"These novels played a unique and lasting role in the development of American literature, and each one remains a beloved and widely read work of fiction. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn—arguably th... more info
With CANDIDE, Voltaire bumptiously skewered the fashionable misinterpretation of the doctrine of philosophical optimism, unerringly offending kinds, scientists, fanaticals, publishers, journalists, an... more info
Stella Gibbons' novel is a wickedly funny portrait of British rural life in the 1930s. Flora, a recently orphaned socialite, moves in with her country relatives, the gloomy Starkadders of Cold Comfort... more info
THE DHARMA BUMS was published one year after On the Road made Jack Kerouac a celebrity and a spokesperson for the Beat Generation. Sparked by his contagious zest for life, the novel relates the advent... more info
"These novels played a unique and lasting role in the development of American literature, and each one remains a beloved and widely read work of fiction. Ethan Frome—an enduring rural tragedy. Now, Pe... more info
Mary Shelley's timeless gothic novel presents the epic battle between man and monster at its greatest literary pitch. In trying to create life, the young student Victor Frankenstein unleashes forces b... more info
Winner of the 1973 National Book Award, GRAVITY'S RAINBOW is a postmodern epic, a work as exhaustively significant to the second half of the twentieth century as Joyce's Ulysses was to the first. Its ... more info
Hans Christian Andersen was the profoundly imaginative writer and storyteller who revolutionized literature for children. He gave us the now standard versions of some traditional folk tales - with an ... more info
2006 marks the one hundredth anniversary of one of the most powerful, provocative, and most enduring proletarian novels ever published in the United States!
Upton Sinclair's dramatic and deeply movi... more info
With her soft brown hair, lithe figure and big, wondering eyes, Constance Chatterley is possessed of a certain vitality. Yet she is deeply unhappy; married to an invalid, she is almost as inwardly par... more info
The classic story of the March family, LITTLE WOMEN has been adored for generations. Now in a vibrant new deluxe edition with an introduction by Jane Smiley and a cover by Julie Doucet, the novel foll... more info
This most joyous of de Sade's works follows three aristocrats as they indoctrinate Eugénie de Mistival in "the principles of the most outrageous libertinism."... more info
"These novels played a unique and lasting role in the development of American literature, and each one remains a beloved and widely read work of fiction. Moby-Dick or, The Whale—a profound inquiry int... more info
The second revision in sixty years, this sublime collection ranges over the verse, stories, essays, and journalism of one of the twentieth century's most quotable authors.
A PRINCESS OF MARS tells the story of John Carter, a Civil War veteran who inexplicably finds himself held prisoner on the planet Mars by the Green Men of Thark. Together with Dejah Thoris, the prince... more info
This collection features a brilliant new translation of the Japanese master's stories, from the source for the movie RASHOMON to his later, more autobiographical writings.... more info
THE THREE MUSKETEERS is the most famous of Alexandre Dumas's historical novels and one of the most popular adventure stories ever written. Now in a bracing new translation, this swashbuckling epic chr... more info
Taking readers deep into a labyrinth of dark neurosis, WE HAVE ALWAYS LIVED IN THE CASTLE is a deliciously unsettling novel about a perverse, isolated, and possibly murderous family and the struggle t... more info
