Classics
Gone with the Wind
By: Margaret Mitchell
Margaret Mitchell's epic novel of love and war won the Pulitzer Prize and went on to give rise to two authorized sequels and one of the most popular and celebrated movies of all time. Many novels have been written about the Civil War and its...
Published: May 2008
Genre: Fiction - Classics
Pages: 1472
Pride and Prejudice: (Classics Deluxe Edition)
By: Jane Austen
Fall head over heels in love with Jane Austen's most famous romance--a tale of hasty judgments, heartache, scandalous behavior, and, finally, true love. Stylish and teen-friendly, Bloomsbury Classics bring a cool, contemporary appeal to some of the...
Published: Aug 2009
Genre: Fiction - Classics
Pages: 336
Pride and Prejudice With Study Guide (Study Guide Series)
By: Jane Austen
The With Study Guide series aims to help knowledge-hungry readers gain a greater understanding of and appreciation for the classics. Each title includes the full original text with a summary and analysis of each section to offer the most...
Published: Aug 2007
Genre: Fiction - Classics
Pages: 376
Dangerous Liaisons
By: Choderlos de Laclos
A new translation of one of the most notorious novels of all time Published just years before the French Revolution, Laclos's great novel of moral and emotional depravity is a disturbing and ultimately damning portrayal of a decadent...
Published: Nov 2007
Genre: Fiction - Classics
Pages: 448
Little Women and Good Wives
By: Louisa May Alcott
Life in the March household is full of adventures and accidents as the four very different March sisters follow their varying paths to adulthood, always maintaining the special bond between them. Sensible Meg, impetuous Jo, shy Beth, and artistic Amy...
Published: Apr 2008
Genre: Fiction - Classics
Pages: 528
Vintage Hammett
By: Dashiell Hammett
Sam Spade, Nick and Nora Charles, The Continental Op. In his novels and stories, Dashiell Hammett created some of the most memorable characters--detectives, dames, and assorted miscreants--in twentieth-century fiction. It is nearly impossible to...
Published: Jan 2005
Genre: Fiction - Classics
Pages: 200
Notes from Underground and The Gambler (Oxford World's Classics)
By: Fedor M. Dostoevsky
One of the most profound and disturbing works of nineteenth-century literature, Notes from the Underground is a probing and speculative work, often regarded as a forerunner to the Existentialist movement. The Gambler explores the compulsive nature of...
Published: Sep 2000
Genre: Fiction - Classics
Pages: 320
The Iliad and the Odyssey
By: Homer
The Iliad: Join Achilles at the Gates of Troy as he slays Hector to Avenge the death of Patroclus. Here is a story of love and war, hope and despair, and honor and glory. The recent major motion picture Helen of Troy staring Brad Pitt proves that...
Published: Mar 2007
Genre: Fiction - Classics
Pages: 468
Aesop's Fables
By: Aesop
Large Format for easy reading. The classic moralistic fables from Ancient Greece.
Published: Oct 2004
Genre: Fiction - Classics
Pages: 120
Daughters of the Vicar
By: D. H. Lawrence
Looking for acceptance from his new congregation, the Reverend Ernest Lindley cannot ignore the fact that his parishioners are far from welcoming. Rather than confront such hostility, the Lindleys instead become ever more isolated: he "pale and...
Published: Aug 2004
Genre: Fiction - Classics
Pages: 73
Jane Eyre (Illustrated)
By: Charlotte Bronte
Jane Eyre (1847) by Charlotte Brontë is arguably the world's favorite love story, a romantic classic beloved by generations of readers. Jane Eyre is a young English governess who overcomes an abusive childhood and falls in love with her pupil's...
Published: May 2007
Genre: Fiction - Classics
Pages: 552
Albert Nobbsla
By: George Moore
Long out of print, George Moore's classic novella returns just in time for the major motion picture starring Glenn Close as a woman disguised as a man in nineteenth-century Ireland.Set in a posh hotel in nineteenth-century Dublin, Albert...
Published: Dec 2011
Genre: Fiction - Classics
Pages: 112
Castle to Castle (French Literature)
By: Louis-Ferdinand Celine
It is Germany near the end of World War II, the Allies have landed and members of the Vichy France government have been sequestered in a labyrinthine castle, replete with secret passages and subterranean hideaways. The group of 1,400 terrified...
Published: Mar 1997
Genre: Fiction - Classics
Pages: 359
Death Comes for the Archbishop
By: Willa Cather
In 1851 Bishop Latour and his friend Father Valliant are despatched to New Mexico to reawaken its slumbering Catholicism. Moving along the endless prairies, Latour spreads his faith the only way he knows—gently, although he must contend with the...
Published: Jun 1990
Genre: Fiction - Classics
Pages: 237
Dombey & Son (Oxford World's Classics)
By: Charles Dickens
Mr. Dombey's idealistic vision of his 'Dombey and Son' shipping firm rests on the shoulders of his delicate son Paul. However, when the firm faces ruin, and Dombey's second marriage ends in disaster, it is his devoted daughter Florence, unloved...
Published: Nov 2002
Genre: Fiction - Classics
Pages: 1024
Elmer Gantry
By: Sinclair Lewis
Possibly the best student of hypocrisy since Voltaire This portrait of a golden-tongued evangelist-who lives a life of hypocrisy, sensuality, and self-indulgence-is also the chronicle of a reign of vulgarity, which but for Lewis would have...
Published: Dec 2007
Genre: Fiction - Classics
Pages: 464
Four Histories
By: William Shakespeare
This volume contains the tetralogy of plays--'Richard II', 'Henry IV' Parts 1 and 2 and 'Henry V'--written by Shakespeare c. 1595 to c. 1599. Each play possesses its own distinctive mood, tone and style, and together they inhabit the turbulent period...
Published: May 1995
Genre: Fiction - Classics
Pages: 880
Great Expectations: (Classics Deluxe Edition) (Penguin Classics Deluxe Editio)
By: Charles Dickens
A graphic deluxe edition to mark its 150th anniversary. A terrifying encounter with an escaped convict in a graveyard on the wild Kent marshes; a summons to meet the bitter, decaying Miss Havisham and her beautiful, cold-hearted ward...
Published: Dec 2010
Genre: Fiction - Classics
Pages: 480
How Green Was My Valley
By: Richard Llewellyn
Llewellyn's tale of a young man's coming-of-age in a small Welsh mining town--the basis for the beloved film of the same name--is 'a beautiful story told in words which have Welsh music in them . . . a book which will live in the mind and memory of...
Published: Jul 1997
Genre: Fiction - Classics
Pages: 512
Iliad (Arcturus Classics)
By: Homer
This groundbreaking English version by Robert Fagles is the most important recent translation of Homer's great epic poem. The verse translation has been hailed by scholars as the new standard, providing an Iliad that delights modern sensibility and...
Published: Aug 2009
Genre: Fiction - Classics
Pages: 416
Jane Eyre, With Autoskim - Reread, Revise And Relive the Book at Twice the Speed
By: Charlotte Bronte
Passionate about reading? - Want to read MORE. Deadline looming? - Need to REVISE. Now with the revolutionary AutoSkim you can reread, revise and relive JANE EYRE at TWICE the speed. Unnecessary words are removed. 'The cat sat on the mat' becomes...
Published: Feb 2006
Genre: Fiction - Classics
Pages: 200
Lysistrata
By: Aristophanes
In Aristophanes' most popular play, sex is a powerful agent of reconciliation. As war ravages ancient Greece, a band of women, led by Lysistrata, promise to deny their husbands all sex until they stop fighting. And the battle of the sexes begins…
Published: Mar 2001
Genre: Fiction - Classics
Pages: 144
Maria Chapdelaine
By: Louis Homon
Large Format for easy reading. A classic French Canadian novel. A harsh, realistic story of pioneer life in Quebec, it profoundly influenced subsequent Canadian authors.
Published: Oct 2005
Genre: Fiction - Classics
Pages: 132
More Pricks Than Kicks
By: Samuel Beckett
Samuel Beckett, the recipient of the 1969 Nobel Prize for Literature and one of the greatest writers of our century, first published these ten short stories in 1934; they originally formed part of an unfinished novel. They trace the career of the...
Published: Jan 1994
Genre: Fiction - Classics
Nick Adams Stories
By: Ernest Hemingway
The famous 'Nick Adams' stories show a memorable character growing from child to adolescent to soldier, veteran, writer, and parent -- a sequence closely paralleling the events of Hemingway's life.
Published: Feb 1981
Genre: Fiction - Classics
Pages: 272
Northanger Abbey, Lady Susan, The Watsons, Sanditon (Oxford World's Classics)
By: Jane Austen
Northanger Abbey depicts the misadventures of Catherine Morland, young, ingenuous, and mettlesome, and an indefatigable reader of gothic novels. Their romantic excess and dark overstatement feed her imagination, as tyrannical fathers and...
Published: May 2008
Genre: Fiction - Classics
Pages: 432
Passing (Dover Books on Literature & Drama)
By: Nella Larsen
The beautiful, elegant, and ambitious Clare Kendry leads a dangerous life. A light-skinned African American married to a white man unaware of her racial heritage, Clare has severed all ties to her past to become part of white, middle-class society....
Published: May 2002
Genre: Fiction - Classics
Pages: 94
Peter Camenzind
By: Hermann Hesse
Peter Camenzind, a young man from a Swiss mountain village, leaves his home and eagerly takes to the road in search of new experience. Traveling through Italy and France, Camenzind is increasingly disillusioned by the suffering he discovers around...
Published: Dec 2003
Genre: Fiction - Classics
Pages: 208
The Chosen
By: Chaim Potok
Anyone who finds it is finding a jewel. Its themes are profound and universal.'THE WALL STREET JOURNALIt is the now-classic story of two fathers and two sons and the pressures on all of them to pursue the religion they share in the way that...
Published: Apr 1987
Genre: Fiction - Classics
Pages: 304
The Classic Slave Narratives
By: Henry Louis Gates
Former slaves describe their experiences in captivity and portray the harsh conditions faced by the slaves in everyday life in a volume that includes Frederick Douglass's remarkable autobiography, as well as The Life of Olaudah Equiano, The History...
Published: Jan 2002
Genre: Fiction - Classics
Pages: 688