Classic Fiction Spotlight

Lady Chatterley's Lover - Restored Modern Edition

At the heart, "Lady Chatterley's Lover" is a story about the invisible bonds between lovers, companions, and husbands and wives. Against this backdrop, Lawrence also explores the relationship between physical desire and spiritual fulfillment, often using sensual and explicitly sexual language. This special edition of "Lady Chatterley's Lover" has been restored for a modern audience, including all previously censored material.

Bon Bons, Bourbon and Bon Mots: Stories from the Algonquin Round Table

The Algonquin Round Table, or "The Vicious Circle" as it was commonly known, came about much like so many social gatherings. A few friends get together, have a good time, and decide it would be fun to do it on a regular basis. Now, give them all literary or theatrical pedigrees and larger than life personalities. This collection contains the early poems, stories and anecdotes from seven of the Algonquin Round Table writers: Dorothy Parker, Robert Benchley, Franklin Pierce Adams, Heywood Broun, Edna Ferber, Ruth Hale, and Donald Ogden Stewart.

Glittering Things: Flappers, Fantasies and Tales of the Jazz Age

Glittering Things: Flappers, Fantasies & Tales of the Jazz Age contains a solid compendium of early works by Fitzgerald—a time when he was at his most experimental. Included in this special edition is the novelette “Winter Dreams,” a story that would eventually become his masterpiece, The Great Gatsby. Also included are “May Day” and “The Diamond as Big as the Ritz,” two of the most well-regarded pieces in the Fitzgerald canon, offering the writer’s candid analysis of the darker side of the Jazz Age’s quest for excess. Fitzgerald’s trademark wit and mastery of dialogue are also well represented with the stories “The Camel’s Back,” “Porcelain and Pink,” and “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.”

Literary Cubism - Geography and Plays: Selected Works of Gertrude Stein

This modern edition contains a massive collection of over 50 different works by Gertrude Stein. In addition to the daring and cheeky "Miss Furr and Miss Skeene," this revitalized edition contains many of her most radical and influential works. There is "Ada," one of Stein’s many word portraits of famous personages, this one written of Alice B. Toklas. There is "Every Afternoon: A Dialogue," a conversation between two unnamed people highlighting the writer’s playful, often humorous style. Also included is "Sacred Emily," in which the reader finds Stein’s most often quoted line, “Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose," a line that employs her trademark use of repetitive language to express that things are what they are, but at the same time, so much more.

Hammer of Thor - Norse Mythology and Legends - Special Edition

Hammer of Thor - Norse Mythology and Legends contains more than two dozen bold and exciting myths and legends from Norse mythology, with the original sketched illustrations from the first edition of Guerber's Myths of the Norsemen.

This special edition begins with the Norse legend of creation and ends with a comparison between Norse and Greek mythology. Between, scores of larger than life heroes jump out of the pages to boast of their glorious adventures and achievements.

Women on the Verge of the Progressive Era

Progressive era American women authors were starting to find their literary voices, unique from the rest of the world. Edited by Laura Bonds and Shawn Conners, and with cover art by Joan Turrell based on her series "Beyond the Yellow Wallpaper," this collection captures the essence of those voices, and includes the first American women authors to win the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.

Contents include short fiction and poetry by: Sarah Orne Jewett,
Kate Chopin, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Edith Wharton, Willa Cather, Sara Teasdale, Margaret Widdemer, Edna St. Vincent Millay.

Other Fiction Titles

Looking Backward by Edward Bellamy - A Utopian Novel - Bellamy, Edward

The Illustrated Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam - Special Edition - Khayyam, Omar

Nikolai Gogol's The Overcoat and Selected Stories - Special Edition - Gogol, Nikolai

Men And Women by Robert Browning - Transcendentalism: A Poem In Twelve Books - Special Edition - Browning, Robert

1001 Arabian Nights - The Complete Adventures of Sindbad, Aladdin and Ali Baba - Special Edition - Anonymous

The Prince - Machiavelli, Niccolo

The Aeneid of Virgil - Virgil