HUNTER Textbooks & Course Packs

Edith Wharton's satiric anatomy of American society in the first decade of the twentieth century appeared in 1913; it both appalled and fascinated ...

The great Hollywood novel is now available as a stand-alone New Directions editionAdmired by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Dorothy Parker, and Dashiell Hamm...

"Ayatsuji's brilliant and richly atmospheric puzzle will appeal to fans of golden age whodunits... Every word counts, leading up to a jaw-dropping ...

A complete edition of the hilarious, bawdy, irreverent masterpiece of medieval Italy—and an inspiration for the Netflix dark comedy The Decameron—i...

Playful and practical, this is the style book you can't wait to use, a guide that addresses classic questions of English usage with wit and the bla...

Socrates’ ancient words are still true, and the ideas found in Plato’s Dialogues still form the foundation of a thinking person’s education. This s...

In this book, Álvarez-López details the history of revolution in the Dominican Republic, which was an infant independent nation struggling to prese...

China is unique in modern world history. No other rising power has experienced China's turbulent history in its relations with neighbors and Wester...

In The Elementary Forms of Religious Life (1912), Emile Durkheim sets himself the task of discovering the enduring source of human social identity....

Andrew George's "masterly new translation" (The Times) of the world's first truly great work of literatureA Penguin ClassicMiraculously preserved o...

The inspiring true story of identical twin teenage brothers who escape El Salvador's violence to build new lives in California as undocumented immi...

The first in a new series of Fredric Brown double-novels, The Far Cry / The Screaming Mimi could very well have been subtitled “The Way of the Knif...

Helen Longino seeks to break the current deadlock in the ongoing wars between philosophers of science and sociologists of science--academic battles...

Aristotle said that philosophy begins with wonder, and the first Western philosophers developed theories of the world which express simultaneously ...

Inspired by Paul Tillich's suggestion that atheism is not the end of theology but is instead the beginning, and working this together with Derrida'...

Andrea Palladio (1508–1580) was one of the most celebrated architects of the Renaissance, so important that the term Palladian has been applied to ...

The Buddhist saint Nāgārjuna, who lived in South India in approximately the second century CE, is undoubtedly the most important, influential, and ...

The book Nietzsche called "the most personal of all my books." It was here that he first proclaimed the death of God—to which a large part of the b...

Acclaimed poet and translator Sarah Ruden brilliantly brings Apuleius's comic tale to life “A rollicking ride well worth the fare, . . . marvelousl...

An “electrifying [and] compulsively readable” new translation of the Gospels, destined to become a definitive edition of these canonical texts, fro...

The only authorized edition of the twentieth-century classic, featuring F. Scott Fitzgerald’s final revisions, a foreword by his granddaughter, and...

A landmark anthology of the masterpieces of Greek drama, featuring all-new, highly accessible translations of some of the world’s most beloved play...

A subversively comic, genre-bending satire of bourgeois life by an essential Chinese American voice, featuring an introduction by New Yorker writer...

Translated by Aubrey de Sélincourt with an introduction and Notes by John M. Marincola.For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading pu...