Classics

American Bloomsbury: Louisa May Alcott, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Henry David Thoreau: Their Lives, Their Loves,

by Susan Cheever

Even the most devoted readers of nineteenth-century American literature often assume that the men and women behind the masterpieces were as dull and staid as the era's static daguerreotypes. Susan Cheever's...

Based on the Movie: A Novel

by Billy Taylor

It's been nine months since Bobby Conlon's wife dumped him for a hot young film director and he's doing great. Okay, so he occasionally

breaks into Natalie's apartment and sobs along to her old Carole King...

101 Reasons the '90s Ruled: Ten Years of Living La Vida Loca

by M.C. King

The '90s were so money! Sit back and relive ten of the best years of your so-called life...

Presidential scandals, rap feuds, Baywatch -- the '90s had it all. It was the decade during which we first visited...

Across the River and Into the Trees

by Ernest Hemingway

In the fall of 1948, Ernest Hemingway made his first extended visit to Italy in thirty years. His reacquaintance with Venice, a city he loved, provided the inspiration for Across the River and into the Trees,...

The Withered Arm and Other Stories

by Thomas Hardy & Kristin Brady

So Rhoda Brook, the abandoned mistress of Farmer Lodge, is jealous to discover details of his new bride in 'The Withered Arm', the title story in this selection of Hardy's finest short stories. Hardy's first...

Life on The Mississippi

by Mark Twain & Justin Kaplan

At once a romantic history of a mighty river, an autobiographical account of Twain?s early steamboat days, and a storehouse of humorous anecdotes and sketches, here is the raw material from which Mark Twain...

Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakthrough

by Ruth Pennebaker

Joanie's ex-husband is having a baby with his new girlfriend. Joanie won't be having more babies, since she's decided never to have sex again.

But she still has her teenaged daughter Caroline to care for. And...

Coriolanus

by William Shakespeare & A. Braunmuller

I feel that I have spent half my career with one or another Pelican Shakespeare in my back pocket. Convenience, however, is the least important aspect of the new Pelican Shakespeare series. Here is an elegant...

The Picture of Dorian Gray and Three Stories

by Oscar Wilde

In The Picture of Dorian Gray, Wilde's full-length novel, a fashionable young man sells his soul for eternal youth and beauty. Also included in the volume are three of the Irish master storyteller's short works:...

The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories

by Leo Tolstoy, Richard Pevear & Larissa Volokhonsky

A vibrant translation of Tolstoy’s most important short fiction by the award-winning translators of War and Peace.

Here are eleven masterful stories from the mature author, some autobiographical, others moral...

Dubliners

by James Joyce & Edna O'Brien

Centennial Edition

Perhaps the greatest short story collection in the English language, James Joyce's Dubliners is both a vivid and unflinching portrait of "dear dirty Dublin" at the turn of the twentieth century...

The Time Machine / The Invisible Man

by H.G. Wells

Two classic science fiction novels in one handsome volume.

Here are two masterpieces of irony and imaginative vision from the father of science fiction. The Time Machine propels the Time Traveller into a distant,...

The Hound of the Baskervilles

by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Holmes and Watson are faced with their most terrifying case yet. The legend of the devil-beast that haunts the moors around the Baskerville family's home warns the descendants of that ancient clan never to venture...

Go East, Young Man: Sinclair Lewis on Class in America

by Sinclair Lewis & Sally E. Parry

A brand-new collection of Sinclair Lewis's prolific body of short fiction, focusing on the author's primary concerns: the issue of class, work and money in America.

Tales From Shakespeare

by Charles Lamb & Mary Lamb

Includes: The Tempest - A Midsummer Night's Dream - The Winter's Tale - Much Ado About Nothing - As You Like It - Cymbeline - The Two Gentlemen of Verona - The Merchant of Venice - King Lear - Macbeth - All's...

The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Tales

by Edgar Allan Poe & Stephen Marlowe

Stories of terror and suspense.

Master of the macabre Edgar Allan Poe brings his nightmare visions to vivid, dramatic life in this definitive collection of 14 of his classic stories, including "The Pit and...

Rob Roy

by Walter Scott

Young Frank Osbaldistone, sent to live in Scotland, is drawn to the powerful figure of Rob Roy MacGregor, who, with his wife, fights for justice and dignity for Scotland. Twists of plot and a romantic outlaw's...

Martin Chuzzlewit

by Charles Dickens & Patricia Ingham

Set partly in America, which Dickens had visited in 1842, the novel includes a searing satire on the United States. Martin Chuzzlewit is the story of two Chuzzlewits, Martin and Jonas, who have inherited the...

Antony and Cleopatra

by William Shakespeare & A. Braunmuller

A magnificent drama of love and war, this riveting tragedy presents one of Shakespeare's greatest female characters—the seductive, cunning Egyptian queen Cleopatra. The Roman leader Mark Antony, a virtual...

Ethan Frome

by Edith Wharton

A masterwork From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author

Nineteenth-century New England villager Ethan Frome is tormented by his love for his ailing wife's cousin. Trapped, he may ultimately be destroyed by that...