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In his journal, John Steinbeck called East of Eden "the first book," and indeed it has the primordial power and simplicity of myth. Set in the rich farmlan...

J.R.R. Tolkien's classic prelude to his Lord of the Rings trilogy Bilbo Baggins is a hobbit who enjoys a comfortable, unambitious life, rarely traveling an...

before He Was A World-renowned Children's Book Writer, Roald Dahl Was A Master Of Short Stories For Adults. The Eleven Tales Collected Here Represent His ...

Before there was Dracula, there was Varney the Vampyre, the most famous of the sensational penny dreadfuls issued by Victorian-era publishers. Printed anony...

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...

As The Boundaries Between Worlds Begin To Dissolve, Lyra And Her Daemon Help Will Parry In His Search For His Father And For A Powerful, Magical Knife. Phil...

frodo Baggins Knew The Ringwraiths Were Searching For Him—and The Ring Of Power He Bore That Would Enable Sauran To Destroy All That Was Good In Middle-ea...

The must-have Pevear and Volokhonsky translation of one of the greatest Russian novels ever written, soon to be a film adapted by Tom Stoppard and starring ...

HIS DARK MATERIALS IS NOW AN HBO ORIGINAL SERIES STARRING DAFNE KEEN, RUTH WILSON, JAMES McAVOY, AND LIN-MANUEL MIRANDA!The modern fantasy classic that Ent...

In This Spirited Comedy Of Manners Catherine Morland, A Plain, Unspoiled Small-town Girl On Holiday In Bath, Meets And Falls In Love With Henry Tilney, A Ha...

Harpercollins Is Proud To Present Its New Range Of Best-loved, Essential Classics. 'there Is No Greater Sorrow Then To Recall Our Times Of Joy In Wretchedne...

today, Nearly Forty Years After His Death, Nobel Prize Winner John Steinbeck Remains One Of America's Greatest Writers And Cultural Figures. Over The Next...

In 2000 Harcourt proudly reissued Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's masterpiece, The Little Prince, in a sparkling new format. Newly translated by Pulitzer Prize-...

Herman Melville.Categories: Teen & Young Adult Literature & FictionClassics

'i Set Out Deliberately To Write A Tour-de-force. Before I Ever Put Pen To Paper And Set Down The First Word I Knew What The Last Word Would Be And Almost ...

SparkNotes Literature Guides: Making the reading experience fun! When a paper is due, and dreaded exams loom, here's the lit-crit help students need to su...

The award-winning story of the end of innocence follows the idyllic first romance between Katherine and Michael to its bitter conclusion in a summer separat...

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...

The story opens with the shipwreck on a Pacific Island of the young friends Ralph Rover and Jack Martin and Peterkin Gray. Despite the pleasurable presence ...

An international bestseller and the basis for a hugely successful film, Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest was one of the defining works of the 19...

A textbook reader for young adults features Chinua Achebe's "Things Fall Apart," plus short stories, poems, and essays designed to build reading comprehensi...

Two intrepid girls hunt for a legendary treasure on the deadly high seas in this YA remix of the classic adventure novelTreasure Island. 1826. The sun is ...

Eleven-year-old Adam loved to travel throughout thirteenthcentury England with his father, a wandering minstrel, and his dog, Nick. But when Nick is stolen...

jack London Became One Of, And Perhaps The Most Successful Writer Of The Turn Of The 20th Century. Fifty-one Of His Books, Innumerous Articles And Short St...

Meg Murry And Her Friends Become Involved With Unearthly Strangers And A Search For Meg's Father, Who Has Disappeared While Engaged In Secret Work For The G...

Nicholas Nickleby, his mother and sister Kate are left penniless upon the death of his father. Around the central story of Nicholas and the misfortunes of ...

“It is a truth universally acknowledged that a zombie in possession of brains must be in want of more brains.” So begins Pride and Prejudice and Zom...

Each book in this established series contains the full and complete text, and is designed to motivate and encourage students who may be writing on these c...

all Summer, Jess Pushed Himself To Be The Fastest Boy In The Fifth Grade, And When The Year's First School-yard Race Was Run, He Was Going To Win.but His ...

Living In A Perfect World Without Social Ills, A Boy Approaches The Time When He Will Receive A Life Assignment From The Elders, But His Selection Leads Him...

all Summer, Jess Pushed Himself To Be The Fastest Boy In The Fifth Grade, And When The Year's First School-yard Race Was Run, He Was Going To Win.but His ...

A Journey Through A Land Where Milo Learns The Importance Of Words And Numbers Provides A Cure For His Boredom. Milo -- Beyond Expectations -- Welcome To Di...

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...

he Trains My Hands For War, So That My Arms Can Bend A Bow Of Bronze. –from The Song Of David (2 Samuel 22:35) the Bronze Bow, Written By Elizabeth George...

celebrating Sixty Years Of Essential Wisdom From The Little Prince And His Friends With An Elegant, Collectible Gift Edition publishers Weekly young Osmen...

Accompanied By Her Daemon, Lyra Belacqua Sets Out To Prevent Her Best Friend And Other Kidnapped Children From Becoming The Subject Of Gruesome Experiments ...

a Fully Restored American Political Classic. . . . Now We Can Read It As It Was Written.—chicago Tribune winner Of The 1947 Pulitzer Prize, all The King's...

The “Guermantes Way,” in this the third volume of In Search of Lost Time, refers to the path that leads to the Duc and Duchess de Guermantes’s châte...

This collection, unique to the Modern Library, gathers seven of Dostoevsky's key works and shows him to be equally adept at the short story as with the nov...

while The Evil Might Of The Dark Lord Sauron Swarmed Out To Conquer All Middle-earth, Frodo And Sam Struggled Deep Into Mordor, Seat Of Sauron's Power. To ...

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...

With a new Beauty and the Beast movie hitting theaters in Spring 2017, it’s time to catch up on all things Beastly. Find out what it was like for the bea...

A smart and terrifying teen horror novel inspired by Agatha Christie’s And Then There Were None, from Get Even author Gretchen McNeil—now a Lifetime Or...

The Youngest Of The Murry Children Must Travel Through Time And Space In A Battle Against An Evil Dictator Who Would Destroy The Entire Universe. In This Fa...

aesop, An Ancient Greek Poet Who Was Sold Into Slavery In The Early Sixth Century B.c, Relied On Animal Stories To Convey His Key Points To His Masters In...

Celebrate Little House, available once again with the classic Garth Williams artwork gracing the covers and black–and–white interiors. Naomi Butler - Chil...

Little Women is one of the best-loved children's stories of all time, based on the author's own youthful experiences. It describes the family life of the fo...

Herbert Mason's best-selling Gilgamesh is the most widely read and enduring interpretation of this ancient Babylonian epic. One of the oldest and most unive...