A classic of Holocaust literature, Klein’s celebrated memoir tells the moving story of a young woman’s three frightful years as a slave laborer of the Nazis and her miraculous liberation.

At age twenty-eight Edna Pontellier vows to honor the deep yearnings within herself that she senses are unfulfilled by marriage and motherhood.

She was the tempestuous, strong-willed woman who ignited the movie screen with her legendary performances in Of Human Bondage, Jezebel, and All About Eve.

The Custom of the Country is a trenchant novel that illustrates the dangers of excessive ambition.

In the words of John Barrington Bayley, president of Classical America, “The Decoration of Houses brings to mind. . . reflections in looking-glasses, and on parquet, and the garnitures of chimney-pieces, boiseriers. . .

Known for her outrageous one-liners, her ruthless criticism, her clever verses and bittersweet stories, Dorothy Parker had another side—a private life set on a course of destruction.

To read Johnny Tremain is to live through two dramatic years of our country's history and see these real events from a new angle through the shrewd eyes of an observant boy.

Creative genius, artist, monstre sacré, Orson Welles reveals his most intimate feelings and recollections of a brilliant and tempestuous career.

Annie Dillard can stalk muskrats in the creek and think about wave mechanics.

Georgia O’Keeffe, one of the most original painters America has ever produced, left a remarkable legacy when she died.

The winsome Anne Shirley is grown, has married her beloved Gilbert, and is the mother of six frolicsome children.

Margaret Leech’s Pulitzer Prize-winning history paints a vivid and lively picture of Washington, D.C., during the Civil War.

When Aline Griffith was born in New York, few would have imagined that years later she would be a spy in Spain, infiltrating the highest levels of Spanish society…

This is Edith Wharton’s most erotic and lyrical novel. Set in New England, Summer explores a woman’s awakening to her sexual needs.

Stephen Glennard, a young lawyer, sells a package of love letters, written to him over the years by distinguished novelist Margaret Aubyn…