Series: The Annotated Books

A cornerstone of world literature and a monument to the power of storytelling, the Arabian Nights has inspired countless authors, from Charles Dickens and Edgar Allan Poe to Naguib Mahfouz, Clarice Lispector, and Angela Carter. Now, in this lavishly designed and illustrated edition of The Annotated Arabian Nights, the acclaimed literary historian Paulo Lemos Horta and the brilliant poet and...

Mrs. Dalloway begins with the simple yet significant line, "Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself." This marks the start of Virginia Woolf's much-beloved fourth novel. First published in 1925, Mrs. Dalloway is often regarded as Woolf's masterpiece, a pivotal work of literary modernism, and one of the most significant and influential novels of the twentieth century. In...

"Remarkably, a nineteen-year-old, writing her first novel, penned a tale that combines tragedy, morality, social commentary, and a thoughtful examination of the very nature of knowledge," writes best-selling author Leslie S. Klinger in his foreword to The New Annotated Frankenstein. Despite its undeniable status as one of the most influential works of fiction ever written, Mary Shelley's novel is often...

In 2014, The New Annotated H. P. Lovecraft was published to widespread acclaim, vaunted as a “treasure trove” (Joyce Carol Oates) for Lovecraft aficionados and general readers alike. Hailed by Harlan Ellison as an “Olympian landmark of modern gothic literature,” the volume included twenty-two of Lovecraft’s original stories. Now, in this final volume, best-selling author Leslie S. Klinger reanimates twenty-five...

"With an increasing distance from the twentieth century…the New England poet, author, essayist, and stunningly profuse epistolary Howard Phillips Lovecraft is beginning to emerge as one of that tumultuous period's most critically fascinating and yet enigmatic figures," writes Alan Moore in his introduction to The New Annotated H. P. Lovecraft. Despite this nearly unprecedented posthumous trajectory, at the time of...

Since its publication in 1868–69, Little Women, perhaps America's most beloved children's classic, has been handed down from mother to daughter for generations. It has been translated into more than fifty languages and inspired six films, four television shows, a Broadway musical, an opera, and a web series. This lavish, four-colour edition features over 220 curated illustrations, including stills from...

One hundred and thirty-three years after its 1885 publication by Mark Twain, Elizabeth Samet has annotated this lavish edition of The Annotated Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant, expanding the Civil War backdrop against which this monumental American life is typically read. No previous edition combines such a sweep of historical and cultural contexts with the literary authority that Samet, an...