Classics

A controversial tale of friendship and tragedy during the Great Depression"A thriller, a gripping tale . . . that you will not set down until it is finishe...

The Classic Study Of Human Nature Which Depicts The Degeneration Of A Group Of Schoolboys Marooned On A Desert Island. By William Golding ; With A Biographi...

In a remote Hertfordshire village, far off the good coach roads of George III's England, a country squire of no great means must marry off his five vivacio...

The Story Of A Young Girl Growing Up In The Hispanic Quarter Of Chicago. Capturing Her Thoughts And Emotions In Poems And Stories, She Is Able To Rise Above...

No Fear Shakespeare Gives You The Complete Text Of macbeth On The Left-hand Page, Side-by-side With An Easy-to-understand Translation On The Right. each No...

The Mysterious Jay Gatsby Embodies The American Notion That It Is Possible To Redefine Oneself And Persuade The World To Accept That Definition. Gatsby's Y...

A Novel About Black Americans In Florida That Centers On The Life Of Janie And Her Three Marriages. Foreword / Edwidge Danticat -- Their Eyes Were Watching ...

paul Baumer Enlisted With His Classmates In The German Army Of World War I. Youthful, Enthusiastic, They Become Soldiers. But Despite What They Have Learned...

celebrating Sixty Years Of Essential Wisdom From The Little Prince And His Friends With An Elegant, Collectible Gift Edition publishers Weekly young Osmen...

The classic novella from Nobel Prize-winner John Steinbeck explores the secrets of man's nature, the darkest depths of evil, and the luminous possibilities...

step Into The Unforgettable World Of Narnia With This Beautifully Detailed Collector's Edition. Includes 19 New Full-color Plates By Pauline Baynes, The Or...

Taking its place next to Breakfast at Tiffany's and In Cold Blood on the Modern Library bookshelf is this new and original edition of Capote's most famous...

The Old Man and the Sea is one of Hemingway's most enduring works. Told in language of great simplicity and power, it is the story of an old Cuban fisherma...

Laura Ingalls's story begins in 1871 in a little log cabin on the edge of the Big Woods of Wisconsin. Four-year-old Laura lives in the little house with he...

The heroic Greek dramas that have moved theatergoers and readers since the fifth century B.C.Towering over the rest of Greek tragedy, the three plays that ...

As the Shadow of Mordor grows across the land, Aragorn is revealed as the hidden heir of the ancient kings. Gandalf miraculously returns and defeats the evi...

Christopher John Francis Boone knows all the countries of the world and their capitals and every prime number up to 7,057. He relates well to animals but h...

Mcmurphy, A Criminal Who Feigns Insanity, Is Admitted To A Mental Hospital Where He Challenges The Autocratic Authority Of The Head Nurse.Categories: Politi...

the Poisonwood Bible Is A Story Told By The Wife And Four Daughters Of Nathan Price, A Fierce, Evangelical Baptist Who Takes His Family And Mission To The...

somewhere In South America, At The Home Of The Country's Vice President, A Lavish Birthday Party Is Being Held In Honor Of Mr. Hosokawa, A Powerful Japanes...

Jack London became one of, and perhaps the most successful writer of the turn of the 20th century. Fifty-one of his books, innumerous articles and short st...

Presents A Romantic Tale Of Country English Family Life, Which Satirizes Human Foibles And Early-nineteenth-century Manners.Categories: RomanceLove Triangle...

A Tale Of Adolescence Whose Hero Is Charlie, A High School Freshman In Pennsylvania. The Novel Follows Charlie As He Is Introduced To Love, Literature And P...

By William Shakespeare ; Edited By Barbara A. Mowat And Paul Werstine. Includes Bibliographical References.Categories: Literature & Fiction History &...

A Novel That Studies The Moral Disintegration Of A Man Whose Obsessive Desire To Possess His Step-daughter Destroys The Lives Of Those Around HimCategories:...

The first and most terrifying monster in English literature, from the great early epic BEOWULF, tells his side of the story.Categories: Teen & Young Adu...

A Novel That Studies The Moral Disintegration Of A Man Whose Obsessive Desire To Possess His Step-daughter Destroys The Lives Of Those Around HimCategories:...

An American classic and great bestseller for over thirty years, A Separate Peace is timeless in its description of adolescence during a period when the enti...

This classic, second only to the Bible for religious instruction and inspiration, has brought understanding and comfort to millions for centuries. Written...

the Scarlet Letter Is The Story Of Three New England Settlers At Odds With The Puritan Society In Which They Live. Roger Chillingworth, An Aging Scholar, Ar...

A ne'er-do-well exploits his gentle daughter's beauty for social advancement in this masterpiece of tragic fiction. Hardy's 1891 novel defied convention to ...

The Last Unicorn is one of the great fantasy novels of the 20th Century. Since its publication in 1968 it has never been out of print, with 6 million-plus ...

Daniel Defoe relates the classic tale of Robinson Crusoe, an English sailor marooned on a desert island for nearly thirty years, as he struggles to surviv...

The must-have Pevear and Volokhonsky translation of one of the greatest Russian novels ever written, soon to be a film adapted by Tom Stoppard and starring ...

The authoritative edition of The Tempest from The Folger Shakespeare Library, the trusted and widely used Shakespeare series for both students and general ...

Introduction and Notes by Doreen Roberts, Rutherford College, University of Kent at Canterbury Middlemarch is a complex tale of idealism, disillusion, profl...

With an Introduction and Notes by Keith Wren, University of Kent at Canterbury The story of Edmund Dantes, self-styled Count of Monte Cristo, is told with c...

Death Comes for the Archbishop is Willa Cather's best known novel. This epic, is a dream like, mythic story of a life lived simply in the southwestern deser...

“Moments like this are buds on the tree of life. Flowers of darkness they are.” In this vivid portrait of a single day in a woman’s life, Mrs. Clariss...

“Radiant as [To the Lighthouse] is in its beauty, there could never be a mistake about it: here is a novel to the last degree severe and uncompromising. ...

"The murderer is with us–on the train now . . ." Just after midnight, the famous Orient Express is stopped in its tracks by a snowdrift. By morning, the...

Book Four In The Magnificent Dune Chronicles--the Bestselling Science Fiction Adventure Of All Time Millennia Have Passed On Arrakis, And The Once-desert Pl...

Here is Oscar Wilde's most brilliant tour de force, a witty and buoyant comedy of manners that has delighted millions in countless productions since its fir...

Determined to make her heroine "as poor and plain as myself," Charlotte Brontë made a daring choice for her 1847 novel. Jane Eyre possesses neither the gre...

The main character, Fanny Price, is a young girl from a poor family, raised by her rich uncle and aunt, Sir Thomas and Lady Bertram, at Mansfield Park. She ...

'i Set Out Deliberately To Write A Tour-de-force. Before I Ever Put Pen To Paper And Set Down The First Word I Knew What The Last Word Would Be And Almost ...

unstuck In Time, Billy Pilgrim, Vonnegut's Shattered Survivor Of The Dresden Bombing, Relives His Life Over And Over Again Under The Gaze Of Aliens; He Com...

“I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire. . . . I give it to you not that you may remember time, but that you might forget it now and then for a m...