HUNTER Textbooks & Course Packs

Nevill Coghill’s masterly and vivid modern English verse translation with all the vigor and poetry of Chaucer’s fourteenth-century Middle EnglishA ...

Lively, absorbing, often outrageously funny, Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales is a work of genius, an undisputed classic that has held a special appe...

Jacket description.back: In all of Pinter's plays, seemingly ordinary events become charged with profound, if elusive, meaning, haunting pathos, an...

This collection of Castells' classic writing, which also includes two new essays written specifically for this book, reflects the panoramic breadth...

"Pevear and Volokhonsky are at once scrupulous translators and vivid stylists of English."—The New YorkerThere have always been two versions of Che...

The chosen place is Bourneville, a remote, devastated part of a Caribbean island; the timeless people are its inhabitants—black, poor, inextricably...

First published in 1968, The Church and the Second Sex represents one of the most important critiques of sexism in the Christian tradition.

The only suriving continuous narrative source for the events between 133 and 70 BCAppian's writings vividly describe Catiline's conspiracy, the ris...

This major source of Chinese mythology (third century BC to second century AD) contains a treasure trove of rare data and colorful fiction about th...

The year is 2393, and the world is almost unrecognizable. Clear warnings of climate catastrophe went ignored for decades, leading to soaring temper...

Pulitzer Prize winner Sylvia Plath’s complete poetic works, edited and introduced by Ted Hughes.By the time of her death on 11, February 1963, Sylv...

First published in English in 1965, this timeless classic explores the psychological effects of colonialism on colonized and colonizers alike.

Shakespeare's dextrous comedy of two twin masters and two twin servants continually mistaken for one another is both farce and more than farce. The...

The definitive edition of the graphic novel acclaimed as “the most affecting and successful narrative ever done about the Holocaust” (Wall Street J...

Here, in one volume: Marjane Satrapi's best-selling, internationally acclaimed graphic memoir of growing up as a girl in Iran during the revolution...

A full, authoritative, and wholly engaging account of these endlessly fascinating tales and of the ancient society in which they were created.Greek...

Heartfelt, incisive, and timeless, The Confessions of Saint Augustine has captivated readers for more than fifteen hundred years. Retelling the sto...

The Control of Nature is John McPhee's bestselling account of places where people are locked in combat with nature. Taking us deep into these conte...

* Winner of the Grawemeyer Award in Religion * "One of the Top 11 Religion Books of the Year," The Huffington Post * First Place Winner in Theology...

One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels“A puzzle, an intrigue, a literary and historical tour de force.” — San Francisco ExaminerThe Crying of ...

The bestselling book revealing why Americans are so fearful, and why we fear the wrong things--now updated for the age of TrumpIn the age of Trump,...

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...

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