Synopsis:Against Nature by Joris-Karl Huysmans is a novel and narrative almost entirely on its principal character, and is mostly a catalogue of the tastes and inner life of...
EDITORIAL REVIEW: A new-look printing of Agatha Christie's 'most absorbing mystery' to mark the 25th anniversary of her death. Agatha Christie died on 12 January 1976, having becom...
SUMMARY: Narrative history at its most compelling, "After the Prophet" relates the dramatic tragic story at the heart of the ongoing rivalry between Shia and Sunni Islam. Even as M...
Product DescriptionSardonic, wry and wise, Aesop's Fables are some of the most enduring and well-loved literary creations in history. In a series of pithy, amusing vignettes, Aesop...
A journey beyond imaginationis about to unfold...It begins in the most boring place in the world: Chickentown, U.S.A. There lives Candy Quackenbush, her ...
One of our most provocative military historians, Victor Davis Hanson has given us painstakingly researched and pathbreaking accounts of wars ranging from classical antiquity to the...
SUMMARY: The Honourable Phryne Fisher - she of the Lulu bob, green eyes, Cupid's Bow lips and diamante garters - is the 1920's most elegant and irrepressible sleuth. This collectio...
Amazon.com ReviewIntegral to most crime tales is the unearthing of concealed and unfavorable facts about suspected malefactors. But the mother-son duo who write under the nom de pl...
Two of the most beloved novels in all of English literature-together in one extraordinary volume. A TALE OF TWO CITIES After eighteen years as a political prisoner in the Bastille,...
Amazon.com Review"I sentence you, Mr. Weaver, to be hanged for the most horrible crime of murder." Hearing that judicial decree, Benjamin Weaver--former pugilist, current "thief-ta...