By Bernhard Schlink,
Carol Brown Janeway (translator)
Hailed for its coiled eroticism and the moral claims it makes upon the reader, this mesmerizing novel is a story of love and secrets, horror and...
By Janet Fitch
Everywhere hailed as a novel of rare beauty and power, White Oleander tells the unforgettable story of Ingrid, a brilliant poet imprisoned for murder...
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 Tom Wolfe
Sherman McCoy, the central figure of Tom Wolfe's first novel, is a young investment banker with a fourteen-room apartment in Manhattan. When he is...
By Sarah Waters
No one and nothing is as it seems in this Dickensian novel of thrills and reversals. Sue Trinder is an orphan, left as an infant in the care of Mrs....
By Annie Proulx
At thirty-six, Quoyle, a third-rate newspaperman, is wrenched violently out of his workaday life when his two-timing wife meets her just deserts. He...
By Edith Wharton
Literary Thoughts editionpresentsEthan Fromeby Edith Wharton------"Ethan Frome" is a novel written in 1911 by Pulitzer Prize-winning American...
By F. Scott Fitzgerald,
Amor Towles (Introduction)
Set on the French Riviera in the late 1920s, Tender Is the Night is the tragic romance of the young actress Rosemary Hoyt and the stylish American...
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...