📚rory gilmore reading list📚
Items in this hypelist
Finished
A Tale of Two Cities
Charles Dickens · 2003
Driving Miss Daisy
Alfred Uhry · 1993
Racial tensions are delicately explored when a warm friendship evolves between an elderly Jewish woman and her black chauffeur. Winner of a 1988 Pulitzer Prize, and Academy Awards for Best Picture and Best Adapted Screenplay.
Time Travelers Wife
Audrey Neffenegger · 2003
UNABRIDGED EDITION<br/><br/>This bestselling and innovative debut novel from Audrey Niffenegger explores the perfect marriage, one that is tested by challenges the couple can neither control nor predict. An imaginative extension of everyday life, the story asks: What if two people who loved each other deeply, married, and faced a life in which one person remained constant while the other slipped fluidly in and out of time?<br/>A modern love story with a twist that invites us to linger over questions of how life and love change over time.
Great Expectations
Charles Dickens · 2002
A Christmas Carol
Charles Dickens · 1995
The Da Vinci Code
Dan Brown · 2003
The Raven
Edgar Allen Poe · 2024
Edgar Allen Poe Complete Tales and Poems
Edgar Allan Poe · 1988
Pygmalion
George Bernard Shaw · 2018
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.
Siddhartha
Herman Hesse · 2022
The Fellowship of the Ring
J. R. R. Tolkien
The Return of the King
J. R. R. Tolkien · 2014
The Diary of a Young Girl
Anne Frank · 1947
<b>THE DEFINITIVE EDITION <b>•</b> Discovered in the attic in which she spent the last years of her life, the remarkable diary that has become a world classic—a powerful reminder of the horrors of war and an eloquent testament to the human spirit.<br></b><br><b>Updated for the 75th Anniversary of the <i>Diary</i>’s first publication with a new introduction by Nobel Prize–winner Nadia Murad<br><br>“The single most compelling personal account of the Holocaust ... remains astonishing and excruciating.”—<i>The New York Times Book Review</i></b><br><br>In 1942, with Nazis occupying Holland, a thirteen-year-old Jewish girl and her family fled their home in Amsterdam and went into hiding. For the next two years, until their whereabouts were betrayed to the Gestapo, they and another family lived cloistered in the “Secret Annex” of an old office building. Cut off from the outside world, they faced hunger, boredom, the constant cruelties of living in confined quarters, and the ever-present threat of discovery and death. In her diary Anne Frank recorded vivid impressions of her experiences during this period. By turns thoughtful, moving, and amusing, her account offers a fascinating commentary on human courage and frailty and a compelling self-portrait of a sensitive and spirited young woman whose promise was tragically cut short.
Sense and Sensibility
Jane Austen · 2003
Emma
Jane Austen · 2016
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen
To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee · 2002
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
J.K. Rowling · 2015
<p><i>Turning the envelope over, his hand trembling, Harry saw a purple wax seal bearing a coat of arms; a lion, an eagle, a badger and a snake surrounding a large letter 'H'.</i><br><br>Harry Potter has never even heard of Hogwarts when the letters start dropping on the doormat at number four, Privet Drive. Addressed in green ink on yellowish parchment with a purple seal, they are swiftly confiscated by his grisly aunt and uncle. Then, on Harry's eleventh birthday, a great beetle-eyed giant of a man called Rubeus Hagrid bursts in with some astonishing news: Harry Potter is a wizard, and he has a place at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. An incredible adventure is about to begin!<br><br><br><i>Having become classics of our time, the Harry Potter eBooks never fail to bring comfort and escapism. With their message of hope, belonging and the enduring power of truth and love, the story of the Boy Who Lived continues to delight generations of new readers.</i></p>
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Mark Haddon · 2004
Little Women
Louis May Alcott · 2023
My Sister's Keeper
Jodi Picoult · 2004
Hamlet ( Folger Library Shakespeare)
William Shakespeare • 1992
Otello
William Shakespeare • 2010
Romeo and Juliet (Folger Shakespeare Library)
William Shakespeare • 2004
Macbeth (Folger Shakespeare Library)
William Shakespeare • 2003
Fahrenheit 451
Ray Bradbury • 2013
"Sixty years after the original publication, Ray Bradbury's internationally acclaimed novel 'Fahrenheit 451' stands as a classic of world literature set in a bleak, dystopian future. Today its message has grown more relevant than ever before. Guy Montag is a fireman. His job is to destroy the most illegal of commodities, the printed book, along with the houses in which they are hidden. Montag never questions the destruction and ruin his actions produce, returning each day to his bland life and wife, Mildred, who spends all day with her television "family." But when he meets an eccentric young neighbor, Clarisse, who introduces him to a past where people didn't live in fear and to a present where one sees the world through the ideas in books instead of the mindless chatter of television, Montag begins to question everything he has ever known. This sixtieth-anniversary edition commemorates Ray Bradbury's masterpiece with a new introduction by Neil Gaiman ; personal essays on the genesis of the novel by the author ; a wealth of critical essays and reviews by Nelson Algren, Harold Bloom, Margaret Atwood, and others ; rare manuscript pages and sketches from Ray Bradbury's personal archive ; and much more. Here, at last, is the definitive edition of a classic of world literature."--taken from back cover.
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Harry Potter, Book 4) (Interactive Illustrated Edition)
J. K. Rowling • 2025
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Stephen Chbosky • 2010
The Picture of Dorian Gray: The Original 1890 Edition (A Oscar Wilde Classic Novel)
Oscar Wilde • 2023
“The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.” ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray<br/><br/>The Picture of Dorian Gray is a 1891 gothic and philosophical novel by Irish writer and playwright Oscar Wilde. First published as a serial story in the July 1890 issue of Lippincott's Monthly Magazine, the editors feared the story was indecent, and without Wilde's knowledge, deleted five hundred words before publication.<br/><br/>Despite that censorship, The Picture of Dorian Gray offended the moral sensibilities of British book reviewers, some of whom said that Oscar Wilde merited prosecution for violating the laws guarding the public morality. In response, Wilde aggressively defended his novel and art in correspondence with the British press.<br/><br/>Wilde revised and expanded the magazine edition of The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890) for publication as a novel; the book edition (1891) featured an aphoristic preface — an apologia about the art of the novel and the reader. The content, style and presentation of the preface made it famous in its own literary right, as social and cultural criticism. In April 1891, the editorial house Ward, Lock and Company published the revised version of The Picture of Dorian Gray.<br/><br/>A True Classic that Belongs on Every Bookshelf!
Alice in Wonderland (Wordsworth Collector's Editions)
Lewis Carroll • 2018
To Read
Several Biographies of Winston Churchill
Winston Churchill
Have you ever wondered why that 13-digit number on the back of a book costs $125 in the United States but is completely free in Canada and India? This book, The Global ISBN Handbook, is your 2025 guide to the International Standard Book Number. It explains everything about this global "fingerprint" for books. The ISBN is the most important cornerstone of the publishing industry. It started as a simple warehouse tool in the 1960s. Now, it is a complex digital identifier used in over 200 countries. This handbook deconstructs the entire system. It uses 15 distinct national case studies to do this. You will learn how the old 10-digit system changed to the new 13-digit one. We break down the five parts of the ISBN, from the "Bookland" prefix to the final check digit. The book explores the global governance framework, starting with the International ISBN Agency. Then, it dives deep into how different countries run their systems. You'll see the privatized, high-cost model in the United States. You'll compare it to Canada's free, government-run system. We explore the industry-led models in Brazil and Germany. We look at government-run systems in Mexico and India. We even cover the unique case of China, where the ISBN is not a simple identifier but a state-controlled publication license. The book also examines the systems in the UK , France , Russia , Japan , Australia , South Africa , Nigeria , and Egypt. Many books and websites can tell you how to get an ISBN. This handbook is the only resource that explains why the process is so different everywhere you look. It moves beyond a simple "how-to" and provides a true global analysis. It directly compares the privatized, for-profit models in the US and UK against the free, public-good systems in Canada and South Africa. You won't just learn the price; you will understand the cultural policies, market structures, and legal philosophies that shape that price. This book shows how the ISBN is a "global mirror". It reveals how a simple number can be a commercial product in one nation , a tool of cultural policy in another , and an instrument of state control in a third. This comparative insight is the missing piece for any author, publisher, or researcher trying to navigate the complex international publishing market. Disclaimer: This handbook is an independently produced resource for commentary and analysis. The author has no affiliation with the International ISBN Agency, R.R. Bowker, Library and Archives Canada, the National Press and Publication Administration, or any other national ISBN agency. This work is independently produced under the principle of nominative fair use.
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>
Snows Of Kilimanjaro
Hemingway, Ernest
Brave New World
Aldous Huxley · 2006
Now more than ever: Aldous Huxley's enduring masterwork must be read and understood by anyone concerned with preserving the human spirit<br/>"A masterpiece. ... One of the most prophetic dystopian works." —Wall Street Journal<br/>Aldous Huxley's profoundly important classic of world literature, Brave New World is a searching vision of an unequal, technologically-advanced future where humans are genetically bred, socially indoctrinated, and pharmaceutically anesthetized to passively uphold an authoritarian ruling order–all at the cost of our freedom, full humanity, and perhaps also our souls. “A genius [who] who spent his life decrying the onward march of the Machine” (The New Yorker), Huxley was a man of incomparable talents: equally an artist, a spiritual seeker, and one of history’s keenest observers of human nature and civilization. Brave New World, his masterpiece, has enthralled and terrified millions of readers, and retains its urgent relevance to this day as both a warning to be heeded as we head into tomorrow and as thought-provoking, satisfying work of literature. Written in the shadow of the rise of fascism during the 1930s, Brave New World likewise speaks to a 21st-century world dominated by mass-entertainment, technology, medicine and pharmaceuticals, the arts of persuasion, and the hidden influence of elites.<br/>"Aldous Huxley is the greatest 20th century writer in English." —Chicago Tribune
The Lovely Bones
Alice Sebold · 2004
Howl
Allen Ginsberg · 1959
Bears Should Share!/Goldilocks and the Three Bears
Alvin Granowsky · 1999
The Joy Luck Club
Amy Tan · 1990
"Brilliant....Each story is a fascinating vignette, and together they they weave the reader through a world where the Moon Lady can grant any wish, where a child, promised in marriage at two and delivered at 12, can, with cunning, free herself; where a rich man's concubine secures her daughter's future by killing herself, and where a woman can live on, knowing she has lost her entire life."<br>WASHINGTON POST BOOK WORLD<br>A stunning literary achievement, THE JOY LUCK CLUB explores the tender and tenacious bond between four daughters and their mothers. The daughters know one side of their mothers, but they don't know about their earlier never-spoken of lives in China. The mothers want love and obedience from their daughters, but they don't know the gifts that the daughters keep to themselves. Heartwarming and bittersweet, this is a novel for mother, daughters, and those that love them.
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.
Small Island
Andrea Levy · 2006
It is 1948, and England is recovering from a war. But at 21 Nevern Street, London, the conflict has only just begun. Queenie Bligh's neighbours do not approve when she agrees to take in Jamaican lodgers, but Queenie doesn't know when her husband will return, or if he will come back at all. What else can she do? Gilbert Joseph was one of the several thousand Jamaican men who joined the RAF to fight against Hitler. Returning to England as a civilian he finds himself treated very differently. It's desperation that makes him remember a wartime friendship with Queenie and knock at her door. Gilbert's wife Hortense, too, had longed to leave Jamaica and start a better life in England. But when she joins him she is shocked to find London shabby, decrepit, and far from the golden city of her dreams. Even Gilbert is not the man she thought he was.
House of Sand and Fog
Andre Dubus III · 1998
The Red Tent
Anita Diamant · 2007
Bel Canto: A Novel
Ann Patchett · 2001
Truth and Beauty : A Friendship
Ann Patchett · 2005
Swimming with Giants: My Encounters with Whales, Dolphins, and Seals
Anne Collet · 2002
The Complete Poems: Anne Sexton
Anne Sexton · 1999
The Complete Poems: Anne Sexton comprises the poet's ten volumes of verse, including the Pulitzer Prize-winner Live or Die, as well as seven poems from her last years.<br> <br> <br> <br> From the joy and anguish of her own experience, Sexton fashioned poems that told truths about the inner lives of men and women.<br> <br> <br> <br> "Women poets in particular owe a debt to Anne Sexton, who broke new ground, shattered taboos, and endured a barrage of attacks along the way because of the flamboyance of her subject matter...Sexton has earned her place in the canon."--from the Foreword by Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Maxine Kumin
Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
Anthony Bourdain · 2000
A Clockwork Orange
Anthony Burgess · 2011
Pigs at the Trough
Arianna Huffington · 2003
Death of a Salesman
Arthur Miller · 2023
The Crucible
Arthur Miller · 2003
The God Of Small Things
Roy Arundhati · 1998
"The year is 1969. In the state of Kerala, on the southernmost tip of India, a skyblue Plymouth with chrome tailfins is stranded on the highway amid a Marxist workers' demonstration. Inside the car sit two-egg twins Rahel and Esthappen, and so begins their tale.... Armed only with the invincible innocence of children, they fashion a childhood for themselves in the shade of the wreck that is their family--their lonely, lovely mother, Ammu (who loves by night the man her children love by day), their blind grandmother, Mammachi (who plays Handel on her violin), their beloved uncle Chacko (Rhodes scholar, pickle baron, radical Marxist, bottom-pincher), their enemy, Baby Kochamma (ex-nun and incumbent grandaunt), and the ghost of an imperial entomologist's moth (with unusually dense dorsal tufts). When their English cousin, Sophie Mol, and her mother, Margaret Kochamma, arrive on a Christmas visit, Esthappen and Rahel learn that Things Can Change in a Day. That lives can twist into new, ugly shapes, even cease forever their river 'graygreen. With fish in it. With the sky and trees in it. And at night, the broken yellow moon in it.' The brilliantly plotted story uncoils with an agonizing sense of foreboding and inevitability. Yet nothing prepares you for what lies at the heart of it. The God of Small things takes on the Big Themes--Love. Madness. Hope. Infinite Joy. Here is a writer who dares to break the rules. To dislocate received rhythms and create the language she requires, a language that is at once classical and unprecedented. Arundhati Roy has given us a book that is anchored in anguish, but fueled by with and magic." -- Provided by publisher
The Fountainhead
Ayn Rand
Nickel and Dimed
Barbara Ehrenreich · 2010
Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy: Lord and Peasant in the Making of the Modern World
Barrington Moore · 2015
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Betty Smith · 2001
Eleanor Roosevelt
Blanche Wiesen Cook · 1992
A study of the complex and political figure of Eleanor Roosevelt begins with her harrowing childhood, describes the difficulties of her marriage, and explains how she persuaded Franklin to make the reforms that would make him famous.
Less Than Zero
Bret Easton Ellis · 1998
Contact
Carl Sagan · 1986
Adventures of Pinnochio
Carlo Collodi · 1982
The Shadow of the Wind
Carlos Ruiz Zafón · 2005
Unless
Carol Shields · 2002
Monsieur Proust
Céleste Albaret · 2013
Notes of a Dirty Old Man
Charles Bukowski · 2013
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. "People come to my doortoo many of them reallyand 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 . . ." "Bukowski writes like a latter-day Celine, a wise fool talking straight from the gut about the futility and beauty of life . . ." Publishers Weekly "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 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.
Don Quixote
Miguel De Cervantes · 2005
The Origin of Species
Charles Darwin · 1999
David Copperfield
Charles Dickens · 2004
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.
Oliver Twist
Charles Dickens · 2003
Our Mutual Friend
Charles Dickens · 1998
The Code of the Woosters
P.G. Wodehouse · 2005
Mutiny on the Bounty
Charles Nordhoff, James Norman Hall · 1980
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.
Lady Chatterleys Lover
D H Lawrence · 2015
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
Sijie Dai · 2002
Flowers For Algernon
Daniel Keyes · 2005
We Owe You Nothing, Punk Planet : The Collected Interviews
Daniel Sinker · 2001
The Inferno
Dante · 2002
The Divine Comedy
Dante Alighieri · 2003
Rebecca
Daphne du Maurier · 2013
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Dave Eggers · 2001
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.
Me Talk Pretty One Day
David Sedaris · 2000
Dawn Powell: Novels 1930-1942 (LOA #126): Dance Night / Come Back to Sorrento / Turn, Magic Wheel / Angels on Toast / A Time to Be Born (Library of America Dawn Powell Edition)
Dawn Powell · 2001
Selected Letters of Dawn Powell : 1913-1965
Dawn Powell · 2000
Babe
Dick King-Smith · 2005
Encyclopedia Brown, Boy Detective
Donald J. Sobol · 2007
The Archidamian War
Donald Kagan · 2013
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.
The Outbreak of the Peloponnesian War
Donald Kagan · 1969
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 Secret History
Donna Tartt · 1992
<b><b><b><b>ONE OF <i>TIME MAGAZINE</i>'S 100 BEST MYSTERY AND THRILLER BOOKS OF ALL TIME • </b>INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • A contemporary literary classic and "a<b>n accomplished psychological thriller ... absolutely chilling" (<i>Village Voice</i>)</b>, f<b>rom the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of <i>The Goldfinch.<br><br></i></b></b></b>One of <i>The Atlantic</i>’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years</b><br><br>Under the influence of a charismatic classics professor, a group of clever, eccentric misfits at a New England college discover a way of thought and life a world away from their banal contemporaries. But their search for the transcendent leads them down a dangerous path, beyond human constructs of morality.<br><br><b>“A remarkably powerful novel [and] a ferociously well-paced entertainment . . . Forceful, cerebral, and impeccably controlled.” —<i>The New York Times</i></b>
The Portable Dorothy Parker
Dorothy Parker · 1985
The Complete Stories of Dorothy Parker
Dorothy Parker · 1995
Lisa and David
Theodore Isaac Rubin · 1970
How the Grinch Stole Christmas
Dr. Seuss · 1957
Charlottes Web
E.B. White · 2016
Stuart Little
E. B White · 2020
A Room with a View
E. M. Forster · 2021
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.
Ethan Frome
Edith Wharton · 2019
Roman Fever
Edith Wharton · 2001
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Edward Albee
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Edward Gibbon · 2001
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.
Night
Elie Wiesel · 2012
The True and Outstanding Adventures of the Hunt Sisters
Elisabeth Robinson · 2004
Sonnets from the Portuguese
Elizabeth Barrett Browning · 2021
Bitch: In Praise of Difficult Women
Elizabeth Wurtzel · 2012
From the author of the bestselling Prozac Nation comes one of the most entertaining feminist manifestos ever written. In five brilliant extended essays, she links the lives of women as demanding and disparate as Amy Fisher, Hillary Clinton, Margaux Hemingway, and Nicole Brown Simpson. Wurtzel gives voice to those women whose lives have been misunderstood, who have been dismissed for their beauty, their madness, their youth. Bitch is a brilliant tract on the history of manipulative female behavior. By looking at women who derive their power from their sexuality, Wurtzel offers a trenchant cultural critique of contemporary gender relations. Beginning with Delilah, the first woman to supposedly bring a great man down (latter-day Delilahs include Yoko Ono, Pam Smart, Bess Myerson), Wurtzel finds many biblical counterparts to the men and women in today's headlines. She finds in the story of Amy Fisher the tragic plight of all Lolitas, our thirst for their brief and intense flame. She connects Hemingway's tragic suicide to those of Sylvia Plath, Edie Sedgwick, and Marilyn Monroe, women whose beauty was an end, ultimately, in itself. Wurtzel, writing about the wife/mistress dichotomy, explains how some women are anointed as wife material, while others are relegated to the role of mistress. She takes to task the double standard imposed on women, the cultural insistence on goodness and society's complete obsession with badness: what's a girl to do? Let's face it, if women were any real threat to male power, "Gennifer Flowers would be sitting behind the desk of the Oval Office," writes Wurtzel, "and Bill Clinton would be a lounge singer in the Excelsior Hotel in Little Rock." Bitch tells a tale both celebratory and cautionary as Wurtzel catalogs some of the most infamous women in history, defending their outsize desires, describing their exquisite loneliness, championing their take-no-prisoners approach to life and to love. Whether writing about Courtney Love, Sally Hemings, Bathsheba, Kimba Wood, Sharon Stone, Princess Di--or waxing eloquent on the hideous success of The Rules, the evil that is The Bridges of Madison County, the twisted logic of You'll Never Make Love in This Town Again--Wurtzel is back with a bitchography that cuts to the core. In prose both blistering and brilliant, Bitch is a treatise on the nature of desperate sexual manipulation and a triumph of pussy power.
Wuthering Heights
Emily Brontë · 2019
Wuthering Heights is a wild, passionate story of the intense and almost demonic love between Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff, a foundling adopted by Catherine's father. After Mr Earnshaw's death, Heathcliff is bullied and humiliated by Catherine's brother Hindley and wrongly believing that his love for Catherine is not reciprocated, leaves Wuthering Heights, only to return years later as a wealthy and polished man. He proceeds to exact a terrible revenge for his former miseries. The action of the story is chaotic and unremittingly violent, but the accomplished handling of a complex structure, the evocative descriptions of the lonely moorland setting and the poetic grandeur of vision combine to make this unique novel a masterpiece of English literature.
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 Nanny Diaries
Emma McLaughlin, Nicola Kraus · 2004
Love Story
Erich Segal · 2005
<p>The Phenomenal National Bestseller<br> and Enduring Classic</p> <p>He is Oliver Barett IV, a rich jock from a stuffy WASP family on his way to a Harvard degree and a career in law.</p> <p>She is Jenny Cavilleri, a wisecracking working-class beauty studying music at Radcliffe.</p> <p>Opposites in nearly every way, Oliver and Jenny immediately attract, sharing a love that defies everything ... yet will end too soon. Here is a love that will linger in your heart now and forever.</p>
The Devil in the White City: A Saga of Magic and Murder at the Fair that Changed America
Erik Larson · 2004
The Old Man and the Sea
Ernest Hemingway · 2024
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.
To Have and Have Not
Ernest Hemingway · 1996
Life of Pi
Yann Martel · 2002
The Optimist's Daughter
Eudora Welty · 1990
The Collected Stories Of Eudora Welty
Eudora Welty · 1982
Tender Is the Night
F. Scott Fitzgerald · 1996
Walt Disneys Bambi
Felix Salten · 2006
Sybil
Flora Schreiber · 1979
The Good Soldier
Ford Madox Ford · 2020
The Scarecrow of OZ
L. Frank Baum · 2017
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
L. Frank Baum · 2022
Angelas Ashes
Frank McCourt · 1996
The Metamorphosis
Franz Kafka · 2025
The Trial
Franz Kafka · 2024
The Portable Nietzsche
Friedrich Nietzsche · 1977
Gidget
Frederick Kohner · 2001
Crime and Punishment
Fyodor Dostoevsky · 1993
<b>Hailed by <i>Washington Post Book World</i> as “the best [translation] currently available" when it was first published, this second edition of <i>Crime and Punishment </i>has been updated in honor of the 200th anniversary of Dostoevsky’s birth. • <b>ONE OF <i>TIME MAGAZINE</i>'S 100 BEST MYSTERY AND THRILLER BOOKS OF ALL TIME</b></b><br><br>With the same suppleness, energy, and range of voices that won their translation of <i>The Brothers Karamazov</i> the PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Prize, Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky offer a brilliant translation of <i>Crime and Punishment, </i>Dostoevsky's astounding pyschological thriller, newly revised for his bicentenniel. <br><br>In <i>Crime and Punishment</i>, when Raskolnikov, an impoverished student living in the St. Petersburg of the tsars, commits an act of murder and theft, he sets into motion a story that is almost unequalled in world literature for its excruciating suspense, its atmospheric vividness, and its depth of characterization and vision. Dostoevsky’s drama of sin, guilt, and redemption transforms the sordid story of an old woman’s murder into the nineteenth century’s profoundest and most compelling philosophical novel.
Demons
Fyodor Dostoevsky · 2010
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Gabriel García Márquez · 2022
Extravagance
Gary Krist · 2003
The Canterbury Tales
Geoffrey Chaucer · 2003
Peyton Place
Grace Metalious · 2011
The Last Empire
Gore Vidal · 2002
Fat Land : How Americans Became the Fattest People in the Land
Greg Critser · 2003
Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
Gregory Maguire · 2000
The New York Times bestseller and basis for the Tony-winning hit musical, soon to be a major motion picture starring Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande<br/>With millions of copies in print around the world, Gregory Maguire’s Wicked is established not only as a commentary on our time but as a novel to revisit for years to come. Wicked relishes the inspired inventions of L. Frank Baum’s 1900 novel, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, while playing sleight of hand with our collective memories of the 1939 MGM film starring Margaret Hamilton (and Judy Garland). In this fast-paced, fantastically real, and supremely entertaining novel, Maguire has populated the largely unknown world of Oz with the power of his own imagination.<br/>Years before Dorothy and her dog crash-land, another little girl makes her presence known in Oz. This girl, Elphaba, is born with emerald-green skin—no easy burden in a land as mean and poor as Oz, where superstition and magic are not strong enough to explain or overcome the natural disasters of flood and famine. Still, Elphaba is smart, and by the time she enters Shiz University, she becomes a member of a charmed circle of Oz’s most promising young citizens.<br/>But Elphaba’s Oz is no utopia. The Wizard’s secret police are everywhere. Animals—those creatures with voices, souls, and minds—are threatened with exile. Young Elphaba, green and wild and misunderstood, is determined to protect the Animals—even if it means combating the mysterious Wizard, even if it means risking her single chance at romance. Ever wiser in guilt and sorrow, she can find herself grateful when the world declares her a witch. And she can even make herself glad for that young girl from Kansas.<br/>Recognized as an iconoclastic tour de force on its initial publication, the novel has inspired the blockbuster musical of the same name—one of the longest-running plays in Broadway history. Popular, indeed. But while the novel’s distant cousins hail from the traditions of magical realism, mythopoeic fantasy, and sprawling nineteenth-century sagas of moral urgency, Maguire’s Wicked is as unique as its green-skinned witch.
Fletch
Gregory Mcdonald · 2018
Rapunzel
Brothers Grimm · 2002
Snow-White and Rose-Red
The Brothers Grimm · 2017
Madame Bovary
Gustave Flaubert · 2014
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.
A Second Mencken Chrestomathy
H. L. Mencken · 2006
The Little Matchgirl
Hans Christian Andersen
Uncle Toms Cabin
Harriet Beecher Stowe · 2019
The Story of My Life
Helen Keller · 2016
Thoughts from Walden Pond
Henry David Thoreau · 1998
Walden
Henry David Thoreau · 2020
Daisy Miller
Henry James · 2019
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
Henry Farrell · 2013
Sexus
Henry Miller · 1965
Roberts Rules of Order
Henry M. Robert · 1996
Moby-Dick
Herman Melville · 2016
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.
Living History
Hillary Clinton · 2003
Moliere: A Biography
Hobart Chatfield Chatfield-Taylor · 2015
The Iliad
Homer · 2017
Cousin Bette
Honore Balzac · 2012
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Hunter S. Thompson · 1996
Atonement
Ian McEwan · 2014
"On the hottest day of the summer of 1935, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis sees her older sister Cecilia strip off her clothes and plunge into the fountain in the garden of their country house. Watching Cecilia is their housekeeper's son Robbie Turner, a childhood friend who, along with Briony's sister, has recently graduated from Cambridge. By the end of that day the lives of all three will have been changed forever. Robbie and Cecilia will have crossed a boundary they had never before dared to approach and will have become victims of the younger girl's scheming imagination. And Briony will have committed a dreadful crime, the guilt for which will color her entire life. In each of his novels Ian McEwan has brilliantly drawn his reader into the intimate lives and situations of his characters. But never before has he worked with so large a canvas: In Atonement he takes the reader from a manor house in England in 1935 to the retreat from Dunkirk in 1941; from the London's World War II military hospitals to a reunion of the Tallis clan in 1999. Atonement is Ian McEwan's finest achievement. Brilliant and utterly enthralling in its depiction of childhood, love and war, England and class, the novel is at its center a profound-and profoundly moving-exploration of shame and forgiveness and the difficulty of absolution"--
Rosemarys Baby
Ira Levin
Eva Luna
Isabel Allende · 1989
The House of the Spirits
Isabel Allende · 2015
Daughter of Fortune
Isabel Allende
From the New York Times bestselling author of The House of the Spirits, Isabelle Allende, comes a passionate tale of one young woman's quest to save her lover set against the chaos of the 1849 California Gold Rush.<br/><br/>Orphaned at birth, Eliza Sommers is raised in the British colony of Valparaíso, Chile, by the well-intentioned Victorian spinster Miss Rose and her more rigid brother Jeremy. Just as she meets and falls in love with the wildly inappropriate Joaquín Andieta, a lowly clerk who works for Jeremy, gold is discovered in the hills of northern California. By 1849, Chileans of every stripe have fallen prey to feverish dreams of wealth. Joaquín takes off for San Francisco to seek his fortune, and Eliza, pregnant with his child, decides to follow him.<br/>As Eliza embarks on her perilous journey north in the hold of a ship and arrives in the rough-and-tumble world of San Francisco, she must navigate a society dominated by greedy men. But Eliza soon catches on with the help of her natural spirit and a good friend, the Chinese doctor Tao Chi’en. What began as a search for love ends up as the conquest of personal freedom.<br/>A marvel of storytelling, Daughter of Fortune confirms once again Isabel Allende's extraordinary gift for fiction and her place as one of the world's leading writers.
Out of Africa
Isak Dinesen · 2018
Franny and Zooey
J. D. Salinger · 1991
The Catcher in the Rye
J. D. Salinger · 2001
Time and Again
Jack Finney · 1995
On the Road
Jack Kerouac · 1999
Shane
Jack Schaefer
George W. Bushisms: The Slate Book of Accidental Wit and Wisdom of Our 43rd President
Jacob Weisberg · 2001
Valley Of The Dolls
Jacquelyn Susann · 2016
Finnegans Wake
James Joyce · 2015
Quattroccento
James McKean · 2002
Nervous System: Or, Losing My Mind in Literature
Jan Lars Jensen · 2005
Middlesex
Jeffrey Eugenides · 2002
The Virgin Suicides
Jeffrey Eugenides · 2002
Inherit the Wind
Jerome Lawrence · 1982
Like Water for Chocolate
Laura Esquivel · 1993
<b>The intoxicating international bestseller about forbidden love, cooking and magic, perfect for fans of Joanne Harris and Isabel Allende.</b><br> <br> <b>'This magical, mythical, moving story of love, sacrifice and summering sensuality is something I will savour for a long time' MAUREEN LIPMAN</b><br> <br> The number one bestseller in Mexico and America for almost two years, and subsequently a bestseller around the world, <i>Like Water For Chocolate</i> is a romantic, poignant tale, touched with moments of magic, graphic earthiness, bittersweet wit - and recipes.<br> <br> A sumptuous feast of a novel, it relates the bizarre history of the all-female De La Garza family. Tita, the youngest daughter of the house, has been forbidden to marry, condemned by Mexican tradition to look after her mother until she dies. But Tita falls in love with Pedro, and he is seduced by the magical food she cooks. In desperation Pedro marries her sister Rosaura so that he can stay close to her.<br> <br> For the next twenty-two years Tita and Pedro are forced to circle each other in unconsummated passion. Only a freakish chain of tragedies, bad luck and fate finally reunite them against all the odds.<br> <br> <b>'A joy... Has an energetic charm that's quite impossible to resist' LITERARY REVIEW<br> <br> 'An epic love story with recipes and a sprinkling of magical realism' WASHINGTON POST</b><br> <br> <b>'Enchanting...an open-eyed fairy story complete with ugly sister' BARBARA TRAPIDO</b><br> <br> <b>'A Mexican culinary romance to make the mouth water' SHE</b><br> <br> <b>'Ingenious' INDEPENDENT</b>
Ulysses
James Joyce · 2022
The Odyssey
Homer · 1999
The Sun Also Rises
Ernest Hemingway · 2022
The debut novel from the Nobel Prize-winning author that is both a tragic love story and a searing group portrait of hapless American expatriates drinking, dancing, and chasing their dreams in postwar Europe.<br/><br/>“An absorbingly beautiful and tenderly absurd, heart-breaking narrative ... It is a truly gripping story.” —The New York Times<br/><br/>Ernest Hemingway, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954, exerted a lasting influence on fiction in English through his economical prose style that conceals more than it reveals. His first novel, published in 1926, is narrated by world-weary journalist Jake Barnes, who is burdened by a wound acquired in World War I and by his utterly hopeless love for the flamboyantly decadent Lady Brett Ashley. The Sun Also Rises tracks the Lost Generation of the 1920s from the nightclubs of Paris to the bullfighting arenas of Spain.
The Count of Monte Cristo
Alexandre Dumas · 1846
Frankenstein
Mary Shelley · 2003
The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald · 2004
Northanger Abbey
Jane Austen · 2015
1984
George Orwell · 1983
75th ANNIVERSARY EDITION “Orwell saw, to his credit, that the act of falsifying reality is only secondarily a way of changing perceptions. It is, above all, a way of asserting power.”—The New Yorker In 1984, London is a grim city in the totalitarian state of Oceania where Big Brother is always watching you and the Thought Police can practically read your mind. Winston Smith is a man in grave danger for the simple reason that his memory still functions. Drawn into a forbidden love affair, Winston finds the courage to join a secret revolutionary organization called The Brotherhood, dedicated to the destruction of the Party. Together with his beloved Julia, he hazards his life in a deadly match against the powers that be. Lionel Trilling said of Orwell’s masterpiece “1984 is a profound, terrifying, and wholly fascinating book. It is a fantasy of the political future, and like any such fantasy, serves its author as a magnifying device for an examination of the present.” Though the year 1984 now exists in the past, Orwell’s dystopian classic remains an urgent call for the individual willing to speak truth to power.
Anna Karenina
Leo Tolstoy · 1878
Jane Eyre
Charlotte Bronte · 2010
Freaky Friday
Mary Rodgers · 2009
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
Mary Roach · 2021
A Bolt from the Blue and Other Essays
Mary McCarthy
Huckleberry Finn
Mark Twain · 2013
The Group
Mary McCarthy · 1991
Portrays the lives of eight women graduated from the same class at Vassar.
Ella Minnow Pea: A Novel in Letters
Mark Dunn · 2002
A hilarious and moving story of one girl’s fight for freedom of expression, as well as a linguistic tour de force sure to delight word lovers everywhere<br/><br/>Ella Minnow Pea is a girl living happily on the fictional island of Nollop off the coast of South Carolina. Nollop was named after Nevin Nollop, author of the immortal phrase containing all the letters of the alphabet, “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.”<br/><br/>Now Ella finds herself acting to save her friends, family, and fellow citizens from the encroaching totalitarianism of the island’s Council, which has banned the use of certain letters of the alphabet as they fall from a memorial statue of Nevin Nollop. As the letters progressively drop from the statue they also disappear from the novel. The result is "a love letter to alphabetarians and logomaniacs everywhere" (Myla Goldberg, bestselling author of Bee Season).
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.
Gone with the Wind
Margaret Mitchell · 2011
Since its original publication in 1936, Gone With the Wind—winner of the Pulitzer Prize and one of the bestselling novels of all time—has been heralded by readers everywhere as The Great American Novel.<br/><br/>Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read.<br/><br/>This is the tale of Scarlett O’Hara, the spoiled, manipulative daughter of a wealthy plantation owner, who arrives at young womanhood just in time to see the Civil War forever change her way of life. A sweeping story of tangled passion and courage, in the pages of Gone With the Wind, Margaret Mitchell brings to life the unforgettable characters that have captivated readers for decades.<br/><br/>Widely considered an American classic, and often remembered for its epic film version, Gone With the Wind explores the depth of human passions with an intensity as bold as its setting in the red hills of Georgia. A superb piece of storytelling, it vividly depicts the drama of the Civil War and Reconstruction.
Oryx and Crake
Margaret Atwood · 2003
In Search of Lost Time
Marcel Proust · 2015
How the Light Gets In
M. J. Hyland · 2007
Autobiography Of A Face
Lucy Grealy · 2016
Swanns Way
Marcel Proust · 1984
The Song Reader
Lisa Tucker · 2008
War and Peace
Leo Tolstoy · 2017
<b>A stunning clothbound Hardcover Classics edition of Tolstoy’s great novel, one of the undisputed masterpieces of world literature. <b>Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s <i>The Great American Read</i></b></b><br> <br> At a glittering society party in St. Petersburg in 1805, conversations are dominated by the prospect of war. Terror swiftly engulfs the country as Napoleon’s army marches on Russia, and the lives of three young people are changed forever. The stories of quixotic Pierre, cynical Andrey, and impetuous Natasha interweave with a huge cast, from aristocrats and peasants, to soldiers and Napoleon himself. In <i>War and Peace</i>, Tolstoy entwines grand themes—conflict and love, birth and death, free will and fate—with unforgettable scenes of nineteenth-century Russia, to create a magnificent epic of human life in all its imperfection and grandeur.<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.
The Children's Hour
Lillian Hellman · 1953
Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk
Legs McNeil, Gillian McCain · 2016
Ranks up there with the great rock & roll books of all time.”Time Out New York<br/><br/>Lurid, insolent, disorderly, funny, sometimes gross, sometimes mean and occasionally touching . . . Resounds with authenticity.”The New York Times<br/><br/>No volume serves juicier dish on punk’s New York birth . . . Tales of sex, drugs and music that will make you wish you’d been there.”Rolling Stone<br/><br/>A contemporary classic, Please Kill Me is the definitive oral history of the most nihilistic of all pop movements. Iggy Pop, Richard Hell, the Ramones, and scores of other punk figures lend their voices to this decisive account of that explosive era. This 20th anniversary edition features new photos and an afterword by the authors.<br/><br/>Utterly and shamelessly sensational.”Newsday
Seabiscuit
Laura Hillenbrand · 2001
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.
Terms of Endearment
Larry McMurtry · 2010
Galapagos
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>
Slaughterhouse-Five
Kurt Vonnegut · 2009
The Yearling
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings · 2024
Hindu Philosophy. the Bhagavad Gita; Or, the Sacred Lay. A. Sanskrit Philosophical Poem. Translated, with Notes
Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, John Davies · 2018
<p>This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.</p> <p>This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.</p> <p>Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface.</p> <p>We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.</p>
The Kite Runner
Khaled Hosseini · 2004
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Ken Kesey · 2007
Eloise
Kay Thompson · 2015
The Little Locksmith: A Memoir
Katharine Butler Hathaway · 2022
Personal History
Katharine Graham · 2011
The Awakening
Kate Chopin · 2020
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
Kate Douglas Wiggin · 2020
The Brontes
Juliet R.V. Barker · 2001
The Namesake
Jhumpa Lahiri · 2019
The Mojo Collection: The Greatest Albums of All Time... and How They Happened
Jim Irvin • 2003
The Year of Magical Thinking
Joan Didion · 2007
The Velvet Underground's The Velvet Underground and Nico
Joe Harvard · 20040331
A Confederacy of Dunces
John Kennedy Toole · 1987
Paradise Lost
John Milton · 2020
A Separate Peace
John Knowles
The Grapes of Wrath
John Steinbeck · 2006
Of Mice and Men
John Steinbeck · 1993
The Fortress of Solitude
Jonathan Lethem · 2005
Everything Is Illuminated
Jonathan Safran Foer · 2015
The Gospel According to Jesus Christ
Jim Baxter · 2017
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."
Catch-22
Joseph Heller · 2010
Fiddler on the Roof
Joseph Stein · 1964
The Meaning of Consuelo
Judith Ortiz Cofer · 2003
Gender Trouble
Judith Butler · 2016
Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette
Judith Thurman · 1999
Deenie
Judy Blume · 2014
Song Of The Simple Truth
Julia De Burgos · 1995
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.
How to Breathe Underwater
Julie Orringer · 2007
When the Emperor Was Divine
Julie Otsuka · 2007
Brigadoon
Alan Jay Lerner
Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them
Al Franken · 2003
Theodore Dreiser An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser
Theodore Dreiser • 1925
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
Michael Chabon • 2012
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Dover Thrift Editions: Classic Novels)
Mark Twain • 1994
1984
George Orwell • 1961
<b>Written more than 70 years ago, <i>1984</i> was George Orwell’s chilling prophecy about the future. And while 1984 has come and gone, his dystopian vision of a government that will do anything to control the narrative is timelier than ever...<br><br><b>• Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s <i>The Great American Read •</i></b><br></b><br>“<i>The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.</i>”<br><br>Winston Smith toes the Party line, rewriting history to satisfy the demands of the Ministry of Truth. With each lie he writes, Winston grows to hate the Party that seeks power for its own sake and persecutes those who dare to commit thoughtcrimes. But as he starts to think for himself, Winston can’t escape the fact that Big Brother is always watching...<br><br>A startling and haunting novel, <i>1984</i> creates an imaginary world that is completely convincing from start to finish. No one can deny the novel’s hold on the imaginations of whole generations, or the power of its admonitions—a power that seems to grow, not lessen, with the passage of time.
