Classics

Thomas Hardy's exploration of his most tragic hero, Michael Henchard, is the classic tale of overambition. From his drunken sale of his wife and baby at a...

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

this Critical Edition Of Mann's 1912 Modernist Novella Reprints The Widely Praised Translation By David Luke. Accompanying This Text, Five Critical Essays ...

Wanted: Governess for duke's unruly childrenEdgar Rochester, Duke of Banksford, is one of the wealthiest, most powerful men in England, but when it comes t...

BRAND NEW, Exactly same ISBN as listed, Please double check ISBN carefully before ordering.Categories: Science Fiction & Fantasy FantasyAction & Adv...

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 ...

In A Society In Which Books Are Outlawed, Montag, A Regimented Fireman In Charge Of Burning The Forbidden Volumes, Meets A Revolutionary School Teacher Who ...

J.d. Salinger. Originally Published In Hardcover By Little, Brown And Company, July 1951-- T.p. Verso.Categories: Politics & Social Sciences Politics &a...

The best-known work by famed American writer Stephen Crane, The Red Badge of Courage is a compelling exploration of human emotion in the midst of battle. Re...

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...

From Its First Appearance Onward, Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn Has Been Both Praised And Condemned, Enshrined As One Of The World's Great Novels And Banne...

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...

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...

The Curse Of Mathew Maule Descends On Seven Generations Of The Inhabitants Of An Old New England House. Nathaniel Hawthorne ; Introduction By Mary Oliver. I...

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...

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...

Cesar And Nestor Castillo Move To New York From Cuba In 1949 To Form A Mambo Band, And Eventually Play On I Love Lucy. Oscar Hijuelos.Categories: Literature...

The Great American Novel of love and betrayal in the Jazz Age is now a major film. Considered one of the all-time great American works of fiction, Fitzgera...

James Weldon Johnson ; With An Introduction By Carl Van Vechten ; With An Introduction To The Vintage Edition By Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Originally Published...

The Call Of The Wild is the story of Buck, a dog stolen from his home and thrust into the merciless life of the Arctic north to endure hardship, bitter ...

What readers are saying "Whoa, Darcy!" "Some parts are hilarious and some a walk on the wild side for Austen characters. Curl up and enjoy!" "Tells the ...

The distinguished psychiatrist offers a penetrating psychoanalytic interpretation of the New England poet's life, based on an intensive study of her worksCa...

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...

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...

A collection of treasured stories by the unchallenged master of American fictionA Penguin Classic Nobel Prize winner Saul Bellow has deservedly been celebr...

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...

one Of Gabriel García Márquez's Most Intricate And Ambitious Works, the Autumn Of The Patriarch Is A Brilliant Tale Of A Caribbean Tyrant And The Corrup...

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...

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

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...

Translated by Michael Alexander. Categories: Literature & FictionAncient & Medieval Literature

The book titled, Gems from Tozer, contains various selections from A.W. Tozer and provides an up front and pointedly direct snippet of Tozer's theology. The...

Perhaps the most readable and accessible of the great works of scientific imagination, The Origin of Species sold out on the day it was published in 1859....

There is September 11 and then there are the days after, and finally the years. Falling Man is a magnificent, essential novel about the event that defines...

With Saint Joan, Shaw reached the height of his fame as a dramatist. In this magnificent play he distilled many of the ideas he had been trying to express i...

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...

Newspaperman, short-story writer, poet, and satirist, Ambrose Bierce (1842–1914) is one of the most striking and unusual literary figures America has prod...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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

The political and linguistic writings of America's leading dissident intellectual. He relates his political ideals to his theories about language. Library...

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...

A Major New TranslationThe Red and the Black, Stendhal’s masterpiece, is the story of Julien Sorel, a young dreamer from the provinces, fueled by Napoleo...

Winner of the 1961 Hugo Award for Best Novel and widely considered one of the most accomplished, powerful, and enduring classics of modern speculative fic...

The Signet Classics edition of one of William Shakespeare’s greatest tragedies.Full of cruelty and betrayal, King Lear is the timeless and timely story o...

Including The Misanthrope, The Doctor in Spite of Himself, The Miser, The Would-Be Gentleman, The Mischievous Machinations of Scapin, The Learned Woman, a...