Abrams Press imprint: 299 books
Godforsaken Grapes
A Slightly Tipsy Journey through the World of Strange, Obscure, and Underappreciated Wine
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2018
There are nearly 1,400 known varieties of wine grapes in the world—from altesse to zierfandler—but 80 percent of the wine we drink is made from only 20 grapes. In Godforsaken Grapes, Jason Wilson looks at how that came to be and embarks on a journey to discover what we miss.
Stemming from...
The Cider Revival
Dispatches from the Orchard
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2019
Cider is having a major moment, and The Cider Revival charts its history, resurgence, and a year with the vanguard makers of heritage cider
Cider is the quintessential American beverage. Drank by early settlers and founding fathers, it was ubiquitous and pervasive, but following Prohibition...
Identically Different
Why We Can Change Our Genes
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2014
In this book, a geneticist who studies identical twins “treats the view that genes are destiny with skepticism” (The New York Times).
How much are the things you choose to do every day determined by your genes and how much is your own free will? Drawing on his own cutting-edge research of identical...
Russian Symbolist Theater
An Anthology of Plays and Critical Texts
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2013
Although by writers better known for their verse and narrative prose, the plays of the Symbolists were not intended, like the dramatic poems of the Romantics, for the study rather than the stage. Instead, they are highly theatrical creations in a new style that demanded a new style of production....
by Rene Daumal
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2005
For this early 20th century French poet-philosopher, life, in its most dynamic sense, can only be experienced after the facade of self-identity has been systematically negated through a kind of metaphysical suicide. In Le Contre-Ciel, Daumal invites us, his readers, to go through this process of regeneration-through-negation...
The Ring of Truth
The Wisdom of Wagner's Ring of the Nibelung
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2017
Richard Wagner’s Ring of the Nibelung is one of the greatest works of art created in modern times, and has fascinated both critics and devotees for over a century and a half. No recent study has examined the meaning of Wagner's masterpiece with the attention to detail and intellectual power that...
Release Your Inner Roman
A Treatise by Nobleman Marcus Sidonius Falx
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2016
Learn the secrets to conquering the world like a Caesar: “A fun concept and an entertaining way to teach the history of Roman society” (Historical Novel Society).
Following his “ingenious” handbook on slave management, here is Marcus Sidonius Falx’s new guide on how to improve every aspect...
The Last Crusaders
East, West, and the Battle for the Center of the World
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2011
The Crusades were the bridge between medievl and modern history, between feudalism and colonialism. In many ways, the lttle explored later Crusades were the most significant of them all, for thy made the crisis truly global. The Last Crusaders is about the perio's last great conflict between East...
by Halley Feiffer
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2015
Ella is a precocious and fiercely competitive actress whose aims in life are making her famous playwright father proud—and becoming famous herself. In the aftermath of a boozy, drug-fueled evening when Ella’s father is particularly hurtful, she flings herself into the arms of a young director...
The Guardsman
A Play
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2016
Budapest’s most beautiful young actress is notorious for affairs that only last six months. When she finally marries, she chooses the city’s most handsome and talented young actor. Five and a half months later, suspecting his new wife is getting restless, the actor takes on his most daring role...
Mythical Zoo
Animals in Myth, Legend, and Literature
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2013
Sacred cows, wily serpents, fearsome lions, elegant swans, busy bees, and sly foxes--all are caricatures of the creatures themselves, yet they reflect not only how different cultures see the natural world around them but also how such cultures make use of their native animals. In this fun and thought-provoking...
Accidental Journey
A Cambridge intern's memory of World War II
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1998
During the early years of World War II, the author—a German Jew from a privileged background—was suddenly catapulted from his idyllic student elite life at Cambridge into a turbulent seven-year odyssey in an internment camp.
George the Dog, John the Artist
A Rescue Story
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2015
The “uplifting, humble, and moving” true story of a troubled, East London artist and a twice-abandoned Staffordshire bull terrier who rescue each other (ForeWord Magazine).
John Dolan grew up rough on the estates of east London. His early life was marked by neglect and abuse, and his childhood...
"R.F.K. Must Die!"
Chasing the Mystery of the Robert Kennedy Assassination
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2008
The definitive text on the mystery of R.F.K.’s assassination by a reporter who “got inside this story . . . with his impressive grasp of all the loose ends” (Kirkus Reviews).
On the night of June 4, 1968, Sirhan Sirhan shot and killed Sen. Robert F. Kennedy in a steamy pantry of the Los...