Katherine Proctor flees Ireland in 1950 in search of independence, but is forced to reexamine her career as a painter and her relationships with her lover and her homeland when she meets a fellow Irishman in Barcelona

A judge in Ireland's high court examines his relationships and his entirely rational existence and discovers how painfully disconnected he is from other human beings

Product Description: In a brilliant, nuanced and wholly original collection of essays, the novelist and critic Colm Tóibín explores the relationships of writers to their families and their work. From Jane Austen’s aunts to Tennessee Williams’s mentally ill sister, the impact of intimate family dynamics can be seen in many of literature’s greatest works...read more

At twenty-seven, Anne Elliot is no longer young and has few romantic prospects. Eight years earlier, she had been persuaded by her friend Lady Russell to break off her engagement to Frederick Wentworth, a handsome naval captain with neither fortune nor rank. What happens when they encounter each other again is movingly told in Jane Austen's last completed novel. Set in the fashionable societies of Lyme Regis and Bath, "Persuasion" is a brilliant satire of vanity and pretension, but, above all, it is a love story tinged with the heartache of missed opportunities.

Product Description: The artwork of 21 artists exhibiting their response to "Ulysses" by James Joyce by modifying a copy of the Modern Library edition. Limited edition (one of 500 copies) artists' book.

Amazon.com Review: Amazon Best Books of the Month, January 2011: A young woman returning to the small island of her childhood summers; a nephew caring for his dying aunt; two men cautiously discovering love amid a community shrouded in tradition--these are the delicately rendered characters inhabiting Colm Toibin's remarkable collection of short stories, The Empty Family...read more

Product Description: All of Henry James’s stories set in New York are brought together for the first time in this anthology compiled by contemporary writer Colm Tóibín. Though he spent most of his life in England, James considered New York, where he lived as a child, to be his home, and its influence is present in much of his work...read more

Product Description: One of the great short novels of the twentieth century-in an edition marking the 100th anniversary of the author's birth. An unforgettable psychological novel of obsessive love, The Tunnel was championed by Albert Camus, Thomas Mann, and Graham Greene upon its publication in 1948 and went on to become an international bestseller...read more

Product Description: Introduction by Colm TóibínOne of the final masterpieces from one of the world’s greatest authors, Henry James’s The Ambassadors is now available for the first time in a Modern Library edition, with a new Introduction by acclaimed novelist Colm Tóibín...read more

Product Description: A new edition of Clarice Lispector’s final masterpiece, now with a vivid introduction by Colm Tóibín.Narrated by the cosmopolitan Rodrigo S.M., this brief, strange, and haunting tale is the story of Macabéa, one of life's unfortunates...read more

Product Description: A tongue-in-cheek manual on how servants should cope with the demands of their masters and perform their tasks in ways that will best satisfy their indolence, wastefulness and greed, Directions to Servants takes a caustic and irreverent look at master-servant relations.

Product Description: This collection of prefaces, originally written for the 1909 multi-volume New York Edition of Henry James’s fiction, first appeared in book form in 1934 with an introduction by poet and critic R. P. Blackmur. In his prefaces, James tackles the great problems of fiction writing—character, plot, point of view, inspiration—and explains how he came to write novels such as The Portrait of a Lady and The American...read more

Brings together for the first time all the stories that Henry James set in New York City, including 'The Jolly Corner,' 'An International Episode,' and 'The Impressions of a Cousin.'

Henry James is one of the founders and leaders of a school of realism in fiction; the fine art of his writing has led many academics to consider him the greatest master of the novel and novella form. He spent much of his life in England and became a British subject shortly before his death. He is primarily known for a series of major novels in which he portrayed the encounter of America with Europe. His plots centered on personal relationships, the proper exercise of power in such relationships, and other moral questions. His method of writing from the point of view of a character within a tale allowed him to explore the phenomena of consciousness and perception, and his style in later works has been compared to impressionist painting.

Product Description: In this autobiography, renowned Irish psychiatrist Ivor Browne remembers his career as director of the Irish Foundation for Human Development, his work in developing thriving working class communities in Ballyfermot and Derry, and his mission to take the care of mental patients away from large institutions and into the community...read more

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Amazon.com Review: Amazon Best of the Month, May 2009: Committed to a quiet life in little Enniscorthy, Ireland, the industrious young Eilis Lacey reluctantly finds herself swept up in an unplanned adventure to America, engineered by the family priest and her glamorous, "ready for life" sister, Rose...read more

Amazon.com Review: Amazon Best of the Month, May 2009: Committed to a quiet life in little Enniscorthy, Ireland, the industrious young Eilis Lacey reluctantly finds herself swept up in an unplanned adventure to America, engineered by the family priest and her glamorous, "ready for life" sister, Rose...read more

Product Description: A morally complex and mature work from a modern master IN THIS later novel by Graham Greene— featuring a new introduction—the author continues to explore moral and theological dilemmas through psychologically astute character studies and exciting drama on an international stage...read more

Product Description: Written in the form of a handbook of manners and addressed to individual servants, this satirical and cynical book pits the master against his servants in an endless struggle for order, frugality, and power that highlights self-interest and selfishness within a lifetime of poor service...read more

Product Description: Each of the nine stories in this beautifully written, intensely intimate collection centers on a transformative moment that alters the delicate balance of power between mother and son, or changes the way they perceive one another...read more

Amazon.com Review: The nine stories in Mothers and Sons examine in depth some of the ways that the bond that is forged--or not--between mothers and their sons is altered, re-formed, or broken forever. In The Master, his fictionalized life of Henry James, Toíbín made the reader see and understand the writer more fully than ever before...read more