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 C.S. Lewis,
Pauline Baynes (Illustrations)
The last battle is the greatest battle of all. Narnia... where lies breed fear... where loyalty is tested... where all hope seems lost. During the...
By William Shakespeare,
Barbara A. Mowat (Editor), Paul Werstine (Editor), Catherine Belsey (Contributor)
Shakespeare's intertwined love polygons begin to get complicated from the start--Demetrius and Lysander both want Hermia but she only has eyes for...
By William Faulkner
“I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire. . . . I give it to you not that you may remember time, but that you might forget it now and then...
By Jonathan Safran Foer
A young man arrives in the Ukraine, clutching in his hand a tattered photograph. He is searching for the woman who fifty years ago saved his...
By Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley,
Percy Bysshe Shelley (contributor), Maurice Hindle (Editor, Introduction)
Mary Shelley began writing Frankenstein when she was only eighteen. At once a Gothic thriller, a passionate romance, and a cautionary tale about the...
By Diana Gabaldon
The year is 1771, and war is coming. Jamie Fraser’s wife tells him so. Little as he wishes to, he must believe it, for hers is a gift of dreadful...
By Charles Dickens,
Richard Maxwell (Editor/Introduction), Saniye Güven, Sevil İnan Sönmez (Translator)
'Liberty, equality, fraternity, or death; -- the last, much the easiest to bestow, O Guillotine!'
After eighteen years as a political prisoner in the...
By Bill Bryson
In Bryson's biggest book, he confronts his greatest challenge: to understand—and, if possible, answer—the oldest, biggest questions we have posed...
By Ovid,
David Raeburn (Translation), Denis Feeney (Contributor)
Prized through the ages for its splendor and its savage, sophisticated wit, The Metamorphoses is a masterpiece of Western culture--the first attempt...