Abrams imprint: 1041 books
by Andrew Weiner
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2018
One beautiful autumn day, Art sets out with his mother and grandfather for a fishing trip. Fishing days are Art’s favorite. He loves learning the ropes from Grandpa—the different kinds of flies and tackle and the trout that frequent their favorite river. Art especially appreciates Grandpa’s...
The Greek War of Independence
The Struggle for Freedom and the Birth of Modern Greece
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
The Greek War of Independence is a masterful work—the first comprehensive study in thirty years—of one of the most heroic and bloody struggles for independence any people has ever waged. This was the revolution of the Romantic Age, inspiring painters, poets, and patriots the world over, fired...
Dylan Thomas
A New Life
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2005
The renowned literary biographer offers a “thoroughly well-written” chronicle of the legendary Welsh poet’s life that is “rich in anecdote” (The New Yorker).
Dylan Thomas is as legendary for his raucous life as for his literary genius. The author of the immortal poems Death Shall...
Into the Woods
A Five-Act Journey Into Story
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2014
The idea of Into the Woods is not to supplant works by Aristotle, Lajos Egri, Robert McKee, David Mamet, or any other writers of guides for screenwriters and playwrights, but to pick up on their cues and take the reader on a historical, philosophical, scientific, and psychological journey to the heart...
by Walt Whitman, Karen Karbiener
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2019
As he was turning forty, Walt Whitman wrote twelve poems in a small handmade book he entitled “Live Oak, With Moss.” The poems were intensely private reflections on his attraction to and affection for other men. They were also Whitman’s most adventurous explorations of the theme of same-sex...
by Roderick Kiracofe
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2018
Unconventional & Unexpected: American Quilts Below the Radar 19502000 is a stunning collection of approximately 150 eccentric and extraordinary quilts made predominantly by anonymous quilters in the US during the second half of the 20th century. Collected by renowned quilt authority and collector...
The White Rock
An Exploration of the Inca Heartland
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2003
With the backdrop of the ever-intriguing Andes mountains, The White Rock, Hugh Thomson’s intoxicating history of the Inca people and their heartland, is a thrilling mix of information and adventure. The author, an acclaimed documentary filmmaker and explorer, expertly weaves accounts of his own...
Did She Kill Him?
A Torrid True Story of Adultery, Arsenic, and Murder in Victorian England
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2014
“An intriguing story told in the style of Thomas Hardy or George Eliot, if they traded in true crime” (Kirkus Reviews).
In the summer of 1889, young Southern belle Florence Maybrick stood trial for the alleged arsenic poisoning of her much older husband, Liverpool cotton merchant James...
by Mikhail Lermontov
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2009
The first major Russian novel, A Hero of Our Time was both lauded and reviled upon publication. Its dissipated hero, twenty-five-year-old Pechorin, is a beautiful and magnetic but nihilistic young army officer, bored by life and indifferent to his many sexual conquests. Chronicling his unforgettable...
The Life and Loves of E. Nesbit
Victorian Iconoclast, Children's Author, and Creator of The Railway Children
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2019
**The first major biography of the trailblazing and controversial children’s author E. Nesbit **
Edith Nesbit (1858–1924) is considered the first modern writer for children and the inventor of the children’s adventure story. In The Life and Loves of E. Nesbit, award-winning biographer...
Strange Telescopes
Following the Apocalypse from Moscow to Siberia
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2009
The acclaimed author of Lost Cosmonaut “takes us into a world of exorcism, cults and oddballs” living in Ukraine, Siberia, and the catacombs beneath Moscow (The Guardian).
In Lost Cosmonaut, travel writer and anti-tourist Daniel Kalder ventured into the most distant republics of the former...
by Erica S. Perl
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2016
It’s Ida’s first day of school. She carries her new lunch box and a long, blue string with her special friend Dotty attached to it. A big, colorfully spotted pal with horns, Dotty just happens to be invisible. On that first day of school, Ida and Dotty find out there are plenty of other imaginary...
by Natalie Haynes
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2012
In this thoroughly engaging book, Natalie Haynes brings her scholarship and wit to the most fascinating true stories of the ancient world. The Ancient Guide to Modern Life not only reveals the origins of our culture in areas including philosophy, politics, language, and art, it also draws illuminating...
by Philip Carr-Gomm, Richard Heygate
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2010
Through experiments to try and places to visit, as well as a historical exploration of magic and interviews with leading magicians, The Book of English Magic will introduce you to the extraordinary world that lies beneath the surface. Magic runs through the veins of English history, part of daily...