Classics

In the 1940s, the Golden Age of science fiction flowered in the magazine Astounding. Editor John W. Campbell, Jr., discovered and promoted great new writer...

The Call Of The Wild is the story of Buck, a dog stolen from his home and thrust into the merciless life of the Arctic north to endure hardship, bitter ...

It Is A Sunny Summer Sunday In A Remote Swiss Village, And A Christening Is Being Celebrated At A Lovely Old Farmhouse. One Of The Guests Notes An Anomaly I...

Introduction. Couples ; Tragedy Averted ; Much Ado About Noting [sic] ; Second Chance ; Double Ending -- About The Text -- Key Facts -- Much Ado About Nothi...

The Norton Critical Edition of this influential Harlem Renaissance novel includes related materials available in no other edition. Known only as the “Ex-Co...

Watership Down by Richard Adams is a true classic. This stirring tale of courage and survival against the odds has become one of the best-loved animal adven...

First published in 1886 as a “shilling shocker,” Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde takes the basic struggle between good and evil and adds to the mix bourgeois re...

The beautiful 150th anniversary edition of Louisa May Alcott's classic tale of the four March sisters, featuring new illustrations and an introduction by N...

Essential passages from the works of four fathers of history-Herodotus's History, Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War, Xenophon's Anabasis, and Pol...

Classic children's tale by the author of "James and the Giant Peach." Who put Superglue in Dad's hat? Was it really a ghost that made Mom tear out of the ho...

Deputy sheriff Tom Lord knows by now that far-west Texas is the place he'll always call home. He's spent too much time in the region's small towns to adapt ...

Willy Loman has been a salesman for 34 years. At 60, he is cast aside, his usefulness exhausted. With no future to dream about he must face the crushing dis...

In Spark of Life, a powerful classic from the renowned author of All Quiet on the Western Front, one man’s dream of freedom inspires a valiant resistance a...

Babylonia: A NovelCategories: Literature & Fiction Historical FictionAncient

A tragedy that evokes both pity and terror―now in a thoroughly revised and updated Norton Critical Edition. The Norton Critical Edition is again based on...

Pierce Penniless His Supplication To The Devil Summer's Last Will And Testament The Terrors Of The Night, Or, A Discourse Of Apparitions The Unfortunate Tra...

The Cuthberts are in for a shock. They are expecting an orphan boy to help with the work at Green Gables - but a skinny red-haired girl turns up instead. Hi...

At eighteen, Ben is in the world, but not of it. He is too large, too awkward, too inhumanly made. Now estranged from his family, he must find his own path...

Anna is a writer, author of one very successful novel, who now keeps four notebooks. In one, with a black cover, she reviews the African experience of her...

When the Cuthberts send to an orphanage for a boy to help them at Green Gables, their farm in Canada, they are astonished when a talkative little girl steps...

The discovery of a treasure map sets young Jim Hawkins in search of buried gold, along with a crew of buccaneers recruited by the one-legged Long John Silve...

The Penguin English Library Edition of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain'I'm unfavorable to killin' a man as long as you can git around it; ...

The only American edition of the cult classic novel. Publishers Weekly After his youthful adventures of raping and pillaging, Alex finds himself in prison...

16th-century classic by English ecclesiastic and scholar envisioned a tolerant, patriarchal island kingdom free of private property, violence, bloodshed a...

A vivid new translation of a timeless classic: Kleist's tense, ambiguous novella about an unexpected pregnancyIn a Northern Italian town during the Napoleo...

Hardcover book, first edition edition, 2000. Young adult, adult fiction, fantasy, suspense.Categories: Literature & Fiction Genre FictionTV, Movie, Vide...

Moll Flanders is one of the best-selling novels of all time. This Norton Critical Edition is again based on the first edition text (1722), the only text k...

More Information To Be Announced Soon On This Forthcoming Title From Penguin UsaCategories: Literature & FictionClassics

Is it possible to undo a pact with the Devil? A businessman makes a deal with a satanic clergymen, and has his daughter baptised into Satan's church. Twent...

Jim was first mate on the Patna, when the ship and passengers were abandoned by the crew in the Red Sea. Accused of cowardice, Jim immerses himself in work ...

This is the story of Jim Dixon, a hapless lecturer in medieval history at a provincial university who knows better than most that "there was no end to the w...

When Elizabeth Bennet first met Mr. Darcy, she found him proud, distant, and rude—despite the other ladies' admiration of his estate in Derbyshire and ten ...

No other work of Dickens presents so harsh an indictment against the attitude of life he associated with Utilitarianism. With savage bitterness Dickens ex...

A fantasy of the future that sheds a blazing critical light on the present--considered to be Aldous Huxley's most enduring masterpiece. "Mr. Huxley is elo...

When the gorgeous Henry Crawford and his pretty sister, Mary, come to Mansfield, they have no idea of the commotion they will cause. There they find the Be...

One of the novels that galvanized W. Somerset Maugham’s reputation as a literary masterThe Moon and Sixpence follows the life of one Charles Strickland, a b...

L'être et le néant est un des textes majeurs de la deuxième moitié du XXᵉ siècle. Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980) y pose les fondations de l'existential...

Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student a...

Now in its 50th anniversary edition, Sylvia Plath's groundbreaking semi-autobiographical novel offers an intimate, honest and often wrenching glimpse into m...

An undercover mission beyond the Iron Curtain to recover a defected scientist goes disastrously wrong – a classic early Cold War thriller from the acclaim...

Herman Melville's Thrilling Nautical Adventure—a Timeless Allegory And An Epic Saga Of Heroic Determination And Conflict. At The Heart Of Moby-dick Is The...

A completely re-edited edition of the classic tragedy contains full explanatory notes on pages facing the text of the play; an introduction to Shakespeare's...

The Story Of A Man, Elzeard Bouffier, Who Planted Trees On Land Which Was Dying Because Of A Lack Of Vegetation__ Jean Giono ; Translated By Barbara Bray ; ...

Bringing into harsh focus the daily struggle for existence in a Soviet gulag, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich is translated ...

After a brilliant and fulfilling career, Charles Arrowby revels in his perfect refuge, an isolated home by the sea, but soon his isolation is broken as the ...

In a Summer Season is one of Elizabeth Taylor's finest novels in which, in a moving and powerful climax, she reveals love to be the thing it is: beautiful,...

(book Jacket Status: Not Jacketed) for Coleridge The Plot Of Tom Jones Was, Along With That Of Oedipus The King, The Most Perfect Ever Constructed. Fieldi...

An influential Church of England vicar, John Henry Newman stunned the Anglican community in 1843 when he joined the Roman Catholic Church. Protestant clerg...