Stevenson’s brooding historical romance demonstrates his most abiding theme—the elemental struggle between good and evil—as it unfolds against a haunt......
Hugely admired by Tolstoy, David Copperfield is the novel that draws most closely from Charles Dickens's own life. Its eponymous hero, orphaned as a b......
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(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) Graham Greene's passion for moral complexity and his stylistic aplomb were perfectly suited to the cat-and mouse game o......
On her twelfth birthday, Sierva Maria - the only child of a decaying noble family in an eighteenth-century South American seaport - is bitten by a rab......
General Simon Bolivar, “the Liberator” of five South American countries, takes a last melancholy journey down the Magdalena River, revisiting cities a......
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) The brilliant, bestselling, landmark novel that tells the story of the Buendia family, and chronicles the irreconcilabl......
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) In his first and still most widely read novel, James Joyce makes a strange peace with the traditional narrative of a yo......
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) Britain's three-hundred-year relationship with the Indian subcontinent produced much fiction of interest but only one i......
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) Penelope Fitzgerald, who died in 2000, emerged late in life as one of the most remarkable English writ ers of the last ......
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) In "The Mill on the Floss," George Eliot re-creates her own childhood through the story of the wild, gifted Maggie Tull......
(Book Jacket Status: Not Jacketed) Introduction by E. S. Shaffer...
Based on the true story of Alexander Selkirk, who survived alone for almost five years on an uninhabited island off the coast of Chile, "The Mysteriou......
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) Alexandre Dumas's epic novel of justice, retribution, and self-discovery--one of the most enduringly popular adventure ......
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) Dostoevsky's most revolutionary novel, "Notes from Underground" marks the dividing line between nineteenth- and twentie......
" A stranger could drive through Miguel Street and just say ' Slum ' because he could see no more." But to its residents this derelict corner of Trini......
In quest of the unpublished manuscript of a martyred Yiddish writer, the American novelist Nathan Zuckerman travels to Soviet-occupied Prague in the m......
