In the troubled years following the Civil War, the spirit of a murdered child haunts the Ohio home of a former slave. This angry, destructive ghost breaks mirrors, leaves its fingerprints in cake icing, and generally makes life difficult for Sethe and her family; nevertheless, the woman finds the haunting oddly comforting for the spirit […]
As I Lay Dying is Faulkners harrowing account of the Bundren familys odyssey across the Mississippi countryside to bury Addie, their wife and mother. Told in turns by each of the family members??including Addie herself??the novel ranges in mood from dark comedy to the deepest pathos. This edition follows the text of As I Lay […]
A haunting tale of romantic self-deception, The Return of the Nativefocuses on mismatched lovers who see in each other only what they want to see, and decidedly not what is actually there. Clym Yeobright, the native of the title, returns to Hardy??s fictional Egdon Heath determined to be a force for social progress. Dazzled by […]
This edition of The Yellow Wallpaper includes a generous selection of cultural and historical documents that illuminate how Gilmans classic feminist tale can be read as a springboard for her subsequent career as a cultural critic. The documents accompanying this edition have been selected to help readers situate The Yellow Wallpaper in relation to Gilmans […]
The ideal introduction to the genius of Ernest Hemingway, The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories contains ten of Hemingways most acclaimed and popular works of short fiction. Selected from Winner Take Nothing, Men Without Women, and The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories, this collection includes “The Killers,” the first of Hemingways mature […]
First published in 1935, Old Jules is unquestionably Mari Sandoz??s masterpiece. This portrait of her pioneer father grew out of ??the silent hours of listening behind the stove or the wood box, when it was assumed, of course, that I was asleep in bed. So it was that I heard the accounts of the hunts,? […]
When Marilla Cuthberts brother, Matthew, returns home to Green Gables with a chatty redheaded orphan girl, Marilla exclaims, “But we asked for a boy. We have no use for a girl.” Its not long, though, before the Cuthberts cant imagine how they could ever do without young Anne of Green Gables–but not for the original […]
From the bestselling author of The City of Joy comes the dramatic story of the Allied liberation of Paris. Is Paris Burning? reconstructs the network of fateful events??the drama, the fervor, and the triumph??that heralded one of the most dramatic episodes of our time. This bestseller about 1944 Paris is timed to meet the demand […]
Gr 4-8-Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy Pevensey, the heroes and heroines from The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe, return in this fourth installment of C.S. Lewis Chronicles of Narnia series. The four children are transported from an English train station to an island in the world of Narnia. Though Narnia has been at peace […]
In 1905, Stanley McCormick, heir to East Coast millions, is most definitely mad. Heredity and an early, horrifying glimpse of his naked sister have rendered him schizophrenic, incapable of being around women–right down to his wife, Katherine, “a newlywed who might as well have been a widow.” Not even the dawn of modern psychiatry can […]
Ayn Rand here sets forth the moral principles of Objectivism, the philosophy that holds mans life–the life proper to a rational being–as the standard of moral values and regards altruism as incompatible with mans nature, with the creative requirements of his survival, and with a free society.