The Snows of Yesteryear
By Gregor von Rezzori
Introduction by John Banville
Translated from the German by H. F. Broch De Rothermann
"An elegiac tribute to a receding past and a testament to the redemptive powers of memory—a family photography album, beautifully translated into words.—Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times Book Review
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Too Big
By Ingri and Edgar Parin d'Aulaire
A silly story about a little tow-headed boy who's getting "TOO BIG" to do just about everything he's wants to do. Brightly colored and simply told, this picture book will appeal to preschoolers exploring the world around them.
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Pinocchio
By Carlo Collodi
Introduction by Umberto Eco
Translated from the Italian by Geoffrey Brock
This new translation of Pinocchio will forever banish the saucer-eyed Disney character from your mind. In his place is Collodi's greedy, charming, subversive boy-puppet and a dreamlike story that flaunts its commedia dell'arte roots.
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The Midnight Folk
By John Masefield
Illustrations by Rowland Hilder
Afterword by Madeleine L'Engle
In this prequel to John Masefield's The Box of Delights, the young hero, Kay Harker, "must fight dark magic to uncover his family's treasure. It won't be easy, but luckily he has an owl, a fox, a cat and a box of toys to help him on his way." —The Guardian (London)
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Rock Crystal
By Adalbert Stifter
Introduction by W.H. Auden
Translated from the German by Elizabeth Mayer
and Marianne Moore
Stifter's rapturous and enigmatic tale of village life begins with a small anecdote—one Christmas eve, a brother and sister lose their way amid snowdrifts while crossing the Alps—and opens onto vast questions of faith and destiny.
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The Chrysalids
By John Wyndham
Introduction by Christopher Priest
Like everyone else in the nuclear-wasted world he lives in, David is loyal to his kind and on the watch for anyone who deviates from the ideological or genetic norm. But what would happen if it were revealed that David himself was a mutant? Wyndham's novel is a thrilling science fiction classic for teens and adults alike.
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Ringolevio
A Life Played For Keeps
By Emmett Grogan
Introduction by Peter Coyote
Grogan went from street punk to teenage junkie to countercultural icon in a few years. As the leader of the San Francisco Diggers in the '60s he set the tone—puckish, anarchic, radical—for a movement that was to alter the social fabric. He was also a great self-mythologizer. As Paul Krassner put it, "The leader of the Diggers doesn't exist, and his name is Emmett Grogan."
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Don't Look Now
By Daphne du Maurier
Selected and with an introduction by Patrick McGrath
Novelist Patrick McGrath (Asylum, Trauma) selects eight of his favorite stories—including "The Birds" and "The Blue Lenses"—by du Maurier, a writer who excelled at the art of the psychologically telling horror tale.
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The Liberal Imagination
By Lionel Trilling
Introduction by Louis Menand
The great critic's masterwork makes a case for the necessity of the imaginative works in a society ever more worshipful of the liberal ideals of rationality and progress. "Trilling...shows how criticism, written with grace, style, and a self-questioning cast of mind, can itself become a form of literature, as well as a valuable contribution to how we think about society.—Morris Dickstein
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Defeat
Napoleon's Russian Campaign
By Philippe-Paul de Ségur
Introduction by Mark Danner
Ségur's eye-witness account of what remains one of the greatest military disasters of all time is a masterpiece of military history and was an essential source for Tolstoy's War and Peace. It is also a reminder of the risks of imperial hubris.
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Grief Lessons
Four Plays by Euripides
Translated and with introductory essays by Anne Carson
"Why does tragedy exist? Because you are full of rage. Why are you full of rage? Because you are full of grief." Celebrated contemporary poet and classicist Anne Carson presents new translations of four plays by Euripides in Grief Lessons, now available in paperback.
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The Queue
By Vladimir Sorokin
Translated from the Russian by Sally Laird
An average day in the Soviet Union, hundreds of people are lined up for . . . nobody knows quite what, but the rumors are flying. Sorokin's most approachable novel is told in snatches of dialogue that are in turn poignant and uproarious.
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