Delicate Edible Birds: And Other Stories

Lauren Groff

Lauren Groff's critically acclaimed "The Monsters of Templeton" was shortlisted for the Orange Broadband Award for New Writers 2008, and critics hailed her as an enormous talent and a writer to watch. In "Delicate Edible Birds", she fulfils that promise. "Delicate Edible Birds" includes nine stories of ...

The Life of Samuel Johnson

James Boswell

This is a new, complete edition of the seminal modern, and still finest, literary biography. All previous versions have been unsatisfactory and textually inaccurate. This will be the first to return to the manuscript and the first to collate systematically the early printed versions. It is the most corr...

Sketches by Boz

Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens' "Sketches by Boz" foreshadows his novels in its profusion of characters, its glimpses of surreal modernity and its limitless fund of pathos and comic invention. This "Penguin Classics" edition is edited with notes and an introduction by Dennis Walder. Published under the pen-name 'Boz',...