Nightwood was acknowledged by T S Eliot as one of the great novels of the 20th-century.

Gertrude Stein, as a college student at Radcliffe and a medical student at Johns Hopkins Medical School, but was surrounded by women who were trapped by poverty, class, and race into lives that offered little choice. This book is a collection of documents from the history of women's suffrage, medical history, modernist art, and literature.

Djuna Barnes (1892-1982) once described herself as the most famous unknown writer, and although her novel Nightwood is celebrated, her poetry has been a well-kept secret. This selection contains work written between 1914 and the 1970s.

In 1925 Janet Flanner began writing a fortnightly Letter from Paris for the nascent New Yorker. Her brief: to tell New Yorkers, under her pen name of Genet , what the French thought was going on in France, not what she thought. This is a collection of those letters.

Since it was first introduced over a hundred years ago in the book The Wonderful Wizard of Oz , L. Frank Baum's world of Oz has become one of the most beloved creations in children's literature and film. This work looks at the man behind Oz.

When Olivia turns sixteen she is sent to a Parisian finishing school to broaden her education. Soon after her arrival, she finds herself falling under the spell of her beautiful and charismatic teacher. But Madamoiselle Julie's life is not as straightforward as Olivia imagines and the school year is destined to end abruptly in tragedy.