Melville House

"e;You know as well as you sit there that you'd put a pistol-ball into your brain if you had written my books!"e;Exemplifying Henry James's famous belief that "e;Art makes life,"e; The Lesson of the Master is a piercing study of the life that art makes. When the tale's protagonista gifted young writermeets and...

"e;I prefer not to,"e; he respectfully and slowly said, and mildly disappeared.Academics hail it as the beginning of modernism, but to readers around the worldeven those daunted by Moby-DickBartleby the Scriveneris simply one of the most absorbing and moving novellas ever. Set in the mid-19th century on New York City's Wall...

This unauthorized companion to George Orwell's Animal Farm is a controversial parable about September 11th by one of fiction's most inventive and provocative writersWritten in 14 days shortly after the September 11th attacks, Snowball's Chance is an outrageous and unauthorized companion to George Orwell's Animal Farm, in which exiled pig...

"e;You can send me to the scaffold, but I can make you suffer, and I mean to."e;Based on actual historic events, this thrilling saga of violence and retribution bridged the gap between medieval and modern literature, and speaks so profoundly to the contemporary spirit that it has been the basis of numerous plays, movies, and...

A Novel"e;Winner of Chile's Literary Critics' Award for Best Novel"e; Hailed as a great Latin American literary event, this stylistically innovative, elliptically told tale of a young man and his love who mysteriously disappears is, as the narrator tells us, ';a simple story that becomes complicated.' Through both the...

This long-awaited re-publication of the first Arab-American novelinspiration for Kahlil Gibran's The Prophetdeals with Arab/American relations, religious conflict and the American immigrant experience.Told with great good humor and worldly compassion, and with illustrations by Kahlil Gibran, The Book of Khalid recounts the adventures of two young...