No evocation of Parisian life in the second half of the nineteenth century can match that found in the journals of the brothers Goncourt.

Pedigree is the story of a boy growing into a young man and making his way in a city of gaslights, trams, rain, squalor, and secret delight.

A classic of nature writing.

A work of classical elegance and concision, The Pilgrim Hawk stands with Faulkner's The Bear as one of the finest American short novels: a beautifully crafted story that is also a poignant evocation of the implacable power of love.

Poem Strip is a pioneering graphic novel that relocates the story of Orpheus and Eurydice to a ghostly version of modern Milan.

A groundbreaking anthology that includes the work of some of the most famous poets of China.

Poets in a Landscape is Gilbert Highet's delightful exploration of both Latin literature and the Italian landscape.

Poison Penmanship collects seventeen of Mitford's finest pieces-about everything from crummy spas to network-TV censorship-and fills them out with the story of how she got the scoop.

No other book discusses so frankly the criminal ways of the closed prison society, its homosexuality or extortion. No other political prisoner even remotely approaches Berkman's sympathy for what most of the revolutionaries refer to contemptuously as common criminals.

Genet's final masterpiece, written and rewritten on his deathbed, is a lyrical and philosophical voyage to the bloody intersection of oppression, terror, and desire at the heart of the contemporary world.