A New York Times Notable Book of 2018"Wilson s language is fresh, unpretentious and lean It is rare to find a translation that is at once so effortlessly easy to read and so rigorously considered." Madeline Miller, author of CirceComposed at the rosy-fingered dawn...

Emma by Jane Austen. Jane Austen teased readers with the idea of a heroine whom no one but myself will much like , but Emma is irresistible. Handsome, clever, and rich , Emma is also an imaginist , on fire with speculation and foresight...

Referring to Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, H. L. Mencken noted that his discovery of this classic American novel was "the most stupendous event of my whole life"; Ernest Hemingway declared that "all modern American literature stems from this one book," while T. S. Eliot...

For years, Dr. Victor Frankenstein labors to create a new race of intelligent beings. He spends his nights scavenging body parts from graveyards, slaughterhouses, and hospital dissection rooms. By day he experiments in his secret laboratory, perfecting the creature who, he believes, will worship...