Melville House

Glennard had never thought himself a hero; but he had been certain that he was incapable of baseness.The story of a young man who scorns the love of a tortured novelist, only to have her words come back to haunt him from the dead, The Touchstone shows off the skills Wharton became famous for in novels such as Ethan Frome and House of...

"e;I am indeed provoked at the artifice of this unprincipled woman."e;This high-spirited tale, told through an exchange of letters, is unique in Jane Austen's small body of work. It is the story of Lady Susan, a brilliant, beautiful and morally reprehensible coquette who delights in making men fall in love with her, deceiving their wives...

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Against all expectations Marcel Feron has made a ';normal' life in a bucolic French suburb in the Ardennes. But on May 10, 1940, as Nazi tanks approach, this timid, happy man must abandon his home and confront the ';Fate' that he has secretly awaited. Separated from his pregnant wife and young daughter in the chaos of flight, he joins a freight car...

This is the book that led to Hans Fallada's downfall with the Nazis. The story of a young couple struggling to survive the German economic collapse was a worldwide sensation and was made into an acclaimed Hollywood movie produced by Jews, leading Hitler to ban Fallada's work from being translated. Nonetheless, it remains,...

Restored to print for the first time in more than forty years, The President was hailed by the New York Times as a ';tour de force'At 82, the former premier lives in alert and suspicious retirementself exileon the Normandy coast, writing his anxiously anticipated memoirs and receiving visits from statesman and biographers. In his library...