Editions Artisan Devereaux Llc: 263 books

“I’m Satan, newly come from hell…” On the first page of John Masefield’s The Everlasting Mercy, the poet rhymed ‘whored’ with ‘Lord’. The work caused a literary sensation. This was a strange beginning for a future poet laureate of Great Britain. Masefield’s...

“Have I been understood? - Dionysus versus the Crucified!" Ecce Homo was Nietzsche's last published work, one of the most remarkable and influential books of the nineteenth century. Written just a few weeks before his final collapse into madness, Nietzsche set out to compose his...

"You must never tell anyone..." The Little Match Man is Luigi Barzini Sr.'s classic children’s tale of Fiammiferino, a little man made of matches from the wood of an enchanted willow tree who miraculously comes to life, and attempts to provide wisdom to those who deserve it. LUIGI...

Highly controversial in its day because of its blunt look at the sexual values of Victorian society, Thomas Hardy’s Far from the Madding Crowd is an exemplification of all the horrors of ill-fated destiny. Spirited and independent Bathsheba Everdene has come to Weatherbury to take up her position...

“The sacred armies, and the godly knight, That the great sepulchre of Christ did free, I sing.” The First Crusade provides the backdrop for a rich tapestry of political machinations, military conflicts, martial rivalries, and love stories, some of which are complicated by differences in...

In 1919, Thomas Mann said that Effi Briest was one of the "six most important novels ever written". In Bismarck's Germany, Fontane's brilliant story of an emotionally catastrophic relationship between the enchanting seventeen-year-old Effi and a strict, workaholic official twice her...

      “It was impossible to tell why one respected this man, but after a time there grew a suspicion of unknown strength in this lone rider, strength like that of a machine which is stopped but only needs a spark of fire to plunge it into irresistible action.”...

      “How many times round the track is the race for the chariots of war?” Aristophanes' The Clouds is a timeless comedy, combining witty satire to delightful effect. Modern critics have acclaimed it as a perfectly realized fantasy caricaturing...

“If voting changed anything, they’d make it illegal.” EMMA GOLDMAN (1869-1940) was notorious. She was a radical feminist. She was an anarchist. She advocated Atheism. Free Love. Birth control. Equality for Women. Often called “the most dangerous woman in America,” she stood...

MARY FORTUNE (1833-1910) was an Australian writer of detective and horror fiction. A prolific storyteller, she wrote over 500 stories most featuring Detective Mark Sinclair. She is best known for The Detective's Album, the longest-running early detective serial in the world. Narrated by detective...

Mark Twain's 1906 Diaries of Adam and Eve written on and off in Twain’s last years, are combined here as a powerful and tender narrative exploring what it might have been like to be the first humans on the planet. Twain captures the concept with ease and broadens the story with the pair’s...

“Has he dared to set his wits against mine, to play the double traitor? If even a suspicion of this should come to you, there must be an end of Mr. Francis Norgate." The Double Traitor is one of the earliest spy novels set in the years prior to the outbreak of World War I, a time when...

    The Legend Of Sleepy Hollow is the now timeless tale of a New England schoolmaster, Ichabod Crane, undone by his fears of a fabled headless horseman. Or was he? On the basis of this one classic tale, The Legend Of Sleepy Hollow, Washington Irving is now...

"I am a Sauk...I am a Warrior…" Chief Black Hawk is best known for the war that bears his name. The Black Hawk War of 1832 was the last Indian war fought east of the Mississippi River. The Indians' defeat spelled the end of 200 years of armed resistance to European-American encroachment...