By Jean M. Auel
  
  
  
            This novel of awesome beauty and power is a moving saga about people, relationships, and the boundaries of love. Through Jean M. Auel's magnificent...
  
  
            By Frances Hodgson Burnett, 
Sandra M. Gilbert (Afterword)
  
  
  
            This timeless classic is a poignant tale of Mary, a lonely orphaned girl sent to a Yorkshire mansion at the edge of a vast lonely moor. At first, she...
  
  
            By Neal Stephenson
  
  
  
            In reality, Hiro Protagonist delivers pizza for Uncle Enzo's CosoNostra Pizza Inc., but in the Metaverse he's a warrior prince. Plunging headlong...
  
  
            By Jules Verne, 
Michael Glencross (Translator, Annotations), Brian W. Aldiss (Introduction)
  
  
  
            "To go around the world...in such a short time and with the means of transport currently available, was not only impossible, it was madness"One ill-...
  
  
            By Vladimir Nabokov, 
John Ray Jr. (Preface)
  
  
  
            Awe and exhiliration--along with heartbreak and mordant wit--abound in Lolita, Nabokov's most famous and controversial novel, which tells the story...
  
  
            By Nick Hornby
  
  
  
            Will Freeman is a Peter Pan for the 1990s. At 36, the terminally hip North Londoner is unmarried, hyper-concerned with his coolness quotient, and...
  
  
            By William Shakespeare
  
  
  
            Putting romance onstage, The Tempest gives us a magician, Prospero, a former duke of Milan who was displaced by his treacherous brother, Antonio....
  
  
            By Charles Dickens, 
Joe L. Wheeler (Contributor)
  
  
  
            'If I had my way, every idiot who goes around with Merry Christmas on his lips, would be boiled with his own pudding, and buried with a stake of...
  
  
            By Donna Tartt
  
  
  
            Under the influence of their charismatic classics professor, a group of clever, eccentric misfits at an elite New England college discover a way of...
  
  
            By Jules Verne
  
  
  
            The intrepid Professor Liedenbrock embarks upon the strangest expedition of the nineteenth century: a journey down an extinct Icelandic volcano to...
  
  









