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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
"The fourth volume in Kagan's history of ancient Athens, which has been called one of the major achievements of modern historical scholarship, begins with the ill-fated Sicilian expedition of 413 B.C. and ends with the surrender of Athens to Sparta in 404 B.C. Richly documented, precise in detail, it is also extremely well-written, linking it to a tradition of historical narrative that has become rare in our time."<br/>― Virginia Quarterly Review<br/>In the fourth and final volume of his magisterial history of the Peloponnesian War, Donald Kagan examines the period from the destruction of Athens' Sicilian expedition in September of 413 B.C. to the Athenian surrender to Sparta in the spring of 404 B.C. Through his study of this last decade of the war, Kagan evaluates the performance of the Athenian democracy as it faced its most serious challenge. At the same time, Kagan assesses Thucydides' interpretation of the reasons for Athens’ defeat and the destruction of the Athenian Empire.
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
<b>NATIONAL BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE WINNER • SELECTED BY THE MODERN LIBRARY AS ONE OF THE 100 BEST NONFICTION BOOKS • The landmark study exploring alternative perspectives of early Christianity as revealed through the Nag Hammadi texts that could have shaped the religion differently if included in the Christian canon • "[Pagels] is always readable, always deeply informed, always richly suggestive of pathways her readers may wish to follow out for themselves."<i>—</i>Harold Bloom, <i>The Washington Post</i></b><br> <br> <b>“[Pagels] writes with the instincts of a novelist, the skill of a scholar, and the ability to sort out significances that many writers lack.”<i>—Chicago Tribune • “</i>An intellectually elegant, concise study . . . The economy with which [Pagels] evokes the world of early Christianity is a marvel.”<i>—The New Yorker </i></b><br> <br> <i>The Gnostic Gospels</i> is a work of luminous scholarship and wide popular appeal. First published in 1979 to critical acclaim, winning the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award,<i> The Gnostic Gospels </i>has continued to grow in reputation and influence. It is now widely recognized as one of the most brilliant and accessible histories of early Christian spirituality published in our time.<br><br>In 1945 an Egyptian peasant unearthed what proved to be the Gnostic Gospels, thirteen papyrus volumes that expounded a radically different view of the life and teachings of Jesus Christ from that of the New Testament. In this spellbinding book, renowned religious scholar Elaine Pagels elucidates the mysteries and meanings of these sacred texts both in the world of the first Christians and in the context of Christianity today.<br><br>With insight and passion, Pagels explores a remarkable range of recently discovered gospels, including the Gospel of Thomas and the Gospel of Mary Magdalene, to show how a variety of “Christianities” emerged at a time of extraordinary spiritual upheaval. Some Christians questioned the need for clergy and church doctrine, and taught that the divine could be discovered through spiritual search. Many others, like Buddhists and Hindus, sought enlightenment—and access to God—within. Such explorations raised questions: Was the resurrection to be understood symbolically and not literally? Was God to be envisioned only in masculine form, or feminine as well? Was martyrdom a necessary—or worthy—expression of faith? These early Christians dared to ask questions that orthodox Christians later suppressed—and their explorations led to profoundly different visions of Jesus and his message. <br> <br> Brilliant and stunning in its implications, <i>The Gnostic Gospels </i>is a radical, eloquent reconsideration of the origins of the Christian faith.
The Godfather
Mario Puzo · 1969
<b>The unforgettable saga of an American crime family that became a #1 bestseller and global phenomenon. </b><br> <br> Since its release in 1969, <i>The Godfather </i>has made an indelible mark on American crime fiction. From the mind of master storyteller Mario Puzo, it traces the Corleone family, whose brilliant and brutal portrayal illuminated the violent and seductive allure of power in American society. A tale of family and loyalty, law and order, obedience and rebellion, it has stood the test of time as the definitive novel of the Mafia underworld. <br> <br> Beyond the bestselling novel, Francis Ford Coppola’s incomparable film adaptation and Academy Award winner for Best Picture cemented <i>The Godfather</i>’s reputation as a triumph in storytelling and a seminal classic for the ages. With a legacy of blood and honor, it is a cultural touchstone that has resonated for generations, and still mesmerizes readers to this day.
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 basis for Mike Nichols' acclaimed 1967 film starring Dustin Hoffman -- and for successful stage productions in London and on Broadway -- this classic novel about a naive college graduate adrift in the shifting social and sexual mores of the 1960s captures with hilarity and insight the alienation of youth and the disillusionment of an era. <br> <b>The Graduate</b> <br> When Benjamin Braddock graduates from a small Eastern college and moves home to his parents' house, everyone wants to know what he's going to do with his life. Embittered by the emptiness of his college education and indifferent to his grim prospects -- grad school? a career in plastics? -- Benjamin falls haplessly into an affair with Mrs. Robinson, the relentlessly seductive wife of his father's business partner. It's only when beautiful coed Elaine Robinson comes home to visit her parents that Benjamin, now smitten, thinks he might have found some kind of direction in his life. Unfortuately for Benjamin, Mrs. Robinson plays the role of protective mother as well as she does the one of mistress. A wondrously fierce and absurd battle of wills ensues, with love and idealism triumphing over the forces of corruption and conformity.
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
Portrays the lives of eight women graduated from the same class at Vassar.
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 New York Times Bestseller -- Book 1 in the Harry Potter series. The author's first novel introduces Harry Potter, the son of a powerful wizard and witch who are killed by an even more powerful sorcerer. Sent to live with his Muggle (non-magical) aunt, uncle, and cousin, Harry is treated poorly without knowing why. On his tenth birthday, Harry learns that he is a wizard and is to go off to Hogwarts, a prestigious school for wizards and witches. Harry and his friends, Hermione and Ron, soon discover that something shady is going on, and they must save Hogwarts from the very sorcerer who killed Harry's parents.No Canadian Rights for the Harry Potter Series.HARRY POTTER and all related characters and elements are trademarks of and Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. Harry Potter publishing rights -- J. K. Rowling. (s05).
A Heartbreaking Work Of Staggering Genius
Dave Eggers · 2013
"Exhilarating…Profoundly moving, occasionally angry, and often hilarious...A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius is, finally, a finite book of jest, which is why it succeeds so brilliantly" (The New York Times Book Review). A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius is the unique, moving memoir of a college senior who, in the space of five weeks, loses both of his parents to cancer and inherits his eight-year-old brother. In his distinctive style unlike any other memoir, Egger's story is an exhilarating debut that manages to be simultaneously hilarious and wildly inventive, as well as a deeply heartfelt story of the love that holds a family together.
Heart of Darkness
Joseph Conrad · 2019
A new edition of Heart of Darkness, the 1899 masterpiece by Polish-British novelist Joseph Conrad about a voyage up the Congo River into the Heart of Africa. The story is narrated by Charles Marlow, recalling his obsessive quest to locate the ivory trader Kurtz, who has become ensconced deep in the jungle managing a remote outpost. As he ventures further and further down the Congo, Marlow finds himself and his surroundings become increasingly untethered. Heart of Darkness has been widely re-published and translated into many languages. It provided the inspiration for Francis Ford Coppola's 1979 film Apocalypse Now. In 1998, the Modern Library ranked Heart of Darkness 67th on their list of the 100 best novels in English of the twentieth century. Literary critic Harold Bloom wrote that Heart of Darkness had been analyzed more than any other work of literature that is studied in universities and colleges, which he attributed to Conrad's "unique propensity for ambiguity."
Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders
Vincent Bugliosi, Curt Gentry · 2001
<b>The #1 True Crime Bestseller of All Time—7 Million Copies Sold</b><br><p>In the summer of 1969, in Los Angeles, a series of brutal, seemingly random murders captured headlines across America. A famous actress (and her unborn child), an heiress to a coffee fortune, a supermarket owner and his wife were among the seven victims. A thin trail of circumstances eventually tied the Tate-LeBianca murders to Charles Manson, a would-be pop singer of small talent living in the desert with his "family" of devoted young women and men. What was his hold over them? And what was the motivation behind such savagery? In the public imagination, over time, the case assumed the proportions of myth. The murders marked the end of the sixties and became an immediate symbol of the dark underside of that era.</p> <p>Vincent Bugliosi was the prosecuting attorney in the Manson trial, and this book is his enthralling account of how he built his case from what a defense attorney dismissed as only "two fingerprints and Vince Bugliosi." The meticulous detective work with which the story begins, the prosecutor's view of a complex murder trial, the reconstruction of the philosophy Manson inculcated in his fervent followers…these elements make for a true crime classic. <i>Helter Skelter</i> is not merely a spellbinding murder case and courtroom drama but also, in the words of <i>The New Republic</i>, a "social document of rare importance."</p>
Henry IV, Part Two (Henry IV, Part II)
William Shakespeare · 1988
The stirring continuation of the themes begun in <b>Henry IV, Part One</b> again pits a rebellion within the State and that master of misrule, Falstaff, against the maturing of Prince Hal. Alternating scenes between bawdy tavern and regal court, between revelry and politics, Shakespeare probes at the sources, uses, and responsibilities of power as an old king dies and a young king must choose between a ruler's solemn duty and a merry but dissipated friend, Falstaff. The play represents Shakespeare at the peak of his maturity in writing historical drama and comedy.
Henry IV, Part 1 (Folger Shakespeare Library)
William Shakespeare · 2020
<b>The authoritative edition of <i>Henry IV, Part 1 </i>from The Folger Shakespeare Library, the trusted and widely used Shakespeare series for students and general readers. </b><br><br>Family relationships are at the center of <i>Henry IV, Part 1</i>. King Henry IV and Prince Hal form one major father-son pair, with Henry in despair because Hal lives a dissolute life. The father-son pair of Hotspur (Lord Henry Percy) and his father, the Earl of Northumberland, is in seeming contrast; the king envies Northumberland “his Harry,” wishing he could claim the gallant Hotspur as his own. Meanwhile, Hal has entered into a quasi-father-son relationship with a disreputable but amusing knight, Sir John Falstaff.<br> <br>Another strand of action centers on still more family relationships. Hotspur’s stand against Henry focuses on Hotspur’s brother-in-law, Mortimer. Mortimer, who fought against the Welsh magician Owen Glendower, was defeated and captured and has married Glendower’s daughter. King Henry pronounces Mortimer a traitor whom he will not ransom. Hotspur, in declaring war on Henry, sees himself as fighting for Mortimer, his wife’s brother.<br> <br>This edition includes:<br> -Freshly edited text based on the best early printed version of the play<br> -Full explanatory notes conveniently placed on pages facing the text of the play<br> -Scene-by-scene plot summaries<br> -A key to the play’s famous lines and phrases<br> -An introduction to reading Shakespeare’s language<br> -An essay by a leading Shakespeare scholar providing a modern perspective on the play<br> -Fresh images from the Folger Shakespeare Library’s vast holdings of rare books<br> -An annotated guide to further reading<br> <br>Essay by Alexander Leggatt<br> <br>The Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, DC, is home to the world’s largest collection of Shakespeare’s printed works, and a magnet for Shakespeare scholars from around the globe. In addition to exhibitions open to the public throughout the year, the Folger offers a full calendar of performances and programs. For more information, visit Folger.edu.
Henry V (Folger Shakespeare Library)
William Shakespeare · 2020
High Fidelity
Nick Hornby · 1996
Holidays on Ice
David Sedaris · 2010
David Sedaris's beloved holiday collection is new again with six more pieces, including a never before published story. Along with such favorites<i> </i>as the diaries of a Macy's elf and the annals of two very competitive families, are Sedaris's tales of tardy trick-or-treaters ("Us and Them"); the difficulties of explaining the Easter Bunny to the French ("Jesus Shaves"); what to do when you've been locked out in a snowstorm ("Let It Snow"); the puzzling Christmas traditions of other nations ("Six to Eight Black Men"); what Halloween at the medical examiner's looks like ("The Monster Mash"); and a barnyard secret Santa scheme gone awry ("Cow and Turkey").<br><br>No matter what your favorite holiday, you won't want to miss celebrating it with the author who has been called "one of the funniest writers alive" (<i>Economist</i><i>).</i>
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
<b>The National Book Award finalist, Oprah’s Book Club pick, #1 <i>New York Times</i> bestseller and basis for the Oscar-nominated motion picture </b><br><p>A recent immigrant from the Middle East—a former colonel in the Iranian Air Force—yearns to restore his family’s dignity in California. A recovering alcoholic and addict down on her luck struggles to hold onto the one thing she has left?her home. And her lover, a married cop, is driven to extremes to win her love.</p> <p>Andre Dubus III’s unforgettable characters—people with ordinary flaws, looking for a small piece of ground to stand on—careen toward inevitable conflict. Their tragedy paints a shockingly true picture of the country we live in today.</p>
The House of the Spirits: A Novel
Isabel Allende · 2015
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>
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
The stylish, exuberant, and remarkably sweet confession of one of the most famous groupies of the 1960s and 70s is back in print in this new edition that includes an afterword on the author's last 15 years of adventures. As soon as she graduated from high school, Pamela Des Barres headed for the Sunset Strip, where she knocked on rock stars' backstage doors and immersed herself in the drugs, danger, and ecstasy of the freewheeling 1960s. Over the next 10 years she had affairs with Mick Jagger, Jimmy Page, Keith Moon, Waylon Jennings, Chris Hillman, Noel Redding, and Jim Morrison, among others. She traveled with Led Zeppelin; lived in sin with Don Johnson; turned down a date with Elvis Presley; and was close friends with Robert Plant, Gram Parsons, Ray Davies, and Frank Zappa. As a member of the GTO's, a girl group masterminded by Frank Zappa, she was in the thick of the most revolutionary renaissance in the history of modern popular music. Warm, witty, and sexy, this kiss-and-tell&–all stands out as the perfect chronicle of one of rock 'n' roll's most thrilling eras.
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
<b>In celebration of the tenth anniversary of <i>It Takes a Village,</i> this splendid edition includes photographs and a new Introduction by Hillary Rodham Clinton.</b><br><br>A decade ago, then First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton chronicled her quest—both deeply personal and, in the truest sense, public—to help make our society into the kind of village that enables children to become smart, able, resilient adults. <i>It Takes a Village</i> is “a textbook for caring....Filled with truths that are worth a read, and a reread” <i>(The Dallas Morning News).</i><br> <br>For more than thirty-five years, Senator Clinton has made children her passion and her cause. Her long experience—not only through her roles as mother, daughter, sister, and wife but also as advocate, legal expert, and public servant—has strengthened her conviction that how children develop and what they need to succeed are inextricably entwined with the society in which they live and how well it sustains and supports its families and individuals. In other words, it takes a village to raise a child.<br> <br>In her new Introduction, Senator Clinton reflects on how our village has changed over the last decade—from the impact of the Internet to new research in early child development and education. She discusses issues of increasing concern—security, the environment, the national debt—and looks at where we have made progress and where there is still work to be done.<br> <br><i>It Takes a Village</i> has become a classic. As relevant as ever, this anniversary edition makes it abundantly clear that the choices we make today about how we raise our children and how we support families will determine how our nation will face the challenges of this century.
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
<p><i>'I always labour at the same thing, to make the sex relation valid and precious instead of shameful. And this<br>novel is the furthest I've gone. To me it is beautiful and tender as the naked self.'</i> - D.H. Lawrence<br><br><i>Lady Chatterley's Lover</i> explores the intense affair between the sexually frustrated Connie - whose husband, Clifford, is paralysed from the waist down - and Oliver Mellors, the family gamekeeper.<br><br>First published in 1928, the novel challenged the social and sexual taboos of its time and was immediately banned as obscene. Lawrence's last and most famous work of fiction, it was eventually published in full in 1960 to mark the thirtieth anniversary of the writer's death.<br><br>ABOUT THE SERIES: The <i>Arcturus Classics</i> series brings together high-quality paperback editions of classics works, presented with contemporary graphic cover designs. Together they make a wonderful collection which is perfect for any home library.</p>
The Last Empire: Essays 1992-2000
Gore Vidal · 2002
Like his National Book Award—winning <i>United States, </i>Gore Vidal’s scintillating ninth collection, <b>The Last Empire</b><i>, </i>affirms his reputation as our most provocative critic and observer of the modern American scene. In the essays collected here, Vidal brings his keen intellect, experience, and razor-edged wit to bear on an astonishing range of subjects. From his celebrated profiles of Clare Boothe Luce and Charles Lindbergh and his controversial essay about the Bill of Rights–which sparked an extended correspondence with convicted Oklahoma City Bomber Timothy McVeigh–to his provocative analyses of literary icons such as John Updike and Mark Twain and his trenchant observations about terrorism, civil liberties, the CIA, Al Gore, Tony Blair, and the Clintons, Vidal weaves a rich tapestry of personal anecdote, critical insight, and historical detail. Written between the first presidential campaign of Bill Clinton and the electoral crisis of 2000, <b>The Last Empire</b> is a sweeping coda to the last century’s conflicted vision of the American dream.
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
<p><b>The #1 <i>New York Times </i>bestseller by Senator Al Franken, author of <i>Giant of the Senate</i></b><br><br>Al Franken, one of our “savviest satirists” (<i>People</i>), has been studying the rhetoric of the Right. He has listened to their cries of “slander,” “bias,” and even “treason.” He has examined the GOP's policies of squandering our surplus, ravaging the environment, and alienating the rest of the world. He’s even watched Fox News. A lot.</p><p>And, in this fair and balanced report, Al bravely and candidly exposes them all for what they are: liars. Lying, lying liars. Al destroys the liberal media bias myth by doing what his targets seem incapable of: getting his facts straight. Using the Right’s own words against them, he takes on the pundits, the politicians, and the issues, in the most talked about book of the year.</p><p>Timely, provocative, unfailingly honest, and always funny, <i>Lies </i>sticks it to the most right-wing administration in memory, and to the right-wing media hacks who do its bidding.</p>
Life of Pi: A Novel
Yann Martel · 2002
Little Dorrit
Charles Dickens · 2020
<p> <b>An epic tale of two families in Victorian England and their shifting fortunes by one of the world's greatest novelists.</b> </p> <p>For decades, William Dorrit has been confined to Marshalsea, a debtor's prison, which he cannot leave until he pays what he owes—meanwhile preventing him from getting a job in order to do so. His daughter Amy, born in Marshalsea, is now old enough to provide some help by earning money as a seamstress, and is free to come and go from the prison as she pleases.</p> <p>It is during one of her journeys to the outside world that she meets Arthur Clennam. Amy sews for Arthur's mother, a rigid, emotionally distant woman who is also confined, in this case to a wheelchair. Arthur knows his mother is hiding a dark secret. But while he tries in vain to unearth it, something else is revealed: a large inheritance to which none other than William Dorrit is entitled.</p> Thus begins a sprawling and beguiling novel of wealth and poverty, suspense and adventure, at once a satirical commentary about the British economic class system and bureaucratic absurdity, an engrossing mystery, and a tribute to the power of love.
The Little Locksmith
Katharine Hathaway (Butler) · 1943
The Little Locksmith, Katharine Butler Hathaway's luminous memoir of disability, faith, and transformation, is a critically acclaimed but largely forgotten literary classic brought back into print for the first time in thirty years. The Little Locksmith begins in 1895 when a specialist straps five-year-old Katharine, then suffering from spinal tuberculosis, to a board with halters and pulleys in a failed attempt to prevent her being a "hunchback." Her mother says that she should be thankful that her parents are able to have her cared for by a famous surgeon; otherwise, she would grow up to be like the "little locksmith," who does jobs at their home; he has a "strange, awful peak in his back." Forced to endure "a horizontal life of night and day," Katharine remains immobile until age fifteen, only to find that she, too, has a hunched back and is "no larger than a ten-year-old child." The Little Locksmith charts Katharine's struggle to transcend physical limitations and embrace her life, her body and herself in the face of debilitating bouts of frustration and shame. Her spirit and courage prevail, and she succeeds in expanding her world far beyond the boundaries prescribed by her family and society: she attends Radcliffe College, forms deep friendships, begins to write, and in 1921, purchases a house of her own in Castine, Maine. There she creates her home, room by room, fashioning it as a space for guests, lovers, and artists. The Little Locksmith stands as a testimony to Katharine's aspirations and desires-for independence, for love, and for the pursuit of her art.<br/>"We tend to forget nowadays that there is more than one variety of hero (and heroine). Katharine Butler Hathaway, who died last Christmas Eve, was the kind of heroine whose deeds are rarely chronicled. They were not spectacular and no medal would have been appropriate for her. All she did was to take a life which fate had cast in the mold of a frightful tragedy and redesign it into a quiet, modest work of art. The life was her own.<br/>"When Katharine Butler was five, she fell victim to spinal tuberculosis. For ten years she was strapped to a board (that means one hundred and twenty months, an infinity of days and hours and minutes)
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?
Hillary Rodham Clinton: A Woman Living History
Karen Blumenthal · 2016
<p>As a young girl, Hillary Diane Rodham's parents told her she could be whatever she wanted--as long as she was willing to work for it. Hillary took those words and ran. In a life on the front row of modern American history, she has always stood out--whether she was a teen campaigning for the 1964 Republican presidential candidate, winning recognition in <i>Life </i>magazine for her pointed words as the first student commencement speaker at Wellesley College, or working on the Richard Nixon impeachment case as a newly minted lawyer. <br> For all her accomplishments, scrutiny and scandal have followed this complex woman since she stepped into the public eye—from her role as First Lady of Arkansas to First Lady of the United States to becoming the first female U.S. senator from New York to U.S. secretary of state. Despite intense criticism, Hillary has remained committed to public service and dedicated to health-care reform, children's issues, and women's rights. Now, she aspires to a bigger role: her nation's first woman president. <br> In <i>Hillary Rodham Clinton: A Woman Living History</i>, critically acclaimed author Karen Blumenthal gives us an intimate and unflinching look at the public and personal life of Hillary Rodham Clinton. Illustrated throughout with black-and-white photographs and political cartoons, this is a must-have biography about a woman who has fascinated--and divided--the public, who continues to push boundaries, and who isn't afraid to reach for one more goal. <br> "After decades in the public eye, Hillary Rodham Clinton is still an enigma, as Blumenthal ( <i>Tommy: The Gun That Changed America</i>) emphasizes in this compelling portrait of the former U.S. Senator and Secretary of State's journey from budding activist to presidential aspirant." — <i>Publishers Weekly</i>, starred review</p>
Lord of the Flies
William Golding · 2003
The Lottery and Other Stories (FSG Classics)
Shirley Jackson · 2005
The Lovely Bones
Alice Sebold · 2004
Love Story
Erich Segal · 2020
<p>"Funny, touching and infused with wonder, as all love stories should be." --San Francisco Examiner</p> <p>The iconic tale of love and loss that has touched the hearts of millions, Love Story has become one of the most adored novels of our time. It has sold more than twenty-one million copies worldwide and became a blockbuster film starring Ryan O'Neal and Ali McGraw. It is the story that told the world, "Love means never having to say you're sorry." This special anniversary edition includes an introduction by the author's daughter, Francesca Segal.</p> <p>This is the story of Oliver Barrett IV, a rich jock from a stuffy WASP family on his way to a Harvard degree and a career in law, and Jenny Cavilleri, a wisecracking working-class beauty studying music at Radcliffe.</p> <p>Opposites in nearly every way, Oliver and Jenny are kindred spirits from vastly different worlds. Their attraction to each other is immediate and powerful, and together they share a love that defies everything.</p> <p>This is their story--a story of two young people and a love so uncompromising it will bring joy to your heart and tears to your eyes. </p>
Macbeth (Folger Shakespeare Library)
William Shakespeare · 2003
Madame Bovary
Gustave Flaubert · 2014
the manticore
robertson davies · 1979
Marathon Man
William Goldman · 1974
In a classic thriller that did for dentists what Psycho did for showers, runner Tom "Babe" Levy races toward his goals of athletic and academic excellence, until an unexpected visit from his brother throws him into a world of terror, treachery, and murder. Reprint.
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 autobiography of literary doyenne Simone de Beauvoir.
The Memoirs Of General William T. Sherman
William T. Sherman · 2014
<p>First published in 1875, General William T. Sherman’s memoir was one of the first from the Civil War, and was offered to the public because, as Sherman wrote in his dedication, “no satisfactory history” of the war was yet available.</p><p>Although the Memoirs have been revised and corrected many times over the years, Sherman, famously, never changed the original text of his recollections. He was not an historian, he said, and invited “any witness who may disagree with me should publish his own version of [the] facts...”</p><p>HarperTorch brings great works of non-fiction and the dramatic arts to life in digital format, upholding the highest standards in ebook production and celebrating reading in all its forms. Look for more titles in the HarperTorch collection to build your digital library.</p>
Me Talk Pretty One Day
David Sedaris · 2001
A recent transplant to Paris, humorist David Sedaris, bestselling author of "Naked", presents a collection of his strongest work yet, including the title story about his hilarious attempt to learn French. A number one national bestseller now in paperback.
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
Shakespeare’s “merry wives” are Mistress Ford and Mistress Page of the town of Windsor. The two play practical jokes on Mistress Ford’s jealous husband and a visiting knight, Sir John Falstaff.<br> <br>Merry wives, jealous husbands, and predatory knights were common in a kind of play called “citizen comedy” or “city comedy.” In such plays, courtiers, gentlemen, or knights use social superiority to seduce citizens’ wives.<br> <br>The Windsor wives, though, do not follow that pattern. Instead, Falstaff’s offer of himself as lover inspires their torment of him. Falstaff responds with the same linguistic facility that Shakespeare gives him in the history plays in which he appears, making him the “hero” of the play for many audiences.<br> <br>The authoritative edition of <i>The Merry Wives of Windsor</i> from The Folger Shakespeare Library, the trusted and widely used Shakespeare series for students and general readers, includes:<br> <br> -Freshly edited text based on the best early printed version of the play<br> -Full explanatory notes conveniently placed on pages facing the text of the play<br> -Scene-by-scene plot summaries<br> -A key to the play’s famous lines and phrases<br> -An introduction to reading Shakespeare’s language<br> -An essay by a leading Shakespeare scholar providing a modern perspective on the play<br> -Fresh images from the Folger Shakespeare Library’s vast holdings of rare books<br> -An annotated guide to further reading<br> <br> Essay by Natasha Korda<br> <br>The Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, DC, is home to the world’s largest collection of Shakespeare’s printed works, and a magnet for Shakespeare scholars from around the globe. In addition to exhibitions open to the public throughout the year, the Folger offers a full calendar of performances and programs. For more information, visit Folger.edu.
The Metamorphosis
Franz Kafka · 2009
Middlesex: A Novel (Oprah's Book Club)
Jeffrey Eugenides · 2002
<p><i>"I was born twice: first, as a baby girl, on a remarkably smogless Detroit day of January 1960; and then again, as a teenage boy, in an emergency room near Petoskey, Michigan, in August of l974. . . My birth certificate lists my name as Calliope Helen Stephanides. My most recent driver's license...records my first name simply as Cal."</i></p><p>So begins the breathtaking story of Calliope Stephanides and three generations of the Greek-American Stephanides family who travel from a tiny village overlooking Mount Olympus in Asia Minor to Prohibition-era Detroit, witnessing its glory days as the Motor City, and the race riots of l967, before they move out to the tree-lined streets of suburban Grosse Pointe, Michigan. To understand why Calliope is not like other girls, she has to uncover a guilty family secret and the astonishing genetic history that turns Callie into Cal, one of the most audacious and wondrous narrators in contemporary fiction. Lyrical and thrilling, <i>Middlesex </i>is an exhilarating reinvention of the American epic.</p><p><i>Middlesex </i>is the winner of the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.</p>
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
En 2022, à l'occasion du centenaire de la mort de l'écrivain, Monsieur Proust, classique maintes fois réédité, devient un roman graphique, adapté par Corinne Maier et illustré par Stéphane Manel. Céleste Albaret a été la gouvernante de Marcel Proust pendant neuf ans, de 1913 à sa mort, en 1922. Tout juste arrivée de sa Lozère natale, pour retrouver à Paris son mari, qui était le chauffeur de Proust, elle entra au service de l'écrivain pour de menues tâches, et finit par, lui dédier son existence, épousant sa vie de reclus jusqu'à participer matériellement à l'élaboration d'A la recherche du temps perdu (prenant des notes sous la dictée, collant ses ajouts sur les fameuses " paperolles "). Celeste, qui lui inspira le personnage de Françoise, principale représentante du peuple dans La recherche, prit ainsi part de façon unique à la vie de Proust ; elle veillera sur lui jusqu'à la fin. Avec l'aide de Georges Belmont, qui recueillit et mit en forme ses souvenirs, elle publia ses mémoires en 1973. Elle y racontait avec simplicité et émotion les années qu'elle avait passées auprès de l'écrivain. Dans la foule d'ouvrages consacrés à l'auteur de La recherche, Monsieur Proust est incomparable. Fraîchement accueilli par les gardiens du temple lors de sa parution, comme l'oeuvre d'une femme incapable de restituer le génie d'un écrivain qu'elle n'avait pas lu, il est désormais considéré comme un document irremplaçable sur la vie quotidienne de Proust lors de ses dernières années et surtout, sur la manière dont il parvint à achever son oeuvre.
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
Hemingway's memories of his life as an unknown writer living in Paris in the twenties are deeply personal, warmly affectionate, and full of wit. Looking back not only at his own much younger self, but also at the other writers who shared Paris with him - James Joyce, Wyndham Lewis, Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald - he recalls the time when, poor, happy, and writing in cafes, he discovered his vocation. Written during the last years of Hemingway's life, his memoir is a lively and powerful reflection of his genius that scintillates with the romance of the city.
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
Imagine growing up with 200 mothers and 200 fathers. What would it feel like to dress entirely in orange? What would it be like to grow up in a commune with daily chants, meditation and muesli on the menu? What would it be like to swap your mother for a new orange family? Written in unsentimental prose this is the deliciously funny, and by turns, poignant story of a little boy alone in a house full of orange people.
My Sisters Keeper -2004 publication.
Jodi Picoult · 2004
Fictional Novel, Film & Motion Pictures, Women's Literature
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 year is 1327. Franciscans in a wealthy Italian abbey are suspected of heresy, and Brother William of Baskerville arrives to investigate. His delicate mission is suddenly overshadowed by seven bizarre deaths that take place in seven days and nights of apocalyptic terror. The body of one monk is found in a cask of pigs' blood, another is floating in a bathhouse, still another is crushed at the foot of a cliff. Brother William turns detective, and a uniquely deft one at that. His tools are the logic of Aristotle, the theology of Aquinas, the empirical insights of Roger Bacon - all sharpened to a glistening edge by his wry humor and ferocious curiosity. He collects evidence, deciphers secret symbols and coded manuscripts, and digs into the eerie labyrinth of the abbey, where "the most interesting things happen at night." As Brother William goes about unraveling the mystery of what happens at the abbey by day and by night, readers step into a brilliant re-creation of the fourteenth century, with its herbal smells and dazzling architectural sights, its dark superstitions and wild prejudices, its hidden passions and sordid intrigues... A gloriously rich blending of thriller and Gothic novel, intellectual fireworks and storytelling virtuosity"--
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
<b>In her first book of nonfiction, bestselling novelist Amy Tan shares her personal philosophy of fate.</b><br><br>Amy Tan was born into a family that believed in fate. In <i>The Opposite of Fate: A Book of Musings</i>, she explores this legacy, as well as American circumstances, and finds ways to honor the past while creating her own brand of destiny. She discovers answers in everyday actions and attitudes-from writing stories, decorating her house with charms, learning to ski, and living with squirrels, to dealing with three members of her family afflicted with brain disease, surviving natural disasters, and shaking off both family curses and the expectations that she should become a doctor and a concert pianist. <br><br>With the same spirit, humor, and magic that characterize her beloved novels, Amy Tan presents a refreshing antidote to the world-weariness and uncertainties we face today, contemplating how things happen-in her own life and beyond-but always returning to the question of fate and its opposites: the choices, charms, influences, attitudes, and lucky accidents that shape us all.
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
<b>The authoritative edition of<i> Othello </i>from The Folger Shakespeare Library, the trusted and widely used Shakespeare series for students and general readers.</b><br><br>In <i>Othello</i>, Shakespeare creates powerful drama from a marriage between the exotic Moor Othello and the Venetian lady Desdemona that begins with elopement and mutual devotion and ends with jealous rage and death. Shakespeare builds many differences into his hero and heroine, including race, age, and cultural background. Yet most readers and audiences believe the couple’s strong love would overcome these differences were it not for Iago, who sets out to destroy Othello. Iago’s false insinuations about Desdemona’s infidelity draw Othello into his schemes, and Desdemona is subjected to Othello’s horrifying verbal and physical assaults.<br> <br> This edition includes:<br> -Freshly edited text based on the best early printed version of the play<br> -Full explanatory notes conveniently placed on pages facing the text of the play<br> -Scene-by-scene plot summaries<br> -A key to the play’s famous lines and phrases<br> -An introduction to reading Shakespeare’s language<br> -An essay by a leading Shakespeare scholar providing a modern perspective on the play<br> -Fresh images from the Folger Shakespeare Library’s vast holdings of rare books<br> -An annotated guide to further reading<br> <br> Essay by Susan Snyder<br> <br> The Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, DC, is home to the world’s largest collection of Shakespeare’s printed works, and a magnet for Shakespeare scholars from around the globe. In addition to exhibitions open to the public throughout the year, the Folger offers a full calendar of performances and programs. For more information, visit Folger.edu.
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
Adela Quested arrives in Chandrapore, prepared to meet and marry a city magistrate who exemplifies the narrow-minded, anti-Indian prejudices of the imperial bureaucracy, but an expedition, led by the charming Dr Aziz, ends in an incident which quickens the pulse of Anglo-Indian mistrust.
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
In his monthly accounts of what he's read - along with what he may one day read - Nick Hornby brilliantly explores everything from the classic to the graphic novel, as well as poems, plays, sports books and other kinds of non-fiction. If he occasionally implores a biographer for brevity, or abandons a literary work in favour of an Arsenal match, then all is not lost. His writing, full of all the joy and surprise and despair that books bring him, reveals why we still read, even when there's football on TV, a pram in the hall or a good band playing at our local pub.
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
<b>WINNER OF THE ORANGE PRIZE • Set in 1828 on a Louisiana sugar plantation, this novel from the bestselling author of <i>Mary Reilly </i>presents a “fresh, unsentimental look at what slave-owning does to (and for) one's interior life.... The writing—so prised and clean limbed—is a marvel" (Toni Morrison, Nobel Prize-winning author of <i>Beloved</i>).<br></b><br>Manon Gaudet, pretty, bitterly intelligent, and monstrously self-absorbed, seethes under the dominion of her boorish husband. In particular his relationship with her slave Sarah, who is both his victim and his mistress.<br><br> Exploring the permutations of Manon’s own obsession with Sarah against the backdrop of an impending slave rebellion, <i>Property</i> unfolds with the speed and menace of heat lightning, casting a startling light from the past upon the assumptions we still make about the powerful and powerful.
Pushkin
T.J. Binyon • 2007
Pygmalion
George Bernard Shaw • 2014
Pygmalion is a play by George Bernard Shaw, named after a Greek mythological character. It was first presented on stage to the public in 1912. Professor of phonetics Henry Higgins makes a bet that he can train a bedraggled Cockney flower girl, Eliza Doolittle, to pass for a duchess at an ambassador's garden party by teaching her to assume a veneer of gentility, the most important element of which, he believes, is impeccable speech. The play is a sharp lampoon of the rigid British class system of the day and a commentary on women's independence. In ancient Greek mythology, Pygmalion fell in love with one of his sculptures, which then came to life. The general idea of that myth was a popular subject for Victorian era English playwrights, including one of Shaw's influences, W. S. Gilbert, who wrote a successful play based on the story called Pygmalion and Galatea first presented in 1871. Shaw also would have been familiar with the burlesque version, Galatea, or Pygmalion Reversed. Shaw's play has been adapted numerous times, most notably as the musical My Fair Lady and the film of that name.
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
<b>In this #1 <i>New York Times</i> bestseller in Sue Grafton's Alphabet series, private investigator Kinsey Millhone has her hands full when a job that should be easy money takes a turn for the worse.</b><br><br>Reba Lafferty was a daughter of privilege, the only child of an adoring father. Nord Lafferty was already in his fifties when Reba was born, and he could deny her nothing. Over the years, he quietly settled her many scrapes with the law, but wasn't there for her when she was convicted of embezzlement and sent to the California Institution for Women. Now, at thirty-two, she's about to be paroled, having served twenty-two months of a four-year sentence. Her father wants to be sure Reba stays straight, stays home and away from the drugs, the booze, and the gamblers...<br><br>It seems a straightforward assignment for Kinsey: babysit Reba until she settles in, make sure she follows all the niceties of her parole. Maybe a week’s work. Nothing untoward—the woman seems remorseful and friendly. And the money is good.<br><br>But life is never that simple, and Reba is out of prison less than twenty-four hours when one of her old crowd comes circling round...
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
Rosemary Woodhouse and her struggling actor husband Guy move into the Bramford, an old New York City apartment building with an ominous reputation and mostly elderly residents. Neighbors Roman and Minnie Castavet soon come nosing around to welcome the Woodhouses to the building, and despite Rosemary's reservations about their eccentricity and the weird noises that she keeps hearing, her husband takes a shine to them. Shortly after Guy lands a plum Broadway role, Rosemary becomes pregnant—and the Castavets start taking a special interest in her welfare. As the sickened Rosemary becomes increasingly isolated, she begins to suspect that the Castavets' circle is not what it seems...
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 SECOND SEX is a hymn to human freedom and a classic of the existentialist movement. It also has claims to be the most important s ingle book in the history of feminism. In the forty years since its publication De Beauvoir's then revolutionary thesis - that the subordination of women is not a fact of nature but the product of social conditioning has become part of our everyday thinking.
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
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
The Time Traveler’s Wife
Audrey Niffenegger
To Have and Have Not
Ernest Hemingway · 1965
To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee · 2002
The Tragedy of Richard III
William Shakespeare · 1996
"I feel that I have spent half my career with one or another Pelican Shakespeare in my back pocket. Convenience, however, is the least important aspect of the new Pelican Shakespeare series. Here is an elegant and clear text for either the study or the rehearsal room, notes where you need them and the distinguished scholarship of the general editors, Stephen Orgel and A. R. Braunmuller who understand that these are plays for performance as well as great texts for contemplation." (Patrick Stewart) <p> The distinguished Pelican Shakespeare series, which has sold more than four million copies, is now completely revised and repackaged.<p> Each volume features: <br> * Authoritative, reliable texts<br> * High quality introductions and notes<br> * New, more readable trade trim size<br> * An essay on the theatrical world of Shakespeare and essays on Shakespeare's life and the selection of texts
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
Unless
Carol Shields
Valley of the Dolls
Jacqueline Susann · 2016
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
<b>An American classic—and Pulitzer Prize–winning story—that shows the ultimate bond between child and pet.</b><br><br>No novel better epitomizes the love between a child and a pet than <i>The Yearling.</i> Young Jody adopts an orphaned fawn he calls Flag and makes it a part of his family and his best friend. But life in the Florida backwoods is harsh, and so, as his family fights off wolves, bears, and even alligators, and faces failure in their tenuous subsistence farming, Jody must finally part with his dear animal friend. There has been a film and even a musical based on this moving story, a fine work of great American literature.
The Year of Magical Thinking
Joan Didion · 2005
<b><i>NEW YORK TIMES</i> BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • A landmark work about grief, love, and survival from one of America’s most iconic writers<br></b><br><b>One of <i>The New York Times</i>’s 100 Best Books of the 21st Century • One of <i>The Guardian</i>’s 100 Best Books of the 21st Century<br></b><br>Joan Didion delivers a searing portrait of a marriage and a life – in good times and bad – that will speak to anyone who has ever loved and lost a husband or wife or child. In a work of electric honesty and passion, Didion explores how we all, somehow, will ourselves to survive. “An utterly shattering portrait of loss and grief.” <i>–The New York Times</i><b><i><br><br></i></b><i>S</i>everal days before Christmas 2003, John Gregory Dunne and Joan Didion saw their only daughter, Quintana Roo, fall ill with septic shock. She was put into an induced coma and placed on life support. Days later, the Dunnes were sitting down to dinner after visiting their daughter in the hospital when John suffered a fatal heart attack. In that one moment, their partnership of forty years came to an end. <br><br>This powerful narrative is Didion's “attempt to make sense of the weeks and then months that cut loose any fixed idea I ever had about death, about illness…about marriage and children and memory…about the shallowness of sanity, about life itself.”<br><br><b>“Didion has transformed grief into literature.” <i>—The Guardian</i></b>
1984
George Orwell · 2021
Ignorance is Strength. 1984 is a dystopian novella by George Orwell published in 1949, which follows the life of Winston Smith, a low ranking member of 'the Party', who is frustrated by the omnipresent eyes of the party, and its ominous ruler Big Brother. 'Big Brother' controls every aspect of people's lives.
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Mark Twain
Alice in Wonderland
Lewis Carroll · 2024
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (with bonus content)
Michael Chabon · 2012
An American Tragedy - Theodore Dreiser
Theodore Dreiser · 2021
Angela's Ashes
Frank McCourt · 1999
Anna Karenina
Leo Tolstoy · 2004
<b>The must-have Pevear and Volokhonsky translation of one of the greatest Russian novels ever written</b><br><br> Described by William Faulkner as the best novel ever written and by Fyodor Dostoevsky as “flawless,” <i>Anna Karenina</i> tells of the doomed love affair between the sensuous and rebellious Anna and the dashing officer, Count Vronsky. Tragedy unfolds as Anna rejects her passionless marriage and thereby exposes herself to the hypocrisies of society. Set against a vast and richly textured canvas of nineteenth-century Russia, the novel's seven major characters create a dynamic imbalance, playing out the contrasts of city and country life and all the variations on love and family happiness.<br><br> While previous versions have softened the robust and sometimes shocking qualities of Tolstoy's writing, Pevear and Volokhonsky have produced a translation true to his powerful voice. This authoritative edition, which received the PEN Translation Prize and was an Oprah Book Club™ selection, also includes an illuminating introduction and explanatory notes. Beautiful, vigorous, and eminently readable, this <i>Anna Karenina</i> will be the definitive text for fans of the film and generations to come. This Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition also features French flaps and deckle-edged paper.<br><br>For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents 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.
Anne Frank's The Diary of Anne Frank
Harold Bloom · 2010
The Archidamian War
Donald Kagan · 2013
The Art of Fiction
Henry James · 2021
The Art of War
Sun Tzu · 2002
As I Lay Dying
William Faulkner · 2013
Atonement
Ian McEwan · 2003
Autobiography of a Face
Lucy Grealy · 2003
The Awakening
Kate Chopin · 2008
Backlash
Susan Faludi · 2009
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
Sijie Dai · 2001
Bel Canto
Ann Patchett · 2009
The Bell Jar
Sylvia Plath · 1971
Beloved
Toni Morrison · 2006
Beowulf
Andreas Haarder, T A Shippey, T. A. Shippey · 2005
The Bhagavad Gita
Eknath Easwaran · 2010
The Bielski Brothers
Peter Duffy · 2004
Bitch
Elizabeth Wurtzel · 2012
A Bolt from the Blue and Other Essays
Mary McCarthy · 2002
Brave New World
Aldous Huxley · 2020
Brick Lane
Monica Ali · 2008
Candide
By Voltaire · 2019
The Canterbury Tales
Geoffrey Chaucer · 2003
Carrie
Stephen King · 2011
<b>#1<i> NEW YORK TIMES</i> BESTSELLER • 50TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY MARGARET ATWOOD <b> • </b>Stephen King's legendary debut, the bestselling smash hit that put him on the map as one of America's favorite writers <b>• In a world where bullies rule, one girl holds a secret power. Unpopular and tormented, Carrie White's life takes a terrifying turn when her hidden abilities become a weapon of horror.<br><br><b>"Stephen King’s first novel changed the trajectory of horror fiction forever. Fifty years later, authors say it’s still challenging and guiding the genre." —<i>Esquire </i></b> </b></b><br> <br> <b>“A master storyteller.” —<i>The Los Angeles Times • </i>“Guaranteed to chill you.” —<i>The New York Times • </i>"Gory and horrifying. . . . You can't put it down." —<i>Chicago Tribune</i></b><br> <br> Unpopular at school and subjected to her mother's religious fanaticism at home, Carrie White does not have it easy. But while she may be picked on by her classmates, she has a gift she's kept secret since she was a little girl: she can move things with her mind. Doors lock. Candles fall. Her ability has been both a power and a problem. And when she finds herself the recipient of a sudden act of kindness, Carrie feels like she's finally been given a chance to be normal. She hopes that the nightmare of her classmates' vicious taunts is over . . . but an unexpected and cruel prank turns her gift into a weapon of horror so destructive that the town may never recover.
Catch-22
Joseph Heller · 1999
The Catcher in the Rye
J. D. Salinger · 2024
Christine
Stephen King · 2016
A Christmas Carol
Charles Dickens · 1858
A Clockwork Orange (Restored Text)
Anthony Burgess · 2012
The Code Of The Woosters
Pelham Grenville Wodehouse · 2005
The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty
Eudora Welty · 1980
The Comedy of Errors
William Shakespeare · 1898
Selected Poems of Anne Sexton
Anne Sexton · 2000
Complete Stories
Dorothy Parker · 1995
A Confederacy of Dunces
John Kennedy Toole · 2007
The Count of Monte Cristo
Alexandre Dumas · 2019
Cousin Bette
Honoré de Balzac · 1888
Crime and Punishment
Fyodor Dostoevsky · 2024
<p>Dive into the psychological depths of "Crime and Punishment" by Fyodor Dostoevsky. This groundbreaking novel explores the moral dilemmas faced by Raskolnikov, a troubled student who commits a heinous act, sparking a profound journey of guilt, redemption, and the search for meaning.</p><p><br></p><p>As Dostoevsky unravels Raskolnikov's inner turmoil, you'll confront a haunting question: What does it truly mean to suffer, and can redemption be found in the darkest corners of the human soul?</p><p>But here’s the unsettling truth: How far can one go in justifying their actions before the weight of conscience becomes unbearable?</p><p>Engage with Dostoevsky's masterful narrative that intricately weaves philosophical questions into a gripping plot. Each character serves as a mirror reflecting society’s complexities and the shadows lurking within us all.</p><p><br></p><p>Are you ready to embark on a journey through the intricacies of crime, punishment, and the quest for moral clarity?</p><p>Experience the depth of Dostoevsky's writing through short, impactful paragraphs that challenge your perceptions and provoke deep reflection. This book is not just a story; it’s a profound exploration of the human condition.</p><p><br></p><p>This is your chance to confront the ethical dilemmas that resonate through time. Will you let "Crime and Punishment" guide you through the labyrinth of morality and existence?</p><p>Don’t miss the opportunity to own this literary masterpiece. Purchase "Crime and Punishment" now and delve into the depths of human experience!</p><p><br></p>
The Crimson Petal and the White
Michel Faber · 2010
The Crucible
Arthur Miller · 1976
Cujo
Stephen King · 2016
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Mark Haddon · 2009
Daughter of Fortune
Isabel Allende · 2020
Lisa and David
Theodore Isaac Rubin · 2018
David Copperfield
Charles Dickens · 2000
The Da Vinci Code (Republish)
Dan Brown · 2018
Dead Souls
Nikolai Gogol · 1996
Demons
Fyodor Dostoevsky · 2010
Death of a Salesman
Arthur Miller · 1976
Deenie
Judy Blume · 2014
The Devil In The White City
Erik Larson · 2010
The Divine Comedy
Dante Alighieri · 1998
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
Rebecca Wells · 2002
Don Quixote
Miguel de Cervantes, Edith Grossman · 2003
Driving Miss Daisy
Alfred Uhry · 1993
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
