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This is the book that started it all! The basis for the smash hit Tony Award-winning Broadway musical, Gregory Maguire's breathtaking New York Times bestsel...

Relying on her intelligence and beauty as her only weapons, Tracy Whitney embarks on a personal vendetta against the untouchable crime lords who framed her ...

First published in 1914, Dubliners is an incomparable, highly individual collection of short stories. Depicting Irish middle class life in and around Dubl...

Among surviving Greek tragedies only Euripides' Trojan Women shows us the extinction of a whole city, an entire people. Despite its grim theme, or more like...

Written By The Roman Poet Virgil More Than Two Thousand Years Ago, The Story Of Aeneas' Seven-year Journey From The Ruins Of Troy To Italy, Where He Become...

Herman Melville.Categories: Teen & Young Adult Literature & FictionClassics

The only work of its kind to survive from classical antiquity, the Library of Apollodorus is a unique guide to Greek mythology, from the origins of the univ...

When Quoyle's two-timing wife meets her just deserts, he retreats with his two daughters to his ancestral home on the starkly beautiful Newfoundland coast, ...

SparkNotes Literature Guides: Making the reading experience fun! When a paper is due, and dreaded exams loom, here's the lit-crit help students need to su...

Great Expectations is widely regarded as one of the greatest novels by this acclaimed author. Our special edition of Dickens' thrilling book sparkles with ...

Set of 2 Books By Antonia S. Byatt - Possession: A Romance, Angels and Insects: Two Novellas.Categories: RomanceContemporary

Our greatest literary innovator and beloved novelist has reimagined Shakespeare's final, great play of magic and illusion. Entertaining, gripping, emotiona...

Kingsley Amis has written a marvelously funny novel describing the attempts of England's postwar generation to break from that country's traditional class s...

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

A seminal work of twentieth-century drama, Waiting for Godot was Samuel Beckett’s first professionally produced play. It opened in Paris in 1953 at th...

1889. With numerous illustrations by H.J. Ford and G.P. Jacomb Hood. While best known for his translations of classical literature and as a collector of fol...

Binx Bolling, A Young New Orleans Stockbroker, Fills His Days With Movies And Casual Sex. His Life Offers Him Nothing Worth Retaining; What He Treasures Are...

The world’s most beloved detective, Hercule Poirot—the legendary star of Agatha Christie’s Murder on the Orient Express and most recently The Monogra...

An international bestseller and the basis for a hugely successful film, Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest was one of the defining works of the 19...

Featuring A New Introduction And Afterword, This Critically Acclaimed Novel Tells The Story Of India And Its People Through The Eyes Of One Woman And Her Ex...

The Romans conquered most of the known world and detailed their conquests in calm, unapologetic histories. They were a supremely urbane people who longed p...

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 ; ...

In the Depression year of 1931, on the golf links at Krewe Island off Savannah's windswept shore, two legends of the game, Bobby Jones and Walter Hagen, mee...

Aunt Mildred Declared That No Good Could Come Of The Melbury Family Christmas Gatherings At Their Country Residence Flaxmere. So When Sir Osmond Melbury, Th...

No Fear Shakespeare gives you the complete text of Twelfth Night on the left-hand page, side-by-side with an easy-to-understand translation on the right. E...

A Narrative Account Of The 2007 New York City Marathon Interweaves The Stories Of Professional And Amateur Participants, From Great Britain's World-record H...

Painfully truthful, James Joyce's semi-autobiographical novel A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN is the coming of age story of Stephen Dedalus in the t...

They are the men of C-for-Charlie company—“Mad” 1st Sgt. Eddie Welsh, Pvt. 1st Class Don Doll, Pvt. John Bell, Capt. James Stein, Cpl. Fife, and dozen...

Naked Lunch is one of the most important novels of the twentieth century, a book that redefined not just literature but American culture. An unnerving tale...

Set sail to the heart of adventure with cabin boy, Jim Hawkins, aboard the legendary scoundrel, Captain Long John Silver. A secret treasure map becomes the...

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...

willa Cather's Masterful 1913 Novel Marks Her Return To The Nebraska Of Her Youth, And To The Stories Of The Immigrant Settlers She Had Known During Her Chi...

Frank McCourt's glorious childhood memoir, Angela's Ashes, has been loved and celebrated by readers everywhere for its spirit, its wit and its profound hum...

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 ...

In a house haunted by memories, the past is everywhere... As darkness falls, a man caught in a snowstorm is forced to shelter at the strange, grim house Wut...

ONE OF THE GREATEST AMERICAN SHORT STORY COLLECTIONS In 1955, with this short story collection, Flannery O'Connor firmly laid claim to her place as one of...

The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius offers timeless guidance for a turbulent world.Like us, Roman Emperor and philosopher Marcus Aurelius lived through a wor...

Introduction and Notes by David Blair, Rutherford College, University of Kent The Moonstone, a priceless Indian diamond which had been brought to England as...

Introduction and Notes by Keith Wren. University of Kent at Canterbury The Man in the Iron Mask is the final episode in the cycle of novels featuring Dumas ...

Vintage paperbackCategories: Literature & Fiction Genre FictionSea Stories

henry Fielding Wrote Both joseph Andrews (1742) And shamela (1741) In Response To Samuel Richardson's Book pamela (1740), Of Which shamela Is A Splendidly...

a Book—rare In Our Arid Age—that Takes Root In The Heart And Grows There For A Lifetime.Categories: Religion & Spirituality New Age & SpiritualityRe...

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...

Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, published between 1776 and 1788, is the undisputed masterpiece of English historical writing which can only p...

Wells was interested in the implications of evolutionary theory on the future of human beings at the biological, sociological, and cultural levels, and The...

One of the greatest of the classic Greek tragedies and a masterpiece of dramatic construction. Catastrophe ensues when King Oedipus discovers he has inadver...

a Critical Rethinking Of Theories Of National Imagination, the Dawn That Never Comes Offers The Most Detailed Reading To Date In English Of One Of Modern J...

Sherlock HolmesThe Complete Novels and Stories Volume II Since his first appearance in Beeton’s Christmas Annual in 1887, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherloc...