Between these covers, teller and tales finally meet in a warm and joyful new collection that will bring delight to the hearts of readers the world over: James Herriot's Cat Stories. Here are Buster, the kitten who arrived on Christmas;...

The autobiographical and confessional writings of Abelard, Heloise and the Archpoet were concerned with religious authenticity, spiritual sincerity and their opposite - fictio, a composite of hypocrisy and dissimulation, lying and irony. How and why moral identity could be feigned...

The Liars' Club brought to vivid, indelible life Mary Karr's hardscrabble Texas childhood. Cherry, her account of her adolescence, "continued to set the literary standard for making the personal universal" (Entertainment Weekly). Now Lit follows the self-professed blackbelt sinner's descent...

An account of Alcott's experiences as a nurse during the Civil War....

No one is better poised to write the biography of James Herriot than the son who worked alongside him in the Yorkshire veterinary practice when Herriot became an internationally bestselling author. Now, in this warm and poignant biography, Jim Wight...

"Astonishing....One of the most dazzling and moving memoirs to come along in years." – Michiko Kakutani, New York TimesLit follows Mary Karr's descent into the inferno of alcoholism and madness—and her astonishing resurrection.Karr's longing for a solid family seems secure...

An account of Alcott's experiences as a nurse during the Civil War....

A controversial study of class and social identity in nineteenth-century England....

Readers adored his tales as a Yorkshire animal doctor in All Creatures Great and Small and All Things Bright and Beautiful— now James Herriot treats us to another delightful volume of memoirs rich with his own brand of humor and...