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OLIVER TWIST Young Oliver Twist is an orphan who goes from one horrible situation to another. To escape a harsh life under cruel masters in a workhouse, Oli...

Little Women is one of the best loved books of all time. Lovely Meg, talented Jo, frail Beth, spoiled Amy: these are hard lessons of poverty and of growing...

Intense, powerful, and compelling, Matterhorn is an epic war novel in the tradition of Norman Mailer’s The Naked and the Dead and James Jones’s The Thi...

Jacques the Fatalist is a provocative exploration of the problems of human existence, destiny, and free will. In the introduction to this brilliant transla...

This Norton Critical Edition of one of Shakespeare’s earliest and best-loved comedies is based on the First Folio (1623). It is accompanied by “A Note ...

this Is The Extroardinary Novel That Has Captured Millions In Its Spell! all Across America And Around The World, Millions Of Readers Have Been Captivated...

Maupassant's Second Novel, Bel-ami (1885) Is The Story Of A Ruthlessly Ambitious Young Man Making It To The Top In Fin-de-siècle Paris. It Is A Novel About...

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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...

"ANNE RICE WILL LIVE ON THROUGH THE AGES OF LITERATURE." —San Francisco Chronicle "TALTOS IS THE THIRD BOOK IN A SERIES KNOWN AS THE LIVES OF THE MAYFAIR...

Tom Sawyer, a shrewd and adventurous boy, is as much at home in the respectable world of his Aunt Polly as in the self-reliant and parentless world of his f...

first Published In 1931, This Classic Psychological Melodrama Has Been Viewed As More Of A Social Document In His Tragic Legend Of The South Than Mere Sto...

This Third Edition Of 'the Trial And Death Of Socrates' Presents G. M. A. Grube's Distinguished Translations, As Revised By John Cooper For 'plato, Complete...

A retelling, based on the film, of how Quasimodo, the hunchbacked bellringer of Notre Dame Cathedral in medieval Paris, saves the beautiful gypsy dancer Esm...

Between The Great Rivers Tigris And Euphrates Lies The Rich Alluvial Land Of Mesopotamia (now In Modern Iraq), Which Supported A Complex And Prosperous Soci...

A must-have companion to the bestselling series Jan Karon’s Mitford Years series is a publishing phenomenon that, since 1996, has sold more than twenty-...

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

the Basis For The Famous Pbs Television Series Starring Jeremy Irons And Anthony Andrews, Evelyn Waugh's Bestselling Classic Is Now Available As An Ebook. ...

The Grene and Lattimore edition of the Greek tragedies has been among the most widely acclaimed and successful publications of the University of Chicago Pr...

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...

Wilde's works are suffused with his aestheticism, brilliant craftsmanship, legendary wit and, ultimately, his tragic muse. He wrote tender fairy stories for...

The Tranquility Of Mars Is Disrupted By The Earthmen Who Have Come To Conquer Space, Colonize The Planet, And Escape A Doomed Earth. 8 Books (268 P. ; 20 Cm...

Mischief is Tom Sawyer's middle name. There is nothing he likes better than playing hookey from school, messing about on the Mississippi with his best frie...

LES GRANDS TEXTES DU XXe SIÈCLE Devenu, avec Le Désert des Tartares, un classique du XXe siècle, Le K ouvre un recueil de 50 contes fantastiques où l'...

A Plane Crashes On An Uninhabited Island And The Only Survivors, A Group Of Schoolboys, Assemble On The Beach And Wait To Be Rescued. By Day They Inhabit A ...

With an Introduction and Notes by David Herd. Lecturer in English and American Literature at the University of Kent at Canterbury Moby-Dick is the story of ...

Evelyn Waugh.Categories: Science Fiction & Fantasy Science FictionAlternate History

Nobel Prize winner Yasunari Kawabata’s Snow Country is widely considered to be the writer’s masterpiece: a powerful tale of wasted love set amid the de...

No home library is complete without the classics! Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea is a keepsake to be read and treasured.Twenty Thousand Leagues Under...

Welcome to sunny suburban 1960s Southern California. George is a gay middle-aged English professor, adjusting to solitude after the tragic death of his you...

after The Man Whose Proposal She Had Rejected Returns From His Long Military Tour At Sea, Anne Elliot Is Forced To Face The Decision She Had Made Eight Ye...

Story Of A Black Lady Born Into Slavery On A Louisiana Plantation, Freed At The End Of The Civil War, Who Lives For One-hundred More Years. Ernest J. Gaines...

A perennially popular collection of short stories, poems, legends, and myths from great works of literature that are especially appropriate for parents to ...

With a new introduction by Zadie SmithInto the intrigue and violence of Indo-China comes Pyle, a young idealistic American sent to promote democracy through...

To the LighthouseCategories: Literature & Fiction History & Criticism Movements & PeriodsModern

Gathers Classic Short Stories By Such Authors As Ernest Hemingway, Edgar Allan Poe, O. Henry, Rudyard Kipling, John Steinbeck, Aldous Huxley, And Anton Chek...

A Young Woman Looks Back At Her Childhood In A Harsh Orphanage And Describes Her Growing Love For The Man Who Employs Her As GovernessCategories: Romance Hi...

Introduction by Madelon Bedell Chronicles the joys and sorrows of the four March sisters as they grow into young ladies in ninetee...

narnia. . .the Land Between The Lamp-post And The Castle Of Cair Paravel, Where Animals Talk, Where Magical Things Happen. . .and Where The Adventure Begin...

Dieses Werk ist Teil der Buchreihe TREDITION CLASSICS. Der Verlag tredition aus Hamburg veröffentlicht in der Buchreihe TREDITION CLASSICS Werke aus mehr a...

Anthem is a dystopian fiction novella by Ayn Rand, written in 1937 and first published in 1938 in England. It takes place at some unspecified future date wh...

Mazo De La Roche. First Published In Canada By Macmillan Company Of Canada In 1960--t.p. Verso. By Order Of Publication, Morning At Jalna Is The Final Book ...

When an essay is due and dreaded exams loom, this book offers students what they need to succeed. It provides chapter-by-chapter analysis, explanations of k...

An All-new Collection Of Winter-themed Mysteries From The Master Of The Genre, Just In Time For The Holidays. Reading A Perfectly Plotted Agatha Christie Is...

An English-language Rendering Of The World's Oldest Epic Follows The Journey Of Conquest And Self-discovery By The King Of Uruk, In An Edition That Includes...

Franz Kafka ; Translated From The German By Willa And Edwin Muir ; Revised, And With Additional Material Translated By E.m. Butler ; With Excerpts From Kafk...

Don your Lincoln green and prepare for merriment!What could be merrier than joining Robin Hood's band of Merry Men for adventures in the English countryside...

With an Introduction and Notes by Doreen Roberts, University of Kent at Canterbury Bleak House is one of Dickens' finest achievements, establishing his repu...