One of Shakespeare's most popular plays, filled with fierce, violent action, Macbeth is a human drama of ambition, desire, and guilt in a world of blo......
(Book Jacket Status: Not Jacketed) Introduction by John Carey...
The best-known novellas and stories of one of the seminal writers of the twentieth century. Included are "The Judgment, " "A Country Doctor, " and "A ......
(Book Jacket Status: Not Jacketed) Introduction by Alfred Kazan First published in 1910, Howards End is the novel that earned E. M. Forster recognitio......
"Dombey and Son," Charles Dickens's story of a powerful man whose callous neglect of his family triggers his professional and personal downfall, showc......
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) A famous legend surrounding the creation of "Anna Karenina" tells us that Tolstoy began writing a cautionary tale about......
Roth's award-winning first book instantly established its author's reputation as a writer of explosive wit, merciless insight, and a fierce compassion......
As a student in college, David Kepesh styles himself " a rake among scholars, a scholar among rakes." Little does he realize how prophetic this motto ......
In this funny and chilling novel, the setting is a small town in the 1940s Midwest, and the subject is the heart of a wounded and ferociously moralist......
In this powerfully affecting Flaubert's Parrot gives readers a brilliant take on the deceptions that make up the quivering substrata of erotic love. "......
(Book Jacket Status: Not Jacketed) Shakespeare's histories--containing within their crowded tableaux all of the tragedies, confusions, and beauties of......
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In 1895 Hardy's final novel, the great tale of Judethe Obscure, sent shock waves of indignationrolling across Victorian England. Hardy haddared to wri......
FROM AWARD-WINNING TRANSLATORS, Amasterful new translation--never before pub-lished---of the novel in which Fyodor Dostoevskyset out to portray a trul......
The Mystery of Edwin Drood is a novel that is itself the subject of one of literature's most enduring mysteries. The story recounts the troubled roman......
“It was the happiest moment of my life, though I didn’t know it.” So begins the new novel, his first since winning the Nobel Prize, from the universal......
In a small Pennsylvania town in the late 1940s, schoolteacher George Caldwell yearns to find some meaning in his life. Alone with his teenage son for ......
When Sir Arthur C. Clarke, the greatest science fiction writer ever, teams up with award-winning author Stephen Baxter, who shares Clarke's bold visio......
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) Of all Jane Austen's great and delightful novels, "Persuasion" is widely regarded as the most moving. It is the story o......
"Sodom and Gomorrah" opens a new phase of "In Search of Lost Time." While watching the pollination of the Duchess de Guer-mantes's orchid, the narrato......
