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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Stories
Robert Louis Stevenson
Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allen Poe
The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt
Eleanor Roosevelt · 2014
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
Tom Wolfe · 2008
Ella Minnow Pea
Mark Dunn · 2010
Emma
Jane Austen · 2018
Empire Falls
Richard Russo · 2001
Ethan Frome
Edith Wharton · 1922
The Ethics of Aristotle
Aristotle · 2022
Eva Luna: A Novel
Isabel Allende · 2016
Everything Is Illuminated
Jonathan Safran Foer · 2015
Extravagance: A Novel
Gary Krist · 2002
Fahrenheit 451
Ray Bradbury · 2003
The Official Fahrenheit 9-11 Reader
Michael Moore · 2004
The Fall of the Athenian Empire
Donald Kagan · 1987
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Hunter S. Thompson · 1996
The Five People You Meet in Heaven
Mitch Albom · 2003
Finnegans Wake (Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin)
James Joyce · 1999
Flowers For Algernon
Daniel Keyes · 2005
The Fortress of Solitude
Jonathan Lethem · 2004
The Fountainhead
Ayn Rand
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Penguin Classics)
Mary Shelley · 2018
<b>Mary Shelley’s classic novel, presented in its original 1818 text, with an introduction from National Book Critics Circle award-winner Charlotte Gordon</b><br> <br> <b>Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s <i>The Great American Read</i></b><br> <br>The original 1818 text of <i>Frankenstein</i> preserves the hard-hitting and politically-charged aspects of Shelley’s original writing, as well as her unflinching wit and strong female voice. This edition also emphasizes Shelley’s relationship with her mother—trailblazing feminist Mary Wollstonecraft, who penned <i>A Vindication of the Rights of Woman</i>—and demonstrates her commitment to carrying forward her mother’s ideals, placing her in the context of a feminist legacy rather than the sole female in the company of male poets, including Percy Shelley and Lord Byron.<br> <br> This edition includes a new introduction and suggestions for further reading by National Book Critics Circle award-winner and Shelley expert Charlotte Gordon, literary excerpts and reviews selected by Gordon, and a chronology and essay by preeminent Shelley scholar Charles E. Robinson. <br> <br>Penguin Classics is the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world, representing a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
Franny and Zooey
J. D. Salinger · 1991
Galapagos: A Novel (Delta Fiction)
Kurt Vonnegut · 1999
<b>“A madcap genealogical adventure . . . Vonnegut is a postmodern Mark Twain.”<b>—<i>The New York Times Book Review</i></b><br><br></b><i>Galápagos </i>takes the reader back one million years, to A.D. 1986. A simple vacation cruise suddenly becomes an evolutionary journey. Thanks to an apocalypse, a small group of survivors stranded on the Galápagos Islands are about to become the progenitors of a brave, new, and totally different human race. In this inimitable novel, America’ s master satirist looks at our world and shows us all that is sadly, madly awry–and all that is worth saving.<br><br><b>Praise for <i>Galápagos</i></b><br><br>“The best Vonnegut novel yet!”<b>—John Irving</b><br><br> “Beautiful . . . provocative, arresting reading.”<b>—<i>USA Today</i></b><i><br><br></i>“A satire in the classic tradition . . . a dark vision, a heartfelt warning.”<b>—<i>The Detroit Free Press</i></b><br> <br> “Interesting, engaging, sad and yet very funny . . . Vonnegut is still in top form. If he has no prescription for alleviating the pain of the human condition, at least he is a first-rate diagnostician.”<b>—Susan Isaacs, <i>Newsday</i></b><br> <br> “Dark . . . original and funny.”<b>—<i>People</i></b><br> <br> “A triumph of style, originality and warped yet consistent logic . . . a condensation, an evolution of Vonnegut’s entire career, including all the issues and questions he has pursued relentlessly for four decades.”<b>—<i>The Philadelphia Inquirer</i></b><br> <br> “Wild details, wry humor, outrageous characters . . . <i>Galápagos</i> is a comic lament, a sadly ironic vison.”<b>—<i>St. Louis Post-Dispatch</i></b><br> <br> “A work of high comedy, sadness and imagination.”<b>—<i>The Denver Post</i></b><br> <br> “Wacky wit and irreverent imagination . . . and the full range of technical innovations have made [Vonnegut] America’s preeminent experimental novelist.”<b>—<i>The Minneapolis Star and Tribune</i></b>
Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity (Routledge Classics)
Judith Butler · 2006
Girl, Interrupted
Susanna Kaysen · 1994
<b>30th ANNIVERSARY EDITION <b>• </b>NATIONAL BESTSELLER • In 1967, after a session with a psychiatrist she'd never seen before, eighteen-year-old Susanna Kaysen was put in a taxi and sent to McLean Hospital. Her memoir of the next two years is a "poignant, honest ... triumphantly funny ... and heartbreaking story" (<i>The New York Times Book Review</i>). <br><br><b>WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY THE AUTHOR <br></b></b><br>The ward for teenage girls in the McLean psychiatric hospital was as renowned for its famous clientele—Sylvia Plath, Robert Lowell, James Taylor, and Ray Charles—as for its progressive methods of treating those who could afford its sanctuary. Kaysen's memoir encompasses horror and razor-edged perception while providing vivid portraits of her fellow patients and their keepers. It is a brilliant evocation of a "parallel universe" set within the kaleidoscopically shifting landscape of the late sixties. <br><br><i>Girl, Interrupted</i> is a clear-sighted, unflinching document that gives lasting and specific dimension to our definitions of sane and insane, mental illness and recovery.
The Gnostic Gospels
Elaine Pagels · 1989
The Godfather
Mario Puzo · 1969
The God of Small Things: A Novel
Arundhati Roy · 2008
Gone With the Wind
Margaret Mitchell · 1996
The Good Soldier
Ford Madox Ford · 2020
The Graduate
Charles Webb · 2002
The Grapes of Wrath
John Steinbeck · 2006
The Great Gatsby: The Original 1925 Edition (A F. Scott Fitzgerald Classic Novel)
F. Scott Fitzgerald · 2021
Great Expectations (Penguin Classics)
Charles Dickens · 2002
The Group
Mary McCarthy · 1991
Hamlet ( Folger Library Shakespeare)
William Shakespeare · 1992
Harry Potter & the Goblet of Fire
J K Rowling
Harry Potter And The Sorcerers Stone
J. K. Rowling · 2003
A Heartbreaking Work Of Staggering Genius
Dave Eggers · 2013
Heart of Darkness
Joseph Conrad · 2019
Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders
Vincent Bugliosi, Curt Gentry · 2001
Henry IV, Part Two (Henry IV, Part II)
William Shakespeare · 1988
Henry IV, Part 1 (Folger Shakespeare Library)
William Shakespeare · 2020
High Fidelity
Nick Hornby · 1996
Henry V (Folger Shakespeare Library)
William Shakespeare · 2020
Holidays on Ice
David Sedaris · 2010
The Holy Barbarians
Lawrence Lipton · 2022
Mr. Lipton’s book is the first complete and unbiased survey of the beat generation and its role in our society. Here are the intimate facts about these people and their attitudes toward sex, dope, jazz, art, religion, parents, landlords, employers, politicians, draft boards, the law and, most important, toward the “square”. The author presents a picture of their way of life, their individual backgrounds, the language they have appropriated, in terms made clear for the first time to those of us who have been confused and puzzled about them. He also provides a balanced discussion of their literature, art and music, of what they produce and fail to produce in the arts they practice.
House of Sand and Fog: A Novel
Andre Dubus III · 2018
The House of the Spirits: A Novel
Isabel Allende · 2015
How The Light Gets In
M.J. Hyland · 2010
<p>A powerful debut from an Australian novelist that features one of the most likeable but contrary figures you are likely to meet in contemporary fiction.<br>Lou Connor, a gifted, unhappy sixteen-year-old, is desperate to escape her life of poverty in Sydney. When she is offered an exchange student placement at a school in America it seems as if her dreams will be fulfilled. <br>Her host family has a beautiful house in Illinois and couldn't be more welcoming . . . until she starts to be distubed by the suffocating and repressed atmosphere of their suburban mansion and things begin to go terribly wrong.<br>How the Light Gets In is an acutely observed story of adolescence, reminiscent of American Beauty in its dissection of engrained prejudices and middle-class hypocrisy. In Lou Connor, Hyland has created a larger-than-life protagonist who mesmerises the reader with her vivacity and vulnerability, from hopeful beginning to unexpected, haunting end.</p>
Howl and Other Poems (City Lights Pocket Poets, No. 4)
Allen Ginsberg · 1959
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Victor Hugo · 2014
The Iliad
Homer · 2017
I'm with the Band
Pamela Des Barres, Dave Navarro · 2005
In Cold Blood
Truman Capote · 1994
The Divine Comedy (The Inferno, The Purgatorio, and The Paradiso)
Dante Alighieri · 2003
Inherit the Wind: The Powerful Drama of the Greatest Courtroom Clash of the Century
Jerome Lawrence, Robert E. Lee · 2003
It Takes a Village
Hillary Rodham Clinton · 2006
Jane Eyre (Dover Thrift Editions: Classic Novels)
Charlotte Brontë · 2003
Charlotte Brontë characterized the eponymous heroine of her 1847 novel as being "as poor and plain as myself." Presenting a heroine with neither great beauty nor entrancing charm was an unprecendented maneuver, but Brontë's instincts proved correct, for readers of her era and ever after have taken Jane Eyre into their hearts. The author drew upon her own experience to depict Jane's struggles at Lowood, an oppressive boarding school, and her troubled career as a governess. Unlike Jane, Brontë had the advantage of a warm family circle that shared and encouraged her literary pursuits. She found immediate success with this saga of an orphan girl forced to make her way alone in the world, from Lowood School to Thornfield, the estate of the majestically moody Mr. Rochester, and beyond. A selection of the Common Core State Standards Initiative.
The Joy Luck Club: A Novel
Amy Tan · 2006
Julius Cesar
William Shakespeare · 2013
The Jumping Frog
Mark Twain · 1998
Mark Twain's Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County is a story of the crusty Jim Smiley, a man who so loved to bet on animals - horses, dogs, etc. - that he trained a frog to be the strongest jumper in his county. Twain's broad yet graceful humor is beautifully complemented by the elegant woodcuts of Alan James Robinson. Finely reproduced, these illustrations bring Twain's great comic tale to life.Twain's classic tale of the Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County is in three parts: the original tale published in 1865, the first French translation of the story, and Twain's tongue-in-cheek verbatim re-translation into English.
The Jungle
Upton Sinclair · 2019
Just a Couple of Days
Tony Vigorito · 2001
The Kitchen Boy
Robert Alexander · 2008
Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
Anthony Bourdain · 2000
The Kite Runner
Khaled Hosseini · 2013
Lady Chatterley's Lover
D. H. Lawrence · 2023
The Last Empire: Essays 1992-2000
Gore Vidal · 2002
Leaves Of Grass: 1855
Walt Whitman · 2018
The Legend of Bagger Vance
Steven Pressfield · 2000
Less Than Zero
Bret Easton Ellis · 1998
Letters to a Young Poet
Rainer Maria Rilke · 2018
<p>Facsimile of 1943 Edition. Born in 1875, the great German lyric poet Rainer Maria Rilke published his first collection of poems in 1898 and went on to become renowned for his delicate depiction of the workings of the human heart. Drawn by some sympathetic note in his poems, young people often wrote to Rilke with their problems and hopes. From 1903 to 1908 Rilke wrote a series of remarkable responses to a young, would-be poet on poetry and on surviving as a sensitive observer in a harsh world. Those letters, ten in all, remain a fresh source of inspiration and insight to the poetic sensibility to this day.</p>
Lies: And the Lying Liars Who Tell Them
Al Franken · 2004
Life of Pi: A Novel
Yann Martel · 2002
Little Dorrit
Charles Dickens · 2020
The Little Locksmith
Katharine Hathaway (Butler) · 1943
The Little Match Girl
Hans Christian Andersen · 2001
The luminous art of three-time Caldecott Honor recipient Jerry Pinkney transforms the nineteenth-century Danish girl of Andersen's tale into a child plucked straight from America's melting pot, shedding new light on the invisibility of the poor among the prosperous-a circumstance as familiar in Andersen's day as it is in our own.<br><br>"[A] beautifully illustrated version of a classic tale."(<i>Booklist</i>, starred review)
Little Women (Puffin in Bloom)
Louisa May Alcott · 2014
<b>Louisa May Alcott's classic tale of four sisters in a deluxe hardcover edition, with beautiful cover illustrations by Anna Bond, the artist behind world-renowned stationery brand Rifle Paper Co.<br></b><br>Grown-up Meg, tomboyish Jo, timid Beth, and precocious Amy. The four March sisters couldn't be more different. But with their father away at war, and their mother working to support the family, they have to rely on one another. Whether they're putting on a play, forming a secret society, or celebrating Christmas, there's one thing they can't help wondering: Will Father return home safely?
Lord of the Flies
William Golding · 2003
The Lottery and Other Stories (FSG Classics)
Shirley Jackson · 2005
How to Breathe Under Water : Stories
Julie Orringer · 2005
<p>In her dazzling first book Julie Orringer dives into the private world of childhood and immerses us in its fears and longings: the jealous friendships and the bitter sibling battles; the parents that row and the boys that won't dance with you. Then, in a voice that is equally tender and compassionate, she reminds us of those rare, exhilarating moments of victory.<br> <br> 'Unbelievably good: the humiliations and cruelties and passions of childhood, sparkling fresh prose, a writer with a big heart and an acute sense of the small things that loom large in our lives' Monica Ali, Guardian</p>
Hillary Rodham Clinton: A Woman Living History
Karen Blumenthal · 2016
The Lovely Bones
Alice Sebold · 2004
Love Story
Erich Segal · 2020
Macbeth (Folger Shakespeare Library)
William Shakespeare · 2003
Madame Bovary
Gustave Flaubert · 2014
the manticore
robertson davies · 1979
Marathon Man
William Goldman · 1974
The Master and Margarita: 50th-Anniversary Edition (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
Mikhail Bulgakov · 2016
Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter
Simone De Beauvoir, Simone de Beauvoir · 1974
The Memoirs Of General William T. Sherman
William T. Sherman · 2014
Me Talk Pretty One Day
David Sedaris · 2001
The Meaning of Consuelo
Judith Ortiz Cofer · 2003
<p> <i>La nina seria</i>, the serious child. That's how Consuelo's mother has cast her pensive, book-loving daughter, while Consuelo's younger sister Mili, is seen as vivacious--a ray of tropical sunshine. Two daughters: one dark, one light; one to offer comfort and consolation, the other to charm and delight. But something is not right in this Puerto Rican family. <br> Set in the 1950s, a time when American influence is diluting Puerto Rico's rich island culture, Consuelo watches her own family's downward spiral. It is Consuelo who notices as her beautiful sister Mili's vivaciousness turns into mysterious bouts of hysteria and her playful invented language shift into an incomprehensible and chilling "language of birds." Ultimately Consuelo must choose: Will she fulfill the expectations of her family--offering consolation as their tragedy unfolds? Or will she risk becoming <i>la fulana</i>, the outsider, like the harlequin figure of her neighbor, Mario/Maria Sereno, who flaunts his tight red pedal pushers and empty brassiere as he refuses the traditional macho role of his culture. <br> This affecting novel is a lively celebration of Puerto Rico as well as an archetypal story of loss, the loss each of us experiences on our journey from the island of childhood to the uncharted territory of adulthood.</p>
A Mencken Chrestomathy: His Own Selection of His Choicest Writing
H.L. Mencken · 1982
The Merry Wives of Windsor (Folger Shakespeare Library)
William Shakespeare · 2016
The Metamorphosis
Franz Kafka · 2009
Middlesex: A Novel (Oprah's Book Club)
Jeffrey Eugenides · 2002
The Miracle Worker: A Play
William Gibson · 2008
Moby Dick: Herman Melville's Original Adventure Classic
Herman Melville · 2024
The Mojo Collection: The Ultimate Music Companion
Jim Irvin · 2008
Molière, a Biography
H. C. Chatfield-Taylor · 2020
This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. So that the book is never forgotten we have represented this book in a print format as the same form as it was originally first published. Hence any marks or annotations seen are left intentionally to preserve its true nature.
Monsieur Proust
Céleste Albaret, Georges Belmont · 2022
A Month Of Sundays: Searching For The Spirit And My Sister
Julie Mars · 2005
A MONTH OF SUNDAYS is about the seven months that the author spent as her dying sister's primary caretaker, and after her sister died, the 31 houses of worship that she visited in 31 weeks in her hope of finding an outlet for her grief and getting some answers to spiritual questions. Her houses of worship include traditional churches, mosques, temples, Buddhist, Zen, Spiritualist, Scientology, Salvation Army, and so forth.
A Moveable Feast
Ernest Hemingway · 2025
Mrs. Dalloway
Virginia Woolf · 1990
Mutiny on the Bounty
Charles and James Norman Hall Nordhoff · 1962
Classic novel about the clash between Mr. Christian and Captain Bligh by the authors of "Botany Bay" and "The Hurricane" two other best bestsellers that were also made into movies.
My Lai 4: A Report on the Massacre and Its Aftermath
Seymour M. Hersh · 1970
My Life as Author and Editor
H.L. Mencken · 2011
H. L. Mencken stipulated that this memoir remain sealed in a vault for thirty-five years after his death. For good reason: <i>My Life as Author and Editor</i> is so telling and uproariously opinionated that is might have provoked a storm of libel suits. As he recounts his career as a critic, essayist, and editor of the ground-breaking magazine <i>Smart Set</i>, Mencken brings us face to face with the literary aristocracy of his day, from the dour womanizer Theodore Dreiser to F. Scott Fitzgerald, drowning his gifts in alcohol. Here, too, are the hacks, poseurs, and bohemian crackpots who flocked around them. Most of all, here is Mencken himself, defying censors and Prohibition agents with equal aplomb in an age when literature was a contact sport.
My Life in Orange
Tim Guest,Tim Guest · 2005
My Sisters Keeper -2004 publication.
Jodi Picoult · 2004
The Naked and the Dead
Norman Mailer • 1981
Hailed as one of the finest novels to come out of the Second World War, The Naked and the Dead received unprecedented critical acclaim upon its publication and has since become part of the American canon. This fiftieth anniversary edition features a new introduction created especially doe the occasion by Norman Mailer. Written in gritty, journalistic detail, the story follows an army platoon of foot soldiers who are fighting for the possession of the Japanese-held island of Anopopei. Composed in 1948, The Naked and the Dead is representative of the best in twentieth-century American writing.
The Name of the Rose
Umberto Eco • 1994
The Namesake
Jhumpa Lahiri • 2019
The Nanny Diaries
Emma McLaughlin • 2007
<p><p>based On The Real-life Experiences, The Inside Story On The Real Lives Of The Rich And Privileged From The Women Who Know All The Secrets - The Nannies.<p>the Nanny Diaries Deftly Skewers The Manner In Which America's Over-privileged Raises Les Petites - As If Grooming Them For A Best Of Show Competition. A Poignant Satire, It Punctures The Glamor Of Manhattan's Upper Class To Tackle Head-on The Truer State Of Backstairs Park Avenue.<p>struggling To Graduate From Nyu And Afford Her Microscopic Apartment, Nanny Takes A Job Caring For The Only Son Of The Wealthy X Family. She Rapidly Learns The Insane Amount Of Juggling Involved In Ensuring That A Park Avenue Wife Who Doesn't Work, Cook, Clean, Or Raise Her Own Child Has A Smooth Day.<p>when The X's Marriage Begins To Disintegrate, Nanny's Nearly Impossible Mission Becomes Maintaining The Mental Health Of Their Four-year-old, Her Own Integrity, And Most Importantly, Her Sense Of Humor. Over Nine Tense Months Mrs X And Nanny...</p><h3>vogue</h3><p>...the Details, Devastating As They Are, Ring True, Making This [book]...impossible To Put Down.</p>
Nervous System, Or, Losing My Mind in Literature
Jan Lars Jensen • 2004
New Poems of Emily Dickinson
Emily Dickinson • 1993
For most of her life Emily Dickinson regularly embedded poems, disguised as prose, in her lively and thoughtful letters. Although many critics have commented on the poetic quality of Dickinson's letters, William Shurr is the first to draw fully developed poems from them. In this remarkable volume, he presents nearly 500 new poems that he and his associates excavated from her correspondence, thereby expanding the canon of Dickinson's known poems by almost one-third and making a remarkable addition to the study of American literature. Here are new riddles and epigrams, as well as longer lyrics that have never been seen as poems before. While Shurr has reformatted passages from the letters as poetry, a practice Dickinson herself occasionally followed, no words, punctuation, or spellings have been changed. Shurr points out that these new verses have much in common with Dickinson's well-known poems: they have her typical punctuation (especially the characteristic dashes and capitalizations); they use her preferred hymn or ballad meters; and they continue her search for new and unusual rhymes. Most of all, these poems continue Dickinson's remarkable experiments in extending the boundaries of poetry and human sensibility.
The New Way Things Work
David Macaulay • 1998
Text and numerous detailed illustrations introduce and explain the scientific principles and workings of hundreds of machines. Includes new material about digital technology.
Nickel and Dimed (20th Anniversary Edition)
Barbara Ehrenreich • 2021
Night, Elie Wiesel
Elie Wiesel • 2008
Northanger Abbey
Jane Austen • 1992
Dawn Powell: Novels 1930-1942 (LOA #126) Dance Night / Come Back to Sorrento / Turn, Magic Wheel / Angels on Toast / A Time to Be Born
Dawn Powell • 2001
Notes of a Dirty Old Man
Charles Bukowski • 2001
A compilation of Charles Bukowski's underground articles from his column "Notes of a Dirty Old Man" appears here in book form. Bukowski's reasoning for self-describing himself as a 'dirty old man' rings true in this book.<br/>"People come to my door—too many of them really—and knock to tell me Notes of a Dirty Old Man turns them on. A bum off the road brings in a gypsy and his wife and we talk . . . . drink half the night. A long distance operator from Newburgh, N.Y. sends me money. She wants me to give up drinking beer and to eat well. I hear from a madman who calls himself 'King Arthur' and lives on Vine Street in Hollywood and wants to help me write my column. A doctor comes to my door: 'I read your column and think I can help you. I used to be a psychiatrist.' I send him away . . ."<br/>"Bukowski writes like a latter-day Celine, a wise fool talking straight from the gut about the futility and beauty of life . . ." —Publishers Weekly<br/>"These disjointed stories gives us a glimpse into the brilliant and highly disturbed mind of a man who will drink anything, hump anything and say anything without the slightest tinge of embarassment, shame or remorse. It's actually pretty hard not to like the guy after reading a few of these semi-ranting short stories." —Greg Davidson, curiculummag.com<br/>Charles Bukowski was born in Andernach, Germany on August 16, 1920, the only child of an American soldier and a German mother. Bukowski published his first story when he was twenty-four and began writing poetry at the age of thirty-five. His first book of poetry was published in 1959; he went on to publish more than forty-five books of poetry and prose, including Pulp (Black Sparrow, 1994), Screams from the Balcony: Selected Letters 1960-1970 (1993), and The Last Night of the Earth Poems (1992). Other Bukowski books published by City Lights Publishers include More Notes of a Dirty Old Man, The Most Beautiful Woman in Town, Tales of Ordinary Madness, Portions from a Wine-Stained Notebook, and Absence of the Hero. He died of leukemia in San Pedro on March 9, 1994.
Of Mice and Men
John Steinbeck • 1993
Old School A Novel
Tobias Wolff • 2003
Determined to fit in at his New England prep school, the narrator has learned to mimic the bearing and manners of his adoptive tribe while concealing as much as possible about himself. His final year, however, unravels everything he's achieved, and steers his destiny in directions no one could have predicted. The school's mystique is rooted in Literature, and for many boys this becomes an obsession, editing the review and competing for the attention of visiting writers whose fame helps to perpetuate the tradition. Robert Frost, soon to appear at JFK's inauguration, is far less controversial than the next visitor, Ayn Rand. But the final guest is one whose blessing a young writer would do almost anything to gain.
On the Road The Original Scroll
Jack Kerouac • 2008
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Ken Kesey • 2007
Cien años de soledad / One Hundred Years of Solitude (Spanish Edition)
Gabriel García Márquez • 2009
The Opposite of Fate
Amy Tan • 2003
Oracle Night
Paul Auster • 2008
<p> <b>Auster's radical modern ghost story from the author of contemporary classic <i>The New York Trilogy</i>: 'a literary voice for the ages' ( <i>Guardian</i>) </b> <br> <br> Several months into his recovery from a near-fatal illness, novelist Sidney Orr enters a stationery shop in Brooklyn and buys a blue notebook. It is September 18, 1982, and for the next nine days Orr will live under the spell of this blank book, trapped inside a world of eerie premonitions and bewildering events that threaten to destroy his marriage and undermine his faith in reality. <br> <br> If <i>The New York Trilogy </i>was Paul Auster's detective story, his mesmerizing eleventh novel reads like an old-fashioned ghost story. But there are no ghosts in this book - only flesh-and-blood human beings, wandering through the haunted realms of everyday life. <i>Oracle Night</i> is a narrative tour de force that confirms Auster's reputation as one of the boldest, most original writers at work in America today. <br> <br> 'His old-fashioned art of creating suspense . . . which rivals M. R. James or Conan Doyle. In fact, <i>Oracle Night </i>is best read as a post-modern ghost story.' The <i>Guardian</i> </p>
Oryx and Crake
Margaret Atwood • 2003
Othello
William Shakespeare • 1993
Our Mutual Friend (Penguin Classics)
Charles Dickens • 1998
The Outbreak of the Peloponnesian War
Donald Kagan • 2013
Out of Africa
Isak Dinesen • 1992
The Outsiders
S. E. Hinton • 1967
A Passage To India
E.M. Forster • 1965
The Peace of Nicias and the Sicilian Expedition
Donald Kagan • 2013
Why did the Peace of Nicias fail to reconcile Athens and Sparta? In the third volume of his landmark four-volume history of the Peloponnesian War, Donald Kagan examines the years between the signing of the peace treaty and the destruction of the Athenian expedition to Sicily in 413 B.C. The principal figure in the narrative is the Athenian politician and general Nicias, whose policies shaped the treaty and whose military strategies played a major role in the attack against Sicily.
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Stephen Chbosky • 2010
Peyton Place
Grace Metalious • 1999
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde • 1993
Pigs at the Trough: Library Edition
Arianna Huffington • 2009
Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk
Legs McNeil • 2016
The Complete Polysyllabic Spree
Hornby Nick • 2006
The Portable Dorothy Parker
Dorothy Parker • 1976
The Portable Nietzsche (Portable Library)
Friedrich Nietzsche • 1977
Pride and Prejudice (Penguin Classics)
Jane Austen • 1813
Property
Valerie Martin • 2007
Pushkin
T.J. Binyon • 2007
Pygmalion
George Bernard Shaw • 2014
Quattrocento
James McKean • 2003
A Quiet Storm A Novel
Rachel Howzell Hall • 2002
In this vividly written, suspense-driven novel, the secrets shared between two sisters erupt in tragedy. <br> Rikki Moore was always the star of the family, easily outshining her younger sister, Stacy, at every turn. Smart, kind, and beautiful, it was no surprise when Rikki met and married the perfect man -- pediatrician Matt Dresden. Her students at 59th Street Elementary School adored her, the church matrons solicited her help on every committee, and everyone wanted the golden couple to put in an appearance at their parties. Stacy? She was just the overweight little sister who couldn't get her love life together. <br> But the world didn't know about the storms that rippled just beneath the surface of Rikki's image of perfection. Ever since she was a teenager there were emotional breakdowns and obsessive behaviors -- secrets that Stacy was left to bear alone. Folks whispered, but they didn't know. When Rikki's husband, Matt, mysteriously disappears, however, the Moore family's carefully constructed image comes crashing down.
The Raven
Edgar Allan Poe • 2013
The Razor's Edge
W. Somerset Maugham • 2003
Reading Lolita in Tehran
Azar Nafisi • 2008
Rebecca
Daphne du Maurier • 2013
The Red Tent - 20th Anniversary Edition A Novel
Anita Diamant • 2007
Rescuing Patty Hearst: Memories From a Decade Gone Mad
Virginia Holman • 2003
The Return Of The King
J.R.R. Tolkien • 2012
R is for Ricochet
Sue Grafton • 2016
Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption
Stephen King • 2020
<b>#1 <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author Stephen King’s beloved novella, <i>Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption</i>—the basis for the Best Picture Academy Award–nominee <i>The Shawshank Redemption</i>—about an unjustly imprisoned convict who seeks a strangely satisfying revenge, is available as a standalone book.</b><br><br>Suspenseful, mysterious, and heart-wrenching, Stephen King’s extraordinary novella, populated by a cast of unforgettable characters, tells a powerful tale of crushing despair and liberating hope through the eyes of Ellis “Red” Redding. Red’s a guy who can get you whatever you want here in Maine’s corrupt and hard-edged Shawshank State Penitentiary (for a price, of course), but the one thing he doesn’t count on is an unexpected friendship forged with fellow inmate Andy Dufresne—an inscrutable one-time banker perhaps falsely convicted of brutal, calculated murder who will go on to transform everyone’s lives within these prison walls.<br> <br>Originally published in the 1982 collection <i>Different Seasons</i>, it was adapted into the 1994 film <i>The Shawshank Redemption</i> starring Tim Robbins and Morgan Freeman. Nominated for seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture, this modern classic has become one of the most beloved films of all time. A mesmerizing work of unjust imprisonment and strangely satisfying revenge, <i>Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption</i> remains one of Stephen King’s most beloved and iconic stories.
Roman Fever
Edith Wharton • 2014
Romeo and Juliet (Folger Shakespeare Library)
William Shakespeare • 2004
A Room of One's Own
Virginia Woolf • 1989
A Room with a View
Edward Morgan Forster • 2020
Rosemary's Baby
Ira Levin • 2017
Sacred Time
Ursula Hegi • 2005
Sanctuary
William Faulkner • 1993
A powerful novel examining the nature of evil, informed by the works of T. S. Eliot and Freud, mythology, local lore, and hardboiled detective fiction. <i>Sanctuary</i> is the dark, at times brutal, story of the kidnapping of Mississippi debutante Temple Drake, who introduces her own form of venality into the Memphis underworld where she is being held.
Savage Beauty The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay
Nancy Milford • 2001
<b>Thirty years after the smashing success of <i>Zelda</i>, Nancy Milford returns with a stunning second act. <i>Savage Beauty </i>is the portrait of a passionate, fearless woman who obsessed American ever as she tormented herself.</b><br> <b><br>ONE OF <i>ESQUIRE</i>’S 50 BEST BIOGRAPHIES OF ALL TIME<br></b><br> If F. Scott Fitzgerald was the hero of the Jazz Age, Edna St. Vincent Millay, as flamboyant in her love affairs as she was in her art, was its heroine. The first woman ever to win the Pulitzer Prize, Millay was dazzling in the performance of herself. Her voice was likened to an instrument of seduction and her impact on crowds, and on men, was legendary. Yet beneath her studied act, all was not well. Milford calls her book "a family romance"—for the love between the three Millay sisters and their mother was so deep as to be dangerous. As a family, they were like real-life <i>Little Women</i>, with a touch of <i>Mommie Dearest</i>.<br><br> Nancy Milford was given exclusive access to Millay's papers, and what she found was an extraordinary treasure. Boxes and boxes of letter flew back and forth among the three sisters and their mother—and Millay kept the most intimate diary, one whose ruthless honesty brings to mind Sylvia Plath. Written with passion and flair, <i>Savage Beauty</i> is an iconic portrait of a woman's life.
Daisy Miller
Henry James • 1995
<p>Daisy Miller is a fascinating portrait of a young woman from Schenectady, New York, who, traveling in Europe, runs afoul of the socially pretentious American expatriate community in Rome. First published in 1878, the novella brought American novelist Henry James (1843–1916), then living in London, his first international success. Like many of James' early works, it portrays a venturesome American girl in the treacherous waters of European society — a theme that would culminate in his 1881 masterpiece, <i>The Portrait of a Lady</i>.<br> On the surface, <i>Daisy Miller</i> unfolds a simple story of a young American girl's willful yet innocent flirtation with a young Italian, and its unfortunate consequences. But throughout the narrative, James contrasts American customs and values with European manners and morals in a tale rich in psychological and social insight. A vivid portrayal of Americans abroad and a telling encounter between the values of the Old and New World, <i>Daisy Miller</i> is an ideal introduction to the work of one of America's greatest writers of fiction.</p>
The Scarecrow of Oz
L. Frank Baum • 1997
The Scarlett Letter
Nathaniel Hawthorne • 1850
Seabiscuit An American Legend
Laura Hillenbrand • 2002
The Second Sex
Simone de Beauvoir • 1993
The Secret Life of Bees
Sue Monk Kidd • 2003
Secrets of the Flesh A Life of Colette
Judith Thurman • 2011
Selected Letters Of Dawn Powell: 1913-1965
Dawn Powell / Tim Page · 2000
Sense and Sensibility
Jane Austen · 2003
A Separate Peace
John Knowles · 2003
Sexus
Henry Miller · 2015
The Shadow of the Wind
Carlos Ruiz Zafon · 2005
Shane
Jack Schaefer · 2014
<p>This classic Western is a profoundly moving story of the influence of a singular character on one boy's life.</p> <p>The Starrett family's life forever changes when a man named Shane rides out of the great glowing West and up to their farm.</p> <p>Young Bob Starrett is entranced by this stoic stranger who brings a new energy to his family. Shane stays on as a farmhand, but his past remains a mystery. Many folks in their small Wyoming valley are suspicious of Shane and make it known that he is not welcome.</p> <p>But dangerous as Shane may seem, he is a staunch friend to the Starretts--and when a powerful neighboring rancher tries to drive them out of their homestead, Shane becomes entangled in the deadly feud.</p> <p>"If you read only one Western in your life, this is the one." (Roland Smith, author of the Peak Marcello adventure novels)</p> <p>I had lain in my bed thinking of our visitor out in the bunk in the barn. It scarce seemed possible that he was the same man I had first seen, stern and chilling in his dark solitude, riding up our road. Something in father, something not of words or of actions but of the essential substance of the human spirit, had reached out and spoken to him and he had replied to it and had unlocked a part of himself to us. He was far off and unapproachable at times even when he was right there with you.</p>
The Shining
Stephen King · 1977
Siddhartha
Hermann Hesse · 2022
S is for Silence A Kinsey Millhone Novel
Sue Grafton · 2006
Slaughter House Five
Kurt Vonnegut · 1991
Billy Pilgrim, an American soldier captured by the Germans, witnesses firebombing and destruction in Dresden. Launched in November, Dell's Kurt Vonnegut reissue program continues with one of the world's great anti-war books. Centering on the infamous firebombing of Dresden, Billy Pilgrim's odyssey through time reflects the mythic journey of our own fractured lives as we search for meaning in what we are afraid to know.
Small Island A Novel
Andrea Levy · 2010
The Snows of Kilimanjaro, and Other Stories
Ernest Hemingway · 1986
The Song of Names
Norman Lebrecht · 2004
Song of the Simple Truth The Complete Poems of Julia de Burgos
Julia de Burgos · 1995
The Song Reader
Lisa Tucker · 2003
Songbook
Nick Hornby · 2003
“All I have to say about these songs is that I love them, and want to sing along to them, and force other people to listen to them, and get cross when these other people don’t like them as much as I do.” —Nick Hornby, from Songbook A wise and hilarious collection from the bestselling author of Dickens and Prince, Just Like You, Funny Girl and About a Boy. Songs, songwriters, and why and how they get under our skin… Songbook is Nick Hornby’s labor of love. A shrewd, funny, and completely unique collection of musings on pop music, why it’s good, what makes us listen and love it, and the ways in which it attaches itself to our lives—all with the beat of a perfectly mastered mix tape.
The Sonnets and a Lover's Complaint
William Shakespeare · 2010
Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design. When this volume of Shakespeare's poems first appeared in 1609, he had already written most of the great plays that made him famous. The 154 sonnets - all but two of which are addressed to a beautiful young man or a treacherous 'dark lady' - contain some of the most exquisite and haunting poetry ever written, and deal with eternal subjects such as love and infidelity, memory and mortality, and the destruction wreaked by Time. Also included is A Lover's Complaint, originally published with the sonnets, in which a young woman is overheard lamenting her betrayal by a heartless seducer.
Sonnets from the Portuguese Love Sonnets
Elizabeth Browning · 2014
Sophie’s Choice
William Styron
Have you ever wondered why that 13-digit number on the back of a book costs $125 in the United States but is completely free in Canada and India? This book, The Global ISBN Handbook, is your 2025 guide to the International Standard Book Number. It explains everything about this global "fingerprint" for books. The ISBN is the most important cornerstone of the publishing industry. It started as a simple warehouse tool in the 1960s. Now, it is a complex digital identifier used in over 200 countries. This handbook deconstructs the entire system. It uses 15 distinct national case studies to do this. You will learn how the old 10-digit system changed to the new 13-digit one. We break down the five parts of the ISBN, from the "Bookland" prefix to the final check digit. The book explores the global governance framework, starting with the International ISBN Agency. Then, it dives deep into how different countries run their systems. You'll see the privatized, high-cost model in the United States. You'll compare it to Canada's free, government-run system. We explore the industry-led models in Brazil and Germany. We look at government-run systems in Mexico and India. We even cover the unique case of China, where the ISBN is not a simple identifier but a state-controlled publication license. The book also examines the systems in the UK , France , Russia , Japan , Australia , South Africa , Nigeria , and Egypt. Many books and websites can tell you how to get an ISBN. This handbook is the only resource that explains why the process is so different everywhere you look. It moves beyond a simple "how-to" and provides a true global analysis. It directly compares the privatized, for-profit models in the US and UK against the free, public-good systems in Canada and South Africa. You won't just learn the price; you will understand the cultural policies, market structures, and legal philosophies that shape that price. This book shows how the ISBN is a "global mirror". It reveals how a simple number can be a commercial product in one nation , a tool of cultural policy in another , and an instrument of state control in a third. This comparative insight is the missing piece for any author, publisher, or researcher trying to navigate the complex international publishing market. Disclaimer: This handbook is an independently produced resource for commentary and analysis. The author has no affiliation with the International ISBN Agency, R.R. Bowker, Library and Archives Canada, the National Press and Publication Administration, or any other national ISBN agency. This work is independently produced under the principle of nominative fair use.
The Sound and the Fury
William Faulkner · 1959
First published in 1929, Faulkner created his "heart's darling," the beautiful and tragic Caddy Compson, whose story Faulkner told through separate monologues by her three brothers--the idiot Benjy, the neurotic suicidal Quentin and the monstrous Jason. From the Trade Paperback edition. The novel reveals the story of the disintegration of the Compson family, doomed inhabitants of Faulkner's mythical Yoknapatawpha County, through the interior monologues of the idiot Benjy and his brothers, Quentin and Jason
Speak, Memory An Autobiography Revisited
Vladimir Nabokov · 1989
<b>From one of the 20th century's great writers comes one of the finest autobiographies of our time. • "Scintillating … One finds here amazing glimpses into the life of a world that has vanished forever." —<i>The New York Times</i> <br></b><br><i>Speak, Memory</i> was first published by Vladimir Nabokov in 1951 as <i>Conclusive Evidence</i> and then assiduously revised and republished in 1966. Nabokov's memoir is a moving account of a loving, civilized family, of adolescent awakenings, flight from Bolshevik terror, education in England, and émigré life in Paris and Berlin. The Nabokovs were eccentric, liberal aristocrats, who lived a life immersed in politics and literature on splendid country estates until their world was swept away by the Russian revolution when the author was eighteen years old. <i>Speak, Memory</i> vividly evokes a vanished past in the inimitable prose of Nabokov at his best.
Stiff The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
Mary Roach · 2021
The Story of My Life
Helen Keller · 1996
When she was 19 months old, Helen Keller (1880–1968) suffered a severe illness that left her blind and deaf. Not long after, she also became mute. Her tenacious struggle to overcome these handicaps-with the help of her inspired teacher, Anne Sullivan-is one of the great stories of human courage and dedication. In this classic autobiography, first published in 1903, Miss Keller recounts the first 22 years of her life, including the magical moment at the water pump when, recognizing the connection between the word "water" and the cold liquid flowing over her hand, she realized that objects had names. Subsequent experiences were equally noteworthy: her joy at eventually learning to speak, her friendships with Oliver Wendell Holmes, Edward Everett Hale and other notables, her education at Radcliffe (from which she graduated cum laude), and-underlying all-her extraordinary relationship with Miss Sullivan, who showed a remarkable genius for communicating with her eager and quick-to-learn pupil. These and many other aspects of Helen Keller's life are presented here in clear, straightforward prose full of wonderful descriptions and imagery that would do credit to a sighted writer. Completely devoid of self-pity, yet full of love and compassion for others, this deeply moving memoir offers an unforgettable portrait of one of the outstanding women of the twentieth century.
A Streetcar Named Desire
Tennessee Williams · 2004
The Sun Also Rises
Ernest Hemingway, Pocket Classic · 2022
Swann’s Way
Marcel Proust · 2023
Swimming With Giants: My Encounters With Whales, Dolphins, and Seals
Anne Collet, Marc Sich · 2000
Sybil
Flora Rheta Schreiber · 2009
A Tale of Two Cities
Charles Dickens · 2007
Tender is the Night
F. Scott Fitzgerald · 2003
<b>A modern classic, this edition has been restored by Fitzgerald scholar James L.W. West III and features a personal foreword by Fitzgerald’s great-granddaughter Blake Hazard and a new introduction by bestselling Amor Towles.</b><br><br>Set in the south of France in the late 1920s, <i>Tender Is the Night</i> is the tragic tale of a young actress, Rosemary Hoyt, and her complicated relationship with the alluring American couple Dick and Nicole Diver. A brilliant psychiatrist at the time of his marriage, Dick is both husband and doctor to Nicole, whose wealth pushed him into a glamorous lifestyle, and whose growing strength highlights Dick’s decline.<br> <br>Lyrical, expansive, and hauntingly evocative, <i>Tender Is the Night</i> was one of the most talked-about books of the year when it was originally published in 1934, and is even more beloved by readers today.
Terms of Endearment
Larry mcmurtry · 1975
Time and Again
Jack Finney · 1995
To Have and Have Not
Ernest Hemingway · 1965
To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee · 2002
The Tragedy of Richard III
William Shakespeare · 1996
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Betty Smith · 2005
The Trial A New Translation Based on the Restored Text
Franz Kafka · 1999
<b>A brilliant translation of one of the most important novels of the twentieth century, revealing a tale that is as full of energy and power as it was when it was first written. From the author of <i>The Metamorphosis.<br></i></b><br>Written in 1914, <i>The Trial</i> is the terrifying tale of Josef K., a respectable bank officer who is suddenly and inexplicably arrested and must defend himself against a charge about which he can get no information. Whether read as an existential tale, a parable, or a prophecy of the excesses of modern bureaucracy wedded to the madness of totalitarianism, Kafka's nightmare has resonated with chilling truth for generations of readers. This new edition is based upon the work of an international team of experts who have restored the text, the sequence of chapters, and their division to create a version that is as close as possible to the way the author left it.
The True and Outstanding Adventures of the Hunt Sisters
Elisabeth Robinson · 2005
Truth & Beauty A Friendship
Ann Patchett · 2005
Tuesdays with Morrie An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson, 25th Anniversary Edition
Mitch Albom · 2002
ULYSSES
James Joyce, HB Classics · 2022
The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
Sylvia Plath · 2000
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Harriet Stowe · 2021
Valley of the Dolls
Jacqueline Susann · 2016
Unless
Carol Shields
The Vanishing Newspaper
Meyer, Philip
Vanity Fair
William Makepeace Thackeray · 1992
The Velvet Underground's The Velvet Underground and Nico
Joe Harvard · 2004
The Virgin Suicides A Novel
Jeffrey Eugenides · 2015
Waiting for Godot
Samuel Beckett · 2010
Subtitled 'A tragicomedy in two Acts', and famously described by the Irish critic Vivien Mercier as a play in which 'nothing happens, twice', <i>En attendant Godot</i> was first performed at the Théâtre de Babylone in Paris in 1953. It was translated into English by Samuel Beckett, and <i>Waiting for </i><i>Godot</i> opened at the Arts Theatre in London in 1955. <b> </b>'Go and see <i>Waiting for Godot</i>. At the worst<b> </b>you will discover a curiosity, a four-leaved clover, a black tulip; at the best something that will securely lodge in a corner of your mind for as long as you live.'<b> </b> Harold Hobson, 7 August 1955 'I told him that if by Godot I had meant God I would have said God, and not<b> </b>Godot. This seemed to disappoint him greatly.' Samuel Beckett, 1955<b> </b>
Walden Or, Life in the Woods
Henry David Thoreau · 2017
Henry David Thoreau's classic masterwork of transcendental experimentation and introspection, as he chronicles his time in the woods.
War and Peace (AmazonClassics Edition)
Leo Tolstoy · 2019
We Owe You Nothing The Collected Interviews
Daniel Sinker · 2019
“Collects some of [Punk Planet’s] best interviews from the past half-decade . . . serves as a reminder that punk is not just music but a movement.” —The A.V. Club Updated with six more interviews and a new introduction, the expanded edition of We Owe You Nothing is the definitive book of conversations with the underground’s greatest minds from the pages of Punk Planet. New interviews include talks with bands like The Gossip and Maritime, a conversation with punk legend Bob Mould, and more . . . in addition to the classic interviews from the original edition: Ian MacKaye, Jello Biafra, Thurston Moore, Noam Chomsky, Kathleen Hanna, Black Flag, Sleater-Kinney, Steve Albini, Frank Kozik, Art Chantry, and others. “We Owe You Nothing made me feel vital and alive.” —Seattle Weekly “The magazine Punk Planet has quietly been one of the most intelligent voices in the kingdom of punk and post-punk . . . [and] anyone with the vaguest interest in music would be well-served to learn from these captured moments [in We Owe You Nothing].” —Detroit Metro Times “No book has illustrated this relationship between punk and its believers more than We Owe You Nothing.” —Daily Herald “Straight talk with no bullshit, no spin. The result is an airblast of honesty, an antidote of attitude. Music fans will love this book, and so will fans of independent thinking.” —Flagpole “A wholly unique vision wrought not by consensus but by cultural cynicism and never-say-die musical populism.” —Magnet
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
Henry Farrell · 2013
The chilling novel that inspired the iconic film starring Bette Davis and Joan Crawford</br></br> As seen on the FX series Feud: Bette and Joan, which chronicles the rivalry between the Hollywood stars during their filming of Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?</br></br> The neighbors all whisper about the two sisters who live on the hill: It's Blanche Hudson who lives in that house, you know. The Blanche Hudson, who starred in big Hollywood films all those years ago. Such a shame her career ended so early, all because of that accident. They say it was her sister, Jane, who did it--that she crashed the car because she was drunk. They say that's why she looks after Blanche now, because of the guilt. That's what they say, at least.<br><br>Nobody remembers that Jane was once a star herself. A fixture of early vaudeville, Baby Jane Hudson performed her song and dance routines for adoring crowds until a move to Hollywood thrust her sister into the spotlight. Even now, years later, Jane dreams of reviving her act. But as the lines begin to blur between fantasy and reality, past resentments become dangerous--and the sisters' long-kept secrets threaten to destroy them. <br><br>Now with three short stories available for the first time in print, including What Ever Happened to Cousin Charlotte, the basis for the film Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte.<br>
When the Emperor Was Divine
Julie Otsuka · 2003
<b>F<b>rom the bestselling, award-winning author of <i>The Buddha in the Attic and The Swimmers, </i>this commanding debut novel paints a portrait of the Japanese American incarceration camps</b> that is both a haunting evocation of a family in wartime and a resonant lesson for our times.</b><br><br>On a sunny day in Berkeley, California, in 1942, a woman sees a sign in a post office window, returns to her home, and matter-of-factly begins to pack her family's possessions. Like thousands of other Japanese Americans they have been reclassified, virtually overnight, as enemy aliens and are about to be uprooted from their home and sent to a dusty incarceration camp in the Utah desert. <br><br> In this lean and devastatingly evocative first novel, Julie Otsuka tells their story from five flawlessly realized points of view and conveys the exact emotional texture of their experience: the thin-walled barracks and barbed-wire fences, the omnipresent fear and loneliness, the unheralded feats of heroism. <i>When the Emperor Was Divine</i> is a work of enormous power that makes a shameful episode of our history as immediate as today's headlines.
Who Moved My Cheese
Spencer Johnson · 1998
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Revised by the Author
Edward Albee · 2006
<b>A bitter marriage unravels in Edward Albee's darkly humorous play—winner of the Tony Award for Best Play.</b><br><br>“Twelve times a week,” answered actress Uta Hagen when asked how often she’d like to play Martha in <i>Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?</i> In the same way, audiences and critics alike could not get enough of Edward Albee’s masterful play. A dark comedy, it portrays husband and wife George and Martha in a searing night of dangerous fun and games. By the evening’s end, a stunning, almost unbearable revelation provides a climax that has shocked audiences for years. With its razor-sharp dialogue and the stripping away of social pretense, Newsweek rightly foresaw <i>Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?</i> as “a brilliantly original work of art—an excoriating theatrical experience, surging with shocks of recognition and dramatic fire [that] will be igniting Broadway for some time to come.”
Wicked The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
Gregory Maguire · 1996
The Wizard of Oz
L. Frank Baum · 2012
This classic Stepping Stone edition, brings the classic <i>Wizard of Oz</i> tale to first chapter book readers. Includes art from the original <i>Wizard of Oz!</i>
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
Driving Miss Daisy
Alfred Uhry · 1993
Don Quixote
Miguel de Cervantes, Edith Grossman · 2003
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
Rebecca Wells · 2002
The Divine Comedy
Dante Alighieri · 1998
The Devil In The White City
Erik Larson · 2010
Deenie
Judy Blume · 2014
Death of a Salesman
Arthur Miller · 1976
Demons
Fyodor Dostoevsky · 2010
Dead Souls
Nikolai Gogol · 1996
The Da Vinci Code (Republish)
Dan Brown · 2018
David Copperfield
Charles Dickens · 2000
Lisa and David
Theodore Isaac Rubin · 2018
Daughter of Fortune
Isabel Allende · 2020
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Mark Haddon · 2009
Cujo
Stephen King · 2016
The Crucible
Arthur Miller · 1976
The Crimson Petal and the White
Michel Faber · 2010
Crime and Punishment
Fyodor Dostoevsky · 2024
Cousin Bette
Honoré de Balzac · 1888
The Count of Monte Cristo
Alexandre Dumas · 2019
A Confederacy of Dunces
John Kennedy Toole · 2007
Complete Stories
Dorothy Parker · 1995
Selected Poems of Anne Sexton
Anne Sexton · 2000
The Comedy of Errors
William Shakespeare · 1898
The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty
Eudora Welty · 1980
The Code Of The Woosters
Pelham Grenville Wodehouse · 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
The Canterbury Tales
Geoffrey Chaucer · 2003
Candide
By Voltaire · 2019
Brick Lane
Monica Ali · 2008
Brave New World
Aldous Huxley · 2020
A Bolt from the Blue and Other Essays
Mary McCarthy · 2002
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
The Bell Jar
Sylvia Plath · 1971
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
Alice in Wonderland
Lewis Carroll · 2024
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Mark Twain
1984
George Orwell · 2021
