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Forward the Foundation
Isaac Asimov · Doubleday
Pages: 415
Format: Hardcover
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A stunning testament to his creative genius. Forward The Foundation is a the saga's dramatic climax -- the story Asimov fans have been waiting for. An exciting tale of danger, intrigue, and suspense, Forward The Foundation brings to vivid life Asimov's best loved characters:... |
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Mark Twain · Barnes & Noble Classics
Pages: 225
Format: Paperback
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, by Mark Twain, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some... |
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Don Quixote
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra · Penguin Classics
Pages: 1023
Format: Paperback
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Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read
Don Quixote has become so entranced reading tales of chivalry that he decides to turn knight errant himself. In the company of his faithful squire, Sancho Panza, these exploits blossom in all sorts... |
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Jurassic Park: A Novel
Michael Crichton · Ballantine Books
Pages: 399
Format: eBook
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From the author of Timeline, Sphere, and Congo, this is the classic thriller of science run amok that took the world by storm.
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
"Wonderful . . . powerful." - The Washington Post Book World
An astonishing... |
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Foundation and Earth
Isaac Asimov · Doubleday
Pages: 356
Format: Hardcover
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Golan Trevize, former Councilman of the First Foundation, searches for the lost planet, Earth, in hopes of finding the answer for future Galactic development |
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Gone With the Wind
Margaret Mitchell · Scribner
Pages: 1048
Format: Hardcover
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Since its original publication in 1936, Gone With the Wind - winner of the Pulitzer Prize and one of the bestselling novels of all time - has been heralded by readers everywhere as The Great American Novel.
Widely considered The Great American Novel, and often remembered for its epic... |
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Beloved
Toni Morrison · Vintage
Pages: 275
Format: Paperback
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Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read
Staring unflinchingly into the abyss of slavery, this spellbinding novel transforms history into a story as powerful as Exodus and as intimate as a lullaby. Sethe, its protagonist, was born a slave... |
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The Color Purple
Alice Walker · Mariner Books
Pages: 294
Format: Mass Market Paperback
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Celie is a poor black woman whose letters tell the story of 20 years of her life, beginning at age 14 when she is being abused and raped by her father and attempting to protect her sister from the same fate, and continuing over the course of her marriage to "Mister," a brutal... |
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Wuthering Heights
Jack Sullivan · Readers Digest Assn
Pages: 303
Format: Hardcover
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Discover a passionate tale of love lost, found, and avenged in Wuthering Heights. Lockwood, a wealthy man from England, rents a house from an eccentric gentleman named Heathcliff, who is the tortured master of Wuthering Heights. Through Lockwood and the housekeeper, Nelly, the story... |
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Siddhartha
Hermann Hesse · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 174
Format: Mass Market Paperback
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This allegorical novel, set in sixth-century India around the time of the Buddha, follows a young man on his search for enlightenment.
THIS ENRICHED CLASSIC EDITION INCLUDES:
A concise introduction that gives the reader important background information A chronology of the author's... |
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The Grapes of Wrath
John Steinbeck · Penguin Classics
Pages: 464
Format: Paperback
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The Pulitzer Prize-winning epic of the Great Depression, a book that galvanized - and sometimes outraged - millions of readers. Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read
First published in 1939, Steinbeck's Pulitzer Prize-winning epic... |
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House Atreides
Brian Herbert · Bantam Spectra
Pages: 604
Format: Hardcover
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THE EPIC PREQUEL TO DUNE
"DUNE: HOUSE ATREIDES is a terrific prequel, but it is also a first-rate adventure on its own. Frank Herbert would surely be delighted and proud of this continuation of his vision." - Dean Koontz
Frank Herbert's Dune... |
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Frankenstein: Or The Modern Prometheus
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley · Puffin Books
Pages: 282
Format: Paperback
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One of the best known horror stories ever. Victor Frankenstein, a Swiss scientist, has a great ambition: to create intelligent life. But when his creature first stirs, he realizes he has made a monster. A monster which, abandoned by his master and shunned by everyone who sees it, follows... |
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Their Eyes Were Watching God: A Novel
Zora Neale Hurston · Harper Perennial Modern Classics
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback
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"A deeply soulful novel that comprehends love and cruelty, and separates the big people from the small of heart, without ever losing sympathy for those unfortunates who don't know how to live properly." - Zadie Smith One of the most important and enduring books of the twentieth... |
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The Days of Anna Madrigal: A Novel
Armistead Maupin · Harper
Pages: 270
Format: Hardcover
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The Days of Anna Madrigal, the suspenseful, comic, and touching ninth novel in Armistead Maupin's bestselling "Tales of the City" series, follows one of modern literature's most unforgettable and enduring characters - Anna Madrigal, the legendary transgender landlady of 28 Barbary... |
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The Great Gatsby
F Scott Fitzgerald · Scribner
Pages: 216
Format: Paperback
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This is the definitive, textually accurate edition of a classic of twentieth-century literature, The Great Gatsby. The story of the fabulously wealthy Jay Gatsby and his love for the beautiful Daisy Buchanan has been acclaimed by generations of readers. But the first edition... |
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Don Quixote
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra · Penguin Classics
Pages: 1023
Format: Paperback
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Don Quixote has become so entranced reading tales of chivalry that he decides to turn knight errant himself. In the company of his faithful squire, Sancho Panza, these exploits blossom in all sorts of wonderful ways. While Quixote's fancy often leads him astray- he tilts at windmills, imagining... |
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Moby Dick
Herman Melville · Oxford University Press
Pages: 602
Format: Paperback
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This classic story of high adventure, manic obsession and metaphysical speculation was Melville's masterpiece. This edition includes passages from Melville's correspondence with Nathaniel Hawthorne, in which the two discuss the philosophical depths of the novel's plot and imagery. |
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The Call of the Wild, White Fang & To Build a Fire
Jack London · Modern Library
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback
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The Call of the Wild - Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time
To this day Jack London is the most widely read American writer in the world," E. L. Doctorow wrote in The New York Times Book Review. Generally considered to be London's greatest... |
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde · Vintage
Pages: 194
Format: Paperback
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The Picture of Dorian Gray is Oscar Wilde's enduringly popular story of a beautiful and corrupt man and the portrait that reveals all his secrets. Entranced by the perfection of his recently painted portrait, the youthful Dorian Gray expresses a wish that the figure on the canvas could... |
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War and Peace
Leo Tolstoy, graf · Modern Library
Pages: 1386
Format: Hardcover
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From the award-winning translators of Anna Karenina and The Brothers Karamazov comes this magnificent new translation of Tolstoy's mastwerwork.
War and Peace broadly focuses on Napoleon's invasion of Russia in 1812 and follows three of the most well-known... |
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Mark Twain · Barnes & Noble Classics
Pages: 225
Format: Paperback
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, by Mark Twain, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some... |
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Gulliver's Travels
Jonathan Swift · Simon & Brown
Pages: 346
Format: Paperback
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Historical materials, annotation, and a new introduction make this iconic but challenging text accessible to students. |
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Great Expectations
Charles Dickens · Modern Library
Pages: 452
Format: Paperback
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Introduction by George Bernard Shaw * Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read
Pip, a poor orphan being raised by a cruel sister, does not have much in the way of great expectations - until he is inexplicably elevated to wealth by an anonymous... |
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The Fellowship of the Ring: Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings
J R R Tolkien · Mariner Books
Pages: 398
Format: Paperback
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In ancient times the Rings of Power were crafted by the Elven-smiths, and Sauron, the Dark Lord, forged the One Ring, filling it with his own power so that he could rule all others. But the One Ring was taken from him, and though he sought it throughout Middle-earth, it remained lost to him.... |
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A Separate Peace
John Knowles · Scribner
Pages: 204
Format: Paperback
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An American classic and great bestseller for over thirty years, A Separate Peace is timeless in its description of adolescence during a period when the entire country was losing its innocence to World War II.
Set at a boys' boarding school in New England during the early years... |
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The Sun Also Rises
Ernest Hemingway · Scribner
Pages: 251
Format: Paperback
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The quintessential novel of the Lost Generation, The Sun Also Rises is one of Ernest Hemingway's masterpieces and a classic example of his spare but powerful writing style. A poignant look at the disillusionment and angst of the post-World War I generation, the novel introduces two of Hemingway's... |
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The Two Towers
J R R Tolkien · Mariner Books
Pages: 725
Format: Paperback
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The second volume in J.R.R. Tolkien's epic adventure The Lord of the Rings
"Here are beauties which pierce like swords or burn like cold iron." -- C. S. Lewis
"Among the greatest works of imaginative fiction of the twentieth century. The book presents us with... |
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Crime and Punishment
Fyodor Dostoyevsky · Penguin Classics
Pages: 671
Format: Paperback
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Raskolnikov, a destitute and desperate former student, wanders through the slums of St Petersburg and commits a random murder without remorse or regret. He imagines himself to be a great man, a Napoleon: acting for a higher purpose beyond conventional moral law. But as he embarks on a dangerous... |
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The Stand: The Complete and Uncut Edition
Stephen King · Doubleday
Pages: 1152
Format: Hardcover
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This is the way the world ends: with a nanosecond of computer error in a Defense Department laboratory and a million casual contacts that form the links in a chain letter of death.
And here is the bleak new world of the day after: a world stripped of its institutions and emptied... |
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Alchemist, The 25th Anniversary
Paulo Coelho · HarperOne
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover
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A special 25th anniversary edition of the extraordinary international bestseller, including a new Foreword by Paulo Coelho. Combining magic, mysticism, wisdom and wonder into an inspiring tale of self-discovery, The Alchemist has become a modern classic, selling millions of copies... |
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Bless Me, Ultima
Rudolfo A Anaya · Warner Books
Pages: 290
Format: Paperback
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With exquisite prose and wondrous storytelling, this coming of age classic follows a young boy as he questions his faith and beliefs in family, religion, and other aspects of his Chicano culture.
Antonio Marez is six years old when Ultima comes to stay with his family in New Mexico.... |
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A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Smith Betty · Harper Perennial Modern Classics
Pages: 528
Format: Paperback
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The American classic about a young girl's coming-of-age at the turn of the century. This P.S. edition features an extra 16 pages of insights into the book, including author interviews, recommended reading, and more. From the moment she entered the world, Francie needed to be made... |
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To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee · Harper
Pages: 323
Format: Hardcover
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At the age of eight, Scout Finch is an entrenched free-thinker. She can accept her father's warning that it is a sin to kill a mockingbird, because mockingbirds harm no one and give great pleasure. The benefits said to be gained from going to school and keeping her temper elude her. The... |
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The Return of the King
J R R Tolkien · Mariner Books
Pages: 1137
Format: Paperback
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The third volume in J.R.R. Tolkien's epic adventure The Lord of the Rings
"An extraordinary work -- pure excitement." -- New York Times Book Review
"A triumphant close...a grand piece of work, grand in both conception and execution. An astonishing imaginative... |
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The Da Vinci Code
Dan Brown · Doubleday
Pages: 454
Format: Hardcover
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While in Paris on business, Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon receives an urgent late-night phone call: the elderly curator of the Louvre has been murdered inside the museum. Near the body, police have found a baffling cipher. While working to solve the enigmatic riddle, Langdon is stunned... |
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Rebecca
Daphne Du Maurier · Hodder & Stoughton Ltd
Format: Audiobook
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Rebecca is widely regarded as Daphne du Maurier's finest novel. It tells the story of Manderley - an exquisite house with gardens down to the sea, its owner Max de Winter and his new young wife...and of course Rebecca. Abridged. |
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