Author: Jo Baker THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER A RICHARD AND JUDY BOOKCLUB PICK 'Utterly engrossing' Guardian It is wash-day for the housemaids at Longbourn House, and Sarah's hands...
Author: Colleen McCullough Synopsis: The tale of the Trojan War brilliantly retold by the bestselling author of THE THORN BIRDS.The tragic and terrible drama of the war between Greeks and...
A Blandings novel The Empress of Blandings, prize-winning pig and all-consuming passion of Clarence, Ninth Earl of Emsworth, has disappeared. Blandings Castle is in uproar and there are suspects a-plenty...
Author: Honoré de Balzac A hero of the Napoleonic Wars, supposedly killed in battle, returns after a long convalescence to find his wife remarried and his pension gone. Colonel Chabert...
Author: John Fante Synopsis: Ask the Dust is a virtuoso performance by an influential master of the twentieth-century American novel. It is the story of Arturo Bandini, a young writer...
Author: John O'Hara Julian and Caroline English are at the center of the social elite until Julian makes a fateful decision to break with polite society and embarks on a...
Authors: William Shakespeare, Thomas Middleton FOLGER SHAKESPEARE LIBRARYTHE WORLD'S LEADING CENTER FOR SHAKESPEARE STUDIES"Each edition includes: "Freshly edited text based on the best early printed version of the playFull explanatory...
Author: Aphra Behn When Prince Oroonoko�s passion for the virtuous Imoinda arouses the jealousy of his grandfather, the lovers are cast into slavery and transported from Africa to the colony...
Author: Stephen Jay Gould The noted naturalist and author of Dinosaur in a Haystack sheds new light on humankind's fascination with the approaching millennium, offering a collection of scientific and...
Author: Frances Hodgson Burnett A ten-year-old orphan comes to live in a lonely house on the Yorkshire moors where she discovers an invalid cousin and the mysteries of a locked...
Author: Eudora Welty Written late In life, "The Optimist's Daughter" is a Pulitzer Prize-winning and autobiographical short novel written that finds the author coming to grips with her father's death--and...
Author: Daniel Defoe Abandoned at birth and threatened with a life in service, Defoe's young rebel sets her heart on independence. One fatal seduction and five husbands later, she resorts...
Author: Dan Brown *NOW A MAJOR FILM STARRING TOM HANKS AND FELICITY JONES* 'Seek and ye shall find.' With these words echoing in his head, eminent Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon...
Authors: William Shakespeare, Janis Lull
An introductory section covering criticism and performances has been included in this updated edition of King Richard III.
Author: Edward Luttwak Originally published in 1976, a book which looks at the success of the Roman Empire from the 1st to the 3rd century A.D. and attributes this success...
Author: Mark Twain
Composed between 1863 and 1875, these sixty-three often outrageous sketches prove indispensable to our understanding of Twain during thirteen quite amazing years in American history.
Author: Stacy Schiff Wohl kaum eine Frau bewegt die Gemüter seit tausenden von Jahren wie Kleopatra. Wer war diese Frau wirklich, war es ihre Schönheit oder ihr brillianter Verstand, die...
Author: Horace Walpole First published pseudonymously in 1764, The Castle of Otranto purported to be a translation of an Italian story of the time of the crusades. In it Walpole...
Author: Daniel Defoe Defoe wrote this after his work as a journalist and pamphleteer. By 1722, Defoe had become recognised as a novelist, with the success of Robinson Crusoe in...
Author: William Shakespeare When Claudio breaks the new laws against vice in Vienna by getting his financee, Julietta, pregnant, a series of ethical issues is brought under scrutiny. His sister's...
Author: Emma Campbell Webster An interactive novel in which the reader determines the course of action for characters from Jane Austen's works, beginning with Elizabeth Bennet whose mission is to...
Charles Dickens|Dr. Keith Carabine|Doreen Roberts|(Phiz) Hablot K. Browne With an Introduction and Notes by Doreen Roberts, University of Kent at Canterbury. Illustrations by Hablot K. Browne (Phiz). Bleak House is...
Synopsis: This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfectionssuch as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either...
Author: Sylvia Townsend Warner Two novels featuring the troubled English missionary Mr. Fortune, Mr. Fortune's Maggot and The Salutation, take readers deep into the heart of a man in search...
Author: William Shakespeare The Winter's Tale is Shakespeare's most fully realized tragi-comedy, as notable for its tragic intensity as for its comic grace and, throughout, for the richness and complexity...
Author: John Wyndham Synopsis: A powerful post-apocalyptic allegory of persecution and intolerance, the Penguin Modern Classics edition of John Wyndham's science fiction masterpiece The Day of the Triffids contains an...
Author: Nicholas Badcott
Describes the ancient Islamic civilizations and their impact on world history and culture, including the Mughals, the Ottomans, and early Islamic Spain.
Author: Tom Holland In 480 BC, Xerxes, the King of Persia, led an invasion of mainland Greece. Its success should have been a formality. For seventy years, victory - rapid,...
Author: Nathanael West Two classic novels are included in a single volume, first, Miss Lonelyhearts, about a newspaper reporter seeking to avoid writing an agony column, with only his cynical...
Author: Thomas Carlyle Synopsis: Sartor Resartus ("The Tailor Retailored") is ostensibly an introduction to a strange history of clothing by the German Professor of Things in General, Diogenes Teufelsdrockh; its...
Author: Dennis Joseph Enright A commonplace book by its very nature, must be unique; D. J. Enright's proves to be a mixture of personal, critical, playful, and profound. It is...
Author: Thomas Cahill Bringing readers to the Ireland of St. Patrick and the Book of Kells, a historical examination of Ireland's role in the rise of medieval Europe cites the...
Author: William Shakespeare Twelfth Night is one of the most popular of Shakespeare's plays in the modern theatre, and this edition places particular emphasis on its theatrical qualities throughout. Peopled...
Author: Robert Louis Stevenson Kidnapped is Robert Louis Stevenson's classic adventure novel. David Balfour sets off to find his last remaining relatives, but is tricked into boarding a ship, and...
Author: Muriel Spark Synopsis: She was a schoolmistress with a difference. Proud, cultured, romantic, her ideas were progressive, even shocking. And when she decided to transform a group of young...
Author: John Phillips Discussing the 'real' Marquis de Sade from his mythical and demonic reputation, John Phillips examines Sade's life and work his libertine novels, his championing of atheism, and...
Author: Jo Baker "Pride and Prejudice "was only half the story "If Elizabeth Bennet had the washing of her own petticoats, Sarah often thought, she d most likely be a...
Author: Ludovico Ariosto One of the greatest epic poems of the Italian Renaissance, Orlando Furioso is an intricate tale of love and enchantment set at the time of the Holy...
Author: William Styron Three stories are told: a young Southerner wants to become a writer; a turbulent love-hate affair between a brilliant Jew and a beautiful Polish woman; and of...
