Classics / Criticism

Jonathan Lethem

Jonathan Lethem is perhaps our most active literary voice mining the genre margins of our culture. I…

Willa Cather

In this powerful portrait of the self-making of an artist, Willa Cather created one of her most extr…

Nikolai Gogol

When Pushkin first read some of the stories in this collection, he declared himself "amazed." "Here …

Annie Dillard

NATIONAL BESTSELLER - From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Pilgrim at Tinker Creek and one of t…

James Baldwin

A major work of American literature from a major American writer that powerfully portrays the anguis…

Thomas Mann

"John E. Woods is revising our impression of Thomas Mann, masterpiece by masterpiece." --The New Yor…

William Faulkner

Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time From the Modern Library's n…

George Orwell

A generous and varied selection-the only hardcover edition available-of the literary and political w…

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky's masterful translation of The Idiot is destined to stand wit…

Charles Dickens

In this classic social commentary from Dickens, Mr. Samuel Pickwick, retired business man and confir…

Victor Hugo

It has been said that Victor Hugo has a street named after him in virtually every town in France. A …

Deborah Levy

A feast of observations about everything from the particular beauty of lemons on a table, to the all…