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The Metamorphosis
By Franz Kafka
The Metamorphosis, first published in 1915, is the most famous of Kafka's works, along with The Trial and The Castle. The story begins when a...
The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary
By Simon Winchester
The Professor and the Madman, masterfully researched and eloquently written, is an extraordinary tale of madness, genius, and the incredible...
Orlando
By Virginia Woolf
An alternative cover edition exists here. In her most exuberant, most fanciful novel, Woolf has created a character liberated from the restraints of...
The Prince and the Pauper
By Mark Twain, Everett H. Emerson (Afterword)
This treasured historical satire, played out in two very different socioeconomic worlds of 16th-century England, centers around the lives of two boys...
Cat's Cradle
By Kurt Vonnegut
Alternate cover for this ISBN can be found hereCat's Cradle, one of Vonnegut's most entertaining novels, is filled with scientists and G-men and even...
The Complete Works
By William Shakespeare
Jane Eyre
By Charlotte Brontë, Stevie Davies (Editor/Introduction)
A gothic masterpiece of tempestuous passions and dark secrets, Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre is edited with an introduction and notes by Stevie Davis...
The Decameron
By Giovanni Boccaccio, G.H. McWilliam (Editor, Translator, Introduction), L.A.J. Burgersdijk (Editor)
The Decameron (c.1351) is an entertaining series of one hundred stories written in the wake of the Black Death. The stories are told in a country...
1984
By George Orwell, Erich Fromm (Afterword)
1984 has come and gone, but George Orwell's prophetic, nightmarish vision in 1949 of the world we were becoming is timelier than ever. 1984 is still...
Lord of the Flies
By William Golding, E.L. Epstein (afterword)
Librarian's note: Alternate cover editions can be found here, here, here and here.When a plane crashes on a remote island, a small group of...