Jane Austen's debut in our award-winning graphic-coverseries. Written during Jane Austen's race against failing health,Persuasion tells the story of Anne Elliot, a woman who-attwenty-seven-is no longer young and has few romantic prospects.Eight years ago, she was persuaded by her friend Lady Russell tobreak off her engagement to Frederick Wentworth, a handsome navalcaptain with neither fortune nor rank. When Anne and Frederick meetagain, he has acquired both, but still feels the sting of herrejection. A brilliant satire of vanity and pretension, Austen'slast completed novel is also a movingly told love story tinged withthe heartache of missed opportunities.
Setting out to make his fortune in a far-off country, a youngtraveller discovers the remote and beautiful land of Erewhon, andis given a home among its extraordinarily handsome citizens. Buttheir visitor soon discovers that this seemingly ideal communityhas its faults - here crime is treated indulgently as a malady tobe cured, while illness, poverty and misfortune are cruellypunished, and all machines have been superstitiously destroyedafter a bizarre prophecy. Can he survive in a world where moralityis turned upside down? Inspired by Samuel Butler's years incolonial New Zealand, and by his reading of Darwin's "Origin ofSpecies", Erewhon (1872) is a highly original, irreverent andhumorous satire on conventional virtues, religious hypocrisy andthe unthinking acceptance of beliefs.
" Most of] these stories are portraits, in styles ranging fromsly to harrowing, of how crimes occurred ... If you like all yourcharacters living at the end of a story, this may not be the bookfor you." -- from the introduction by Scott Turow Best-sellingauthor Scott Turow takes the helm for the tenth edition of thisannual, featuring twenty-one of the past year's most distinguishedtales of mystery, crime, and suspense. Elmore Leonard tells thetale of a young woman who's fled home with a convicted bank robber.Walter Mosley describes an over-the-hill private detective and hisnew client, a woman named Karma. C. J. Box explores the fate of twoCzech immigrants stranded by the side of the road in YellowstonePark. Ed McBain begins his story on role-playing with the line"'Why don't we kill somebody?' she suggested." Wendy Hornsby tellsof a wild motorcycle chase through the canyons outside Las Vegas.Laura Lippman describes the "Crack Cocaine Diet." And James LeeBurke writes of a young boy who may have been a clo
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
