“Never did any novelist make more use of an impeccable sense of human values.”...
Letting Go is Roth's first full-length novel, published just after Goodbye, Columbus, when he was twenty-nine. Set in 1950s Chicago, New York, and Iow......
In a narrative that moves with dreamlike swiftness from India to England to Africa, Nobel Laureate V. S. Naipaul has produced his finest novel to date......
A brilliant new translation of the work that Herman Hesse called "the first great masterpiece of European storytelling." In the summer of 1348, with t......
In this slyly funny and lavishly inventive novel–his first–V. S. Naipaul traces the unlikely career of Ganesh Ramsumair, a failed schoolteacher and im......
(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......
Often called the greatest novel ever written, War and Peace is at once an epic of the Napoleonic Wars, a philosophical study, and a celebration of the......
In the hopeful 1950s, Frank and April Wheeler appear to be a model cou-ple: bright, beautiful, talented, with two young children and a starter home in......
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) Nikolai Gogol's "Dead Souls" is the great comic masterpiece of Russian literature-a satirical and splendidly exaggerate......
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) In "Madame Bovary," his story of a shallow, deluded, unfaithful, but consistently compelling woman living in the provin......
In 1867, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow completed the first Americantranslation of Inferno and thus introduced Dante's literary genius to theNew World. In......
As boys, George, the son of a Midlands vicar, and Arthur, living in shabby genteel Edinburgh, find themselves in a vast and complex world at the heart......
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Nabokov's first novel. A tale of youth, first love and nostalgia. In a Berlin rooming house, a vigorous young officer poised between his past and his ......
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) Dostoevsky's towering reputation as one of the handful of thinkers who forged the modern sensibility has sometimes obsc......
A satiric masterpiece about the allure and peril of money, "Our Mutual Friend" revolves around the inheritance of a dust-heap where the rich throw the......
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) From the acclaimed translators of "War and Peace," "Crime and Punishment," and "The Brothers Karamazov, "a brilliant tr......
Concerned for her family's financial welfare and eager to expand her own horizons, Agnes Grey takes up the position of governess, the only respectable......
The final volume in the Everyman's Library Charles Dickens collection: the timeless story of everyone's favorite misanthrope, Ebenezer Scrooge, togeth......
"A GOLD MINE FOR SCHOLARS." *Deidre Carmody The New York Times Now, in this extraordinary literary uncovering, the original first half of Mark Twain's......
