The astonishing tale of Fay Etrange—republished in its original unexpurgated formFirst published in 1932, A Scarlet Pansy is an extraordinarily vivid and richly textured depiction of American queer life in the early twentieth century, tracing the coming-of-age of androgynous Fay Etrange. Born in small-town Pennsylvania and struggling with her difference, Fay eventually accepts her gender and sexual nonconformity and immerses herself in the fairy subculture...

Contains Active Table of Contents (HTML) The first table of contents (at the very beginning of the ebook) lists the titles of all novels included in this volume. By clicking on one of those titles you will be redirected to the beginning of that work, where you'll find a new TOC that lists all the chapters and sub-chapters of that specific work.

“His dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it. He did not know that it was already behind him.”Jay Gatsby is mysterious, wealthy, and throws the most lavish parties at his mansion on Long Island. Among all the bright young things in Gatsby’s circle, the brightest is Daisy Buchanan – the girl he fell in love with before the war. Having lost her to marriage with the brutish Tom, Gatsby’s relentless pursuit of his perfect woman spirals out of control, sett...

"Funny and elegiac and truth-dealing. . . . Ms. Gornick gets into the fat of feeling. She is as good a writer about friendship as we have." — New York TimesA memoir of self-discovery and the dilemma of connection in our time, The Odd Woman and the City explores the rhythms, chance encounters, and ever-changing friendships of urban life that forge the sensibility of a fiercely independent woman who has lived out her conflicts, not her fantasies, in ...

Henry Miller's Rosy Crucifixion, his second major trilogy, took more than 10 years for the author to complete. Beginning in 1949 with Sexus, a work so controversial all of Paris was abuzz with L'Affaire Miller, (and publisher Maurice Girodias saw himself threatened with jail), following in 1952 with Plexus, and finally concluding with 1959's Nexus, the three works are a dazzling array of scenes, sexual encounters and ideas, covering Miller's final days in NY, his relationship with June Mil...

The Benson Murder Case is the first of the Philo Vance Murder Case series. Philo Vance is a crime novel superstar. A New Yorker with panache, he solved 12 crimes with his colleague Van Dine (the author/character). Published in the 20s and 30s the Philo Vance Stories were incredibly popular. Many of the books have been made into movies and preformed on the radio.Expertly formatted with a linked table of contents. The books include original images. Look for all of the Philo Vance Murder Case...

World of Wonders is the third novel in Robertson Davies’s celebrated Deptford Trilogy, which began with Fifth Business and The Manticore. Called “a spectacular, soaring work, an astounding tour de force unequaled in recent literature,” it is the story of Magnus Eisengrim, master illusionist, the most illustrious magician of his age.

This carefully crafted ebook: "The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Francis Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940) was an American author of novels and short stories, whose works are the paradigmatic writings of the Jazz Age. Fitzgerald is considered a member of the "Lost Generation" of the 1920s. Contents: Novels: The Great Gatsby The Side of P...

The Best of F. Scott Fitzgerald gathers the essential achievements of a writer whose fiction gave the Jazz Age its most enduring imaginative form. Whether presenting glittering parties, wounded romances, social aspiration, or the moral exhaustion beneath wealth, these selections display Fitzgerald's lyrical precision, symbolic richness, and acute dramatic irony. His prose belongs to American modernism, yet remains unusually intimate: elegance and melancholy coexist as he examines desire, s...

“Ranks among the major achievements in the literature of our time.” —Village Voice“A thoughtful … elegant novel…. A fine display of literary skills.” —New York Times Book ReviewPhilip Roth's profound and often hilarious novel—the central book in Roth’s Kepesh trilogy—about where we seek pleasure and why we flee it.As a student in college, David Kepesh styles himself “a rake among s...