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 Neil Gaiman ,
Dave McKean (Illustrator), Nīls Geimens
After the grisly murder of his entire family, a toddler wanders into a graveyard where the ghosts and other supernatural residents agree to raise him...
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 Wally Lamb
In this extraordinary coming-of-age odyssey, Wally Lamb invites us to hitch a wild ride on a journey of love, pain, and renewal with the most...
By Chuck Palahniuk
From the author of the New York Times bestseller Choke and the cult classic Fight Club, a cunningly plotted novel about the ultimate verbal weapon,...
By Alan Bradley
It is the summer of 1950–and at the once-grand mansion of Buckshaw, young Flavia de Luce, an aspiring chemist with a passion for poison, is intrigued...
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 J.K. Rowling,
Mary GrandPré (Illustrator)
The Dursleys were so mean and hideous that summer that all Harry Potter wanted was to get back to the Hogwarts School for Witchcraft and Wizardry....
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 Ally Condie
Cassia has always trusted the Society to make the right choices for her: what to read, what to watch, what to believe.So when Xander's face appears...