The original version of the Grimms' tales in English for the first timein an acclaimed, illustrated editionWhen Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm published their Children's and Household Tales in 1812, followed by a second volume in 1815, they had no idea that such stories as Rapunzel, Hansel and Gretel, and Cinderella would become the most celebrated in the world.
The second volume of a celebrated translation of the classic Chinese novelThis is the second volume in David Roy's celebrated translation of one of the most famous and important novels in Chinese literature.
En el momento en que se impone la idea de que la realidad natural, social y humana pueden y deben ser materia novelable, aparecen nuevas ideas acerca de cómo puede ser este género artístico.
El Libro de los enxiemplos del conde Lucanor et de Patronio (entre 1325 y 1335), de don Juan Manuel, tiene cuentos basados en fuentes orientales (sobre todo las colecciones de apólogos del Sendebar y el Calila y Dimna) y cristianas (la Disciplina clericalis de Pedro Alfonso).
The fourth volume of a celebrated translation of the classic Chinese novelThis is the fourth and penultimate volume in David Roy's celebrated translation of one of the most famous and important novels in Chinese literature.
A collection of distinguished essays by some of today's best nonfiction writers and journalistsFrom a Swedish hotel made of ice to the enigma of UFOs, from a tragedy on Lake Minnetonka to the gold mine of cyberpornography, The Princeton Reader brings together more than 90 favorite essays by 75 distinguished writers.
The classic and provocative account of how art changed irrevocably with pop art and why traditional aesthetics can't make sense of contemporary artA classic of art criticism and philosophy, After the End of Art continues to generate heated debate for its radical and famous assertion that art ended in the 1960s.
An international collection of the traditional tales that inspired some of Shakespeare's greatest playsShakespeare knew a good story when he heard one, and he wasn't afraid to borrow from what he heard or read, especially traditional folktales.
Sexy, smart and literatethese erotic stories are for readers who want to know the truth about womens sexuality in all its variety and emotional depth, with its surprises and twists and turns.
Cleis Press presents romantic, couples-focused erotica with a BDSM slant thats both naughty and nice bondage, spanking, domination, submission, power-play, pain and pleasure, or whatever your dirty mind can think of.
Turning the tables on rigid gender roles, the stories in She's on Top honor the Amazon, the dominatrix, the handcuff-toting, whip-wielding she-devil of the male bottom's deepest dreams.
From femmes who channel Marlene Dietrich in the sexiest of suits to men who love nothing more than the feel silky panties stretched tight against their skin, these characters boldly indulge their fantasies of being a girl or a guy for a night.
Sexy, smart and literatethese erotic stories are for readers who want to know the truth about womens sexuality in all its variety and emotional depth, with its surprises and twists and turns.
Go beyond the locker room in this playful, imaginative, and lushly written collection of gay Asian erotica, with settings as diverse as a bamboo grove in China and a sleepy crank callers Los Angeles apartment.
The Best Women's Erotica series is known for its sexual honesty and intensity, presenting stories that tell the truth about women's sexuality in all its variety and emotional depth.
Written to satisfy wanderlust or arouse it, Erotic Travel Tales 2 offers explicit erotic fiction set in evocative localesfrom Prague to Bangkok, Hollywood to Tibet, and beyond.
Where else but a Tristan Taormino erotica collection can you find a femme vigilante, a virgin baby butch, and a snake charmer jostling for your attention?
Suite Encounters features hotel erotica in all its forms, from honeymooners having sex on the beach to loving couples on vacation to coworkers heading downtown for secret quickies, not to mention exhibitionist thrills (and chills) of getting it on in the pool on the roof at The Standard Hotel in front of everyone!
Readers and critics everywhere have applauded the Best Womens Eroticaseries, exclaiming that it shows womens sexuality in all its wet, juicy, romantic, and lustful guises (Libido) and gets racier every year (San Francisco Bay Guardian).
Some temptations are just too tantalizing to ignore- the hot guy at the Apple Genius Bar, the mysterious stranger in the train station who makes you sweat, the nameless faceless stranger at the club whose dirty dancing left you breathless.
