Classics

5 x 7.5 inches; Movie images includedCategories: Science Fiction & Fantasy FantasyEpic

Played out against the backdrop of Paris before the start of the First World War, Tarr tells the blackly comic story of the lives and loves of two artistsâ...

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant ...

In 1892, Charlotte Perkins Gilman Published Her Landmark Work, The Yellow Wall-paper, Generating Spirited Debates In Literary And Political Circles On Both ...

With a new Introduction Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for fiction, this stunning debut collection unerring charts the emotional journeys of characters seek...

Emma Woodhouse imagines that she dominates those around her in the small town of Highbury, but her inept matchmaking creates problems for herself and others...

The Big Sleep (1939) is a hardboiled crime novel by Raymond Chandler, the first in his acclaimed series about detective Philip Marlowe. The work has been a...

One of the most acclaimed novels in recent memory, The Known World is a daring and ambitious work by Pulitzer Prize winner Edward P. Jones. The Known Wor...

The Stories: A Perfect Day for Bananafish, Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut, Just Before the War with the Eskimos, The Laughing Man, Down at the Dinghy, For Esm...

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

Vivid, evocative, moving, The Stone Angel celebrates the triumph of the spirit, and reveals Margaret Laurence at the height of her powers as a writer of ex...

2017 Reprint of 1933 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition software. Pirandello began writing it in 190...

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...

Betty Weissman Loses Her Elegant New York Apartment When Her Husband Of Nearly Fifty Years Divorces Her For What He Says Are Irreconcilable Differences, But...

Having Engineered The Marriage Of The Governess, Emma Now Turns Her Attention Towards Making A Match For Mr. Elton, The Local Vicar. Emma's One Voice Of Rea...

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

Bleak House, Dickens's most daring experiment in the narration of a complex plot, challenges the reader to make connections--between the fashionable and the...

A unique anthology for crime aficionados – seven of the world’s most notorious genuine murder mysteries retold by the most accomplished classic crime w...

Narrative is an important element in our daily life and the novel is arguably the most popular genre of our times. The theory of narrative or narratology, w...

The Novel that Inspired the Now-Classic Film The Caine Mutiny and the Hit Broadway Play The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial Herman Wouk's boldly dramatic, brilli...

A space opera set on Mars by one of the twentieth century’s most brilliant—and neglected—science fiction and horror writers, whom Stephen King called ...

Frances Burney ; Edited By Stewart J. Cooke. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 488-490).Categories: Literature & Fiction History & Criticism R...

A New, Feminist Translation Of Beowulf By The Author Of The Much-buzzed-about Novel The Mere Wife Nearly Twenty Years After Seamus Heaney’s Translation Of...

The punctured throat, the coffin lid slowly opening, the unholy shriek as the stake pierces the heart—these are just a few of the chilling images Bram Sto...

Written over the course of 1904-6, Soseki's comic masterpiece, I Am a Cat, satirizes the follies of upper-middle-class Japanese society during the Meiji e...

"The story has a nightmarish excitement and maintains a brilliant pace . . . the best of its kind this season." - Detroit News "[S]pine-chilling . . . a fa...

The insightful story of how an over-protected girl becomes a self-confident young woman.Categories: Literature & FictionClassics

Caligula, An Attractive Prince, Upon The Death Of His Sister And Mistress, Tries, Through Murder And The Systematic Perversion Of All Values, To Practice A ...

The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian is now a major motion picture from Walt Disney Pictures and Walden Media. Journeys to the end of the world, fan...

Chronicles the joys and sorrows of the four March sisters as they grow into young ladies in nineteenth-century New England.Categories: Literature & Fict...

Set against the seedy backdrop of 1960s Tangier, The Wrong People (1967) is the story of Arnold Turner, a repressed English schoolmaster on holiday in Moro...

1. Alcestis / Translated By Richmond Lattimore ; Medea / Translated By Oliver Taplin ; The Children Of Heracles / Translated By Mark Griffith ; Hippolytus /...

A timeless selection of brilliant short stories that won William Saroyan a position among the foremost, most widely popular writers of America when it firs...

Sy Levin, A High School Teacher Beset By Alcohol And Bad Decisions, Leaves New York For The Pacific Northwest To Start Over, Imagining That An Extraordinary...

a Western Story Set In A Small Town In Nebraska On 'the Rim Of The Prairie.' The Characters Include A Tantalizing Heroine Made More Attractive By A Hint Of ...

By Victor Bockris. Includes Index. Bibliography: P. 357-358.Categories: Literature & FictionClassics

Eight masterful stories by noted naturalist offer blend of scientific observation and romanticism. Memorable characters include Old Lobo, the leader of a ...

A Reprint Of The Ancient Greek Epic With An Introduction Giving The Background To The Times, Viz. The Ceremonies Of Civilization Do Not Mean Much To Us Toda...

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...

“A pure delight . . . Romantic, poignant, and spellbinding.”— REBECCA ROSS, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Divine Rivals“Fiercely feminist ...

After more than two years on the bestseller lists and over four million copies in print, Khaled Hosseini returns with a beautiful, riveting, and haunting n...

it Is A Very Short List Of 20th-century American Plays That Continue To Have The Same Power And Impact As When They First Appeared—57 Years After Its Bro...

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...

The public too often hears about a new life-saving therapy, only to be told that the treatment won’t be available for many years. The Life Extension Found...

In Homer’s account in The Odyssey, Penelope--wife of Odysseus and cousin of the beautiful Helen of Troy--is portrayed as the quintessential faithful wife,...

the Stunningly Powerful Novel Of Man S Will To Survive Against All Odds, By The Winner Of The 1998 Nobel Prize For Literature. a City Is Hit By An Epidemi...

journeys To The End Of The World, Fantastic Creatures, And Epic Battles Between Good And Evil — What More Could Any Reader Ask For In One Book? The Book T...

Tom Sawyer is a sure-'nuff rascal who gets into trouble & wriggles out again. He's the all-American kid part pirate, part hero, part treasure seeker, pa...