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This Prestwick House Literary Touchstone Edition includes a glossary and readers notes to help the modern reader appreciate Wildes wry wit and elaborate plot twists. Oscar Wildes madcap farce about mistaken identities, secret engagements, and lovers entanglements still delights readers more than a century after its 1895 publication and premiere performance. The rapid-fire wit and […]
An affectionate, sometimes bashful pig named Wilbur befriends a spider named Charlotte, who lives in the rafters above his pen. A prancing, playful bloke, Wilbur is devastated when he learns of the destiny that befalls all those of porcine persuasion. Determined to save her friend, Charlotte spins a web that reads “Some Pig,” convincing the […]
Winner of the 1921 Pulitzer Prize, The Age of Innocence is Edith Wharton??s masterful portrait of desire and betrayal during the sumptuous Golden Age of Old New York, a time when society people ??dreaded scandal more than disease.? This is Newland Archer??s world as he prepares to marry the beautiful but conventional May Welland. But […]
Following its initial appearance in serial form, Stephen Cranes The Red Badge of Courage was published as a complete work in 1895 and quickly became the benchmark for modern anti-war literature. Although the exact battle is never identified, Crane based this story of a soldiers experiences during the American Civil War on the 1863 Battle […]
Watership Down has been a staple of high-school English classes for years. Despite the fact that its often a hard sell at first (what teenager wouldnt cringe at the thought of 400-plus pages of talking rabbits?), Richard Adamss bunny-centric epic rarely fails to win the love and respect of anyone who reads it, regardless of […]
Edited and with an Introduction and Notes by Dr Keith Carabine. University of Kent at Canterbury. Uncle Toms Cabin is the most popular, influential and controversial book written by an American. Stowes rich, panoramic novel passionately dramatises why the whole of America is implicated in and responsible for the sin of slavery, and resoundingly concludes […]
Sara Crewe, an exceptionally intelligent and imaginative student at Miss Minchins Select Seminary for Young Ladies, is devastated when her adored, indulgent father dies. Now penniless and banished to a room in the attic, Sara is demeaned, abused, and forced to work as a servant. How this resourceful girls fortunes change again is at the […]
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 […]
In the shade of a banyan tree, a grizzled ferryman sits listening to the river. Some say hes a sage. He was once a wandering shramana &, briefly, like thousands of others, he followed Gotama the Buddha, enraptured by his sermons. But this man, Siddhartha, was not a follower of any but his own soul. […]
Paul Baumer enlisted with his classmates in the German army of World War I. Youthful, enthusiastic, they become soldiers. But despite what they have learned, they break into pieces under the first bombardment in the trenches. And as horrible war plods on year after year, Paul holds fast to a single vow: to fight against […]
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man portrays Stephen Dedaluss Dublin childhood and youth, providing an oblique self-portrait of the young James Joyce. At its center are questions of origin and source, authority and authorship, and the relationship of an artist to his family, culture, and race. Exuberantly inventive, this coming-of-age story is […]
The Scarlet Pimpernel is a classic adventure novel, the storyline of which takes place in the early years of the French Revolution. It is also a precursor of spy novels, as the title character, the Scarlet Pimpernel, works undercover and in disguise to save French aristocrats from the guillotine. In the novel, Marguerite Blakeney, a […]
The Fountainhead has become an enduring piece of literature, more popular now than when published in 1943. On the surface, it is a story of one man, Howard Roark, and his struggles as an architect in the face of a successful rival, Peter Keating, and a newspaper columnist, Ellsworth Toohey. But the book addresses a […]
For Whom the Bell Tolls begins and ends in a pine-scented forest, somewhere in Spain. The year is 1937 and the Spanish Civil War is in full swing. Robert Jordan, a demolitions expert attached to the International Brigades, lies “flat on the brown, pine-needled floor of the forest, his chin on his folded arms, and […]
Audrey Niffeneggers innovative debut, The Time Travelers Wife, is the story of Clare, a beautiful art student, and Henry, an adventuresome librarian, who have known each other since Clare was six and Henry was thirty-six, and were married when Clare was twenty-three and Henry thirty-one. Impossible but true, because Henry finds himself periodically displaced in […]