This book brings together sixteen comic artists, all women, from India and Germany to explore how women see the world and themselves, and how that is similar and different across cultures. In the striking, surprising, often funny drawings featured he...

Combining myth, legend, geography, history, and politics, "The Saga of Satisar" is the panoramic history of the Kashmiri Pandits. In it, award-winning Hindi writer Chandrakanta unspools a novel that spans two centuries, illustrating how Kashmiri live...

The proud Republic of Liberia was founded in the nineteenth century with the triumphant return of freed slaves from America to Africa. Once back "home," however, these Americo-Liberians had to integrate into the resident tribes – who did not necessar...

Celebrity chef Corran Brook scours the globe for the world's best recipes and foods, for his ambitious compendium, "The Story of Food". But when travelling through Asia and chancing on a rare and extraordinary meal he cannot decipher, his struggle to...

Not for sale in Estonia! Encountering the enigmatic dandy Count Vittorio Alta-Carrara in a Parisian eatery, the narrator finds himself invited to a "Hashish Club", where in the dim light of red-filtered candles, a roomful of "recumbent wanderers" e...

This beautiful collectible edition presents three novels from one of the most loved American authors: Louisa May Alcott. It includes her most famous and cherished classic, Little Women, about the lives of four sisters in America during the Civil War,...

Edgar Allan Poe was a master of the tale of psychological horror. This anthology gathers over 20 of Poes groundbreaking tales of the macabre, among them "The Tell-tale Heart", "The Masque of the Red Death" and "The Fall of the House of Usher". It als...

Regarded as one of Charles Dickens's masterpieces, this is the story of the orphan Pip and his growth to adulthood. Supported by a mysterious anonymous benefactor, Pip travels to London to be educated as a gentleman and make himself worthy of the han...

This volume features all the best-known works of Lewis Carroll, including the novels, Alices Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass, with the classic illustrations of John Tenniel. This compilation also features Carrolls novels, Sylvi...

This historical novel by one of Spain's most celebrated authors weaves a tale of disparate time periods: the early years of the nineteenth century, when Francisco de Goya was at the height of his artistic career, and the final years of Generalissimo...