""He is a religious writer; he is a comic realist; he knows what everything feels like, how everything works. He is putting together a body of work wh......
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) One of Charles Dickens's most fascinating novels, "Great Expectations" follows the orphan Pip as he leaves behind a chi......
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) It has been said that Victor Hugo has a street named after him in virtually every town in France. A major reason for th......
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) Thomas Hardy's almost supernatural insight into the course of wayward lives, his instinctive feeling for the beauty of ......
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The novel is the story of Dreyer, a wealthy and boisterous proprietor of a men's clothing emporium store. Ruddy, self-satisfied, and thoroughly mascul......
Featuring the brilliantly drawn Roxanna, a mulatto slave who suffers dire consequences after switching her infant son with her master's baby, and the ......
Hank Morgan awakens one morning to find he has been transported from nineteenth-century New England to sixth-century England and the reign of King Art......
Robert Prentice has spent all his life attempting to escape his mother's stifling presence. His mother, Alice, for her part, struggles with her own de......
In his long-awaited, vastly innovative new novel, Naipaul, "one of literature's great travelers" (Los Angles Times), spans continents and centuries to......
Harry Angstrom was a star basketball player in high school and that was the best time of his life. Now in his mid-20s, his work is unfulfilling, his m......
Joyce Carol Oates's Wonderland Quartet comprises four remarkable novels that explore social class in America and the inner lives of young Americans. I......
The Ghost Writer introduces Nathan Zuckerman in the 1950s, a budding writer infatuated with the Great Books, discovering the contradictory claims of l......
Dickens's widely read satirical account of the Industrial Revolution. Dickens creates the Victorian industrial city of Coketown, in northern England......
Since its first publication in 1908, generations of adults and children have cherished Kenneth Grahame's classic, The Wind in the Willows."" For in th......
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) Introduction by Catherine Peters A panoramic satire of English society during the Napoleonic Wars, Vanity Fair is Willi......
This is, in short, a complete, unsettling, and frequently exhilarating vision of the world, starting with the voyage of Noah's ark and ending with a s......
Published two weeks after his seventieth birthday, Ada, or Ardor is one of Nabokov's greatest masterpieces, the glorious culmination of his career as ......
The "Guermantes Way," in this the third volume of "In Search of Lost Time," refers to the path that leads to the Duc and Duchess de Guermantes's chate......
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