Commissioned and closely monitored by Milan Kundera himself, this new translation brings a clarity and unmatched fidelity to the author''s original text. Widely held as a work of genius, "The Book of Laughter and Forgetting" is the novel that first brought him to the forefront of the international literary ...
The legendary 1951 scroll draft of On the Road, published as Kerouac originally composed it IN THREE WEEKS in April of 1951, Jack Kerouac wrote his first full draft of On the Road—typed as a single-spaced paragraph on eight long sheets of tracing paper, which he later taped together to form a 120-foot ...
The fourth volume that contains the early myths and legends which led to the writing of Tolkien''''s epic tale of war, The Silmarillion. In this fourth volume of The History of Middle-earth, the shaping of the chronological and geographical structure of the legends of Middle-earth and Valinor is spread ...
Henry Chinaski, an outcast, a loner and a hopeless drunk, drifts around America from one dead-end job to another, from one woman to another and from one bottle to the next. Uncompromising, gritty, hilarious and confessional in turn, his downward spiral is peppered with black humour. "Factotum" follows ...
''She had been forced into prudence in her youth, she learned romance as she grew older - the natural sequel of an unnatural beginning.'' Anne Elliot seems to have given up on present happiness and has resigned herself to living off her memories. More than seven years earlier she complied with duty: ...
A dazzling fantasy adventure for all ages, the third part of a quintet appearing at two yearly intervals, richly illustrated by the author. The Abarat a magical otherworld composed on an archipelago of twenty-five islands — one for each hour of the day, plus an island out of time. Candy Quackenbush, ...
A whimsical read-aloud of delicious answers to ridiculous questions about what can - and cannot - be done in the kitchen!Food critic and author Joshua David Stein tackles the world of cookery with his signature quirk and charm. From the practical ("Can I fry a scoop of gelato?") to the playful ("Do frozen ...
Journey back in time and find out where the dinosaurs roamed. This unique children\''s atlas explores each continent, revealing fossil sites and stories on every map. Part of the best-selling What\''s Where on Earth series, this atlas is packed with maps of early Earth and more than 40 profiles of dinosaurs ...
''A blood-pumping, nerve-shredding thriller...ingenious'' (A. J. Finn, author ofThe Woman in the Window).&,nbsp,.Six confined psychopaths.A killer on the loose.1935.As Europe prepares itself for a calamitous war, six homicidal lunatics - the so-called ''Devil''s Six'' - are confined in a remote castle ...
