Any Baedeker will tell us where we ought to travel, but only Alain de Botton will tell us how and why. With the same intelligence and insouciant charm he brought to
The true story of a brilliant counterfeiter who amadea millions, outwitted the Secret Service, and was finally undone when he went in search of the one thing his forged money could...
SUMMARY: On a desolate island deep within the Canadian Arctic, a scientific expedition photograph the wreckage of a bomber on a mountain glacier. To the world at large, the half-ce...
THE THOUSAND AND ONE NIGHTS is one of the great storybooks of the world and is a thousand or more years old. As early as the tenth century, a Persian collection of tales told of a ...
Here is Friedrich Nietzsche's great masterpiece The Anti-Christ, wherein Nietzsche attacks Christianity as a blight on humanity. This classic is essential reading for anyone wishin...
From Publishers WeeklyStarred Review. Goldstone, an acclaimed popular historian (Out of the Flames; The Friar and the Cipher), marks out new terrain with his compelling f...
"When all is said and done, killing my mother came easily."So begins The Almost Moon, Alice Sebold's astonishing, brilliant, and daring new novel. A woman steps over the line into ...
Steinbeck's only work of fantasy literature-in an illustrated deluxe editionJohn Steinbeck's retelling of Malory's beloved Arthurian stories will capture the attention and i...
In The 30 Greatest Sports Conspiracy Theories of All-Time, long-time TV sports statistician and self-professed skeptic Elliott Kalb examines the most notable conspiracies in sports...
Review“The experimental masterpiece modern Italian literature has long been awaiting.… There is a kinship to Joyce, especially in Gadda’s inspired outbursts of comic invective, his...