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From one of America's greatest men of letters, our sublime master of manners, comes his novel, Her Infinite Variety.

He was destined to rule the world ... A prince is born under a star of good fortune. It is prophesied that he will become the greatest king of all time.

The dramatic story of the rise and collapse of Europe's first great urban experiment.

Starting in 1964, writes Margot Adler in this dazzling memoir, "I found myself mysteriously at the center of extraordinary events." Now a correspondent for National Public Radio, Adler wa

Instant bestseller. Finalist for the Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction.

In the 1920s, the young J. R. Ackerley spent several months in India as the personal secretary to the maharajah of a small Indian principality.

A lyrical novel of love and betrayal in the aftermath of the fall of Saigon—from the author of Monkey Bridge.

Keep your head down. Don't look anyone in the eye. Never even think about technology if one of those ghostly, grey cars is sliding silently down the road.

An ex-spy lifts the lid on life in the secret service. Andrew Kirsch didn't grow up watching spy movies or dreaming about being a real-life James Bond.

Les deux ados voulaient simplement se venger de leur professeur. Comment auraient-ils pu imaginer que la farce tournerait en une telle tragédie ?

With the precision of a surgeon, Peter Stamm cuts to the heart of the fragile and revealing moments of everyday life. They are bankers, students, mothers, or retirees.

Mary Beard's by now famous blog A Don's Life has been running on the TLS website for nearly three years.

Two hundred and twenty tales from medieval Japan-tales that welcome us into a fabulous faraway world populated by saints, scoundrels, ghosts, magical healers, and a vast assortment of deities and d

A desperate mother. A dubious escort. And a deranged author who won't leave them alone. Caroline Lindley is determined that her new romance novel will be her best one yet. Fantasy!

Marie-Anne Houde, la souillon de Sainte-Sophie, attend la mort dans sa « chambre de mourante » à Montréal, et écrit à Télesphore, son vieil amour qui n’a pas toujours partagé ses sentiments.