Literary collections

Letters from Egypt to Plain Folks at Home

by , Mary Whately

Mary Whately's letters offer a fascinating insight into life in Egypt in 1879, and will prove to be an invaluable addition to the bookshelf of anyone with an interest in the people, customs, culture and climate...

The Medici Popes: Leo X and Clement VII

by , Herbert Vaughan

This classic book contains the biographies of the well-known Medici Popes, Leo X. and Clement VII., and will make an excellent addition to the bookshelf of anyone with an interest in the subject. Many of the...

Studies in Ephemera: Text and Image in Eighteenth-Century Print

by Kevin Murphy & Sally O'Driscoll

The book offers new perspectives on works that were central to the visual and literary culture of the Anglo-American world—ephemeral print—but which have received little scholarly attention in the past.

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In the Land of the Blue Poppies: The Collected Plant-Hunting Writings of Frank Kingdon Ward

by Frank Kingdon Ward, Tom Christopher & Jamaica Kincaid

A Modern Library Paperback Original

During the first years of the twentieth century, the British plant collector and explorer Frank Kingdon Ward went on twenty-four impossibly daring expeditions throughout Tibet,...

Essential Faulkner

by William Faulkner

A collection of the essential works by William Faulkner, the American novelist and short story writer.

“I’m a failed poet. Maybe every novelist wants to write poetry first, finds he can’t and then tries...

Revelations: The Best Poetry of Jean Arthur Jones Over The Years

by Jean Arthur Jones & Bruce Whealton

This collection of 44 poems, by Jean Arthur Jones, is edited and published by Bruce Whealton. It reflects the editor's personal impression of what are the best poems of the many that have been written by Mr....

Mozart and Leadbelly

by Ernest J. Gaines

In this collection of stories and essays, the beloved author of the classic, best-selling novel A Lesson Before Dying shares the inspirations behind his books and his reasons for becoming a writer. Told in the...

The Education of a British-Protected Child: Essays

by Chinua Achebe

From the celebrated author of Things Fall Apart comes a new collection of autobiographical essays—his first new book in more than twenty years.

Chinua Achebe’s characteristically eloquent and nuanced voice...

The Best Australian Science Writing 2012

by Elizabeth Finkel

How were Ned Kelly’s bones finally identified? What makes cockroaches some of the most successful creatures on the planet? Could some obscure bacteria finally rid the world of dengue fever? How did infant...

The Great White South: Or with Scott in the Antarctic

by , Herbert Ponting

This classic book contains Ponting's well-written and witty account of Captain Scott's final Antarctic expedition of 1910-12. Fully detailed and with many of Ponting's own photographs, this moving account will...

The Best Australian Business Writing 2012

by Andrew Cornell

Have Baby Boomers been forced back to work since the global financial crisis? Will pre-commitment cards for poker machines coerce the addicted gambler to think before he or she acts? Is airport security a waste...

Granta 122: Betrayal

by John Freeman

In a world of the future, people exist in a perpetual state of rehearsing evacuations, and one man's rehearsal involves leaving his parents behind. A firespotter knows all too well that where there's smoke,...

PILLAR of SALT

by Evelyn Allen Johnson

This is a powerful story of an African-American man's struggle to raise his son in a period of overt discrimination and segregation in America. Diversified characters portray the reality of the period, as the...

Nine Lessons From The Dark

by Adam Thorpe

Adam Thorpe's fourth collection continues his engagement with history: the living continuum that connects us with our near and distant past, nourishing and illuminating our present. Here are traces left of presence:...

My Dears

by Ruth Snary & Snowden Cathy

Mother and I corresponded weekly for over fifty years and thirty years ago I began to keep her letters. Recently I decided to collate some in a book so that others could share my delight in reading them. They...

Collected Works of William Hazlitt

by , William Hazlitt

This early work by William Hazlitt is both expensive and hard to find in its first edition. It contains a collection of essays on various subjects by one of the unsung masters of the English language. This is...

The Treasure of the Humble

by , Maurice Maeterlinck

Originally published in 1907, this little volume presents M. Maeterlinck in a new character, not as a dramatist, but as a philosopher and an aesthetician. It is some sort of an 'apology' for his theatre. He...

The Right Way to Do Wrong - An Expose of Successful Criminals

by , Harry Houdini

Originally published in 1906, this early work by legendary escapologist Harry Houdini is both expensive and hard to find in its first edition. It contains a wealth of information on the methods and history of...

Vermeer in Bosnia: Selected Writings

by Lawrence Weschler

From the master chronicler of the marvelous and the confounding–author of Mr. Wilson’s Cabinet of Wonder–here is a much-anticipated new collection of more than twenty pieces from the past two decades,...

The Portable Malcolm X Reader

by Manning Marable & Garrett Felber

A new look at Malcolm X's life and times from his Pulitzer Prize–winning biographer, Manning Marable

Manning Marable's Pulitzer Prize–winning biography, Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention, has already...