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Margaret Schlegel, engaged to the much older, widowed Henry Wilcox, meets her intended the morning after accepting his proposal and realizes that he is a man who has lived without introspection or true self-knowledge. As she contemplates the state of Wilcoxs soul, her remedy for what ails him has become one of the most oft-quoted […]
Cannery Row takes place on a small street lined with sardine fisheries in Monterey known as Cannery Row. It revolves around the people living there during the Great Depression: Lee Chong, the local grocer; Doc, a marine biologist based on Steinbecks friend Ed Ricketts; and Mack, the leader of a group of bums. It is […]
Returning to Russia from a sanitarium in Switzerland, the Christ-like epileptic Prince Myshkin finds himself enmeshed in a tangle of love, torn between two women??the notorious kept woman Nastasya and the pure Aglaia??both involved, in turn, with the corrupt, money-hungry Ganya. In the end, Myshkin??s honesty, goodness, and integrity are shown to be unequal to […]
“Until one morning in mid-November of 1959, few Americans–in fact, few Kansans–had ever heard of Holcomb. Like the waters of the river, like the motorists on the highway, and like the yellow trains streaking down the Santa Fe tracks, drama, in the shape of exceptional happenings, had never stopped there.” If all Truman Capote did […]
When her father leaves the Church in a crisis of conscience, Margaret Hale is uprooted from her comfortable home in Hampshire to move with her family to the north of England. Initially repulsed by the ugliness of her new surroundings in the industrial town of Milton, Margaret becomes aware of the poverty and suffering of […]
When Kenneth Grahame first entertained his son with letters about a petulant character named Toad, he had no way of knowing that his creation??together with his friends Mole, Rat, and Badger??would delight children for nearly 100 years. Here they are once more, pursuing adventure in gypsy caravans, stolen sportscars, and prison, but always returning to […]
The epitome of the chivalric novel, Ivanhoe sweeps readers into Medieval England and the lives of a memorable cast of characters. Ivanhoe, a trusted ally of Richard-the-Lion-Hearted, returns from the Crusades to reclaim the inheritance his father denied him. Rebecca, a vibrant, beautiful Jewish woman is defended by Ivanhoe against a charge of witchcraft–but it […]
“Villette! Villette! Have you read it?” exclaimed George Eliot when Charlotte Bront?®s final novel appeared in 1853. “It is still a more wonderful book than Jane Eyre. There is something almost preternatural in its power.” Arguably Bront?®s most refined and deeply felt work, Villette draws on her profound loneliness following the deaths of her three […]
Complete in nine handsome volumes, each with an introduction by a Doyle scholar, a chronology, a selected bibliography, and explanatory notes, the Oxford Sherlock Holmes series offers a definitive collection of the famous detectives adventures. No home library is complete without it. Comprising the series of short stories that made the fortunes of the Strand, […]
A Khushwant Singh short story is not flamboyant but modest, restrained, well-crafted??Perhaps his greatest gift as a writer is a wonderful particularity of description????London Magazine Khushwant Singh first established his reputation as a writer through the short story. His stories??wry, poignant, erotic and, above all, human??bear testimony to Khushwant Singh??s remarkable range and his ability […]
Each edition includes: ? Freshly edited text based on the best early printed version of the play ? Full explanatory notes conveniently placed on pages facing the text of the play ? Scene-by-scene plot summaries ? A key to famous lines and phrases ? An introduction to reading Shakespeares language ? An essay by an […]
Mrs Woolf first became known to the wider reading public with the publication of A Room of Ones Own in 1929. But the year before that, her novel To the Lighthouse had been awarded the Northcliffe and Femina Vie Heureuse prizes. It has since been translated into many languages, including French, German, Spanish, and Italian. […]
This volume, authorized by Sir Arthur Conan Doyles estate, contains all 4 full-length novels and all 56 short stories featuring Sherlock Holmes. At over a thousand pages, the weighty tome is a perfect gift for budding amateur sleuths, and it is an ideal companion for a long stay on a desert island (or a leisurely […]
Narnia . . . where Talking Beasts walk . . . where a witch awaits . . . where a new world is about to be born. On a daring quest to save a beloved life, two friends are hurled into another world, where an evil sorceress seeks to enslave them. But then the lion […]