Classics

one Of The Most Famous And Influential Books Of Its (or Any) Time, The Origin Of Species Is, Surprisingly, Little Read. True Enough, Most People Know What...

The novel that inspired the Lon Chaney film and the hit musical. "The wildest and most fantastic of tales."--New York Times Book Review.Categories: Literatu...

Return to the tumultuous days of the French Revolution with this captivating tale of adventure and courage. Join Harry Sandwith, a young Englishman, as he a...

THE METAMORPHOSIS (German: Die Verwandlung, also sometimes translated as The Transformation) is a novella by Franz Kafka, first published in 1915. It has be...

Presents The Unabridged Text Of Shakespeare's Classic Tragedy In Which Othello, A Moorish General, Is Led By A Jealous And Evil Ensign To Believe His Wife, ...

The Secret Passage To The House Next Door Leads To A Fascinating Adventure.Categories: Literature & FictionAction & Adventure

With an Introduction and Notes by Peter Preston, University of Nottingham The Old Curiosity Shop (1840-41), with its combination of the sentimental, the gro...

emma Is The Story Of The Eponymous Miss Woodhouse Who, Having Lost Her Close Companion Anne Taylor To Marriage, Sets Out On An Ill-fated Career Of Match-mak...

The Old Man and the Sea is one of Hemingway's most enduring works. Told in language of great simplicity and power, it is the story of an old Cuban fisherma...

The Old Man and the Sea is one of Hemingway's most enduring works. Told in language of great simplicity and power, it is the story of an old Cuban fisherma...

Widely considered one of the great American novels, Herman Melville’s masterpiece went largely unread during his lifetime and was out of print at the time...

Kim is a novel by Nobel Prize-winning English author Rudyard Kipling. It was first published serially in McClure's Magazine from December 1900 to October 19...

'There's a scarlet thread of murder running through the colourless skein of life, and our duty is to unravel it, and isolate it, and expose every inch of it...

In the fall of 1948 Hemingway spent several months in Italy on his first extended visit to that country in 30 years. His reacquaintance with Venice, a city...

Virginia Woolf's singular technique in Mrs Dalloway heralds a break with the traditional novel form and reflects a genuine humanity and a concern with the e...

during The Holocaust At The German Concentration Camp Near Plaszow, Thousands Of Jews Lost Their Lives At The Hands Of The Nazis. More Than A Thousand Othe...

Harcourt Shakespeare provides an integrated language arts approach. In selecting and completing individual activities, students discover opportunities to:De...

this Classic Of American Literature Tells The Story Of George Webber, A Rising Novelist, Who Returns To His Hometown Only To Face A Wave Of Hatred And Reje...

A graceful biography that was a #1 national bestseller, Flint & Feather confirms Charlotte Gray’s position as a master biographer, a writer with a ra...

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Recounts the travails of the Joad family as they struggle to reach California from Oklahoma during the Depression yearsCategories: Literature & FictionC...

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

This parable tells the story of an air pilot who meets a Little Prince when he has to make a forced landing in the Sahara Desert. The Little Prince tells hi...

This unusual fictional account, in good part autobiographical, narrates without self-pity and often with humor the adventures of a penniless British writer...

eleven Minutes Is The Story Of Maria, A Young Girl From A Brazilian Village, Whose First Innocent Brushes With Love Leave Her Heartbroken. At A Tender Age...

Meineck and Woodruff's new annotated translations of Sophocles' Ajax, Women of Trachis, Electra, and Philoctetes combine the same standards of accuracy, con...

Infinite Jest is the name of a movie said to be so entertaining that anyone who watches it loses all desire to do anything but watch it. People die happily...

Crossley-Holland--the widely acclaimed translator of Old English texts--introduces the Anglo-Saxons through their chronicles, laws, letters, charters, and...

Herbert Mason's best-selling Gilgamesh is the most widely read and enduring interpretation of this ancient Babylonian epic. One of the oldest and most unive...

When Alice falls down a rabbit hole and passes through a mirror, she has many odd experiencesCategories: Science Fiction & FantasyFantasy

HarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved, essential classics. 'It's a poor sort of memory that only works backward.' In Carroll's sequel t...

Presents The Classic Story Of The Orphan Pip, The Convict Magwitch, The Beautiful Estella, And Her Guardian, The Embittered Miss HavishamCategories: Literat...

A Novel About Black Americans In Florida That Centers On The Life Of Janie And Her Three Marriages. Foreword / Edwidge Danticat -- Their Eyes Were Watching ...

Physical Examination and Health Assessment provides all the information necessary to conduct a holistic health assessment across the life span. The physical...

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...

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...

Here is a portrait of greed, ambition, and squandered talent, as depicted in the lives of the very wealthy Anthony Patch and his willful wife Gloria. Cate...

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...

Book I A Fateful Haven 1 -- Book Ii How They Took The City 31 -- Book Iii Sea Wanderings And Strange Meetings 63 -- Book Iv The Passion Of The Queen 93 -- B...

Elizabeth Smart’s passionate fictional account of her intense love-affair with the poet George Barker, described by Angela Carter as ‘Like MADAME BOVAR...

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...

First published in 1899, this novel shocked readers with its open sensuality and uninhibited treatment of marital infidelity. The poignant, lyrical story o...

Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson face a mystery on the moors in this classic caper from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.The country doctor had come to 221B Baker Stre...

The year 2005 marks Ayn Rand’s Centennial Year. Ayn Rand’s classic tale of a future dark age of the great “We”—a world that deprives individuals of name, i...

Edited with an introduction and notes by David Carroll. Categories: Literature & Fiction Genre FictionPsychological

with Works By Henry James, Stephen Crane, John Cheever, James Joyce And Many Others, This Outstanding Collection Of 35 American And British Short Pieces O...

Tragic tale of star-crossed lovers, feuding families, and timeless passion contains some of Shakespeare's most beautiful and lyrical love poetry. This inexp...

folger Shakespeare Library the World's Leading Center For Shakespeare Studies each Edition Includes: • Freshly Edited Text Based On The Best Early...