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THE CHRISTIAN WORLD
Written by Martin Marty
In this cogent volume, historian Martin Marty gives readers of all faiths a brief yet sweeping account of Christianity and how it grew from a few believers two thousand years ago to become the world’s largest religion.
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PORTRAITS AND OBSERVATIONS: The Essays of Truman Capote
Written by Truman Capote
Perhaps no twentieth-century writer was so observant and graceful a chronicler of his times as Truman Capote. Portraits and Observations is the first volume devoted solely to all the essays ever published by this most beloved of writers.
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THE ADVENTURES OF AMIR HAMZA
Written by Ghalib Lakhnavi and Abdullah Bilgrami
Translated by Musharraf Ali Farooqi
Here is the first unabridged English translation of a major Indo-Persian epic: a panoramic tale of magic and passion, a classic hero's odyssey that has captivated much of the world.
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THE ESSENTIAL WRITINGS OF
JAMES WELDON JOHNSON
Written by James Weldon Johnson
Edited by Rudolph Byrd
Foreword by Charles Johnson
This comprehensive volume of Johnson's works includes the seminal novel Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man, poems from God's Trombones, essays on cultural and political topics, and more.
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SHADOW COUNTRY
Written by Peter Matthiessen
2008 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER
Peter Matthiessen’s great American epic–Killing Mister Watson, Lost Man’s River, and Bone by Bone–was conceived as one vast mysterious novel, but because of its length it was originally broken up into three books.
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Paradise Lost
Written by John Milton
Edited by William Kerrigan, John Rumrich and Stephen M. Fallon
John Milton's Paradise Lost, an epic poem on the clash between God and his fallen angel, Satan, is a profound meditation on fate, free will, and divinity, and one of the most beautiful works in world literature.
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LES MISÉRABLES
Written by Victor Hugo
Translated by Julie Rose
Introduction by Adam Gopnik
In this major new rendition by the acclaimed translator Julie Rose, Victor Hugo's tour de force, Les Misérables, is revealed in its full unabridged glory.
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Georges
Written by Alexandre Dumas
Edited by Werner Sollors
Translated by Tina Kover
Foreword by Jamaica Kincaid
Georges is the story of a wealthy mulatto boy who is driven from his island home by racist landowners.
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Written by Geoffrey Chaucer
Translated by Burton Raffel
Introduction by John Miles Foley
"The Canterbury Tales is the most approachable masterpiece of the medieval world, and Mr. Raffel's translation makes the stories even more inviting."
— WALL STREET JOURNAL
Chaucer's unfinished epic poem is one of the most beloved works in the English language—and for good reason: It is lively, absorbing, perceptive, and outrageously funny. Now, The Canterbury Tales is available in a new unabridged translation by the esteemed poet, translator, and scholar Burton Raffel—whose translation of Beowulf has been widely praised.
Written by Kate Chopin
Edited by Nina Baym
Introduction by Kaye Gibbons
The Awakening shocked turn-of-the-century readers with its forthright treatment of sex and suicide. Departing from literary convention, Kate Chopin failed to condemn her heroine's desire for an affair with the son of a Louisiana resort owner, whom she meets on vacation. The power of sensuality, the delusion of ecstatic love, and the solitude that accompanies the trappings of middle- and upper-class life are the themes of this now-classic novel.
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