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Valley of the Dolls
Jacqueline Susann · 2016
War and Peace (AmazonClassics Edition)
Leo Tolstoy · 2019
The Wizard of Oz
L. Frank Baum · 2012
Wuthering Heights
Emily Bronte · 2002
<b>Coming soon to the big screen is Emerald Fennell’s feature film “<i>Wuthering Heights</i>,” which captures the spirit of this epic love story and stars Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi as Catherine and Heathcliff.<br></b><br>Emily Brontë's only novel endures as a work of tremendous and far-reaching influence. The Penguin Classics edition is the definitive version of the text, edited with an introduction by Pauline Nestor.<br><br>Lockwood, the new tenant of Thrushcross Grange, situated on the bleak Yorkshire moors, is forced to seek shelter one night at Wuthering Heights, the home of his landlord. There he discovers the history of the tempestuous events that took place years before. What unfolds is the tale of the intense love between the gypsy foundling Heathcliff and Catherine Earnshaw. Catherine, forced to choose between passionate, tortured Heathcliff and gentle, well-bred Edgar Linton, surrendered to the expectations of her class. As Heathcliff's bitterness and vengeance at his betrayal is visited upon the next generation, their innocent heirs must struggle to escape the legacy of the past. <br><br>In this edition, a new preface by Lucasta Miller, author of <i>The Brontë Myth</i>, looks at the ways in which the novel has been interpreted, from Charlotte Brontë onwards. This complements Pauline Nestor's introduction, which discusses changing critical receptions of the novel, as well as Emily Brontë's influences and background.
The Yearling
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings · 2011
The Year of Magical Thinking
Joan Didion · 2005
A Clockwork Orange (Restored Text)
Anthony Burgess · 2012
A Christmas Carol
Charles Dickens · 1858
Christine
Stephen King · 2016
The Catcher in the Rye
J. D. Salinger · 2024
Catch-22
Joseph Heller · 1999
Carrie
Stephen King · 2011
Brave New World
Aldous Huxley · 2020
Brick Lane
Monica Ali · 2008
Candide
By Voltaire · 2019
The Canterbury Tales
Geoffrey Chaucer · 2003
A Bolt from the Blue and Other Essays
Mary McCarthy · 2002
Bitch
Elizabeth Wurtzel · 2012
Bitch
Elizabeth Wurtzel · 2012
The Bielski Brothers
Peter Duffy · 2004
The Bhagavad Gita
Eknath Easwaran · 2010
Beowulf
Andreas Haarder, T A Shippey, T. A. Shippey · 2005
Beloved
Toni Morrison · 2006
Bel Canto
Ann Patchett · 2009
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
Sijie Dai · 2001
Backlash
Susan Faludi · 2009
The Awakening
Kate Chopin · 2008
Autobiography of a Face
Lucy Grealy · 2003
Atonement
Ian McEwan · 2003
As I Lay Dying
William Faulkner · 2013
The Art of War
Sun Tzu · 2002
The Art of Fiction
Henry James · 2021
The Archidamian War
Donald Kagan · 2013
Anne Frank's The Diary of Anne Frank
Harold Bloom · 2010
Anna Karenina
Leo Tolstoy · 2004
Angela's Ashes
Frank McCourt · 1999
An American Tragedy - Theodore Dreiser
Theodore Dreiser · 2021
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (with bonus content)
Michael Chabon · 2012
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Mark Twain
The Bell Jar (Modern Classics)
Sylvia Plath · 2005
The Virgin Suicides
Jeffrey Eugenides · 2011
Sharp Objects: A Novel
Gillian Flynn · 2006
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Stephen Chbosky · 2012
Finished
Alice in Wonderland
Lewis Carroll · 2024
1984
George Orwell · 2021
My Year of Rest and Relaxation: A Novel
Ottessa Moshfegh · 2019
Named a Best Book of the Year by The Washington Post, Time, NPR, Vice, Bustle, The New York Times, The Guardian, Kirkus Reviews, Entertainment Weekly, The AV Club, & Audible A New York Times Bestseller • New York Times Readers Pick: 100 Best Books of the 21st Century “One of the most compelling protagonists modern fiction has offered in years: a loopy, quietly furious pillhead whose Ambien ramblings and Xanaxed b*tcheries somehow wend their way through sad and funny and strange toward something genuinely profound.” — Entertainment Weekly “Darkly hilarious . . . [Moshfegh’s] the kind of provocateur who makes you laugh out loud while drawing blood.” —Vogue From one of our boldest, most celebrated new literary voices, a novel about a young woman's efforts to duck the ills of the world by embarking on an extended hibernation with the help of one of the worst psychiatrists in the annals of literature and the battery of medicines she prescribes. Our narrator should be happy, shouldn't she? She's young, thin, pretty, a recent Columbia graduate, works an easy job at a hip art gallery, lives in an apartment on the Upper East Side of Manhattan paid for, like the rest of her needs, by her inheritance. But there is a dark and vacuous hole in her heart, and it isn't just the loss of her parents, or the way her Wall Street boyfriend treats her, or her sadomasochistic relationship with her best friend, Reva. It's the year 2000 in a city aglitter with wealth and possibility; what could be so terribly wrong? My Year of Rest and Relaxation is a powerful answer to that question. Through the story of a year spent under the influence of a truly mad combination of drugs designed to heal our heroine from her alienation from this world, Moshfegh shows us how reasonable, even necessary, alienation can be. Both tender and blackly funny, merciless and compassionate, it is a showcase for the gifts of one of our major writers working at the height of her powers.
Dead Poets Society
N.H. Kleinbaum · 2012
Todd Anderson and his friends at Welton Academy can hardly believe how different life is since their new English professor, the flamboyant John Keating, has challenged them to "make your lives extraordinary! Inspired by Keating, the boys resurrect the Dead Poets Society--a secret club where, free from the constraints and expectations of school and parents, they let their passions run wild. As Keating turns the boys on to the great words of Byron, Shelley, and Keats, they discover not only the beauty of language, but the importance of making each moment count. Can the club and the individuality it inspires survive the pressure from authorities determined to destroy their dreams? But the Dead Poets pledges soon realize that their newfound freedom can have tragic consequences. Can the club and the individuality it inspires survive the pressure from authorities determined to destroy their dreams?
