Classics

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 ...

Mcmurphy, A Criminal Who Feigns Insanity, Is Admitted To A Mental Hospital Where He Challenges The Autocratic Authority Of The Head Nurse.Categories: Politi...

somewhere In South America, At The Home Of The Country's Vice President, A Lavish Birthday Party Is Being Held In Honor Of Mr. Hosokawa, A Powerful Japanes...

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...

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...

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...

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

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, ...

with The Publication Of Her First Novel, The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter, Carson Mccullers, All Of Twenty-three, Became A Literary Sensation. With Its Profound...

francois-marie Arouet, Known Better As Voltaire, Was Hailed As A Genius Of The Enlightenment, A Man Dissatisfied With The Religious And Superstitious Atti...

In his most famous and controversial book, Utopia, Thomas More imagines a perfect island nation where thousands live in peace and harmony, men and women are...

unique Features Of The Signet Classic Shakespeare an Extensive Overview Of Shakespeare's Life, World, And Theater By The General Editor Of The Signet Clas...

Offers An Adaptation In Graphic Novel Format Of A Modern Classic About The Globe-trotting Spiritual Journey Of A Humble Shepherd Boy. Graphic Novel Adaptati...

An Extraordinary Novel Woven Out Of The Lore Of American History By The Author Of The International Bestseller Year Of Wonders. From Louisa May Alcott's Bel...

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...

the Stunningly Powerful Novel Of Man S Will To Survive Against All Odds, By The Winner Of The 1998 Nobel Prize For Literature. a City Is Hit By An Epidemi...

English versions of Sophocles’ three great tragedies based on the myth of Oedipus, translated for a modern audience by two gifted poets. Index. ...

The Signet Classics edition of William Shakespeare's fantastical play that combines elements of tragedy and comedy.Prospero, sorcerer and rightful Duke of ...

Romeo And Juliet Are Young Lovers Separated By The Ancient And Enduring Hatred Between Their Families. This Text Includes An Essay On The Theatrical World O...

The Powerful Drama Of Willy Loman & His Tragic End. Ever Since It Was First Performed In 1949, Death Of A Salesman Has Been Recognized As A Milestone Of...

One warm 1960s summer day Robert Kincaid walks into the quaint Iowa town of Winterset to photograph its beautiful old bridges for a photo essay for Nationa...

Novelist Ivan Doig revisits the American west in the early twentieth century, bringing to life the eccentric individuals and idiosyncratic institutions tha...

Rodrigo Borgia, Pope Alexander Vi, And His Children Are At The Center Of The Passions And Intrigue That Swirls Around Fifteenth-century Rome. Mario Puzo ; C...

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,...

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...

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 ...

Esther Greenwood is at college and is fighting two battles, one against her own desire for perfection in all things - grades, boyfriend, looks, career - and...

In This Enchanting Sequel To The Number One Bestseller The Five People You Meet In Heaven, Mitch Albom Tells The Story Of Eddie’s Heavenly Reunion With An...

A historic literary event: the publication of a newly discovered novel, the earliest known work from Harper Lee, the beloved, bestselling author of the Pul...

Written during his days as a ranchman in the Dakota Bad Lands, these two wilderness tales by Theodore Roosevelt endure today as part of the classic folklor...

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 story of a young woman's confrontation with death and her past is a poetic study of human relations. Categories: Literature & Fiction Genre Ficti...

Henry Townsend, a black farmer, bootmaker, and former slave, has a fondness for Paradise Lost and an unusual mentor -- William Robbins, perhaps the most po...

From The #1 New York Times Bestselling Author Of Anathem, Reamde, And Cryptonomicon Comes An Exciting And Thought-provoking Science Fiction Epic—a Grand S...

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...

A brand-new translation of the world's greatest satirist.With a signature style that is at once bawdy and delicate, as well as a fearless penchant for lamp...

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

A New York Times Notable Book For more than a half century, Father Damien Modeste has served his beloved people, the Ojibwe, on the remote reservation of ...

Isabel Archer Is A Young, Intelligent, And Spirited American Girl, Determined To Relish Her First Experience Of Europe. Henry James ; With An Introduction A...

Shakespeare's Great Tragedy Tells Of The Lord Macbeth, Who Plots With His Wife To Assume The Throne Of Scotland By Murdering The King. Publisher's Note -- T...

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...

i Feel That I Have Spent Half My Career With One Or Another Pelican Shakespeare In My Back Pocket. Convenience, However, Is The Least Important Aspect Of T...

my Ántonia, By Willa Cather, Is Part Of The barnes & Noble Classics series, Which Offers Quality Editions At Affordable Prices To The Student And The ...

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...

The most complete collection of Greek and Roman myths specially arranged to be read aloud to children aged five to twelve. "Every child deserves this book. ...

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

This Delirious 1925 Jazz Age Classic Introduced Readers To Lorelei Lee, The Small-town Girl From Little Rock, Who Has Become One Of The Most Timeless Charac...