratification and mass consumerism sooth the inhabitants into happy conformity. One man stands..... More
London: Chatto & Windus, 1952. Val Biro (cover art). First U.K. Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. In 1634 Urbain Grandier, a handsome and dissolute priest of the parish of Loudun was tried, tortured and burnt at the stake. He had been found guilty of conspiring with the devil to seduce an..... More
Beijing, China: China Renmin University Press, 2013. Softcover. 2 volume set. English text with Chinese notes. More
New York: Signet Classics, 2006. Paperback. More
Hong Kong: A Renditions Book/The Chinese University Press, 2003. First Edition (presumed). Hardcover. The song lyric (ci), which began as a form of minor divertissement in the urban pleasure quarters of eighth and ninth century China, evolved into a major, and then dominant, poetic form over the four centuries that..... More
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002. Reissue. Trade Paperback. The stories of magic and transformation that we call fairy tales are one of the oldest known forms of literature, and also one of the most popular and enduring. While most people think of the fairy tale as having come into existence..... More
Faber and Faber, 1990. More
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2013. David Frye (tr.), Ilan Stavans (ed.). First Edition. Paperback. This new Norton Critical Edition recounts the 1527–36 expedition of Cabeza de Vaca, the first Spanish explorer to cross North America. Published in 1542 to an astonished and captivated public, Chronicle of the..... More
New York: The Modern Library, 1961. Paperback. More
London: Faber and Faber, 2017. Erica Williams (cover art). Trade Paperback. The roars of the hungry Minotaur came nearer and nearer – his feet could be heard thundering along the echoing floor of the labyrinth . . . Meet the original heroes of Greece as they battle the mythical..... More
London: Penguin Books, 2012. Barnbrook (design). Paperback. Fully restored edition of Anthony Burgess' original text of A Clockwork Orange, with a glossary of the teen slang 'Nadsat', explanatory notes, pages from the original typescript, interviews, articles and reviews Edited by Andrew Biswell With a Foreword by Martin Amis... More
Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1977. First Trade Paperback Edition. Softcover. First published in 1592, The Journey to the West, volume I, comprises the first twenty-five chapters of Anthony C. Yu's four-volume translation of Hsi-Yu Chi, one of the most beloved classics of Chinese literature. More
New York: Everyman's Library, 1992. Hardcover. No. 57 in the Everyman's Library series. With an introduction by Victoria Glendinning. Trollope's comic masterpiece of plotting and backstabbing opens as the Bishop of Barchester lies on his deathbed. Soon a pitched battle breaks out over who will take power, involving..... More
New York: Scribner, 2019. Jim Tierney (cover design). Trade Paperback. With an introduction by Michael Scammell A brilliant new translation of Koestler's long-lost original manuscript. A chilling and unforgettable 20th century classic. From a prison cell in an unnamed country run by a totalitarian government Rubashov reflects. Once..... More
Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2018. First Revised Edition. Hardcover. No. 27 in the Loeb Classical Library series Edited and translated by Carolyn Hammond Augustinus (354–430 CE), son of a pagan, Patricius of Tagaste in North Africa, and his Christian wife Monica, while studying in Africa to become..... More
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2019. Second Edition. Paperback. “This scrupulous new translation of The Epic of Gilgamesh manages to convey much of the archaic power and even something of the occasional humor of the ancient Mesopotamian poem. What is especially valuable is that the translators, by collating passages..... More
New York: Time Incorporated, 1966. Karl W. Stucklen (cover design). Time Reading Program Special Edition. Softcover. With an introduction by Roger Angell The Natural, Bernard Malamud's first novel, published in 1952, is also the first—and some would say still the best—novel ever written about baseball. In it Malamud, usually..... More
London: Vintage Books, 2002. Reprint. Paperback. A baseball player struggling with a god-given gift and human passions is given a second chance to become what he always dreamed he could be: the best there ever was. This is a book about heroism - of sorts. Roy Hobbs has an..... More
Hong Kong: Renditions Paperbacks/The Chinese University Press, 2006. Trade Paperback. Edited by Mary M.Y. Fung Translated by Mary M.Y. Fung and David Lunde Bian Zhilin (1910-2000), one of the most original voices in 20th-century Chinese poetry, was known for his modern sensibility and intense lyrical appeal. His style combines..... More
London: Penguin Books, 2017. Reprint. Paperback. A classic of postwar literature, a small masterpiece of humour, humanity and heroism from one of the best Czech writers For twenty-two-year-old Milos, bumbling apprentice at a sleepy Czech railway station, life is full of worries: his burdensome virginity, his love for the..... More
Boston: Back Bay Books, 1972. Paperback. More
Harlow, Essex: Penguin Books, 1999. Penguin Readers. Paperback. Level 5. Retold by C. Kingsley Williams. More
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