The Five poems and other poetic works

In an apocalyptic near-future world, a mother and her two small children must make their way down a river, blindfolded. One wrong choic..

The final book written by the great philosopher at the end of his life is a mix of autobiographical anecdotes, descriptions of sights f..

Winner of both the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the Booker Prize, this is the story of a "Don Juan" lover of women during the ea..

Introduces the interior life of George Orwell, the writer who defined twentieth-century political thought. Written as individual books ..

H.G. Wells' classic study in the progress and history of civilization from the origins of life on Earth up to historic developments in ..

Brief biographies and illustrations of famous painters from Michelangelo to Van Gogh and Rembrandt to Picasso. Features fully vowe..

The Arabic translation of Philip Roth's novel about Coleman Silk, the dean of faculty at a small liberal arts college who is accused of..

An interesting journey back in time to see how our modern ways of living, and the tools we use, actually originated in primitive cultur..

When it was first published in 1937 Poland, Witold Gombrowicz's novel was considered to be subversive by the Communist regime and was p..

Terry Eagleton, one of our foremost literary and cultural critics, examines the meaning, evolution, and role of culture in civil societ..

Samy is very shy and doesn't like to talk to other people because it's scary and he doesn't know what to say. Now his little dog is los..

A little girl walks angrily through the park dragging an old purse. Every now and then she stops and yells "Is this how it is?"  F..

In 1901, Dr. Duncan MacDougall conducted an experiment that determined the human soul has mass weighing in at 21 grams. But what a..

Provides descriptions of 76 famous operas covering plot, dialogue, historical overview of each, and advice for listening and appreciati..

George W. Bush candidly describes the moments of critical decision-making that molded his personal life and his eight years in the Oval..