Abrams Press imprint: 299 books
Apocalypse on the Set
Nine Disastrous Film Productions
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2012
The stories behind the other eight films, from The Adventures of Baron Munchausen and The Twilight Zone: The Movie to Apocalypse Now and The Crow, are just as astounding and gripping--this is a book film fans will devour. These bizarre, often hilarious cinematic endeavors confirm that truth is stranger than fiction, reality more volatile than narratives, and fate more improbable than plots.
The Opium War
Drugs, Dreams, and the Making of Modern China
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2015
In October 1839, a Windsor cabinet meeting votes to begin the first Opium War against China. Bureaucratic fumbling, military missteps, and a healthy dose of political opportunism and collaboration followed. Rich in tragicomedy, The Opium War explores the disastrous British foreign-relations move that...
A.D. 381
Heretics, Pagans, and the Christian State
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2009
In A.D. 381, Theodosius, emperor of the eastern Roman empire, issued a decree in which all his subjects were required to subscribe to a belief in the Trinity of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. This edict defined Christian orthodoxy and brought to an end a lively and wide-ranging debate about the...
Mistresses
A History of the Other Woman
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Why do women become mistresses, and is a mistress merely a wife-in-waiting, or is she the very definition of the emancipated, independent female? In Mistresses, Elizabeth Abbott intelligently examines the motives and morals of some of the most infamous and fascinating women in history and literature....
Jane Welsh Carlyle and Her Victorian World
A Story of Love, Work, Marriage, and Friendship
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2017
Hailed by Virginia Woolf as one of the all-time great letter writers, Jane Welsh Carlyle, wife of Victorian literary celebrity Thomas Carlyle, has been much overlooked. In this compelling new biography, Kathy Chamberlain brings Jane out of her husband’s shadow, focusing on Carlyle as a remarkable...
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...
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 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...