The Temptation of the Impossible:

Victor Hugo and Les Misérables

Mario Vargas Llosa

John King, translator

Princeton University Press

232 pages

Hardcover $24.95

978-0-691-13111-5

Here, in this compelling book, readers can enjoy the fascinating encounter between two literary giants: Mario Vargas Llosa and Victor Hugo.

The Afterlife of Edgar Allan Poe by Scott Peeples

Camden House

ISBN 978-1-57113-357-1

Trade Paperback

Perhaps few authors are more significant to the development of the American short story than Edgar Allan Poe.

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Not that I either wanted or needed to know such salacious details, but a revealing article about the author of Lord of the Flies suggests to me that misguided literary critics will now serve serious (irrelevant?) injuries upon that already sufficiently disturbing novel.