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A confederacy of dunces

A Confederacy of Dunces is an American comic masterpiece. John Kennedy Toole’s hero is one Ignatius J. Reilly, “huge, obese, fractious, fastidious, and a latter-day Gargantua, a Don Quixote of the French Quarter. His story bursts with wholly original character, denizens of New Orleans’ lower dep...

A passion in the desert

A French soldier escapes captivity and stumbles into something stranger than war: solitude, survival, and a wild intimacy with a panther in the sands of Egypt.

A tale of two cities

Underscoring the themes of imprisonment, injustice, social anarchy, resurrection, and the renunciation that fosters renewal, Dickens compresses an event of immense complexity to the scale of a family history

An inspector calls the graphic novel: quick text

A respectable household is shocked when a strange police inspector visits them shortly after dinner... and proceeds to unravel their prejudices and lies. Through this almost surreal murder-mystery, Priestley interweaves social comment with a gripping story that twists and turns every few pages.Th...

Appointment in samarra

Appointment in Samarra is a novel about pressure and about how little it takes for a life built on appearances to come apart.

Argimou

Valorizing his Mi'kmaq protagonist, Argimou, and using European/aboriginal conflicts of 1755 as a literary catalyst, Huyghue plunges his protagonists into a Maritime captivity tale-journey of natural & human dangers. The novel ends as it began with Huyghue/Argimou mourning the loss of aborigi...

Bel ami

A novel of astonishing modernity—merciless in its view of ambition, cynical in its rendering of the press, and unflinching in its depiction of how privilege is acquired and maintained.

Carmilla

“To this hour the image of Carmilla returns to my memory with ambiguous alternations—sometimes the playful, languid, beautiful girl; sometimes the writhing fiend I saw in the ruined church. Sometimes, I start from a reverie, certain I heard the light step of Carmilla at the drawing-room door.” I...

Chekhov: stories for our time

The Restless Classics edition of Chekhov: Stories for Our Time presents a must-have collection by the great Russian author who captured humanity in all its complexity, and reintroduces Chekhov as a funny, playful, deeply human, and thoroughly modern writer.The great 19th-century Russian author an...

Conversations of german refugees and wilhelm meister's journeyman years

The definitive English version of two landmark works of world literatureGoethe was a master of the short prose form. His two narrative cycles, Conversations of German Refugees and Wilhelm Meister’s Journeyman Years, both written during a high point of his career, address various social issues and...

Don quixote of la mancha

Newly introduced by leading Quixote scholar Ilan Stavans, this 400th Anniversary edition of Don Quixote of La Mancha—called the most popular book in history after the Bible and the first modern novel—inaugurates Restless Classics: interactive encounters with great books and inspired teachers. Eac...

Dracula

THIS BEAUTIFULLY DESIGNED EDITION BY G&D MEDIA WILL HOLD YOU “SPELLBOUND."

Dubliners

James Joyce's first major work, Dubliners provides a fascinating snapshot of early 20th century life in Ireland, bringing his city to the world for the first time.

Early verse drama and prose plays

Eight early plays by Goethe that revolutionized German dramaGoethe’s early plays bear witness to his urgent desire to enliven German theater, an ambition that followed him to the National Theater in Weimar, where he was named director in the early 1790s. Early Verse Drama and Prose Plays brings t...

Emma

This beautifully designed original edition of Jane Austen's beloved novel, twice released as a major motion picture, is about a spoiled, precocious, headstrong young woman, Emma Woodhouse, who is blind to the dangers of meddling in other people's lives

Eugene onegin

When Vladimir Nabokov's translation of Pushkin’s masterpiece Eugene Onegin was first published in 1964, it ignited a storm of controversy that famously resulted in the demise of Nabokov’s friendship with critic Edmund Wilson. While Wilson derided it as a disappointment in the New York Review of B...

Faust i & ii

The definitive English version of a timeless masterpieceOne of the great classics of European literature, Faust is Goethe’s most complex and profound work. To tell the dramatic and tragic story of one man’s pact with the Devil in exchange for knowledge and power, Goethe drew from an immense varie...

Frankenstein

Unleash the Monster Within with Mary Shelley’s FrankensteinStep into the world of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, a novel that has sparked debates, challenged beliefs, and captivated readers for centuries. Part of the Contested Classics series, this special edition of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein is ...

Frankenstein

With a new introduction by Francine Prose and stunning original artwork by Eko, the Restless Classics edition of Frankenstein brings Mary Shelley’s paragon of horror vividly back to life—published to coincide with the two-hundredth anniversary of the infamous night of its creation.A towering mast...

Frankenstein

There is no greater novel and no more well-known monster than Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein.

Frederic and elfrida

Written when Austen was still an adolescent, Frederic and Elfrida is a witty and inventive parody that brilliantly sends up the conventions of romantic fiction.

Heart of darkness

Discover the Controversial Classic That Dares to Confront the Darkest Depths of HumanityDive into the haunting world of Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, a novel that has both captivated and challenged readers for generations. Often banned and fiercely debated, this literary masterpiece pulls no...

Jacob's room

Virginia Woolf’s third novel is an unconventional literary portrait of its title character—an awkward but strangely fascinating young man coming of age in the years leading up to the First World War.

Jane austen's sanditon

Innovative essay by leading scholar, examining the Austen phenomenon, her love of spoof and burlesque, with newly edited Sanditon text.

Laura

Basis for the famous film noir: a woman who kept men spellbound--even after her death.

Life in the iron mills

A revolutionary depiction of the American working poor and environmental degradation by a nineteenth-century proletarian feminist.

Light and dark

Light and Dark, Natsume Soseki's longest novel and masterpiece, although unfinished, is a minutely observed study of haute-bourgeois manners on the eve of World War I. It is also a psychological portrait of a new marriage that achieves a depth and exactitude of character revelation that had no pr...

Little women

This unabridged top quality edition of the beloved classic, Little Women, is a portrait of nineteenth-century family life that has been read by young and old for generations

Medea

ONE OF THE MOST POWERFUL AND ENDURING OF GREEK TRAGEDIES

Medusa's daughters

The witchy women are Medusa’s daughters indeed—their gaze kills. But rather than sending heroes to slay them, the writers of this collection celebrate the deadliness of these femmes fatales. After a period of decline, Gothic literature underwent a revival at the end of the 1800s. As the century t...

Middlemarch

Mrs. dalloway

Explore The Struggle Between Expression and Suppression with Virginia WoolfPart of the Contested Classics series, this special edition of Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway offers readers a unique opportunity to explore one of the 20th century's most captivating and contested novels. Published in 192...

North and south

First published in 1854, North and South is Elizabeth Gaskell’s boldest and most ambitious novel: a work of fierce social commentary and subtle emotional power.

Not so quiet...

“[A] bittersweet feminist antiwar novel . . . Brilliantly written, and cleverly mixing humor with bitterness” (Library Journal). Praised by the Chicago Sun-Times for its “furious, indignant power” and winner of the Prix Severigne in France as “the novel most calculated to promote international pe...

Othello

A TALE OF RACISM, REVENGE, BETRAYAL AND JEALOUSYOne of Shakespeare’s most performed tragedies written in approximately 1603, Othello still resonates today with its themes of racism, revenge, betrayal and jealousy. Shakespeare creates a powerful drama with the story of a marriage between the exoti...

Passing

Restless Classics presents the ninetieth anniversary edition of an undersung gem of the Harlem Renaissance: Nella Larsen's Passing, a captivating and prescient exploration of identity, sexuality, self-invention, class, and race set amidst the pealing boisterousness of the Jazz Age.When childhood ...

Pharos and pharillon

Pharos and Pharillon is a brilliant work of travel writing by one of the last century’s great observers of human affairs.

Pic

From one of the most famous of the Beat writers, Kerouac’s final novel of brotherhood and travel, now reissued in a standalone edition following his centenary celebrationPic—full name Pictorial Review Jackson—is a ten-year-old Black boy living in rural North Carolina with his grandfather in the 1...

Pride and prejudice

This edition includes the Bonus Book: Lady Susan, which will delight Jane Austen fans with its wit and elegant expression.

Pygmalion

One of the most popular comedies in the English language. It was presented on the London and New York stages, and as an entertaining motion picture in is musical version, My Fair Lady.

Robinson crusoe

Restless Classics presents the Three-Hundredth Anniversary Edition of Robinson Crusoe, the classic Caribbean adventure story and foundational English novel, with new illustrations by Eko and an introduction by Jamaica Kincaid that contextualizes the book for our globalized, postcolonial era.Three...

Robinson crusoe

A CLASSIC TALE OF SHIPWRECK AND SURVIVAL

Sanctuary

Faulkner's novel, Sanctuary exposes a system that continues to function even as it ceases to protect.

Savage coast

Never before published, this autobiographical novel captures the politics and passion of the Spanish Civil War.

Stella dallas

“One of the most entertaining, excellently sustained and consistently developed novels of the season.";—New York Times (1941)

The adventures of tom sawyer

Go Beyond the Ban. Rediscover Twain's Timeless Tale.Part of the Contested Classics Series, this distinctive edition of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain reinvigorates the timeless classic with a contemporary lens. First published in 1876, Twain's novel captures the youthful adventures an...