Scott Schuman just wanted to take photographs of people that he met on the streets of New York who he felt looked great. His now-famous and much-loved blog, thesartorialist.com, is his showcase for the wonderful and varied sartorial tastes of real people across the globe. This book is a beautiful anthology of Scott ’s favorite images, accompanied by his insightful commentary. It includes photographs of well-known fashion figures alongside people encountered on the street whose personal style and taste demand a closer look. From the streets of New York to the parks of Florence, from Stockholm to Paris, from London to Moscow and Milan, these are the men and women who have inspired Scott and the many diverse and fashionable readers of his blog. After fifteen years in the fashion business, Scott Schuman felt a growing disconnect between what he saw on the runways and in magazines, and what real people were wearing. The Sartorialist was his attempt to redress the balance. Since its beginning, the b

This selection covers the full range of Kipling's shortstories throughout his career, with the subject matter ranging fromthe Indian to the occult and from animals to domestic comedy.

Since the series' inception in 1915, the annual volumes of TheBest American Short Stories have launched literary careers,showcased the most compelling stories of each year, and confirmedfor all time the significance of the short story in our nationalliterature. Now THE BEST AMERICAN SHORT STORIES OF THE CENTURYbrings together the best -- fifty-six extraordinary stories thatrepresent a century's worth of unsurpassed achievements in thisquintessentially American literary genre. This expanded editionincludes a new story from The Best American Short Stories 1999 toround out the century, as well as an index including every storypublished in the series. Of all the writers whose work has appearedin the series, only John Updike has been represented in each of thelast five decades, from his first appearance, in 1959, to his mostrecent, in 1998. Updike worked with coeditor Katrina Kenison tochoose the finest stories from the years since 1915. The result is"extraordinary . . . A one-volume literary history of thi

Philip Schultz, winner of the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for poetry,has been celebrated for his singular vision of the Americanimmigrant experience and Jewish identity, his alternately fierceand tender portrayal of family life, and his rich and riotousevocation of city streets. His poems have found enthusiasticaudiences among readers of Garrison Keillor's "Writer's Almanac,""Slate," "The New Yorker," and other publications. His willingnessto face down the demons of failure and loss, in his previous bookparticularly, make him a poet for our times, a poet who can write"If I have to believe in something, I believe in despair." Yet heremains oddly undaunted: "sometimes, late at night, we, myhappiness and I, reminisce, lifelong antagonists enjoying eachother's company.""The God of Loneliness," a major collection ofSchultz's work, includes poems from his five books ("Like Wings,""Deep Within the Ravine," "The Holy Worm of Praise," "Living in thePast," "Failure") and fourteen new poems. It is a volume tocherish, fro

In his international blockbusters The Da Vinci Code, Angels Demons, and The Lost Symbol, Dan Brown masterfully fusedhistory, art, codes, and symbols. In this riveting new thriller,Brown returns to his element and has crafted his highest-stakesnovel to date. In the heart of Italy, Harvard professor of symbology, RobertLangdon, is drawn into a harrowing world centered on one ofhistory’s most enduring and mysterious literary masterpieces . . .Dante’s Inferno. Against this backdrop, Langdon battles a chilling adversaryand grapples with an ingenious riddle that pulls him into alandscape of classic art, secret passageways, and futuristicscience. Drawing from Dante’s dark epic poem, Langdon races to findanswers and decide whom to trust . . . before the world isirrevocably altered.

In Blindness, a city is overcome by an epidemic ofblindness that spares only one woman. She becomes a guide for agroup of seven strangers and serves as the eyes and ears for thereader in this profound parable of loss and disorientation. Wereturn to the city years later in Saramago’s Seeing, asatirical commentary on government in general and democracy inparticular. Together here for the first time, this beautifuledition will be a welcome addition to the library of any Saramagofan.

(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) Franz Kafka's imagination so faroutstripped the forms and conventions of the literary tradition heinherited that he was forced to turn that tradition inside out inorder to tell his splendid, mysterious tales. Scrupulouslynaturalistic on the surface, uncanny in their depths, these storiesrepresent the achieved art of a modern master who had the gift ofmaking our problematic spiritual life palpable and real. Thisedition of his stories includes all his available shorter fictionin a collection edited, arranged, and introduced by GabrielJosipovici in ways that bring out the writer's extraordinary rangeand intensity of vision. Translated by Willa and Edwin Muir

(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) Evelyn Waugh's short stories arethe marvelous, concentrated riffs of his comic genius, revealing inminiaturized perfection all the elements that made him the greatestcomic writer of our century. We find in them Waugh's almostsuperhuman technical skill as a writer and his quicksilverattentiveness to the minutiae of human absurdity, as well as hisworldly knowledge, his tenderness, his perceptive compassion, andhis sophisticated, disabused, but nevertheless forceful idealism.The thirty-nine stories collected here include such smallmasterpieces as "Mr. Loveday's Little Outing" and "Scott-King'sModern Europe"; an alternative ending to Waugh's novel "A Handfulof Dust"; a "missing chapter" in the life of Charles Ryder, thehero of "Brideshead Revisited"; and two linked stories, remnants ofan abandoned novel that Waugh considered his best writing. Thisedition contains the original illustrations to "Love Among theRuins," as well as more than thirty graphics produced by the authoras an Ox

The Spartans is a compelling narrative that explores theculture and civilization of the most famous "warrior people": theSpartans of ancient Greece, by the world's leading expert in thefield. Sparta has often been described as the original Utopia--aremarkably evolved society whose warrior heroes were forbidden anyother trade, profession, or business. As a people, the Spartanswere the living exemplars of such core values as duty, discipline,the nobility of arms in a cause worth dying for, sacrificing theindividual for the greater good of the community (illustrated bytheir role in the battle of Thermopylae), and the triumph of willover seemingly insuperable obstacles--qualities that today arefrequently believed to signify the ultimate heroism. Paul Cartledgeis the distinguished scholar and historian who has long been seenas the leading international authority on ancient Sparta. He tracesthe evolution of Spartan society--the culture and the people, aswell as the tremendous influence they had on their worl

The first three books in von Ziegesar's Gossip Girls series are packaged together in this paperback boxed set. Includes "Gossip Girl, You Know You Love Me," and "All I Want Is Everything."

The writer, naturalist, and artist David Carroll illuminatesthe ecology and life histories the tree frogs, hawks, foxes, andthe increasingly rare wood and spotted turtles he has been trackingfor decades with the precision and passion that won him a 2006MacArthur "genius" award. "Following theWater "is the intenselyobserved chronicle of Carroll's annual March-to-November wetlandsimmersion--from the joy of the first turtle sighting in March tothe gorgeously described, vibrant trilling of tree frogs ("lichenwith eyes") in late May to the ancient sense of love and lossCarroll experiences each autumn when it is time once again to partwith open water. Illustrated with the author's fine pen-and-inkdrawings, "Following theWater "is a gorgeous evocation of nature,an utterly unique "admission ticket to a secret corner of theworld" (Bill McKibben).

(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) One of the most popular Americanwriters of the twentieth century, Dashiell Hammett gave us crimefiction stripped down to its most subtle and searing essentialsand, at the same time, elevated to literature. The diamond-sharpprose and artfully manipulated intrigue for which he is known areon full display in the four classic short stories and two rivetingnovels published here in one volume. The Continental Op, Hammett'sanonymous antihero, was the indelible prototype for generations oftough-guy detectives. Single-minded, emotionally detached, anddecidedly unglamorous, he narrates the four linked storiescollected here--"The House in Turk Street," "The Girl with theSilver Eyes," "The Big Knockover," and "$106,000 Blood Money." InTHE DAIN CURSE, the Continental Op takes on his most bizarre case,that of a wealthy young woman who appears to be the victim of adeadly family curse. And THE GLASS KEY--Hammett's own favoriteamong his works--features his most cynical and morally ambiguoushero

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the American Book Award, TheSoul of a New Machine was a bestseller on its first publication in1981. With the touch of an expert thriller writer, Tracy Kidderrecounts the feverish efforts of a team of Data General researchersto create a new 32-bit superminicomputer. A compelling account ofindividual sacrifice and human ingenuity, The Soul of a New Machineendures as the classic chronicle of the computer age and themasterminds behind its technological advances. "A superb book," said Robert Pirsig, author of Zen and the Art ofMotorcycle Maintenance. "All the incredible complexity and chaosand exploitation and loneliness and strange, half-mad beauty ofthis field are honestly and correctly drawn." The Washington PostBook World said, "Kidder has created compelling entertainment. Heoffers a fast, painless, enjoyable means to an initialunderstanding of computers, allowing us to understand thecomplexity of machines we could only marvel at before, and toappreciate the skills