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In this collection, Anatole, usually accompanied by his cat Plumpet, embarks on a search for wild fennel, plays high-stakes checkers against a wizard, and attempts to right the wrongs in each land he visits.

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"What you have loved remains yours." Thus speaks the irresistible rogue Sindbad, ironic hero of these fantastic tales, who has seduced and abandoned countless women over the course of centuries but never lost one, for he returns to visit them all-ladies, actresses, housemaids-in his memories and dreams.

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An award-winning look at French salons and the women who presided over them.

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First publlished in 1950, this charming picture book by the Caldecott Medal-winning team of Simont and Krauss features bold illustrations that bring to life a humorous and engaging reversal of ordinary reality that will enchant young children and their parents. Full color.

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The Black Spider can be seen as a parable of evil in the heart or of evil at large in society

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The war is over. Miroslav Blam walks along the former Jew Street, and he remembers. He remembers Aaron Grun, the hunchbacked watchmaker; and Eduard Fiker, a lamp merchant; and Jakob Mentele, a stove fitter; and Arthur Spitzer, a grocer, who played amateur soccer and had non-Jewish friends; and Sandor Vertes, a lawyer who was a Communist. All dead.

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Eighty years old, Ebenezer Le Page has lived his whole life on the Channel Island of Guernsey, and as he reaches the end of his life he is determined to tell his own story and the stories of those he has known.

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At once picaresque adventure and campus comedy, curriculum vitae and last will, The Book of My Life is an extraordinary Renaissance self-portrait.

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A masterpiece of Caribbean literature, The Bridge of Beyond represents at once a gorgeously thick description of the flora and climate, crafts and customs of the island, and the triumph of a spirit so generous and hopeful that no earthly adversity could outlast it.

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Recently discovered among private papers and published here for the first time in any language, this extraordinary reminiscence is a deeply moving addition to the literature of the terrible war that defined the shape of the twentieth century.

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At once a fairy tale and a thrilling historical novel, this singularly Russian work of the imagination is also a timeless, universal, and very winning story of how love and duty can summon pluck and luck to confront calamity.

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The best novel ever written about the Stalinist purges is also a classic tale of risk and adventure that stands beside Malraux's Man's Fate and Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls.

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Valles's book is one of the funniest books in French literature, a triumph of insubordinate comedy over the forces of order and the self-appointed defenders of decency.

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"What attracts Pascalet more than anything, in this country of Provence where he lives, is the river. He has never seen her before. He often dreams of it, especially when the poacher Bargabot brings home the fish he has caught there"--

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Covering civil rights demonstrations in the 1960s, places where she lived, locations she traveled to, theater she had seen, murder trials that gripped her, and sketches for various occasions, this title gathers over fifty essays for a retrospective of moral courage, as Joan Didion described her. It defines literature itself.

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Li He is the bad-boy poet of the late Tang dynasty. He began writing at the age of seven and died at twenty-six from alcoholism or, according to a later commentator, "sexual dissipation," or both. This title features his collection of poems.

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Tells the story of Walter Ferranini, the earnest, intense, autodidact son of the working class become an Italian Communist MP who undergoes a crisis just after Khrushchev for the first time denounced the Stalinist dictatorship. This book presents the story of a life lived in a faith and of what it means when that faith is lost.

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Our most remarkable writers share what has influenced them the most: each other.

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A companion volume to The Company They Kept, in this book more of our most remarkable writers share what has influenced them the most: each other.

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Paul Hazard was one of the master historians of the twentieth century, and The Crisis of the European Mind is by common consent his masterwork, an ambitious study in intellectual history whose breadth of learning and authority is widely acknowledged to this day.

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A landmark work of African-American thought written in a period of immense social ferment.