Literary
![]() | The Phantom of the Opera the Original NovelA classic, haunting tale of reality and illusion, The Phantom of the Opera has been fascinating readers and viewers for nearly a century. The official tie-in edition to a smash musical hit from the creator of Cats--opening on Broadway in January.On Sale |
![]() | FoeIn this brilliant reshaping of Defoe's classic tale starring Robinson Crusoe, Coetzee explores the relationships between speech and silence, master and slave, story and storyteller, and sanity and madness.On Sale |
![]() | SummerOne of Edith Wharton's personal favorites, Summer 'breaks, or stretches, many conventions of romandc love stories and in the process creates a new picture of female sexuality' (Marilyn French, from the Introduction). Like Wharton's more famous novel...On Sale |
![]() | Martin EdenSet in San Francisco, this is the story of Martin Eden, an impoverished seaman who pursues, obsessively and aggressively, dreams of education and literary fame. London, dissatisfied with the rewards of his own success, intended Martin Eden as an attack...On Sale |
![]() | Sister CarrieUnexpurgated version of Dreiser's story of a country girl's rise to riches as the mistress of a wealthy man.On Sale |
![]() | The Moon Is DownIn this masterful account set in Norway during World War II, Steinbeck explores the effects of invasion on both the conquered and the conquerors. Occupied by Nazi troops, a small, peaceable town comes face to face with evil imposed from the outside--and...On Sale |
![]() | One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest: Text and CriticismAn inmate of a mental institution tries to find the freedom and independence denied him in the outside world.On Sale |
![]() | Little WomenLittle Women is the heartwarming story of the March family that has thrilled generations of readers. It is the story of four sisters--Jo, Meg, Amy and Beth-- and of the courage, humor and ingenuity they display to survive poverty and the absence of their...On Sale |
![]() | A Connecticut Yankee at King Arthur's CourtHank Morgan, a nineteenth-century American who is accidentally returned to sixth-century England, is a powerful analysis of such issues as monarchy versus democracy and free will versus determinism, but it is also one of Twain's finest comic novels, still...On Sale |
![]() | The Master of Ballantrae: A Winter's TaleIn December 1887 Stevenson wrote that he had 'fallen head over heels into a new tale ... a most seizing tale; there are some fantastic elements; the most is a dead genuine human problem - human tragedy, I should say rather.'. The Master of Ballantrae...On Sale |
![]() | What Maisie KnewAn innocent young girl who is caught between her divorced parents attempts to understand life and its injusticesOn Sale |
![]() | The Last of the MohicansAt the centre of the novel is the celebrated 'Massacre' of British troops and their families by Indian allies of the French at Fort William Henry in 1757. Around this historical event, Cooper built a romantic fiction of captivity, sexuality, and heroism,...On Sale |
![]() | Moll Flanders: The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll FlandersMoll Flanders is born in Newgate prison and abandoned six months later. Her drive to find a secure place in society propels her through incest, adultery, bigamy, prostitution, and a resourceful career as a thief, before she is returned to Newgate.On Sale |
![]() | The Story of an African Farm.The Story of an African Farm.On Sale |
![]() | The Confidence-Man: His MasqueradeHerman Melville's The Confindence-Man: His Masquerade was the tenth, last, and most perplexing book of his decade as a professional man of letters. After it he gave up his ambitious effort to write works that would be both popular and profound and turned...On Sale |
![]() | The Wall Jumper: A Berlin StoryWhen the Berlin Wall was still the most tangible representation of the Cold War, Peter Schneider made this political and ideological symbol into something personal, that could be perceived on a human level, from more than one side. In Schneider's Berlin,...On Sale |
![]() | The Last Deception of Palliser WentwoodA charming Irish rogue leaves his beautiful wife and daughters to search for a fortune to restore the prosperity of his farm and family. Alternately funny and sad, this story combines the pleasures of an old-fashioned novel with the delights of a contemporary...On Sale |
![]() | Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again : Essays and ArgumentsThis exuberantly praised--and uproariously funny--first collection of nonfiction pieces by one of the most acclaimed and adventurous writers of our time--the author of 'Infinite Jest'--'reconfirms Mr. Wallace's stature as one of his generation's preeminent...On Sale |
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![]() | The Caine Mutiny'City Boy' spins a hilarious and often touching tale of an urban kid's adventures and misadventures on the street, in school, in the countryside, always in pursuit of Lucille, a heartless redhead personifying all the girls who torment and fascinate pubescent...On Sale |





















