FSG Classics
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Prater Violet
$22.00 Add to cart“Prater Violet is the most charming novel I have read in a long time.” —Diana Trilling
Originally published in 1945, Christopher Isherwood’s Prater Violet is a stingingly satirical novel about the fil- Series: FSG Classics
- Author: Isherwood, Christopher
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: February 10 2015
- ISBN10: 0374535248
- Language: English
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The Collected Stories of Caroline Gordon
$25.99 Add to cartThe complete collection of short fiction from a literary stylist who captured the nuances of life in the American South of the early twentieth century, The Collected Stories of Caroline Gordon is firm
- Series: FSG Classics
- Author: Gordon, Caroline
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 26 2009
- ISBN10: 0374531633
- Language: English
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Axel’s Castle: A Study of the Imaginative Literature of 1870-1930
$20.00 Add to cartPublished in 1931, Axel’s Castle was Edmund Wilson’s first book of literary criticism–a landmark book that explores the evolution of the French Symbolist movement and considers its influence on six m
- Series: FSG Classics
- Author: Wilson, Edmund
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 15 2004
- ISBN10: 0374529272
- Language: English
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On Poetry and Poets
$23.99 Add to cartT. S. Eliot was not only one of the greatest poets of the twentieth century–he was also one of the most acute writers on his craft. In On Poetry and Poets, which was first published in 1957, Eliot ex
- Series: FSG Classics
- Author: Eliot, T. S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: July 07 2009
- ISBN10: 0374531978
- Language: English
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Property Of
$21.99 Add to cartThe acclaimed first novel by Alice Hoffman, a marvelous writer with a painter’s eye (Washington Post Book World), Property Of is about a young girl fearlessly in love with a gang leader but afraid of
- Series: FSG Classics
- Author: Alice, Hoffman
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 12 2009
- ISBN10: 0374531838
- Language: English
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A Cool Million and the Dream Life of Balso Snell: Two Novels
$19.00 Add to cartNathanael West was only thirty-seven when he died in 1940, but his depictions of the sometimes comic, sometimes horrifying aspects of the American scene rival those of William Faulkner and Flannery O’
- Series: FSG Classics
- Author: West, Nathanael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: June 27 2006
- ISBN10: 0374530270
- Language: English
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The Golden Ass: The Transformations of Lucius
$19.00 Add to cartThe story of The Golden Ass is that of Lucius Apuleius, a young man of good birth who encountered many strange adventures while disporting himself along the roads to Thessaly. Not the least of these o
- Series: FSG Classics
- Author: Apuleius
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 31, 2009
- ISBN10: 0374531811
- Language: English
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A New Life
$26.99 Add to cart“An overlooked masterpiece. It may still be undervalued as Malamud’s funniest and most embracing novel.” –Jonathan Lethem
In A New Life, Bernard Malamud–generally thought of as a distinctly New York- Series: FSG Classics
- Author: Malamud, Bernard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 13 2004
- ISBN10: 0374529493
- Language: English
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The Assistant
$18.00 Read moreAn Intimate Window into the American Immigrant Experience
Morris Bober, the family patriarch, yearns for better fortune as he runs a grocery store, never expecting how two robbers would change his lif- Series: FSG Classics
- Author: Malamud, Bernard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 246
- Publish Date: July 07 2003
- ISBN10: 0374504849
- Language: English
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The Collected Stories of Peter Taylor
$36.99 Add to cartDescribed by Anne Tyler as the undisputed master of the short story form, Peter Taylor imbued his stories with a powerful sense of the conflicts between the old rural society and the increasingly urba
- Series: FSG Classics
- Author: Taylor, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 554
- Publish Date: August 18 2009
- ISBN10: 0374531846
- Language: English
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Shadows on the Hudson
$36.99 Add to cart“A piercing work of fiction with a strong claim to being Singer’s masterpiece” (Richard Bernstein, The New York Times), Shadows on the Hudson traces the intertwined lives of a group of Jewish refugees
- Series: FSG Classics
- Author: Singer, Isaac Bashevis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: April 29 2008
- ISBN10: 0374531226
- Language: English
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King Jesus
$28.99 Add to cartKing Jesus, long out of print, is one of the most controversial historical novels of all time. In it, Robert Graves has summoned his superb narrative powers, his painstaking scholarship, his wit and
- Series: FSG Classics
- Author: Graves, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: October 01 1981
- ISBN10: 0374516642
- Language: English
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House of Mist
$19.99 Add to cartHouse of Mist stands as one of the first South American novels written in the style that was later called magical realism. Of this story of a young bride struggling with her marriage to an aloof lando
- Series: FSG Classics
- Author: Bombal, Maria Luisa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 16 2008
- ISBN10: 0374531366
- Language: English
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The Kingdom of This World
$17.00 Add to cartA masterful new translation of a haunting novel of nineteenth-century Haiti
A few years after its liberation from harsh French colonial rule in 1803, Haiti endured a period of great brutality under th- Series: FSG Classics
- Author: Carpentier, Alejo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: November 07 2017
- ISBN10: 0374537380
- Language: English
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The Fixer
$19.00 Add to cartThe Fixer is the winner of the 1967 National Book Award for Fiction and the 1967 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
The Fixer (1966) is Bernard Malamud’s best-known and most acclaimed novel — one that makes- Series: FSG Classics
- Author: Malamud, Bernard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 335
- Publish Date: May 05 2004
- ISBN10: 0374529388
- Language: English
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Sylvia
$15.00 Add to cartFirst acclaimed as a story-length memoir, then expanded into a novel, Sylvia draws us into the lives of a young couple whose struggle to survive Manhattan in the early 1960s involves them in sexual fa
- Series: FSG Classics
- Author: Michaels, Leonard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: May 29 2007
- ISBN10: 0374271070
- Language: English
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The Collected Stories of Jean Stafford
$34.99 Add to cartThese Pulitzer Prize-winning stories represent the major short works of fiction by one of the most distinctively American stylists of her day. Jean Stafford communicates the small details of lonelines… [more below]
- Series: FSG Classics
- Author: Stafford, Jean
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: September 01 2005
- ISBN10: 0374529930
- Language: English
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The Dead Father
$16.00 Add to cartThe Dead Father is a gargantuan half-dead, half-alive, part mechanical, wise, vain, powerful being who still has hopes for himself–even while he is being dragged by means of a cable toward a mysterio
- Series: FSG Classics
- Author: Barthelme, Donald
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: September 15 2004
- ISBN10: 0374529256
- Language: English
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The Magic Barrel
$19.00 Add to cartWinner of the National Book Award for Fiction
Introduction by Jhumpa Lahiri Bernard Malamud’s first book of short stories, The Magic Barrel, has been recognized as a classic from the time it was publi- Series: FSG Classics
- Author: Malamud, Bernard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: July 07 2003
- ISBN10: 0374525862
- Language: English
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Cancer Ward
$25.00 Add to cartThe Russian Nobelist’s semiautobiographical novel set in a Soviet cancer ward shortly after Stalin’s death
One of the great allegorical masterpieces of world literature, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s Cance- Series: FSG Classics
- Author: Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: April 14 2015
- ISBN10: 0374534713
- Language: English
