Classics

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...

From the author of Cry, The Beloved Country comes a powerful novel of terror and remorse “written in exquisitely balanced prose” (Chicago Sun-Times) abo...

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,...

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...

Newland Archer Begins To Question The Values Of High Society In Victorian New York When He Finds Himself Torn Between Two Very Different Women--his Proper Y...

A ne'er-do-well exploits his gentle daughter's beauty for social advancement in Thomas Hardy's compelling masterpiece of tragic fiction. Nann Blaine Hilya...

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...

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...

First published in 1844, Alexandre Dumas's swashbuckling epic chronicles the adventures of D'Artagnan, a gallant young nobleman who journeys to Paris in 162...

This riveting tale of mistaken identities, surprise revelations, locked rooms, and an unorthodox villain has enthralled readers since first published more...

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

“The Uncle Tom’s Cabin of wage slavery.” —Jack London. Sinclair’s masterpiece is an honest, sometimes brutal, tour de force that opened Americaâ€...

"I have written about the joys of love. I have, in my secret heart, long dreamt of an intimate connection with a man; every Jane, I believe, deserves her R...

Wharton's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel set in upper class New York City. Newland Archer, gentleman lawyer and heir to one of New York City's best families, ...

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...

Small masterpiece set the pattern for the treatment of war in modern fiction. Amid the nightmarish chaos of a Civil War battle, a young soldier discovers c...

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...

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...

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...

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

Henry James ; With A Preface By The Author ; Introduction By Amy Bloom ; Notes By Pierre A. Walker (salem State College).Categories: Literature & Fictio...

This Edition Explores Crane's Work From A Fresh Critical Perspective And Introduces New Research On The Imaginative Relationship Between Crane's Novel And T...

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

“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...

Diamond Head, Hawaii, 1941.  Pvt. Robert E. Lee Prewitt is a champion welterweight and a fine bugler.  But when he refuses to join the company's boxing te...

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 ...

Tom Sawyer, a shrewd and adventurous boy, is as much at home in the respectable world of his Aunt Polly as in the self-reliant and parentless world of his f...

twenty-three-year-old Veronika Seems To Have Everything She Could Wish For. She Goes To Popular Night Spots, Dates Attractive Men, And Has A Caring Family...

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...

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. ...

Franz Kafka ; Translated From The German By Willa And Edwin Muir ; Revised, And With Additional Material Translated By E.m. Butler ; With Excerpts From Kafk...

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

The Norton Critical Edition of this influential Harlem Renaissance novel includes related materials available in no other edition. Known only as the “Ex-...

The Tranquility Of Mars Is Disrupted By The Earthmen Who Have Come To Conquer Space, Colonize The Planet, And Escape A Doomed Earth. 8 Books (268 P. ; 20 Cm...

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...

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 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...

the Basis For The Famous Pbs Television Series Starring Jeremy Irons And Anthony Andrews, Evelyn Waugh's Bestselling Classic Is Now Available As An Ebook. ...

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...

Released by Louisiana State University Press in April 1980, A Confederacy of Dunces is nothing short of a publishing phenomenon. Turned down by countless p...

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...

F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote in a friend's copy of Tender Is the Night, If you liked The Great Gatsby, for God's sake read this. Gatsby was a tour de force b...

Set In Porter's Native Texas And Her Beloved Mexico, Prewar Nazi Germany And The Gothic Old South, These Are Stories Of Love, Outrage, Betrayal, And Spiritu...

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...

The Story Of John, A Fourteen-year-old Boy Whose Stepfather Is A Pentecostal Minister In Harlem In 1935, As He Struggles To Discover His Own Identity. Pt. 1...

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

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...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER Named a Best Book of the Year by: Time * Kirkus Reviews * USA Today * Entertainment Weekly * Garden & Gun * Vox * Atlanta Journal-...