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When Elizabeth Bennet first met Mr. Darcy, she found him proud, distant, and rude—despite the other ladies' admiration of his estate in Derbyshire and ten ...

In The Second Of The Barsetshire Novels, We Are Introduced To The Ineffectual New Bishop Of Barchester And His Wife. Through Trollope's Gift Of Portraying T...

The Signet Classics edition of William Shakespeare's comedic play about two enduring human illusions—the dream of a simple life and the ideal of romantic...

In An Era In Which Journalists Will Stop At Nothing To Break A Story, Henrich Ḇll's The Lost Honor Of Katharina Blum Has Taken On Heightened Relevance. A ...

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...

It is 1998, the year in which America is whipped into a frenzy of prurience by the impeachment of a president, and in a small New England town, an aging cla...

Canada’s answer to Mark Twain and Charles Dickens, Stephen Leacock was a master of humor and characterization.Categories: Literature & FictionClassics

Young Billy Bathgate witnesses atrocities of the crime world in his introduction to a brutal and unsparing life that takes him through the heart of the city...

Timeless in its evocation of idealized family life and robustly enduring, Little Women is recognized as one of the best-loved classic children's stories of...

When Dorothy Triumphed Over The Wicked Witch Of The West In L. Frank Baum's Classic Tale, We Heard Only Her Side Of The Story. But What About Her Arch-nemes...

published In 1853, Bleak House Is One Of Dickens' Most Mature And Ambitious Novels. From London's Slums To The Court Of Chancery, Where The Endless Case O...

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...

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...

Enjoy Agatha Christie's beloved classic, Hallowe'en Party--the inspiration for the major motion picture A Haunting in Venice, coming September 2023, direc...

"All the King's Men" is considered the finest novel ever written on American politics. Set in the 1930s, this book traces the rise and fall of Willie Stark,...

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...

My Ántonia evokes the Nebraska prairie life of Willa Cather's childhood, and commemorates the spirit and courage of immigrant pioneers in America. One of C...

Hugh MacLennan's first novel is a compelling romance set against the horrors of wartime and the catastrophic Halifax Explosion of December 6, 1917, now ava...

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

Wilkie Collins ; Introduction By Carolyn G. Heilbrun ; Notes By Chris Willis. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [483]-494).Categories: Science Fiction...

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, ...

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...

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...

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...

Called a 'perfect novel' by Harold Bloom, Persuasion was written while Jane Austen was in failing health. She died soon after its completion, and it was pu...

In his nearly thirty years of teaching leadership, John Maxwell has encountered this question again and again: How do I apply leadership principles if I'm n...

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...

Set in England and Hong Kong in the 1920s, The Painted Veil is the story of the beautiful but love-starved Kitty Fane. When her husband discovers her adul...

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...

From The New York Times Bestselling Author Kristin Hannah Comes A Powerful Novel Of Love, Loss, And The Magic Of Friendship. . . . In The Turbulent Summer O...

Janie Crawford, A Southern Black Woman In The 1930's, Journeys From Being A Free-spirited Girl To A Woman Of Independence And Substance. Plot Overview -- Ch...

Winner of the Pulitzer PrizeMovie Tie-in EditionWhen All the King's Men was first published in 1946, Sinclair Lewis pronounced it "massive, impressive...one...

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For a global war one needs a global family, and Pug Henry's circle of relatives, friends, lovers expands in this book to meet the need. Those who lived thro...

Depicting the fatal clash between material desires and the liberating power of human passions, Honoré de Balzac's Eugénie Grandet is translated with an intr...

The novel that changed the course of American historyPublished in 1852, Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel was a powerful indictment of slavery in America. Desc...

The Little Prince Discovers The Secrets Of Friendship While Traveling Through The Universe.Categories: Teen & Young Adult Literature & Fiction Socia...

Penguin Books reintroduces the timeless story of the love affair between a British artist and a Chinese prostitute. Robert is t he only resident of the Nam...

This Norton Critical Edition reprints the authoritative Wesleyan text of Joseph Andrews, edited by Martin Battestin. An accurate text of Shamela (Fielding...

Stirringly told from the view of everyday soldiers, Covenant with Death is acclaimed as one of the greatest novels about war ever written. With a new forew...

The story opens in 1906 in New Rochelle, New York, at the home of an affluent American family. One lazy Sunday afternoon, the famous escape artist Harry Hou...

in Gulliver's Travels, The Narrator Represents Himself As A Reliable Reporter Of The Fantastic Adventures He Has Just Experienced. But How Far Can We Rely...

In the 1940s, the Golden Age of science fiction flowered in the magazine Astounding. Editor John W. Campbell, Jr., discovered and promoted great new writer...

Stories, poems, articles, and reviews by the American humorist reveal the range of her wit and satireCategories: Literature & Fiction United StatesClass...

accounts Of Thoreau's Daily Life On The Shores Of Walden Pond Outside Concord, Massachusetts, Are Interwoven With Musings On The Virtues Of Self-reliance ...

It Is A Sunny Summer Sunday In A Remote Swiss Village, And A Christening Is Being Celebrated At A Lovely Old Farmhouse. One Of The Guests Notes An Anomaly I...

Elizabeth Gaskell, one of the nineteenth century’s most significant novelists, was widely held to be the social conscience of Great Britain during the Indus...

our Town Was First Produced And Published In 1938 To Wide Acclaim. This Pulitzer Prize–winning Drama Of Life In The Town Of Grover's Corners, An Allegoric...