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Chevalier transports readers to a bygone time and place in this richly imagined portrait of the young woman who inspired one of Vermeer's most celebrated paintings. "Girl with a Pe… More

The Bluest Eye is the story of eleven-year-old Pecola Breedlove - a black girl in an America whose love for its blond, blue-eyed children can devastate all others - who prays for h… More

Trisha Portman almost has it all. With her good looks, a job at a hot SoHo art gallery, devoted friends, and a handsome lawyer boyfriend, she's one step away from making it big. Wh… More

Contains:

Breakfast at Tiffany's
House of Flowers
A Diamond Guitar
A Christmas Memory

To read Gail Godwin is to touch the very core of human experience. With inimitable grace and aching emotional precision, this New York Times bestselling author and National Book Aw… More

"Leyner's brilliantly discontinuous humor invites comparison with William Burroughs, Donald Barthelme, and comedian Steven Wright. It's rude, epic shtick that begs to be read aloud… More

Arthur Miller seemed to capture the sometimes tragic plight of the common man with his Death of a Salesman. Bloom suggests the strength of the play is puzzling but beyond dispute, … More

"To quietly persevere in storing up what is learned, to continue studying without respite, to instruct others without growing weary-- is this not me?"
--Confucius

Confuci… More

Samantha's husband has left her, and after a wacky spree of overcharging at Tiffany's on his disappearing credit card, Samantha settles down to reconstruct a life for herself and h… More

A major new reissue of the work of a classic noir novelist. With the acclaim for The Talented Mr. Ripley, more film projects in production, and two biographies forthcoming, … More