All nice and warm for a July day, but received with delight nevertheless. Ted and Josie immediately dressed up, learned the war-whoop, and proceeded to astonish their friends by a series of skirmishes about the house and grounds, with tomahawks and bows and arrows, till weariness produced a lull.
One of the best-known, most frequently performed of modern plays, displaying Ibsens genius for realistic prose drama. A classic expression of womens rights, the play builds to a climax in which the central character, Nora, rejects a smothering marriage and life in “a doll??s house.”
From its spectacular opening??the astonishing scene in which drunken Michael Henchard sells his wife and daughter to a passing sailor at a county fair??to the breathtaking series of discoveries at its conclusion, The Mayor of Casterbridge claims a unique place among Thomas Hardy??s finest and most powerful novels. Rooted in an actual case of wife-selling […]
For the first time in a decade, Willy Wonka, the reclusive and eccentric chocolate maker, is opening his doors to the public–well, five members of the public to be exact. The lucky five who find a Golden Ticket in their Wonka chocolate bars will receive a private tour of the factory, given by Mr. Wonka […]
In this seductive, wistful masterpiece, Truman Capote created a woman whose name has entered the American idiom and whose style is a part of the literary landscape. Holly Golightly knows that nothing bad can ever happen to you at Tiffanys; her poignancy, wit, and na??vet?? continue to charm. This volume also includes three of Capotes […]
Anne Shirley has come a long way since her days as a mischievous orphan living in the house at Green Gables. She is now eighteen and headed to faraway Redmond College in Kingsport. Annes college years are sure to be full of fun, but they will also be a time for soul-searching and big decisions. […]
On a cold day in February, a stranger arrives in the village of Iping. He wears gloves and dark glasses, even inside, and his face is covered in bandages. Soon crimes occur that cannot be explained, and the townspeople realize the unthinkable truth: the strange man is invisible–and he is slowly going mad. The Invisible […]
In the wake of World War I, a community of expatriate American writers established itself in the salons and cafes of 1920s Paris. They congregated at Gertrude Steins select soirees, drank too much, married none too wisely, and wrote volumes–about the war, about the Jazz Age, and often about each other. F. Scott Fitzgerald and […]
Hardys masterpiece traces a poor stonemasons ill-fated romance with his free-spirited cousin. No Victorian institution is spared — marriage, religion, education — and the outrage following publication led the embittered author to renounce fiction. Modern critics hail this novel as a pioneering work of feminism and socialist thought.
As irascible scholar Professor Lidenbrock pores over a rare Icelandic tome, he discovers a scrap of parchment with cryptic writing tucked away between the ancient pages. And when his nephew, Axel, finally breaks the writings secret code, he learns of a hidden underground passageway that may lead deep into the center of the earth. Despite […]
One of Chinua Achebes many achievements in his acclaimed first novel, Things Fall Apart, is his relentlessly unsentimental rendering of Nigerian tribal life before and after the coming of colonialism. First published in 1958, just two years before Nigeria declared independence from Great Britain, the book eschews the obvious temptation of depicting pre-colonial life as […]
A group of English visitors want to see the ??real? India, and in Dr. Aziz they find a highly civilized companion. During a visit to the Marabar caves, one of the women accuses Dr. Aziz of sexually assaulting her, triggering a chain of events that will change the lives of people on both sides of […]
The wild rush of action in this classic frontier adventure story has made The Last of the Mohicans the most popular of James Fenimore Coopers Leatherstocking Tales. Deep in the forests of upper New York State, the brave woodsman Hawkeye (Natty Bumppo) and his loyal Mohican friends Cingachgook and Uncas become embroiled in the bloody […]