Thirteenth-century Wales is a divided country, ever at the mercy of England's ruthless, power-hungry King John. Llewelyn, Prince of North Wales, secures an uneasy truce by marrying the English king's beloved illegitimate daughter, Joanna, who ...

Presents a detailed analysis of the musical styles and forms developed by Mozart, Haydn, and Beethoven.

A faithful reproduction of Kerouac's 1951 scroll draft of On the Road as originally composed offers insight into the writer's thematic vision and narrative voice as influenced by the American literary, musical, and visual arts of the post-World ...

Creating "true narrative magic" (The Washington Post) at every revelatory turn, Stephen King surpasses all expectation in the stunning final volume of his seven-part epic masterwork. Entwining stories and worlds from a vast and complex canvas ...

Political essays examine topics including equality, Soviet-American relations, the Vietnam War, and the conflicts in Central America

Science fiction-roman.

INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • In this modern classic, the acclaimed author of The Shards explores the incomprehensible depths of madness and captures the insanity of violence in our time or any other. "A seminal book.” —The Washington Post Patrick ...

A Fire Upon the Deep is the big, breakout book that fulfills the promise of Vinge's career to date: a gripping tale of galactic war told on a cosmic scale. Thousands of years hence, many races inhabit a universe where a mind's potential is ...

THE SAGA OF SEVEN SUNS: VEILED ALLIANCES acts as a revelatory prequel to the Saga novels Hidden Empire and A Forest of Stars.