Browse by category
Duino Elegies & The Sonnets To Orpheus by Rainer Maria Rilke
Category: Gift | Series: Vintage International (Paperback)
Available for the first time in a single volume, Ranier Maria Rilke's two most beloved sequences of poems rendered by his most faithful translator. Rilke is unquestionably the twentieth century's most significant and compelling poet of romantic transformation and spiritual quest. His poems of ecstatic i ...Show more
Embers (U.S. ed.) by Sandor Marai
Category: Classics | Series: Vintage International (Paperback)
Already an international bestseller, "Embers"--first published in Budapest in 1942--finds an aristocrat and his friend fighting a duel of words over the now-dead chatelaine of the castle. A "New York Times" Notable Book.
Extinction by Thomas Bernhard
Category: Classics | Series: Vintage International (Paperback)
The last work of fiction by one of the twentieth century's greatest artists, "Extinction "is widely considered Thomas Bernhard's magnum opus. Franz-Josef Murau--the intellectual black sheep of a powerful Austrian land-owning family--lives in Rome in self-imposed exile, surrounded by a coterie of artisti ...Show more
Master Harold ...and the Boys (Playscript) by Athol Fugard
Category: Reference | Series: Vintage International (Paperback)
This play about a young white boy and two African servants is at once a compelling drama of South African apartheid and a universal coming-of-age story. Originally produced in 1982, it is now an acknowledged classic of the stage, whose themes of injustice, racism, friendship, and reconciliation traverse ...Show more
On the Beach by Nevil Shute
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage International (Paperback)
Nevil Shute's most powerful novel--a bestseller for decades after its 1957 publication--is an unforgettable vision of a post-apocalyptic world. After a nuclear World War III has destroyed most of the globe, the few remaining survivors in southern Australia await the radioactive cloud that is heading the ...Show more
The Cement Garden by Ian McEwan
Category: Classics | Series: Vintage International (Paperback)
In this tour de force of psychological unease--now a major motion picture starring Charlotte Gainsbourg and Sinead Cusack--McEwan excavates the ruins of childhood and uncovers things that most adults have spent a lifetime forgetting--or denying. " Possesses the suspense and chilling impact of Lord of th ...Show more
The Lemon Table by Julian Barnes
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage International (Paperback)
In his widely acclaimed new collection of stories, Barnes addresses what is perhaps the most poignant aspect of the human condition: growing old. The characters are facing the ends of their lives--some with bitter regret, others with resignation, and others still with defiant rage.
The Selected Essays of Gore Vidal by Gore Vidal
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Vintage International (Paperback)
Gore Vidal--novelist, playwright, critic, screenwriter, memoirist, indefatigable political commentator, and controversialist--is America's premier man of letters. No other living writer brings more sparkling wit, vast learning, indelible personality, and provocative mirth to the job of writing an essay. ...Show more
Travels with Herodotus by Ryszard Kapuscinski
Category: Travel | Series: Vintage International (Paperback)
From the renowned journalist comes this intimate account of his years in the field, traveling for the first time beyond the Iron Curtain to India, China, Ethiopia, and other exotic locales. In the 1950s, Ryszard Kapuscinski finished university in Poland and became a foreign correspondent, hoping to go a ...Show more
1 - 9 of 9