(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) From the Nobel Prize-winning author of One Hundred Years of Solitude comes a masterly evocation of an unrequited passio......
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) Virginia Woolf said of Emily Bronte that her writing could "make the wind blow and the thunder roar," and so it does in......
In his widely acclaimed new collection of stories, Julian Barnes addresses what is perhaps the most poignant aspect of the human condition: growing ol......
Sixteen-year-old suburbanite Chris Lloyd and his mate Toni spend their free time wishing they were French, making up stories about strangers, and pret......
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(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) Our ceaseless human quest for something larger than ourselves has never been represented with more insight and love tha......
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) In its marvelously perceptive portrayal of two young women in love, "Sense and Sensibility" is the answer to those crit......
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) Shakespeare's four greatest tragedies were written in a remarkably short period of time, between 1598 and 1606. "Hamlet......
The complexity and range of Robert Louis Stevenson's short fiction reveals his genius perhaps more than any other medium. Here, leading Stevenson scho......
"The Moonstone is a page-turner, " writes Carolyn Heilbrun. "It catches one up and unfolds its amazing story through the recountings of its several na......
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In many ways this is a wonderful novel with interesting, alive, characters. The medical aspects are absorbing and relevant, and the plot, the story, i......
The assumptions and obsessions that control our daily lives are explored in tantalizing detail by master novelist John Updike in this wise, witty, sex......
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Oscar Wilde's story of a fashionable young man who sells his soul for eternal youth and beauty is one of his most popular works. Written in Wilde's ch......
Conrad's foresight and his ability to pluck the human adventure from complex historical circumstances were such that his greatest novel, Nostromo -- t......
Extensively revised by Nabokov in 1965--thirty years after its original publication--Despair is the wickedly inventive and richly derisive story of He......
Shakespeare became famous as a dazzling poet before most people even knew that he wrote plays. His sonnets are the English language's most extraordina......
In the "brilliant novel" ("The New York Times") V.S. Naipaul takes us deeply into the life of one man--an Indian who, uprooted by the bloody tides of ......
An immediate bestseller when it was first published in December 1843, A Christmas Carol has endured ever since as a perennial Yuletide favorite. Charl......
