Classics

Mary Shelley’s Gothic horror gets yet another edition, this one in time for Guillermo del Toro’s film adaptation. Revisit this classic that has haunted readers for over a century.Mary Shelley’s classic of gothic horror—a...

Fall at Once is a steamy, small-town, romantic comedy with a swoony single-dad firefighter who may just be too hot to handle...I’m in Cozy Creek for two reasons: To get over my breakup and help my grandmother run her bakery.I am...

Her name was Magda. Nobody will ever know who killed her. It wasn't me. Here is her dead body.While on her daily walk with her dog in the woods near her home, Vesta comes across a chilling handwritten note.Shaky even on her best days, Vesta is also...

This authoritative edition was originally published in the acclaimed Oxford Authors series under the general editorship of Frank Kermode. It brings together a unique combination of Byron's poetry and prose - all the major poems, complemented by important...

“Trapped in their cozy catacombs, the couples have made sex by turns their toy, their glue, their trauma, their therapy, their hope, their frustration, their revenge, their narcotic, their main line of communication and their sole and pitiable...

Who but the Marquis de Sade would write not of the pain, tragedy, and joy of love but of its crimes? Murder, seduction, and incest are among the cruel rewards for selfless love in his stories—tragedy, despair, and death the inevitable outcome...

In his Confessions Jean-Jacques Rousseau tells the story of his life, from the formative experience of his humble childhood in Geneva, through the achievement of international fame as novelist and philosopher in Paris, to his wanderings as an exile,...

Virginia Woolf's most famous novel, now in a new edition that reflects all of the author's revisions to the work.This is the definitive edition of one of the most important novels of the twentieth century, complete with a cover inspired by the original...

A new translation of one of the defining works of the French surrealist movement, an energetic autobiographical novel that is at once both a tumultuous romance story and an initiation into the surrealism of everyday life.In Paris, during the fall of...

“If there is one article of faith that dominates the Credo of Gustave Flaubert’s correspondence,” Francis Steegmuller writes in the introduction to this selection of Flaubert’s letters, “it is that the...

A founding work of modern gay literature in a beautiful new hardcover edition, stunningly illustrated by Luke Edward Hall.Maurice Hall grows up confident in his privileged status and well aware of his role in society. Modest and generally conformist, he...

A new edition of Clarice Lispector’s final masterpiece, now with a vivid introduction by Colm Tóibín. Narrated by the cosmopolitan Rodrigo S.M., this brief, strange, and haunting tale is the story of Macabéa, one of life's...

A short, spellbinding novel about a WWI veteran finding a way to re-enter—and fully embrace—normal life while spending the summer in an idyllic English village.  In J. L. Carr's deeply charged poetic novel, Tom Birkin, a veteran of...

A “stellar literary debut” (Wilmington Star News) about a young girl’s attempt to escape the confines of her hometown and find her place in the world.“Readers of Southern stories will enjoy the poignant self-discovery journey of...

The acclaimed Pelican Shakespeare series, now in a dazzling new series design.Winner of the 2016 AIGA + Design Observer 50 Books | 50 Covers competition.Gold Medal Winner of the 3x3 Illustration Annual No. 14.This edition of Macbeth is edited...

Regarded by many as Woolf's greatest achievement, The Waves follows a set of six friends from childhood to middle age. As the contours of their lives are revealed, a unique novel is unveiled. In this new edition David Bradshaw considers its...

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 have formed a "family," clinging together in the face of loneliness and alienation. Laborers in...

The text for this edition of Notes from Underground is Michael Katz’s acclaimed translation of the 1863 novel, which is introduced and annotated specifically for English-speaking readers. "Backgrounds and Sources" includes relevant...

'Perhaps that moment had been exceptional, but still, I felt alive. That pressure on my chest means being alive.'Forty-nine, with a kind face, no serious ailments (apart from varicose veins on his ankles), a good salary and three moody children, widowed...

Two centuries of literary homages to the fascinating feline: stories by writers of every stripe—from P.G. Wodehouse to Doris Lessing, from Damon Runyon to Steven Millhauser.The essential unknowableness of cats has inspired many flights of fancy:...