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.

Harvey Swados devoted himself to the concerns of ordinary people and pays tribute to them here in a naturalistic and controlled style that bears comparison to Cheever and Bellow.

“The Dog adopted the Ancsas in the spring of ’48”: so the story begins.

Summoned by Madame de T___ to her country house, the young hero of the novella is taken on a tour of the grounds, only the beginning of night that will not only be full of unanticipated delights but will give rise to unexpected, perhaps unanswerable, questions.

The writings of a secretive eighteenth-century French thinker who left an unpublished masterpiece behind.

Luc Sante has selected the best of anarchist and art critic Fénéon's vignettes of the darker side of life—adultery, murder, revenge, labor unrest, and suicide—in early-20th-century France.