Melville House

...it was touching to discover that this lonely spot was not without its pilgrims.The story of an endearing, unlikely friendship set against the backdrop of a remote and beautiful Maine coastal town, The Country of Pointed Firs is one of Sarah Orne Jewett's most loved works, and it quickly earned her a reputation as a talented writer...

A stunning new translation of a neglected masterpiece by one of history's most celebrated writers. Ten years before Baudelaire published his masterpiece, The Flowers of Evil, the great poet penned the only prose fiction of his career: La Fanfarlo. The novella describes the torrid real-life affair the poet had with Jean Duval, a dancer whose...

Set mostly in Manhattanalthough also featuring Atlantic City, Brooklyn, GMail Chat, and Gainsville, Floridathis autobiographical novella, spanning two years in the life of a young writer with a cultish following, has been described by the author as ';A shoplifting book about vague relationships,' ';2 parts shoplifting arrest, 5 parts vague...

She wanted to swim far out, where no woman had swum before.Condemned as "e;sordid"e; and "e;immoral"e; on its publication in 1899, this story of a woman trapped in her marriage effectively ended Chopin's career but was revived as a proto-feminist classic in the 1970s. What Newsweek calls Chopin's "e;prophetic...

A fable for children and adults: a story of life, death, and terrorismin the grand tradition of Exupery's The Little PrinceWhen we first meet 93-year-old millionaire Baron Lamberto, he has been diagnosed with 24 life-threatening ailmentsone for each of the 24 banks he owns. But when he takes the advice of an Egyptian mystic and hires...

In a raucous debut that summons up Britain's fabled Goon Squad comedies, writer and philosopher Lars Iyer tells the story of someone very like himself with a "e;slightly more successful"e; friend and their journeys in search of more palatable literary conferences and better gin. One reason for their journeys: the narrator's home is slowly...