Virgina Woolf’s novel Mrs. Dalloway (1925) presents a day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway, an upper-class English woman. Clarissa Dalloway is the wife of Richard Dalloway, a Conservative Member of Parliament.
The story takes place in London on a...
"I am not in a contest. I never wanted fame or money. I wanted to get the word down the way I wanted it, that's all. And I had to get the words down or be overcome by something worse than death." So writes the late Charles Bukowski in his entry for...
One man — alone, marooned, outnumbered... and running out of time.
The setting — Los Angeles.
The time — the twenty-four hours between Christmas Eve and Christmas morning.
Joe Leland, veteran cop and former war hero, finds himself bang in the...
NEMESIS GAMES is the fifth novel in James S.A. Corey’s New York Times bestselling Expanse series—now a major television series from Syfy!
A thousand worlds have opened, and the greatest land rush in human history has begun. As wave after...
For the first time in English, a glittering novella about stardom from “one of the greatest avant-garde Japanese writers of the twentieth century” (Judith Thurman, The New Yorker)
All eyes are upon Rikio. And he likes it, mostly. His fans...
Where did Sherlock Holmes go during his famous disappearance between his death at Reichenbach Falls and reappearance in Baker Street, three years later? God of mystery Keisuke Matsuoka contends that it was in the Far East—in Japan, to be exact.
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