
Black Venus
Extraordinary and diverse people inhabit this rich, ripe, occasionally raucous collection of short stories. Some are based on real people - Jeanne ...
View full detailsExtraordinary and diverse people inhabit this rich, ripe, occasionally raucous collection of short stories. Some are based on real people - Jeanne ...
View full detailstranslated by Alfred Birnbaum In this hyperkinetic and relentlessly inventive novel, Japan’s most popular (and controversial) fiction writer hurtle...
View full detailstranslated by Terence Kilmartin, C. K. Scott-Moncrieff and D. J. Enright In Sodom and Gomorrah, Proust's narrator not only depicts the class tensio...
View full detailstranslated by Terence Kilmartin, C. K. Scott-Moncrieff and D. J. Enright In the opening volume of Proust's great novel, the narrator travels backwa...
View full detailsIs it just a case of summertime blues or a full-blown career crisis? Newspaper reporter Jim Qwilleran isn't sure, but he's hoping a few days in the...
View full detailsInheriting unexpected millions has left reporter Jim Qwilleran looking like the cat who swallowed the canary. While his two Siamese cats, Koko and ...
View full detailstranslated by Terence Kilmartin, C. K. Scott-Moncrieff and D. J. Enright In The Guermantes Way Proust's narrator recalls his initiation into the da...
View full detailstranslated by Terence Kilmartin, C. K. Scott-Moncrieff and D. J. Enright Within a Budding Grove describes the first shoots of an astonishing love a...
View full detailsGrady Tripp is an over-sexed, pot-bellied, pot-smoking, ageing wunderkind of a novelist now teaching creative writing at a Pittsburgh college while...
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