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Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistlestop...
by Fannie Flagg
Mrs. Threadgoode's tale of two high-spirited women of the 1930s, Idgie and Ruth, helps Evelyn, a 1980s woman in a sad slump of middle age, to begin to rejuvenate her own life. By the author of Welcome to the World, Baby Girl! Reprint. ... Read More

Oil!
by Upton Sinclair
In Oil! Upton Sinclair fashioned a novel out of the oil scandals of the Harding administration, providing in the process a detailed picture of the development of the oil industry in Southern California. Bribery of public officials, class warfare, and international rivalry over oil ... Read More

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and...
by Lewis Carroll
Conceived by a shy British don on a golden afternoon to entertain ten-year-old Alice Liddell and her sisters, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass have delighted generations of readers in more than eighty languages. "The clue to the enduring ... Read More

Brave New World
by Aldous Huxley
A satirical novel depicting a scientific and industrialized utopia in which Ford and Freud are worshipped, eugenics policies have eliminated class conflicts (while strengthening the division of the classes), and personal unhappiness is assuaged through drugs and pornography. ... Read More

Mr. Wray's Cash Box
by Wilkie Collins
The main incident on which the following story turns, is founded on a fact which many readers of these pages will probably recognize as having formed a subject of conversation, a few years back, among persons interested in Literature and Art. I have endeavored, in writing my little book, to ... Read More

The Secret Garden (Norton Critical...
by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Frances Hodgson Burnett was the highest paid and most widely read woman writer of her time, publishing more than fifty novels and thirteen plays. Born in England and transplanted to New York toward the end of the Civil War, Burnett made her home in both countries, and today both countries ... Read More

The Manticore
by Robertson Davies
A humorous portrait of middle-aged despair, by the celebrated Canadian novelist. It concerns the confusion into which David Staunton, a successful middle-aged writer, is thrown as a result of his father's sudden death under mysterious circumstances. Staunton undergoes a course of Jungian ... Read More

Revolutionary Road
by Richard Yates
With a new introduction by Richard Ford

'A deft, ironic, beautiful novel that deserves to be a classic.' --William Styron

From the moment of its publication in 1961, Revolutionary Road was hailed as a masterpiece of realistic fiction and as the most evocative portrayal of the ... Read More

Hornblower and the 'Hotspur' (Hornblower...
by C. S. Forester
The daring Captain Horatio Hornblower sails into his third stormy adventure as he wages battle against Napoleon's navy and confronts the yearnings of his heart in an attractively repackaged episode of the classic adventure series. Reprint. ... Read More

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