The great Polish poet Aleksander Wat's memoirs provide a powerful and moving account of life in Eastern Europe in the terrible twentieth century.

Ackerley has written a book that is a profound and subtle meditation on the strangeness abiding at the heart of all relationships.

The famed biographer of Shelley and Coleridge, Richard Holmes, compiles fantastical stories of love and death and from France's leading Romantic, friend of Hugo, and dedicatee of Baudelaire's Fleurs du Mal.

Ackerley's pursuit of his father is also an exploration of the self, making My Father and Myself a pioneering record, at once sexually explicit and emotionally charged, of life as a gay man.

Jules Renard's Nature Stories is a deliciously whimsical classic from the era of the great French Postimpressionist painters.

The New Life is the masterpiece of Dante's youth, an account of his love for Beatrice, the girl who was to become his lifelong muse, and of her tragic early death.

The first collection to focus on what was perhaps Edith Wharton's greatest and most enduring subject, her native city.

This first collection of Hardwick's short fiction reveals her brilliance as a stylist and as an observer of contemporary life.

An original collection of all of James's New York Stories.

Nightmare Alley begins with an extraordinary description of a freak-show geek-alcoholic and abject and the object of the voyeuristic crowd's gleeful disgust and derision-going about his work at a county fair.