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Early novels and stories : Early Novels and Stories
by James Baldwin
A collection of stories penned by one of the greatest African-American writers of the postwar era includes such works as Go Tell It on the Mountain, Giovanni's Room, Another Country, and Going to Meet the Man.
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Complete stories
by Kurt Vonnegut
A complete volume of the 20th century literary master's short fiction is organized thematically under such headers as "War," "Women" and "Fortune" and includes five previously unpublished stories as well as several that were published only online.
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The Brothers Karamazov : a novel in four parts and an epilogue
by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The murder of brutal landowner Fyodor Karamazov changes the lives of his sons irrevocably- Mitya, the sensualist, whose bitter rivalry with his father immediately places him under suspicion for parricide; Ivan, the intellectual, driven to breakdown; the spiritual Alyosha, who tries to heal the family's rifts; and the shadowy figure of their bastard half-brother, Smerdyakov. Dostoyevsky's dark masterwork evokes a world where the lines between innocence and corruption, good and evil, blur, and everyone's faith in humanity is tested.
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Crime and punishment
by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Raskolnikov, a destitute and desperate former student, commits a random murder, imagining himself to be a great man far above moral law. But as he embarks on a cat-and-mouse game with police, his conscience begins to torment him and he seeks sympathy andredemption from Sonya, a downtrodden prostitute
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A farewell to arms / : The Hemingway Library Edition
by Ernest Hemingway
Featuring a previously published author introduction, a personal foreword by his son and a new introduction by his grandson, a definitive edition of the lauded World War I classic collects all 39 of the Nobel Prize-winning author's alternate endings to offer new insights into his creative process. 25,000 first printing.
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Frankenstein, or, The modern prometheus / : Or, the Modern Prometheus
by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Obsessed by creating life itself, Victor Frankenstein plunders graveyards for the material to fashion a new being, which he shocks into life by electricity. But his botched creature, rejected by Frankenstein and denied human companionship, sets out to destroy his maker and all that he holds dear.
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The grapes of wrath
by John Steinbeck
Complemented by a reproduction of Elmer Hader's original Viking first edition cover illustration and other enhancements, a 75th anniversary edition of Steinbeck's Pulitzer Prize-winning epic of the Great Depression shares insights into its influence and reflection of period politics.
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Lord of the files
by William Golding
Representing the letter “G” in a series of twenty-six collectible editions, this classic tale of dessert island survival describes a group of young boys who quickly devolve into darkness, disorder and chaos in an absence of adult society.
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Their eyes were watching God
by Zora Neale Hurston
When Janie Starks returns home, the small black community buzzes with gossip about the outcome of her affair with a younger man
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The books of Earthsea / : The Complete Edition
by Ursula K. Le Guin
A 50th-anniversary omnibus edition of the entire Earthsea chronicles includes more than 50 specially commissioned illustrations illuminating Le Guin's vision and stands as both a collectible for established fans and a series introduction for new readers.
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Brave new world
by Aldous Huxley
Describes the socialized horrors of a futuristic utopia devoid of individual freedom
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Fahrenheit 451
by Ray Bradbury
Guy Montag is a fireman. His job is to destroy the most illegal of commodities, the printed book, along with the houses in which they are hidden. Montag never questions the destruction and ruin his actions produce, returning each day to his bland life and wife, Mildred, who spends all day with her television "family." But when he meets an eccentric young neighbor, Clarisse, who introduces him to a past where people didn't live in fear and to a present where one sees the world through the ideas in books instead of the mindless chatter of television, Montag begins to question everything he has ever known.
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One flew over the cuckoo's nest
by Ken Kesey
Randle Patrick McMurphy, a criminal who feigns insanity, is admitted to a mental hospital where he turns the place upside-down and challenges the autocratic authority of the head nurse. By the author of Sometimes a Great Notion.
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The complete stories of Evelyn Waugh.
by Evelyn Waugh
A brilliant collection of thirty-nine stories spans the entire career of the literary master and comic genius, from his earliest character sketches and barbed portraits of the British upper class to Brideshead Revisited and Black Mischief. 25,000 first printing.
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The Count of Monte Cristo
by Alexandre Dumas
Edmund Dantes, unjustly convicted of aiding the exiled Napoleon, escapes after fourteen years of imprisonment and seeks revenge in Paris
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David Copperfield
by Charles Dickens
This is the novel Dickens regarded as his "favourite child" and is considered his most autobiographical. As David recounts his experiences from childhood to the discovery of his vocation as a successful novelist, Dickens draws openly and revealingly on his own life. Among the gloriously vivid cast of characters are Rosa Dartle, Dora, Steerforth, and the 'umble Uriah Heep, along with Mr. Micawber, a portrait of Dickens's own father that evokes a mixture of love, nostalgia, and guilt.
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God bless you, Dr. Kevorkian
by Kurt Vonnegut
The author of Slaughterhouse Five and Jailbird jumps back and forth from the afterlife to interview Sir Isaac Newton, Clarence Darrow, William Shakespeare, and his own character, Kilgore Trout, in this humorous look at death. Reprint.
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All the king's men
by Robert Penn Warren
Willie Stark's obsession with political power leads to the ultimate corruption of his gubernatorial administration
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The adventures of Oliver Twist
by Charles Dickens
The story of a boy who runs away from an orphanage in England and becomes involved with a gang of thieves
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O pioneers!
by Willa Cather
The novel that first made Willa Cather famous--a powerfully mythic tale of the American frontier told through the life of one extraordinary woman--in a handsome hardcover volume.
No other work of fiction so vividly evokes the harsh beauty and epic sweep of the Nebraska prairies that Cather knew and loved. The heroine of O Pioneers!, Alexandra Bergson, is a young Swedish immigrant at the turn of the twentieth century who inherits her father's windblasted land and, through years of hard work, turns it into a prosperous farm. Fiercely independent, Alexandra sacrifices love and companionship in her passionate devotion to the land, until tragedy strikes and brings with it the chance for a new life.
One of our most beloved classics, one of the great heroines of American literature.
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Les misérables
by Victor Hugo
After nineteen years in prison, Jean Valjean has difficulty adjusting to the outside world, which scorns and shuns him
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Our mutual friend
by Charles Dickens
The corrupting influence of wealth is revealed when kindly Mr. Boffin inherits his employer's fortune
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Far from the madding crowd : an authoritative text, backgrounds, criticism
by Thomas Hardy
It also incorporates revisions that Hardy made in his "study copy" of the novel and in his marked printer's copy and page proofs for the Harper and Brothers "sixpenny edition" of 1901, whenever these revisions could be confidently judged to represent Hardy's final deliberate intent.
The resulting text includes revisions by Hardy which have never appeared before in a modern edition.
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Springtime in a broken mirror
by Mario Benedetti
After a brutal military coup, Santiago, a political prisoner in Uruguay, staves off insanity by writing letters to his family who are struggling to adjust to life in exile in Buenos Aires.
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Demons
by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Originally completed in 1872, this novel by the author of Crime and Punishment offers a politically prophetic study of a nation in turmoil and the anti-czarist liberal reformers who threaten the soul of the Russian nation. 10,000 first printing.
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The complete Father Brown stories
by G. K. Chesterton
Presents a collection of all stories featuring amateur sleuth Father Brown, along with an analysis of the stories, a chronology, and notes
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The illustrated man
by Ray Bradbury
Eighteen imaginative science fiction stories--including the title story in which a tattooist's needle creates a canvas that captures humankind's destiny--range from the not-so-ordinary world of middle America to the vast reaches of outer space as they explore themes of love, madness, and death.
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Siddhartha;
by Hermann Hesse
Blends elements of psychoanalysis and Asian religions to probe an Indian aristocrat's efforts to renounce sensual and material pleasures and discover ultimate spiritual truths
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Shirley
by Charlotte Bronte
Struggling manufacturer Robert Moore has introduced labour saving machinery to his Yorkshire mill, arousing a ferment of unemployment and discontent among his workers. Set during the Napoleonic wars at a time of national economic struggles, this work depicts the conflict between classes, sexes and generations.
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Little women
by Louisa May Alcott
After her first literary success with Hospital Sketches, based on her experiences in the Civil War, and a secret career writing "rubbishy novels" to contribute to the family income, Louisa May Alcott-s publisher requested a "girl-s book." She grudgingly complied with this semiautobiographical novel of four sisters and their beloved Marmee keeping a home with their father away at war - producing an enduring classic that has captivated generations of readers.
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The jungle
by Upton Sinclair
The Jungle prompted the immediate passage of the Pure Food and Drug Act and launched Upton Sinclair's career as a champion of the working class.This quintessential muckraking novel changed the course of history with its gruesomely detailed depiction of Chicago's meat-packing industry. By following Lithuanian immigrant Jurgis Rudkus's descent through the brutal, bloody hell of "Packingtown" and Chicago's seamy web of graft and corruption, Sinclair paints an unforgettable picture of the dark side of the American Dream.
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The red badge of courage
by Stephen Crane
First published in 1895, this small masterpiece set the pattern for the treatment of war in modern fiction. The novel is told through the eyes of Henry Fleming, a young soldier caught up in an unnamed Civil War battle who is motivated not by the unselfish heroism of conventional war stories, but by fear, cowardice, and finally, egotism. However, in his struggle to find reality amid the nightmarish chaos of war, the young soldier also discovers courage, humility, and perhaps, wisdom. Although Crane had never been in battle before writing The Red Badge of Courage , the book was widely praised by experienced soldiers for its uncanny re-creation of the sights, sounds, and sense of actual combat. Its publication brought Crane immediate international fame and established him as a major American writer. Today, nearly a century later, the book ranks as an enduring landmark of American fiction.
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A tale of two cities
by Charles Dickens
The "two cities" are Paris in the time of the French Revolution, and London. Dr. Manette, a French physician, having been called in to treat a young peasant and his sister, realizes that they have been cruelly abused by the Marquis de St. Evremonde and his brother. To ensure Dr. Manette's silence, the Marquis has him confined for eighteen years in the Bastille. The doctor has just been released, demented, when the story opens. He is brought to England where he gradually recovers his health and his sanity. Charles Darnay, concealing under that false name his identity as the nephew of the cruel Marquis, has left France and renounced his heritage. He falls in love with Lucie, Dr. Manette's daughter, and they are happily married. During the Terror, he goes to Paris to save a servant condemned by the mob. Darnay himself is arrested, condemned to death, and is saved at the last moment by Sydney Carton, a reckless wastrel who acts out of devotion to Lucie. Carton smuggles Darnay out of prison and takes his place on the scaffold, declaring "It's a far, far better thing I do than I have ever done before," surely one of the most quoted lines in all the history of literature.
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The old curiosity shop
by Charles Dickens
Little Nell and her grandfather are left destitute when the evil Quilp seizes their Old Curiosity Shop in payment for their overdue debts
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Humboldt's gift
by Saul Bellow
Saul Bellow's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel explores the long friendship between Charlie Citrine, a young man with an intense passion for literature, and the great poet Von Humboldt Dleisher. At the time of Humboldt's death, Charlie's life is falling apart: his career is at a standstill, and he's enmeshed in an acrimonious divorce, infatuated with a highly unsuitable young woman, and involved with a neurotic Mafioso. And then Humboldt acts from beyond the grave, bestowing upon Charlie an unexpected legacy that may just help him turn his life around.
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The professor's house
by Willa Cather
A lyrical and bittersweet novel of a middle-aged man losing control of his life that's a brilliant study in emotional dislocation and renewal --from one of the most highly acclaimed authors of the twentieth century.
Professor Godfrey St. Peter is a man in his fifties who has devoted his life to his work, his wife, his garden, and his daughters, and achieved success with all of them. But when St. Peter is called on to move to a new, more comfortable house, something in him rebels. And although at first that rebellion consists of nothing more than mild resistance to his family's wishes, it imperceptibly comes to encompass the entire order of his life. The Professor's House combines a delightful grasp of the social and domestic rituals of a Midwestern university town in the 1920s with profound spiritual and psychological introspection.
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The complete short novels
by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
A new translation of the nineteenth-century Russian master's short classics includes The Steppe, The Duel, The Story of an Unknown Man, Three Years, and My Life. 15,000 first printing.
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Stalingrad
by Vasili Grossman
"Vassily Grossman (1905-1964) has become well-known in the last twenty years - above all for his novel Life and Fate. This has often been described as a Soviet (or anti-Soviet) War and Peace. Most readers, however, do not realize that it is only the second half of a dilogy. The first half, originally titled Stalingrad but published in 1952 under the title For a just cause, has received surprisingly little attention. Scholars and critics seem to have assumed that, since it was first published in Stalin's lifetime, it can only be considered empty propaganda. In reality, there is little difference between the two novels. The chapters in the earlier novel about the Shaposhnikov family are as tender, and sometimes humorous, as in the later novel. The chapters devoted to the long retreats of 1941 and the first half of 1942 are perhaps still more vivid than the battle scenes in the later novel"
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The color purple
by Alice Walker
"The Color Purple depicts the lives of African American women in early twentieth-century rural Georgia. Separated as girls, sisters Celie and Nettie sustain their loyalty to and hope in each other across time, distance, and silence. Through a series of letters spanning twenty years, first from Celie to God, then from the sisters to each other, the novel draws readers into the experiences of Celie, Nettie, Shug Avery, and Sofia"
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The snows of Kilimanjaro and other stories
by Ernest Hemingway
Contains ten of Hemingway's classic stories including "The snows of Kilimanjaro," "A day's wait," "Fathers and sons," "The killers," and "The short happy life of Francis Macomber"
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Collected stories
by Franz Kafka
Collects Kafka's short stories and parables, each reflecting his concern for modern man's search for identity, place, and purpose
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The Green Dwarf
by Charlotte Bronte
Witty and engrossing, this early work displays the precocious intelligence, lively imagination, and flair for storytelling that Charlotte Brontë brought to perfection in her later fiction. Lady Emily Charlesworth is in love with Leslie, a struggling artist. Lord Percy, a fierce, arrogant aristocrat, will do anything to lay his hands on Leslie's chosen bride. As war breaks out between Verdopolis--Brontë's imaginary political state--and Senegal, the lovers do battle for control of Emily's heart. With its exotic melange of political intrigue, amorous subterfuge, and Gothic scenery, The Green Dwarf reveals the dynamic and experimental nature of Brontë's "long apprenticeship in writing." Charlotte Brontë is best remembered for her perennially popular novel Jane Eyre.
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The mill on the floss
by George Eliot
Evokes nineteenth-century rural England through the story of Maggie Tulliver, who attempts to adapt to her life until her brother forbids her to see the one person who understands her after she is found in a compromising situation
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Jazz Age stories
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
A generation grown up to find all Gods dead, all wars fought, all faiths in man shaken. & Thus F Scott Fitzgerald summed up his age. Perhaps nowhere in American fiction is this & Lost Generation & more vividly preserved than in Fitzgerald's own short fiction.
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The house of the seven gables : authoritative text, contexts, criticism
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
"Contexts" brings together a generous selection of primary materials intended to provide readers with background on the novel's central themes. Historical documents include accounts of Salem's history by Thomas Maule, Robert Calef, Joseph B. Felt, and Charles W. Upham, which Hawthorne drew on for The House of the Seven Gables. The importance of the house in antebellum America--as a manifestation of the body, a site of genealogical history, and a symbol of the republic's middle class--is explored through the diverse writings of William Andrus Alcott, Edgar Allan Poe, and J. H. Agnew, among others. The impact of technological developments on the novel, especially of daguerreotypy, is considered through the writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Gustave de Beaumont, and Alexis de Tocqueville, among others. Also included are two of Hawthorne's literary sketches--"Alice Doane's Appeal" and "The Old Apple Dealer"--that demonstrate the continuity of Hawthorne's style, from his earlier periodical writing to his later career as a novelist.
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The call of the wild
by Jack London
A young dog, abused by men and his hungry rivals on a Klondike dog team, escapes to the wilderness and joins a wolfpack
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The portrait of a lady
by Henry James
When an inheritance allows Isabel Archer, a young American orphan, to travel to Europe, the new culture and people have a profoundly disturbing effect on her life
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Don Quixote
by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
A definitive English translation of the sixteenth-century classic follows the adventures of Don Quixote de la Mancha and his faithful squire, Sancho Panza, as they travel through Spain and become subject to the noble knight-errant's fanciful imagination.
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The age of innocence
by Edith Wharton
As Newland Archer prepares to marry docile May Welland, the return of the mysterious Countess Olenska turns his life upside down
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The bonfire of the vanities
by Tom Wolfe
Sherman McCoy, a young investment banker in Manhattan, finds himself arrested following a freak accident and becomes involved with prosecutors, politicians, the press, and assorted hustlers. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.
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Novels, tales, journeys : the complete prose of Alexander Pushkin by Aleksandr Sergeevich PushkinFeaturing the work of an award-winning translator team, the complete prose narratives of the acclaimed early 19th-century Romantic-era Russian author include "The Queen of Spades," the five short stories of The Late Tales of Ivan Petrovich Belkin and the short novel, The Captain's Daughter.
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Anna Karenina : a novel in eight parts
by Leo Tolstoy
A fresh and robust translation--which differs from the previous "softened" versions of the classic Russian novel--retells the tale of rebellious Anna and her ill-fated, adulterous romance with Count Vronsky amid the turmoil of nineteenth-century Russia. Reprint.
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The Troll Garden
by Willa Cather
This collection of Willa Cather stories--her first book of fiction and the capstone of her early career--is as relevant today as at the time of its initial publication. As different and individually distinguished as the seven stories may be, they share as their subject the role and status of the artist in American society. The passions, ambitions, and pretensions, the cant and the pathos of the art world, artists, pseudo-artists, aficionados, and dilettantes--all are amply represented here in the midst of their foibles, grand affairs, and failures, drawn with great style and subtlety by a writer gathering her formidable powers. With the psychological precision of her early master Henry James and the practical wisdom and wit of her contemporary Edith Wharton, Cather shows us innocents seduced, sophisticates undone, marriages sundered, idealism compromised, and the rare soul uplifted by art.
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The house of mirth
by Edith Wharton
Lily Bart's strivings for wealth, status, and position in New York society lead to blackmail, despair, and financial reversal
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The hunchback of Notre Dame
by Victor Hugo
The tale of Quasimodo, the hunchbacked bellringer of Notre Dame Cathedral, centers on his struggles to save the beautiful gypsy dancer Esmeralda from being unjustly executed.
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Neuromancer
by William Gibson
Case, a burned out computer whiz, is asked to steal a security code that is locked in the most heavily guarded databank in the solar system
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Lolita
by Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov
A novel that studies the moral disintegration of a man whose obsessive desire to possess his step-daughter destroys the lives of those around him
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Vanity fair
by William Makepeace Thackeray
No one is better equipped in the struggle for wealth and worldly success than the alluring and ruthless Becky Sharp, who defies her impoverished background to clamber up the class ladder. Her sentimental companion Amelia, however, longs only for caddish soldier George.
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Brideshead revisited
by Evelyn Waugh
Captain Charles Ryder, stationed at Brideshead, recalls his boyhood associations with the odd but charming members of an English noble family
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Tess of the D'Urbervilles
by Thomas Hardy
The life of a simple country girl in nineteenth-century England is destroyed by her father's determination to use her in order to regain the family's former social standing
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Catch-22
by Joseph Heller
Presents the contemporary classic depicting the struggles of a United States airman attempting to survive the lunacy and depravity of a World War II airbase
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The jungle books : featuring the complete and unabridged works the jungle book and the second jungle book by Rudyard KiplingRudyard Kipling's classic children's stories and poems, set in the jungles of India, are as vibrant and enchanting today as when they were originally published in 1894-1895. Among his most famous characters is Mowgli, lost in the jungle as a child. Adopted by wolves, the "man-cub" learns the natural order of life through his adventures with friends and enemies. Revisit the tales of Akela the wolf, Baloo the bear, Shere Khan the tiger, Kaa the python, and many more.
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War and peace
by Leo Tolstoy
The monumental Russian classic reflecting the life and times of Russian society during the Napoleonic Wars comes to life in a compelling new translation that is faithful to the original text and accompanied by an index of historical figures, textual annotations, a chapter summary, and an informative introduction. 50,000 first printing.
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I, robot
by Isaac Asimov
A classic collection of interlocking tales chronicles the near-future development of the robot and features models that have the ability to read minds, experience human emotions, and take over the world--and, perhaps, render humankind itself obsolete. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.
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Murder on the Orient Express : a Hercule Poirot mystery
by Agatha Christie
Just after midnight, the famous Orient Express is stopped in its tracks by a snowdrift. By morning, the millionaire Samuel Edward Ratchett lies dead in his compartment, stabbed a dozen times, his door locked from the inside. Without a shred of doubt, one of his fellow passengers is the murderer.
Isolated by the storm, detective Hercule Poirot must find the killer among a dozen of the dead man's enemies, before the murderer decides to strike again.
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The picture of Dorian Gray
by Oscar Wilde
In the published work of Oscar Wilde, the eccentric, flamboyant Irish-born poet, dramatist, and frequently quoted wit, there is a single novel: The Picture of Dorian Gray. In it, beautiful young Dorian, upon seeing his newly painted portrait, wishes he could remain young and beautiful while the portrait aged. The Faustian bargain is struck. Untouched by his life of hedonism and debauchery, Dorian hides away the portrait that reflects his corruption.
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Madame Bovary : provincial ways
by Gustave Flaubert
Translated with an Introduction and Notes by Lydia Davis. Emma Bovary is the original desperate housewife. Beautiful but bored, she is married to a provincial doctor yet harbors dreams of an elegant and passionate life. In an effort to make her life everything she believes it should be, she spends lavishly on clothes and on her home and embarks on two disappointing affairs. Soon heartbroken and crippled by debts, Emma takes drastic action with tragic consequences for her husband and daughter.
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The Scarlet Letter
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
The cornerstone of American literature and moral study. Set in a village in Puritan New England, Hester Prynne, a young woman who has borne an illegitimate child. Hester believes herself a widow, but her husband, returns to New England and conceals his identity and becomes obsessed with finding the identity of his wifes former lover.
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