Book Description Emma, when first published in 1816, was written when Jane Austen was at the height of her powers. In it, we have her two greatest com......
Quintessential Updike....These tales are elegies for lost youth and receding passions. -- The New York Times "If one trait can account for Joh......
Winner of the 1982 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Ten years after RABBIT REDUX, Harry Angstrom has come to enjoy prosperity as the Chief Sales Represen......
They meet by chance on Copacabana Beach: Tristao Raposo, a poor black teen from the Rio slums, surviving day to day on street smarts and the hustle, a......
Kafka's first and funniest novel, Amerika tells the story of the young immigrant Karl Rossmann who, after an embarrassing sexual misadventure, finds h......
From Library Journal The published editions of Women in Love , probably Lawrence's greatest novel, have always been remarkably corrupt due to a leng......
Shakespeare forged his tremendous art in the crucible of his comic imagination, which throughout his life enveloped and contained his tragic one. His ......
(Book Jacket Status: Not Jacketed) Introduction by John Bayley...
Ranked among the classic novels of the English language and the inspiration for several unforgettable movies, this early work of H. G. Wells was greet......
A stunning novel by the widest-read Arab writer currently published in the U.S. The age of Nasser has ushered in enormous social change, and most of t......
The national bestseller and the first volume in Cormac McCarthy's Border Trilogy, All the Pretty Horses is the tale of John Grady Cole, who at sixteen......
The Secret Agent is the unsurpassed ancestor of a long series of twentieth-century novels and films which explore the confused motives that lie at the......
Once again, Naguib Mahfouz has fashioned a highly charged, tightly written tale of intersecting lives that provides readers with both an engaging and ......
Because of its frank treatment of human sexuality and its unflinching fatalism, Jude the Obscure aroused such a storm of controversy upon its publicat......
This textbook series provides concise and lucid introductions to major works of literature, from classical antiquity to the twentieth century. Each bo......
A collection of the short stories of the Nobel Prize-winning author of Palace Walk represents thirty years of work and features tales of the citizens ......
The Virgin and the Gipsy was discovered in France after D. H. Lawrence's death in 1930. Immediately recognized as a masterpiece in which Lawrence had ......
Women In Love, the book Lawrence considered his best, was written during World War I, and while that conflict is never mentioned in the novel, a sense......
...
在线阅读本书 Never has Nobel Prize-winner Naguib Mahfouz's talent for rich and luxurious storytelling been more evident than in this outstanding novel, fir......
