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What if survival required you to unlearn who you are? How far would you fall to save yourself? Somet…

The Tashkent-born Russian-American literary critic, editor, essayist, and journalist Vladislav David…

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The story of the woman at the center of the most famous scandal of the nineteenth century. In the…

Secrets have a way of being found out.Uncovering the hidden secrets of her literary heroes was the l…

From the award-winning biographer of Chaucer, the story of his most popular and scandalous character…

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The modern romance novel is elevated to a subject of serious study in this addictive biography of pi…

Sherlock Holmes was created by British author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Referring to himself as a "con…

This complex memoir shows what it was like growing up in the shadow of a literary father and a negle…

Male literary friendships are the stuff of legend; think Byron and Shelley, Fitzgerald and Hemingway…

A lost nineteenth-century literary life, brilliantly rediscovered--Letitia Elizabeth Landon, hailed …

“The Real Lolita is a tour de force of literary detective work. Not only does it shed new ligh…

In this sparkling contemporary adaptation of Sense and Sensibility, sisters Miranda, an impulsive bu…

The daughter of a respectable self-made businessman, the middle-aged Eliot was cast into social exil…

Why did Norman Mailer stab his second wife at a party? Who was Edith Wharton's secret transatlantic …

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY KIRKUS REVIEWSFor readers of Jonathan Franzen and Richard…

From the voice of a generation: The most highly anticipated autobiography of the year, and the story…

SCREAMING, CRYING, THROWING UP! Cry Havoc is a fever worth catching, a gloomy and gorgeous pleasure.…

Three novellas about survival under imperial power.Sporus becomes Nero’s living monument.Hierocles c…

Two bold, authentic dramas exploring D.H. Lawrence's extraordinarily modern view of sexualityDaring,…

For fans of Alison Espach's The Wedding People and Dolly Alderton's Good Material, a delectable come…

“Riveting . . . Blake’s deft chronicle of one of the greatest moral scandals of our time [is] a book…

She crossed an ocean to start her life over. Can she nab a killer before her quaint village becomes …

America's most beloved literary characters.  A page-turning mystery.  The gilded opulence of the Roa…

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"Mansfield Park," written in 1814, is the third of six books by legendary British author Jane Austen…

Fyodor Dostoevsky became the writer best known for his treatment of the big questions of ethics, rel…

The PEN Literary Award–winning author “writes with honesty, intelligence, tenderness, and love” abou…

In the late 19th century, Oscar Wilde, a flamboyant and renowned playwright and poet, was at the hei…