Not only essential reading for anyone who wishes to investigate this dark stretch of history, but a lasting monument of the historian's art.

A new collection of more than seventy stories by the iconic modern writer Robert Walser.

The legendary chronicle of the supernatural that inspired Robert Louis Stevenson and Sir Walter Scott.

Seduction and Betrayal is a virtuoso performance, a major writer's reckoning with the relations between men and women, women and writing, writing and life.

Doren deftly guides the reader though the sometime labyrinthine intricacies of Shakespeare's rich and strange language, the better to reveal the mysteries at the heart of his achievement.

The eponymous hero of this early-American picaresque climbs the social ladder by inhabiting the bodies of the recently deceased, assuming the identities of, among others, a country squire, a young man of fashion, and a slave.

“It is a shameful thing to win a war.” The reliably unorthodox Curzio Malaparte’s own service as an Italian liaison officer with the Allies during the invasion of Italy was the basis for this searing and surreal novel.

Skylark cooks and sews for her parents and anchors the unremitting tedium of their lives.

Now Skylark is going away, for only a week it's true, but a week that yawns endlessly for her parents. What will they do?

An inspired fusion of fact and invention, this beautifully realized, hard-bitten, lyrical book is not only Elizabeth Hardwick's finest fiction but one of the outstanding contributions to American literature of the last fifty years.

In Tolstaya's vaudevillian-dystopian novel, set 200 years after an apocalyptic disaster destroys Russia, a lowly scribe is elevated to a life of privilege and becomes the bibliophile from hell.