Booker Prize Finalist "Wickedly funny." --"The New York Times" Imagine an England where all the pubs are quaint, where the Windsors behave themselves ......
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(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) Arriving in a village to take up the position of land surveyor for the mysterious lord of a castle, the character known......
"Time" Magazine Best American Novel (1993) In this fiendishly imaginative book (which may or may not be fiction), Philip Roth meets a man who may or m......
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) One of the most swiftly moving and unified of Charles Dickens's great novels, "Oliver Twist" is also famous for its re-......
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) Albert Camus's spare, laconic masterpiece about a Frenchman who murders an Arab in Algeria is famous for having diagnos......
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) Now joining Everyman's Library--the most extensive and distinguished collectible library of the world's greatest works-......
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) Introduction by Peter Washington; Translation by William Weaver Italo Calvino's masterpiece combines a love story and a......
Stories that trace the decline and fall of a marriage, a history made up of the happiness of growing children and shared life, and the sadness of grow......
The real Life of Sebastian Knight is a perversely magical literary detective story--subtle, intricate, leading to a tantalizing climax--about the myst......
The Portrait of a Lady is the most stunning achievement of Henry James's early period--in the 1860s and '70s when he was transforming himself from a t......
andquot; The most daring, ambitious and by far the best written of the several very long, daring and ambitious books Norman Mailer has so far produced......
(Book Jacket Status: Not Jacketed) If William Shakespeare had never written a single play, if his reputation rested entirely upon the substantial and ......
Returning to Russia from a sanitarium in Switzerland, the Christ-like epileptic Prince Myshkin finds himself enmeshed in a tangle of love, torn betwee......
Hermann Hesse's classic novel "Siddhartha" has delighted, inspired, and influenced generations of readers, writers, and thinkers. Though set in a plac......
At forty, the writer Nathan Zuckerman comes down with a mysterious affliction--pure pain, beginning in his neck and shoulders, invading his torso, and......
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) "Animal Farm" is the most famous by far of all twentieth-century political allegories. Its account of a group of barnya......
Dumas's most popular novel has long been a favorite with children, and its swashbuckling heroes are well known from many a film and TV adaptation. Set......
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) Charles Dickens's final, unfinished novel is in many ways his most intriguing. A highly atmospheric tale of murder, "Th......
For the first time in one hardcover volume—three classic novels by the author of Nineteen Eighty- Four and Animal Farm. The lushly descriptive and t......