Editions Artisan Devereaux Llc: 263 books

Tales of Mystery and Imagination, (the companion volume to Poe’s Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque), is an exquisite collection of prototypical works by the master, whose extravagantly macabre tales have inspired such latter-day disciples as H.P. Lovecraft, and Stephen King. Poe is most...

“I am entranced When I can curse my lord behind his back.”     Aristophanes' The Frogs is a timeless comedy, combining witty satire and raucous slapstick to delightful effect. Modern critics have acclaimed it as a perfectly realized fantasy remarkable...

The fourth of Trollope's Palliser novels, Phineas Redux is one of his most spellbinding achievements. With Phineas Finn, Trollope created one of his most interesting characters, a talented but naive doctor's son from Ireland with Parliamentary aspirations who must make numerous practical and...

“Far away in the western sky, Lanning saw a black dot that moved in wide circles and came up across the heavens slowly, and he knew it was a buzzard that scented carrion…” The Way Of The Lawless is the pioneering novel set in the Wild West by American author Max Brand,...

  A Season in Hell (Une Saison en Enfer) is a lengthy poem written and published in 1873 by Arthur Rimbaud. It is considered by many as his masterwork. Rimbaud began writing the poem in April, during a visit to his family's farm in Roche, on the French-Belgian border....

Aliens (not extraterrestrials!) is a story of revolt against hypocritical conformity and snobbish sentiment, A young artist and writer tells the story of two Carville brothers, one of them a sea-faring man; the other, a strange, sinister character, with great power over women, a character who...

“…Keep good company, read good books, love good things and cultivate soul and body as faithfully as you can. No woman should give her happiness into the keeping of a man without fixed principles…” Rose in Bloom reveals a very ambitious young Louisa May Alcott finding her voice as a...

Abelard and Heloise – The Love Letters details one of the worlds most celebrated and tragic love affairs. Through their letters we follow the path of their 12th-century romance, from its ecstatic beginnings when Heloise became Abelard’s pupil, through the suffering of public scandal and...

  With the publication of Utopia, Thomas More provided a scathing analysis of the shortcomings of his own society, a realistic suggestion for an alternative mode of social organization, and a satire on unrealistic idealism. Over the centuries, Utopia has become an immensely influential...

The Precipice is a Russian novel by Ivan Goncharov, published in 1869, a decade after his masterwork, "Oblomov." In it, Goncharov seeks to counter the ideas of the new generation of skeptics, nihilists, and dreamers, and presents the conflicts among the different levels of Russian...

“At first he thought she had suffocated herself. Grabbing her by the shoulders, he turned her over, still clutching the pillow to hide her face to stop herself from screaming...” Guy De Maupassant, a protégé of Gustave Flaubert, is considered one of the fathers of the modern short story...

“He even predicted how the miracle would come about; it would be like a lightning stroke, an awakening, an exaltation of the entire being, whilst the evil, that horrid, diabolical weight which stifled the poor girl would once more ascend and fly away as though emerging by her mouth…” Lourdes...

Paul Ferrol’s wife was a woman of violent temper, who parted him from Elinor, his first love. When she is murdered, suspicion rests upon Franks, a laborer on the estate; but Ferrol gets him off, and sends him to Canada with his wife. Soon after, Ferrol marries his first love. They have one daughter,...

From the foreword by Philip Dossick: “There is a sacred thread that ties the prophets of peace together: Wovoka. Mahatma Gandhi. Martin Luther King. Nelson Mandela. Abraham Lincoln. This thread cannot be broken. It will never be broken. Add to these the names of Franz Boas, the pioneering...