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"The Emperor of Gladness is a poetic, dramatic and vivid story. Epic in its sweep, the novel also handles intimacy and love with delicacy and deep originality.

The autobiography of global human rights icon Nelson Mandela is "riveting . . .

Styliste admirable, Françoise Sagan avait l'art de la formule.

A new novel of artful understatement about mortality, estrangement, and the absurdity of life from the acclaimed author of Unformed Landscape and In Strange Gardens.

Marty Mann was the first woman to achieve long-term sobriety in Alcoholics Anonymous, and she inspired thousands of others, especially women, to help themselves.

Against the Stream is the latest volume of Frederic Raphael's acclaimed memoirs Personal Terms, an unrivaled parade of the author's eventful and provocative life, opinions, and times draw

Anicet est le premier récit d'Aragon. Il a été commencé alors que l'auteur était encore au front, en 1918.

Discover the most fascinating crimes committed between two of the greatest wars ever fought, from America's first train robbery by the Reno brothers in 1866, to alleged killings at the H. H.

Geoffrey Becker's Dangerous Men was selected by Charles Baxter as the winner of the fifteenth annual Drue Heinz Literature Prize.

Three surreal, erotically charged stories from Nobel Prize winner Yasunari Kawabata.

Ten-year-old Randal Thane is distressed to be taken from his mother, his governess and his home and sent to prep school.

"Le féminisme, c'est quoi ? Ça existe ? Aujourd'hui ça pourrait exister. Et pour quoi faire ?

On ne s'habille pas pour éblouir les autres femmes ou pour les embêter.

In Nobel Prize-winning author Peter Handke’s The Left-Handed Woman, a young woman faces loneliness and alienation on a journey to find her own life outside of being a wife and mother.

Early on the morning of September 11, 2001, Lauren Manning, a wife, the mother of a ten-month-old son, and a senior vice president and partner at Cantor Fitzgerald, came to work as always at One Wo