Editions Artisan Devereaux Llc: 263 books

“Is mother right? Am I being extravagant? Just for a moment she had another glimpse of that poor woman and those little children, and the body being carried into the house. But it all seemed blurred, unreal, like a picture in the newspaper…” In The Garden Party, an upper middle-class...

EZRA POUND (1885–1972) has been called a poetic visionary, and “the inventor of modern English poetry.” Pound's lyric genius, superb technique, and profound insights ensured his reputation as one of the few men who throughout the centuries have kept poetry alive, ever growing and relevant....

This celebrated 21st century digital edition of The Prairie Trilogy edited by Philip Dossick includes the three novels that comprise Willa Cather’s classic collection. O Pioneers! Song of the Lark My Antonia O PIONEERS! is the story of the life and loves of Alexandra...

Willa Cather – Selected Short Stories is a handsome collection of some of her finest short works. Well-crafted tales, her stories are often about people’s secret desires, unrequited love; about poverty and how a daily grind wears away every noble impulse in a person; and how people want...

Set in the 1890s in Moonstone, a fictional town located in Colorado, The Song of the Lark is the self-portrait of an artist in the making. The story revolves around an ambitious young heroine, Thea Kronborg, who leaves her hometown to go to the big city to fulfill her dream of becoming a pianist....

In the lives of mortals, the best days are the first to flee… My Antonia* set in Nebraska in the late 19th century, is Willa Cather’s rich and soulful tale of the spirited daughter of a Bohemian immigrant family planning to farm on untamed prairie land. She represents immigrant...

  The legend of Peter Pan, J.M. Barrie’s enduring creation, is at heart his greatest masterpiece, urging adults to reconnect with their lost childhood imaginations.   The classic exploits of Peter Pan, the boy who “would not grow up,” whose everlasting youth...

"Bartleby, the Scrivener" (1853) is among Herman Melville’s most important stories, and has been considered a precursor to Existentialist and Absurdist literature. Has there ever been a less desirable job title than scrivener?  They were employed by lawyers to transcribe...

“Nature cares nothing for logic, our human logic: she has her own, which we do not recognize and do not acknowledge until we are crushed under its wheel.” Ivan Turgenev gave his generation a literary legacy that dealt with the extraordinary moral complexities of his age. A novel...

“Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze...” Elinor Glyn began her literary career as a British fashion writer in 1898, and achieved notoriety in 1907 with Three Weeks - a steamy romance novel that was shocking for its time because it depicted an...

Nathaniel Hawthorne’s brilliant short story, Wakefield, thrills the reader to the core, and forever established him as a master storyteller. The premise is strikingly brilliant and modern: a man who has lived for years with his wife suddenly walks out of his house, moves a short distance...

The Deerslayer is James Fenimore Cooper's masterpiece. A combination of romance, adventure, and morality, this classic novel of the frontier is an eloquent opening for Cooper's great wilderness tales, and an unforgettable introduction to the famous character who was said to embody the conscience of...

“When Catherine is about seventeen,” he said to himself, “Lavinia will try and persuade her that some young man with a moustache is in love with her. It will be quite untrue; no young man, with a moustache or without, will ever be in love with Catherine…” Washington Square is considered...

“When Catherine is about seventeen,” he said to himself, “Lavinia will try and persuade her that some young man with a moustache is in love with her. It will be quite untrue; no young man, with a moustache or without, will ever be in love with Catherine…” Washington Square is considered...