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Beowulf
“Alexander’s translation is marked by a conviction that it is possible to be both ambitious and faithful [and] …communicates the poem with a care which goes beyond fidelity-to-meaning and reaches…
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Billy Budd, Bartleby, and Other Stories
A new, definitive edition of Herman Melville’s virtuosic short stories—American classics wrought with scorching fury, grim humor, and profound beauty Though best-known for his epic masterpiece Moby-Dick, Herman Melville…
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Black Shack Alley
The semiautobiographical Caribbean novel that explores shifting race relations in early twentieth-century colonial Martinique, with a foreword by Martinican author Patrick ChamoiseauA Penguin ClassicFollowing in the tradition of Richard Wright’s…
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