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Booker Prize—winning novelist Penelope Lively's latest masterpiece opens with a snapshot: Kath, before her death, at an unknown gathering, holding hands w...

Paris In The Twentieth Century Is A Science Fiction Novel By Jules Verne. The Book Presents Paris In August 1960, 97 Years In Verne's Future, Where Society ...

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...

Following the tremendous popular success of Jane Eyre, which earned her lifelong notoriety as a moral revolutionary, Charlotte Brontë vowed to write a swee...

In his second collection of stories, as in his first, Carver's characters are peripheral people—people without education, insight or prospects, people to...

Now A Netflix Film Starring Lily James, Armie Hammer, And Kristin Scott Thomas Last Night I Dreamt I Went To Manderley Again... With These Words, The Reader...

Right from the start, Bigger Thomas had been headed for jail. It could have been for assault or petty larceny; by chance, it was for murder and rape. Native...

Clare Kendry leads a dangerous life. Fair, elegant, and ambitious, she is married to a white man unaware of her African American heritage, and has severed...

Achilles, "the best of all the Greeks," son of the cruel sea goddess Thetis and the legendary king Peleus, is strong, swift, and beautiful— irresistible ...

Winner of the academy of American Poets 1991 Landon Translation Award, this masterful new verse translation of Homer's classic story of the Trojan War has ...

One Of The Most Original American Writers, Edgar Allan Poe Shaped The Development Of Both The Detective Story And The Science-fiction Story. Some Of His Poe...

A Tale Inspired By The Life Of Louisa May Alcott's Youngest Sister Finds Young May Longing To Study Art Outside Of The Confines Of Her Concord Home Before T...

This is the story of a college professor and his family whose small Midwestern town is evacuated after an industrial accident. . . . Jack Gladney is a profe...

Steppenwolf, by Hermann HesseCategories: Literature & FictionClassics

In her sixteenth chronicle of the medieval monk-detective Brother Cadfael, Ellis Peters throws a variety of puzzles at her hero. In the summer of 1143, Brot...

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

a Fully Restored American Political Classic. . . . Now We Can Read It As It Was Written.—chicago Tribune winner Of The 1947 Pulitzer Prize, all The King's...

The Man in the High CastleCategories: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense Thrillers & Suspense Spies & PoliticsEspionage

Overview: The Remains Of The Day Is A Profoundly Compelling Portrait Of The Perfect English Butler And Of His Fading, Insular World Postwar England. At The ...

Pretty, impecunious Mary Preston, newly arrived as a guest of her Aunt Agnes at the magnificent wooded estate of Rushwater, falls head over heels for handso...

When Mario Puzo's blockbuster saga, The Godfather, was first published in 1969, critics hailed it as one of the greatest novels of our time, and "big, turbu...

From Achilles's heel to the sword of Damocles, Western culture teems with allusions from the rich heritage of classical literature, and this new edition o...

MEN AGAINST THE SEA is the epic story of the 19 loyal men who, with Captain Bligh at the helm, were set adrift in a 23-foot open launch. Their 3,600-mile v...

This portrait of a modern-day hero is the story of Moses Herzog, a great sufferer, joker, moaner and charmer. Although his life has disintegrated around him...

Jack Kerouac.Categories: Literature & Fiction Ancient & Medieval LiteratureGreek

The Complete Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm Perhaps no other stories possess as much power to enchant, delight, and surprise as those penned by the imm...

The “Guermantes Way,” in this the third volume of In Search of Lost Time, refers to the path that leads to the Duc and Duchess de Guermantes’s châte...

This collection, unique to the Modern Library, gathers seven of Dostoevsky's key works and shows him to be equally adept at the short story as with the nov...

Written during his days as a ranchman in the Dakota Bad Lands, these two wilderness tales by Theodore Roosevelt endure today as part of the classic folklor...

this Is The Story Of Brida, A Young Irish Girl, And Her Quest For Knowledge. She Has Long Been Interested In Various Aspects Of Magic But Is Searching For...

1980 'Baker House' facsimile of original un-dated 1900 ca edition.Categories: Politics & Social Sciences Social Sciences Cultural & Ethnic Studies I...

In the final book of J.R.R. Tolkien's three-volume epic, The Lord of the Rings, the courageous hobbit Frodo Baggins completes his heroic quest.Categories: S...

while The Evil Might Of The Dark Lord Sauron Swarmed Out To Conquer All Middle-earth, Frodo And Sam Struggled Deep Into Mordor, Seat Of Sauron's Power. To ...

with The Publication Of Her First Novel, The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter, Carson Mccullers, All Of Twenty-three, Became A Literary Sensation. With Its Profound...

Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1880) by Lew Wallace is one of the most popular and beloved 19th century American novels. This faithful New Testament tale c...

In The Bible, Enoch Is The Nane Of Four Persons. The First Is The Oldest Son Of Cain (gen. 4:17); The Second, The Son Of Jared (gen. 5:18); The Third, The S...

one Of The Great Masterworks Of Science Fiction, The Foundation Novels Of Isaac Asimov Are Unsurpassed For Their Unique Blend Of Nonstop Action, Daring Id...

From an orphan with a clubfoot, Philip Carey grows into an impressionable young man with a voracious appetite for adventure and knowledge. Then he falls ob...

Generally believed to be the last play written solely by Shakespeare, The Tempest centers on a banished noble who uses sorcery to confront his foes. In thi...

From the opening line--"Captain Ahab was neither my first husband nor my last"--you will know that you are in the hands of a masterful storyteller and in t...

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...

Contains Shakespeare's Play Involving Young Athenian Lovers, A Boisterous Group Of Local Tradesmen, And The Monarchs And Subjects Of The Fairy Kingdom; And ...

Of the two hundred stories that Anton Chekhov wrote, the twenty stories that appear in this extraordinary collection were personally chosen by Richard Ford...

Introduction and Notes by Norman Vance, Professor of English, University of Sussex Jude Fawley is a rural stone mason with intellectual aspirations. Frustra...

carroll's Classic Stories Reunited With Peake's Celebrated Illustrations, Restored To Their Original Glory And For The First Time In One Paperback Edition...

Nella Larsen’s fascinating exploration of race and identity—the inspiration for the Netflix film directed by Rebecca Hall, starring Tessa Thompson and R...

Marian Forrester is the symbolic flower of the Old American West. She draws her strength from that solid foundation, bringing delight and beauty to her eld...

Enjoy Agatha Christie's Beloved Classic, Hallowe'en Party--the Inspiration For The Major Motion Picture A Haunting In Venice, Coming September 2023, Directe...