Melville House

Heinrich Bll's taut and haunting first novel tells the story of twenty-four-year-old Private Andreas as he journeys on a troop train across the German countryside to the Eastern front. Trapped, he knows that Hitler has already lost the war ... yet he is suddenly galvanized by the thought that he is on the way to his death. As the train...

"e;I was on my way to look for a life of my own."e;A brilliant, brutally honest autobiographical novel, long out of print, from one of the great artistic polymaths of the 20th century.This is a Sebaldian account of the narrator's attempt to break free of a repressive upper-middle-class upbringing and make his way as an artist and...

';History has no use for witnesses.'When Marek Hasko sent this novel to publishers in Poland in the mid-1950s, it was uniformly rejected. When he asked why, he was told: ';This Poland doesn't exist.' Long out of print, The Graveyard is Hasko's portrait of a system built on such denial and willful blindness. Factory...

A Novel"e;Cosmic and comic, full of philosophy, mysticism and celestial whimsy. Both profoundly wild and wildly profound."e; Charles Yu, author of How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional UniverseIn the not-too-distant future, competing giant fast food factions rule the world. Leonard works for Neetsa Pizza, the Pythagorean...

A masterpiece of satire and a key work of the Russian "e;fantastic"e; movement. One of the most celebrated tales in Russian literature. Collegiate Assessor Kovalyov awakens to discover that his nose is missing, leaving a smooth, flat patch of skin in its place. He finds and confronts his nose in the Kazan Cathedral, but from its clothing it...

Or, The Royal Slave, A True StoryThe bestselling story by a legendary female writer--a tale of love, slavery, and rebellion.When Prince Oroonoko's passion for the virtuous Imoinda arouses the jealousy of his grandfather, the lovers are cast into slavery and transported from Africa to the colony of Surinam. Oroonoko's noble bearing soon...