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Six years after the phenomenal success of The Time Traveler's Wife, Audrey Niffenegger has returned with a spectacularly compelling and haunting second novel set in and around Highgate Cemetery in London. When Elspeth Noblin dies of cancer, she leaves her London apartment to her twin nieces,... (learn more about this book)
The American poet John Shade is dead: murdered. His last poem, Pale Fire, is put into a book, together with a preface,a lengthy commentary and notes by Shade's editor, Charles Kinbote. Known on campus as the 'Great Beaver', Kinbote is haughty and intolerant, but also mad, bad and even... (learn more about this book)
Their darkest enemies now defeated, Damen and Ever are free to embark upon their final quest--to free Damen from the poison lingering in his body. If they can just find the antidote, they'll finally be able to feel each other's touch. But their fight to be together will lead into the most... (learn more about this book)
This is a collection of short stories which explore the ultimate in sexual possiblility, from a female angle.
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Original title: "Veinte poemas de amor y una canción desesperada".... (learn more about this book)
The early masterpiece of V. S. Naipaul’s brilliant career, A House for Mr. Biswas is an unforgettable story inspired by Naipaul's father that has been hailed as one of the twentieth century's finest novels. In his forty-six short years, Mr. Mohun Biswas has been fighting against destiny... (learn more about this book)
Evocative and superbly erotic, Little Birds is a powerful journey into the mysterious world of sex and sensuality. From the beach towns of Normandy to the streets of New Orleans, these thirteen vignettes introduce us to a covetous French painter, a sleepless wanderer of the night, a... (learn more about this book)
Nabokov writes prose the only way it should be written, that is, ecstatically." -- John Updike Pnin is a professor of Russian at an American college who takes the wrong train to deliver a lecture in a language he cannot master. Pnin is a tireless lover who writes to his treacherous Liza: "A... (learn more about this book)
This bestseller covers a single momentous year during Nin’s life in Paris, when she met Henry Miller and his wife, June. “Closer to what many sexually adventuresome women experience than almost anything I’ve ever read....I found it a very erotic book and profoundly liberating” (Alice Walker).... (learn more about this book)
Like Kafka's The Castle, Invitation to a Beheading embodies a vision of a bizarre and irrational world. In an unnamed dream country, the young man Cincinnatus C. is condemned to death by beheading for "gnostical turpitude." an imaginary crime that defies definition. Cincinnatus spends his last... (learn more about this book)