Classics

Tarzan of the Apes

by Edgar Rice Burroughs, James Taliaferro & Gore Vidal

When Tarzan is orphaned as a baby deep in the African jungle, the apes adopt him and raise him as their own. By the time the boy is ten, he can swing through the trees and talk to the animals.  By the time...

The Complete Short Novels

by Anton Chekhov, Larissa Volokhonsky & Richard Pevear

(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)

Aanton Chekhov, widely hailed as the supreme master of the short story, also wrote five works long enough to be called short novels–here brought together in one volume for the...

Anna Karenina

by Leo Tolstoy

This edition, the famous Constance Garnett translation, has been revised throughout by Leonard J. Kent and Nina Berberova.

"Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."  So...

Bel-Ami

by Guy de Maupassant & Douglas Parmee

Young, attractive and very ambitious, George Duroy, known to his friends as Bel-Ami, is offered a job as a journalist on La Vie francaise and soon makes a great success of his new career. But he also comes face...

The House of Mirth

by Edith Wharton

Set among the glittering salons of Gilded Age New York, Edith Wharton’s most popular novel is a moving indictment of a society whose soul-crushing limitations destroy a woman too spirited to be contained by...

The Custom of the Country

by Edith Wharton

Edith Wharton’s lacerating satire on marriage and materialism in turn-of-the-century New York features her most selfish, ruthless, and irresistibly outrageous female character.

Undine Spragg is an exquisitely...

Sherlock Holmes Mystery Magazine #2

by Gary Lovisi, Arthur Conan Doyle & Marvin Kaye

The second issue of SHERLOCK HOLMES MYSTERY MAGAZINE includes contributions from Darrell Schweitzer ("The Adventure of the Hanoverian Vampires"), Marc Bilgrey ("You See, But You Forget"), David Waxman ("Tough...

Richard III

by William Shakespeare, Jonathan Bate & Eric Rasmussen

An exciting new edition of the complete works of Shakespeare with these features:  Illustrated with photographs from New York Shakespeare Festival productions, vivid readable readable introductions for each...

Ethan Frome

by Edith Wharton

Edith Wharton’s most widely read work is a tightly constructed and almost unbearably heartbreaking story of forbidden love in a snowbound New England village.

This brilliantly wrought, tragic novella explores...

The Age of Innocence: (A Modern Library E-Book)

by Edith Wharton

One of Edith Wharton’s most famous novels—the first by a woman to win the Pulitzer Prize—exquisitely details a tragic struggle between love and responsibility in Gilded Age New York.

Newland Archer, an...

The Idiot (Vintage Classics)

by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Constance Garnett & Anne Hruska

Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky’s masterful translation of The Idiot is destined to stand with their versions of Crime and Punishment, The Brothers Karamazov, and Demons as the definitive Dostoevsky...

Raintree County

by Ross , Jr. Lockridge & Herman Wouk

Throughout a single day in 1892, John Shawnessy recalls the great moments of his life—from the love affairs of his youth in Indiana, to the battles of the Civil War, to the politics of the Gilded Age, to his...

On Theatre

by Charles Dickens & Sir Richard Richard Eyre

Dickens’ burning passion for theater has often been overlooked by fans of his novels. A keen playwright and actor, he staged performances for which he oversaw every detail, and personally adapted many of his...

The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices

by Wilkie Collins & Charles Dickens

A delightful meditation on the pleasures of bachelor bonding and an example of collaborative journalism at its best

In autumn 1857, Charles Dickens embarked on a sightseeing trip to Cumberland with his friend,...

Tales of the Islanders

by Charlotte Bronte

When Charlotte’s brother Branwell was given a set of 12 toy soldiers, an entire new imaginary world opened before them. The Twelves, or Young Men, became a constant source of inspiration for the Brontë children,...

Death in Venice and Other Stories

by Thomas Mann

The celebrated author, Gustave Aschenbach, burdened by his successes, comes to Venice for a holiday and encounters a vision of eros -- a vision for which he pays with his life. Death in Venice, Thomas Mann's...

The Adolescent

by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Larissa Volokhonsky & Richard Pevear

The narrator and protagonist of Dostoevsky’s novel The Adolescent (first published in English as A Raw Youth) is Arkady Dolgoruky, a na•ve 19-year-old boy bursting with ambition and opinions. The illegitimate...

The Gambler

by Fyodor Dostoevsky & Constance Garnett

In this dark and compelling short novel, Fyodor Dostoevsky tells the story of Alexey Ivanovitch, a young tutor working in the household of an imperious Russian general. Alexey tries to break through the wall...

The Star Rover

by Jack London & Lorenzo Carcaterra

The Star Rover is the story of San Quentin death-row inmate Darrell Standing, who escapes the horror of prison life—and long stretches in a straitjacket—by withdrawing into vivid dreams of past lives, including...

Hyperion

by Friedrich Holderlin & Ross Benjamin

A philosophical tale of nature, spiritual striving, beauty, and Platonic love.