by Harper Lee

Harper Lee's Pulitzer Prize-winning masterwork of honor and injustice in the deep South -- and the heroism of one man in the face of blind and violent hatredOne of the...Read More

Publication Date: Jun 2006

by Jane Austen

Jane Austen's first published novel, Sense and Sensibility is an entertaining tale that revolves around two different sisters: Elinor and Marianne Dashwood. Where Elinor exercises reason and calm consideration, her...Read More

Publication Date: Jul 2004

by Harper Lee

Harper Lee's classic novel of a lawyer in the Deep South defending a black man charged with the rape of a white girl.One of the best-loved stories of all time,...Read More

Publication Date: Mar 2002

by J. D. Salinger

Repetitive, indecent, often very funny, it is wonderfully sustained by the author, who achieves all those ancient effects to be got from a hero who is in some ways inferior,...Read More

Publication Date: Jan 2001

by Kurt, Jr. Vonnegut

Cat's Cradle, one of Vonnegut's most entertaining novels, is filled with scientists and G-men and even ordinary folks caught up in the game. These assorted characters chase each other around...Read More

Publication Date: Sep 1998

by Alice Walker

Celie is a poor black woman whose letters tell the story of 20 years of her life, beginning at age 14 when she is being abused and raped by her...Read More

Publication Date: May 2003

by Jane Austen

Arrange the great English novelists as one will, it does not seem possible to bring them out in any order where she is not the first, or second or third,...Read More

Publication Date: Aug 2003

by Jane Austen

Sparkling comedy of provincial manners concerns a well-intentioned young heiress and her matchmaking schemes that result in comic confusion for the inhabitants of a 19th-century English village. Droll characterizations o...Read More

Publication Date: Mar 1999

by Aldous Huxley

Aldous Huxley's tour de force, Brave New World is a darkly satiric vision of a "utopian" future—where humans are genetically bred and pharmaceutically anesthetized to passively serve a ruling...Read More

Publication Date: Oct 2006

by John Steinbeck

This sprawling and often brutal novel, set in the rich farmlands of California's Salinas Valley, follows the intertwined destinies of two families--the Trasks and the Hamiltons--whose generations helplessly reenact the.....Read More

Publication Date: Jun 2003

by George Orwell

Celebrate the 60th anniversary of Orwellas masterpiece '1984' Written in 1948, 1984 was George Orwellas chilling prophecy about the future. And while 1984 has come and gone, Orwellas narrative is...Read More

Publication Date: Jul 1950

by Emily/ Stoneman, Patsy (EDT) Bronte

Publication Date: May 1998

by Jane Austen

For over 150 years, Pride And Prejudice has remained one of the most popular novels in the English language. Jane Austen herself called this brilliant work her 'own darling child.'...Read More

Publication Date: Dec 1983

by Jane Austen

Deepens and confuses our apprehension of Jane Austen. The earlier books set such store by fine manners that it's alarming to find her not merely loosening her respect for them...Read More

Publication Date: Aug 2005

by Jane Austen

Arrange the great English novelists as one will, it does not seem possible to bring them out in any order where she is not the first, or second or third,...Read More

Publication Date: Sep 2005

by Ayn Rand

The Fountainhead, possibly the most influential and controversial novel of ideas in American history, presents a philosophy of vital interest to anyone seeking an understanding of our present-day culture. As...Read More

Publication Date: Sep 1996

by Jane Austen

It's hard to believe that Jane Austen wrote the sophisticated and acerbic PRIDE AND PREJUDICE when she was only 21 years old, in 1797. Originally entitled FIRST IMPRESSIONS, the novel...Read More

Publication Date: Oct 2000

by Alexandre Dumas

Edmond Dantes, a young sailor from Marseilles, soon to become captain of his own ship and married to his beloved, finds himself betrayed by spiteful enemies and condemned to lifelong...Read More

Publication Date: May 2004

by J. R. R. Tolkien

THE GREATEST FANTASY EPIC OF OUR TIME The Fellowship was scattered. Some were bracing hopelessly for war against the ancient evil of Sauron. Some were contending with the treachery of...Read More

Publication Date: Aug 1986

by William Golding

14.5 Million copies sold to date The classic, startling, and perennially bestselling portrait of human nature-now available as a Premium Edition with a stunning new cover and re-set, easy-to-read text....

Publication Date: Jul 1959

by Louisa May Alcott

...'Little Women' represents Alcott's belief that the fullest art came from women who had fulfilled both their sexual and their intellectual needs....Jo lives and writes, not as the unattainable genius,...Read More

Publication Date: Apr 2004

by George Orwell

Written in 1948, 1984 was George Orwell's chilling prophecy about the future. And while 1984 has come and gone, Orwell's narrative is more timely that ever. 1984 presents a 'negative...Read More

Publication Date: Apr 1983

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

And while he was at his first-rate quantum best, he used everything he knew of society--as critic, as victim--to compose at least one work, 'The Great Gatsby', that in a...Read More

Publication Date: Oct 2004

by William Makepeace/ Carey, Joh Thackeray

Publication Date: Aug 2004

by J. R. R. Tolkien

THE GREATEST FANTASY EPIC OF OUR TIME Bilbo Baggins was a hobbit who wanted to be left alone in quiet comfort. But the wizard Gandalf came along with a band...Read More

Publication Date: Jul 1986

by George Orwell

revisit Orwellas classic satire 'Animal Farm' As ferociously fresh as it was more than a half century ago, this remarkable allegory of a downtrodden society of overworked, mistreated animals and...Read More

Publication Date: Apr 1996

by Alexandre Dumas

Wrongfully imprisoned for fourteen years, Edmond Dantes escapes to the island of Monte Cristo. What awaits him there is a fortune in gold-and a new identity with which to persue...

Publication Date: Apr 2005

by J. R. R. Tolkien

THE GREATEST FANTASY EPIC OF OUR TIME While the evil might of the Dark Lord Sauron swarmed out to conquer all Middle-earth, Frodo and Sam struggled deep into Mordor, seat...Read More

Publication Date: Jul 1986

by Kurt, Jr. Vonnegut

Kurt Vonnegut's absurdist classic Slaughterhouse-Five introduces us to Billy Pilgrim, a man who becomes unstuck in time after he is abducted by aliens from the planet Tralfamadore. In a plot-scrambling...Read More

Publication Date: Jan 1999

by J. D. Salinger

Anyone who has read J.D. Salinger's New Yorker stories ? particularly A Perfect Day for Bananafish, Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut, The Laughing Man, and For Esme ? With Love and...Read More

Publication Date: Jan 1991