Other Colors
Essays and a Story
Written by Orhan Pamuk

Format: Trade Paperback, 464 pages
On Sale: November 11, 2008
Price: $15.95

In the three decades that Nobel prize-winning author Orhan Pamuk has devoted himself to writing fiction, he has also produced scores of witty, moving, and provocative essays and articles. He engages the work of Nabokov, Kundera, Rushdie, and Vargas Llosa, among others, and he discusses his own books and writing process... Read more >

The Origin of Species
By Means of Natural Selection or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life
Written by Charles Darwin

Format: Paperback, 512 pages
On Sale: June 1, 1999
Price: $5.95

The publication of Darwin’s The Origin of Species in 1859 marked a dramatic turning point in scientific thought. The volume had taken Darwin more than twenty years to publish, in part because he envisioned the storm of controversy it was certain to unleash. Indeed, selling out its first edition on its... Read more >

The Long Embrace
Raymond Chandler and the Woman He Loved
Written by Judith Freeman

Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
On Sale: November 11, 2008
Price: $14.95

Raymond Chandler was among the most original and enduring crime novelists of the twentieth century. Yet much of his pre-writing life, including his unconventional marriage, has remained shrouded in mystery. In this compelling, wholly original book, Judith Freeman sets out to solve the puzzle of who Chandler was and how he... Read more >

The Turn of the Screw and Other Short Fiction

Written by Henry James

Format: Paperback, 560 pages
On Sale: September 1, 1981
Price: $4.95

To read a story by Henry James is to enter a fully realized world unlike any other—a rich, perfectly crafted domain of vivid language and splendid, complex characters. Devious children, sparring lovers, capricious American girls, obtuse bachelors, sibylline spinsters, and charming Europeans populate these five fascinating nouvelles, which represent the author... Read more >

The Canterbury Tales

Written by Geoffrey Chaucer
Translated by Burton Raffel
Introduction by John Miles Foley

Format: Hardcover, 672 pages
On Sale: November 18, 2008
Price: $36.00

It would be impossible to overstate the influence of Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales. A work with one metaphorical foot planted in the Florentine Renaissance literary tradition of Boccaccio’s Decameron and the other in works ranging from John Bunyan, Voltaire, and Mark Twain to the popular entertainments of our own time... Read more >

Death in Venice and Other Stories

Written by Thomas Mann

Format: Paperback, 416 pages
On Sale: September 1, 1988
Price: $5.95

This superb translation of Death in Venice and six other stories by Thomas Mann is a tour de force, deserving to be the definitive text for English-speaking readers. These seven stories represent Mann’s early writing career and a level of literary quality Mann himself despaired of ever again matching. In these... Read more >

Being Shelley
The Poet's Search for Himself
Written by Ann Wroe

Format: Trade Paperback, 464 pages
On Sale: November 4, 2008
Price: $16.95

From Ann Wroe, a biographer of the first rank, comes a startlingly original look at one of the greatest poets in the Western tradition.

Being Shelley aims to turn the poet's life inside out: rather than tracing the external events of his life, she tracks the inner journey of a spirit... Read more >