Melville House imprint: 317 books
by Elizabeth Gaskell
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2013
A departure from the stories Elizabeth Gaskell wrote for Charles Dickens’s Household Words magazine*, The Poor Clare* is a dark, gothic novella of thwarted love and a family curse that vividly illustrates the social tensions of Victorian England.
The purposeful slaying of lonely Bridget’s...
Eurovision
A History of Modern Europe Through the World's Greatest Song Contest
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2017
Do you think the world of the Eurovision Song Contest, with its crazy props, even crazier dancers and crazier still songs has nothing to do with serious European politics? Think again. It has been a voice of rebellion across the Iron Curtain, an inspiration for new European nations in the 1990s and...
Future Days
Krautrock and the Birth of a Revolutionary New Music
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2015
A sweeping history of the men and women who transformed postwar Germany—and created a musical genre that revolutionized rock and roll and gave birth to hip-hop.
West Germany after World War II was a country in shock: estranged from its recent history, and adrift from the rest of Europe. But...
The Cleanest Race
How North Koreans See Themselves and Why It Matters
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
Understanding North Korea through its propaganda
What do the North Koreans really believe? How do they see themselves and the world around them?
Here B.R. Myers, a North Korea analyst and a contributing editor of The Atlantic, presents the first full-length study of the North Korean...
by Lewis Lapham
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2014
Halfway between the summer of love and the Tet offensive, the Beatles went to India to study with the Maharishi—and Lewis Lapham, esteemed Harper's editor and award-winning writer, was there. WITH THE BEATLES is a remarkable book of cultural commentary on that seminal '60s moment.
The ashram...
Martin Luther King, Jr.: The Last Interview
and Other Conversations
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2017
As the Black Lives Matter movement gains momentum, and books like Ta-Nehisi Coates's Between the World and Me and Claudia Rankine's Citizen swing national attention toward the racism and violence that continue to poison our communities, it's as urgent now as ever to celebrate Martin Luther King, Jr.,...
Strange Stars
How Science Fiction and Fantasy Transformed Popular Music
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2018
A Hugo Award-winning author and music journalist explores the weird and wild story of when rock ’n’ roll met the sci-fi world of the 1970s
As the 1960s drew to a close, and mankind trained its telescopes on other worlds, old conventions gave way to a new kind of hedonistic freedom that celebrated...
Melancholy Accidents
Three Centuries of Stray Bullets and Bad Luck
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2016
Did you know that fatal gun mishaps have been so common in America that for centuries, newspapers carried regular columns reporting on “melancholy accidents”?
It came as a surprising discovery when, while conducting research that involved reading colonial-era newspapers, acclaimed writer...
by Virgie Tovar
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2018
Growing up as a fat girl, Virgie Tovar believed that her body was something to be fixed. But after two decades of dieting and constant guilt, she was over it - and gave herself the freedom to trust her own body again. Ever since, she's been helping others to do the same. Tovar is hungry for a world...
J. D. Salinger: The Last Interview
And Other Conversations
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2016
From the moment J. D. Salinger published The Catcher in the Rye in 1951, he was stalked by besotted fans, would-be biographers, and pushy journalists. In this collection of rare and revealing encounters with the elusive literary giant, Salinger discusses—sometimes willingly, sometimes grudgingly—what...
by Edgar Allan Poe
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2013
When Edgar Allan Poe’s only novella was first published in 1838, the reviews were slow in coming and dismissive when they arrived. The book’s failure left Poe in such dire financial straits that he even accepted a job at one of the magazines that had panned it. But The Narrative of Arthur Gordon...
by Hernan Ronsino
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2017
Glaxo is a chilling novel of betrayal, romance, and murder, from a major Latin American writer being published in English for the first time.
In a derelict town in Argentina's pampa, a decades-old betrayal simmers among a group of friends. One returns from serving time for a crime he didn't...
by Susan Bordo
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2017
Gossip is easy. Get to the deeper truth, with this in-depth look at the political forces and media culture that vilified and ultimately brought down Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential campaign.
The Destruction of Hillary Clinton is an answer to the question many have been asking: How...
Final Verdict
What Really Happened in the Rosenberg Case
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2010
A new narrative of the famed case that finally solves its remaining mysteries, by the author of the bestselling Invitation to an Inquest
Walter and Miriam Schneir’s 1965 bestseller Invitation to an Inquest was among the first critical accounts of the controversial case of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg,...