The Essential Stephen King provides an unbiased, uncompromising review of King's work by an acknowledged King authority. As such, it is a must for all serious and casual Stephen King fans as well as all lovers of superb contemporary literature.

Ancient Jewish Novels: An AnthologyThis volume brings together for the first time all of the ancient Jewish novels and fragments of novels. Written at about the same time as the Dead Sea Scrolls and the New Testament, but before the period of Rabbinic Judaism, these texts reveal the ambiguities and conflicts encountered by Jews in this period.

New Orleans SketchesIn 1925 William Faulkner began his professional writing career in earnest while living in the French Quarter of New Orleans. He had published a volume of poetry (The Marble Faun), had written a few book reviews, and had contributed sketches to the University of Mississippi student newspaper. He had served a stint in the Royal Canadian Air Corps and while working in a New Haven bookstore had become acquainted with the wife of the writer Sherwood Anderson.

Motoo Eetee: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the WorldSwimming for their lives from the senseless wreck of the American sealing ship Dove, four men escape-Thomas, a headstrong young sailor; Harrison, the affable, inventive ship's carpenter; Mr. Morgen, the Dove's pedestrian first mate; and the aging Captain Tobit, bungling, short-sighted, and fanatical. Bruised and naked, they find themselves cast away on an uncharted, uninhabited Pacific island where the bounty and beauty of all that surrounds them are at odds with the old structures of shipboard life.