In this pathbreaking selection, the great American critic Edmund Wilson has gathered the major stories of Chekhov's last years—when he was also engaged in writing his theatrical masterpieces Three Sisters and The Cherry Orchard. These compassionate, funny, and utterly unsparing tales constitute an extraordinary vision of a society reeling on the verge of collapse.

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Mavis Gallant is a contemporary legend, a frequent contributor to The New Yorker for close to fifty years who has, in the words of The New York Times, "radically reshaped the short story for decade after decade." This new selection gathers some of the most memorable stories set in Europe, where Gallant has long lived. Mysterious, funny, and heartbreaking, these are tales of expatriates and exiles, wise children and straying saints.

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by J.G. Farrell • Introduction by Pankaj Mishra

Set in India in 1857, the year of bloody rebellion, the novel concerns a Victorian outpost confident of its superior culture and military strength—until it finds itself under siege. Booker Prize winner.
"What a book. It has everything you could expect to find ina big old-fashioned novel or several of them—characters, suspense, military action, romantic attachments, satire, wit, tenderness,philosophy. In my family, nobody, from the age of eighteen to over sixty, could put it down."—Mary McCarthy
5" x 8" • 376 pp

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by Alberto Moravia • Introduction by Tim Parks

Alberto Moravia's story of a marriage in collapse is a caustic dispatch from one man's self-made hell. The narrator aspires to be a man of letters, but has taken a job as a screenwriter in order to support his beautiful wife. He becomes convinced that she no longer loves him—that in fact she despises him—and as he relentlessly interrogates her about the true nature of her feelings, he makes his deepest fear (or secret desire) come true. Contempt was the inspiration for Jean-Luc Godard's no-less-celebrated film.
PB • 5" x 8" • 272 pp

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by Camara Laye • Introduction by Toni Morrison

Clarence, a white man, has been shipwrecked on the coast of Africa. Flush with self-importance, he demands to see the king, but the king has just left for the south of his realm. Traveling in the company of a beggar and two roguish boys, Clarence is gradually stripped of his pretensions, until he is sold to the royal harem as a slave. "A classic work of modernism—a signal work in the African canon and one that every lover of literature will admire and enjoy."—Henry Louis Gates Jr.
PB • 5" x 8" • 312 pp

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by Cesare Pavese Introduction by Mark Rudman

The nameless narrator of The Moon and the Bonfires, Cesare Pavese's last and greatest novel, returns to Italy from California after the Second World War. He has done well in America, but success hasn't taken the edge off his memories of childhood, when he was an orphan living at the mercy of a bitterly poor farmer. As he uncovers a secret and savage history from the war—a tale of betrayal and reprisal, sex and death—he finds that the past still haunts the present. PB • 5" x 8" • 176 pp

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