Maya Angelou's debut memoir is a modern American classic beloved worldwide. Sent by their mother to live with their devout, self-sufficient grandmother in a small Southern town, Maya and her brother,...
For the first time, all the major works of this beloved writer are gathered together in one hardcover volume. Poet, artist, and mystic, Kahlil Gibran was born in 1883 to a poor Christian family in...
One of the most controversial novels of the twentieth century, Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita is a strange, troubling love story told by the one of the most unreliable narrators in literature. Poet and...
Golding's iconic 1954 novel, remains one of the greatest books ever written for young adults and an unforgettable classic for readers of any age. At the dawn of the next world war, a plane crashes on...
The notorious and celebrated novel that established modern realism. For this novel of French bourgeois life in all its inglorious banality, Flaubert invented a paradoxically original and wholly modern...
One of the foundation-stones of modern philosophy. Descartes was prepared to go to any lengths in his search for certainty - even to deny those things that seemed most self-evident. He set out to...
At the Angler's Rest, a bucolic English pub, drinking hot scotch and lemon, sits one of Wodehouse's greatest raconteurs. Mr. Mulliner tells fabulous stories of the extraordinary behaviour of his...
Mrs. Dalloway follows a set of characters as they go about their lives on a normal day. The eponymous character, Clarissa Dalloway, does simple things: she buys some flowers, walks in a park, is...
A perfectly aimed literary parody and withering satire of the commercial aspects of marriage among the English gentry at the turn of the nineteenth century. It?s sweetly appealing heroine, Catherine...
John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men is one of the best loved novellas of all time. Two drifters - small, shrewd George and huge, simple-minded Lennie - get work on a ranch, planning to raise enough money...
Twenty-seven-year old Anne Elliot is Austen's most adult heroine. Eight years before the story proper begins, she is happily betrothed to a naval officer, Frederick Wentworth, but she precipitously...
It takes a lot of effort for Jimmy Crocker to become Piccadilly Jim - nights on the town roistering, headlines in the gossip columns, a string of broken hearts and breaches of promise. Eventually he...
