Stranger Magic: Charmed States and the Arabian Nights
Journey to the Abyss: The Diaries of Count Harry Kessler
Beyond the Veil: The Fiction of Arthur Machen
It's Halloween -- time to revisit the stories of the one of the masters of the "weird tale."
Read more...Arabian Sands
A classic epic of endurance is also a testament to the beauty and hardship of desert life.
Read more...When the World Spoke French
The Vintage Thrillers of John Buchan
A celebration of the author of The Thirty-Nine Steps and other classic early modern thrillers.
Read more...We, The Drowned
Carsten Jensen's international bestseller is a darkly magical voyage through a sea of stories.
Read more...The Exploits and Adventures of Brigadier Gerard
A not-to-be-missed collection of delightful tales of the Napoleonic Wars, penned by the creator of Sherlock Holmes.
Read more...A Visit to Don Otavio
Bruce Chatwin called Sybille Bedford's classic of travel writing a "book of marvels," and Michael Dirda agrees.
Read more...The Long Ships
The masterpiece of a 20th-century Swedish historical novelist who belongs in the company of Dumas, Sabatini, and Patrick O'Brian.
Read more...James Lees-Milne
The life, times, and seductions of James Lees-Milne (1908-1997), England's greatest 20th-century diarist.
Read more...The Letters of Pliny the Younger
The correspondence of an Roman administrator reveals the mind of the ancient world's consummate "insider." Read more...
A Reader on Reading
A collection of essays on a reading life from the author of A History of Reading and The Library at Night
Read more...On the Shoulders of Giants
Robert K. Merton's classic work of comic scholarship is a uniquely witty, digressive entertainment for the mind.
Read more...The Stories of Heinrich von Kleist
Arresting and magical tales from a little known master of German literature. Read more...
2009: A Year in the (Reading) Life
Michael Dirda on the books of the year that "continue to linger most vividly in my memory."
Read more...The Poems of Thomas Hardy
The novelist's other life, as a sensitive recorder of "tears in things." Read more...
Ecstasies
The fascinating folklore of the witches' sabbath in medieval Europe. Read more...
Hindoo Holiday
The idiosyncratic memoir of a visit to India, by the celebrated author of My Dog Tulip. Read more...
The Pillow Book
A thousand years on, a noblewoman's gleanings from Japanese courtly life still shimmer with beauty. Read more...
An Iranian Classic
Michael Dirda ventures into the phantasmagoric world of Sadegh Hedayat's The Blind Owl. Read more...
After the Barbarians: From Gibbon to Auden
How classical scholars have redefined and rediscovered the fascinations of "Late Antiquity." Read more...
Elective Affinities
Michael Dirda on Goethe's penetrating tale of four lovers at cross purposes. Read more...
- Stranger Magic: Charmed States and the Arabian Nig...
- A Dreamer of Mars: Edgar Rice Burroughs and John C...
- "We Revel in a Crowd of Any Kind": Dickens the Jou...
- Journey to the Abyss: The Diaries of Count Harry K...
- Beyond the Veil: The Fiction of Arthur Machen
- Arabian Sands
- When the World Spoke French
- Idle Reading
- Tono-Bungay
- The Vintage Thrillers of John Buchan
When a job at a French ad agency landed in his lap, novelist Rosecrans Baldwin had the chance to fulfill a lifelong dream of living la vie Parisienne. And though cold réalité intruded -- in the form of financial struggles and the limits of his rudimentary Francais -- the result was a more mature take on the city of his fantasies, flaws included.
The feline acrobatics and other mysteries of everyday physics that Mark Levi explores in this charming book are just the beginning. A fun and enlightening workout for your gray matter.
Scott's doomed Antartic expedition and the haunting mysteries surrounding its failure lead to obsession in Richard Pierce's debut novel. As painter Birdie Bowers pursues her fascination with the explorer and his death, she risks both her body and her heart for answers.
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