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A tale of enormous suspense and growing horror, The Fox in the Attic is the first part of Richard Hughes's monumental historical fiction, The Human Predicament. Hughes's Tolstoyan novel re-creates the traumatized worlds of England and Germany in the aftermath of World War I, and features an extraordinary portrait of Adolph Hitler at the beginning of his career. Its sequel, The Wooden Shepherdess, offers a panoramic depiction of Europe in the 1...

In "The Little Bookroom, " Eleanor Farjeon mischievously tilts our workaday world to reveal its wonders and follies. Her selection of her favorite stories describes powerful--and sometimes exceedingly silly--monarchs, and commoners who are every bit their match, musicians and dancers who live for aft rather than earthly reward, and a goldfish who wishes to "marry the Moon, surpass the Sun, and possess the World.

Just in time for National Poetry Month--the legendary and hilarious anthology containing the best of the worst poetry ever written by some of the world's most celebrated wordsmiths of the English language, including Dryden, Wordsworth, and Keats.

This winner of the Somerset Maugham Award dispenses with the established picture of Percy Bysshe Shelley as a blandly ethereal character by projecting a startling image of the poet as a radical agitator, atheist, and apostle of free love, as well as a brilliant poetic innovator.