Classics

A community devoured by greed, cowardice and fear. A man persecuted by the ghosts of his painful past. A young woman searching for happiness. In one eventf...

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 ...

Story Of A Black Lady Born Into Slavery On A Louisiana Plantation, Freed At The End Of The Civil War, Who Lives For One-hundred More Years. Ernest J. Gaines...

Jailbird takes us into a fractured and comic, pure Vonnegut world of high crimes and misdemeanors in government—and in the heart. This wry tale follows bu...

An allegorical story of World War I set in the trenches in France and dealing ostensibly with a mutiny in a French regiment. Winne...

A Devoutly Christian Slave Becomes Separated From His Wife And Family When He Is Sold To The Brutal Planter, Simon Legree. Harriet Beecher Stowe ; Introduct...

Written In 1921, We Is Set In The One State, Where All Live For The Collective Good And Individual Freedom Does Not Exist. The Novel Takes The Form Of The D...

Now, 25 years after it first took the world by storm, Colleen McCullough's sweeping family saga of dreams, titanic struggles, dark passions, and forbidden l...

When The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter was published in 1940, Carson McCullers was instantly recognized as one of the most promising writers of her generation. T...

Presents A Collection Of Both Familiar And Many Unfamiliar Short Stories, Including The Private Life, A Round Of Visits, And The Turn Of The Screw. V. 1. 18...

Set in Mississippi during the Civil War and Reconstruction, THE UNVANQUISHED focuses on the Sartoris family, who, with their code of personal responsibilit...

Catch-22 is like no other novel we have ever read. It has its own style, its own rationale, its own extraordinary character. It moves back and forth from h...

() Contents of Volume 1 A Landscape-Painter A Light Man A Passionate Pilgrim The Madonna of the Future Madame de Mauves Benvolio Daisy Miller: A Study An...

Superb novel deals with the consequences of amoral hedonism in the story of a man who tries to rise above good and evil and give free rein to his passions. ...

Frankie Addams, A Motherless Twelve-year-old Raised By Her Father And The Family's African-american Cook, Struggles With Conflicting Feelings About Her Brot...

First published in Paris in 1955 and originally banned in America, J. P. Donleavy's first novel is now recognized the world over as a masterpiece and a mod...

When It Was First Produced In 1959, A Raisin In The Sun Was Awarded The New York Drama Critics Circle Award For That Season And Hailed As A Watershed In Ame...

In 1937 Ernest Hemingway traveled to Spain to cover the civil war there for the North American Newspaper Alliance. Three years later he completed the grea...

The Dangerous Summer is Hemingway's firsthand chronicle of a brutal season of bullfights. In this vivid account, Hemingway captures the exhausting pace an...

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...

This is the dramatic, brutal story of Harry Morgan and his efforts to support his family by running contraband between Key West and Cuba. Set in the 1930s,...

The complete text of Faulkner’s third novel, published for the first time in 1973, appeared with his reluctant consent in a much cut version in 1929 as Sa...

In Order To Save A Nurse Convicted Of Murder, Temple Stevens Decides To Confess That She Killed Her Own Daughter. William Faulkner. Orignally Published: New...

No home library is complete without the classics! Persuasion is a keepsake to be read and treasured.Published in 1818, Persuasion was Jane Austen’s last c...

Robert Louis Stevenson’s rousing seafaring classic.“Fifteen men on a dead man’s chest—Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!” For sheer storytelling deli...

In the ninth century b.c., the Phoenician princess Jezebel orders the execution of all the prophets who refuse to worship the pagan god Baal. Commanded by ...

This thoroughly readable collection of Malory's famous stories of King Arthur includes the familiar legends, plots, exploits, and characters which have be...

The Unforgettable Novel Of A Childhood In A Sleepy Southern Town And The Crisis Of Conscience That Rocked It, To Kill A Mockingbird Became Both An Instant B...

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 Tale Of Adolescence Whose Hero Is Charlie, A High School Freshman In Pennsylvania. The Novel Follows Charlie As He Is Introduced To Love, Literature And P...

Fall in love with one of the bestselling novels of all time -- the legendary love story that became a beloved film starring Clint Eastwood and Meryl Streep...

No other work of Dickens presents so harsh an indictment against the attitude of life he associated with Utilitarianism. With savage bitterness Dickens exp...

From one of today’s foremost scholars, a lively retelling of the timeless tales… Here are the myths that have influenced so much of our cultural herit...

When It Was First Produced In 1959, A Raisin In The Sun Was Awarded The New York Drama Critics Circle Award For That Season And Hailed As A Watershed In Ame...

An adventurous story of a frontier boy raised by Indians, The Light in the Forest is a beloved American classic.When John Cameron Butler was a child, he wa...

Part One Of Two Parts Eugene Gant yearns to escape his tumultuous family and his small North Carolina town. Gant's experiences mirror Wolfe's, but transfo...

The World's Bestselling Mystery "Ten . . ." Ten strangers are lured to an isolated island mansion off the Devon coast by a mysterious "U.N. Owen." "Ni...

Now, 25 years after it first took the world by storm, Colleen McCullough's sweeping family saga of dreams, titanic struggles, dark passions, and forbidden l...

High in the pine forests of the Spanish Sierra, a guerrilla band prepares to blow up a vital bridge. Robert Jordan, a young American volunteer, has been sen...

Homeric Hymns with illustrations. Translated by Charles Boer.Categories: Literature & Fiction Poetry Ancient, Classical & MedievalAncient & Clas...

When the naive David Balfour sets out on his quest for a long-lost relative, a terrifying chain of events is set in motion. He is plunged into a world of i...

This dramatic exposi of the Chicago meat-packing industry prompted an investigation by Theodore Roosevelt which culminated in the pure-food legislation of...

With an Introduction and Notes by David Herd. Lecturer in English and American Literature at the University of Kent at Canterbury Moby-Dick is the story of ...

The author writes: FRANNY came out in The New Yorker in 1955, and was swiftly followed, in 1957 by ZOOEY. Both stories are early, critical entries in a na...

a Classic Work That Has Charmed Generations Of Readers, This Collection Assembles Carson Mccullers’s Best Stories, Including Her Beloved Novella “the Ball...

The Bell Jar is Sylvia Plath's only novel. Renowned for its intensity and outstandingly vivid prose, it broke existing boundaries between fiction and reali...

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...

“Once upon a time, many years ago, when true love walked hand in hand with kisses and promises, and decisions were made to last forever, two girls receiv...