Vintage

When a breach birth leaves Paulo severely disabled, his father, the articulate, unsentimental Professor Frigerio, struggles to come to terms with his sons condition. Face to face with his own limitations, Frigerio confronts the strange way society around him handles Paolos handicaps and observes his surprising gifts. In spare, deeply affecting...

(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)Aanton Chekhov, widely hailed as the supreme master of the short story, also wrote five works long enough to be called short novelshere brought together in one volume for the first time, in a masterly new translation by the award-winning translators Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky.The Steppethe most lyrical of...

In this richly evocative novel--the moving story of one boy's coming of age--acclaimed author Roland Merullo will make you nostalgic for a small Massachusetts city called Revere even if you've never been there. Providing a window into an unspoiled America of forty years ago, In Revere welcomes you to the fiercely loyal and devoted Italian-American...

Continuing his epic trilogy of the Haitian slave uprising, Madison Smartt Bells Master of the Crossroads delivers a stunning portrayal of Toussaint Louverture, former slave, military geniusandliberator of Haiti, andhis struggle against the great European powers to free his peoplein the only successful slave revolution in history. At the outset,...

Includes a new forward by the screenwriter Mary BingIn Anton Chekhov's The Duel the escalating animosity between two men with opposed philosophies of life is played out against the backdrop of a seedy resort on the Black Sea coast.Laevsky is a dissipated romantic given to gambling and flirtation; he has run off with another man's wife, the...

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