Classics

Nevermore

by Harold Schechter

Praised by Caleb Carr for his "brilliantly detailed and above all riveting" true-crime writing, Harold Schechter brings his expertise to a marvelous work of fiction. Superbly rendering the 1830s Baltimore of...

The Four Feathers

by A.E.W. Mason

This classic adventure story -- first published in

1902 -- gains new life in a blockbuster motion picture epic

from Paramount Pictures and Miramax Films and remains

a timeless novel of love, honor, and courage....

Frankenstein

by Mary Shelley

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A timeless, terrifying tale of one man's obsession to create life -- and the monster that became his legacy.

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Uncle Tom's Cabin

by Harriet Beecher Stowe

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Long George Alley: A Novel

by Richard Hall

Natchez, Mississippi, 1965: Racial tension is running high, the Ku Klux Klan holds a community captive, and many local blacks -- impoverished and apathetic -- are resigned to a fate decided by Jim Crow. A novel...

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button: The Inspiration for the Upcoming Major Motion Picture

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Today, F. Scott Fitzgerald is known for his novels, but in his lifetime, his fame stemmed from his prolific achievement as one of America's most gifted story writers. "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button," a...

The Metamorphosis, in the Penal Colony and Other Stori: The Great Short Works of Franz Kafka

by Franz Kafka & Joachim Neugroschel

Translated by PEN translation award-winner Joachim Neugroschel, The Metamorphosis, In the Penal Colony, and Other Stories has garnered critical acclaim and is widely recognized as the preeminent English-language...

Tongues of Angels: A Novel

by Reynolds Price

"I'm as peaceful a man as you're likely to meet in America now, but this is about a death I may have caused. Not slowly over time by abuse or meanness but on a certain day and by ignorance, by plain lack of...

Babylon Revisited: And Other Stories

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

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Old New York

by Edith Wharton

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Every Word Has Power: Switch on Your Language and Turn on Your Life

by Yvonne Oswald

Words have power. The very words we say and think not only describe our world but actually create it. They have a profound impact on our lives; in fact, our self-talk produces 100 percent of our results. In...

Expletive Deleted: A Good Look at Bad Language

by Ruth Wajnryb

Have we always "sworn like sailors"? Has creative cursing developed because we can't just slug people when they make us angry? And if such verbal aggression is universal, why is it that some languages (Japanese,...

Tess of the D'Urbervilles

by Thomas Hardy

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A young woman challenges the conventions of her time in this classic novel about nineteenth-century English society.

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The Scarlet Letter

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

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Hawthorne's classic treatise on morality, judgment, and exile in Puritan America.

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Journey to the Center of the Earth

by Jules Verne

A classic of nineteenth-century French literature, this science fiction tale delves into the depths of the Earth, and by so doing, reveals the staggeringly long history of our planet.

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Great Expectations

by Charles Dickens

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Dickens's timeless tale of an orphan boy's extraordinary journey through life.

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A Tale of Two Cities

by Charles Dickens

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Dickens's epic novel of freedom, love, and the burning chaos of the French Revolution.

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Oliver Twist

by Charles Dickens

This darkly satiric indictment of the social ills of Victorian London tells the story of a young orphan who becomes involved with a gang of criminals.

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The House of the Seven Gables

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

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The story of the Pyncheon family, residents of an evil house cursed by the victim of their ancestor's witch hunt and haunted by the ghosts of many generations....

Around the World in Eighty Days

by Jules Verne

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After making an audacious wager, the wealthy and eccentric Phileas Fogg attempts a seemingly impossible feat -- to circumnavigate the globe in eighty...