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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Literature, 1961. Never out of print since its publication, the novel is the inspiring tale of a young girl's triumph over bigotry and injusticein the Depression-era South.... more info...

The classic tale of the irrepressible Elizabeth Bennet, Jane Austen's most fully realized heroine, who possesses a dry wit, enjoys spotting a fool, and refuses to be taken lightly. A cautionary tale about... more info...

This coming-of-age novel broke the sound barrier for its generation, and for generations of readers since its first publication. Holden Caulfield's quest for identity resonates with a heartfelt and imaginative... more info...

(Centennial Edition). Tremendous in its scope, Ayn Rand's tour de force novel, Atlas Shrugged, presents a philosophical revolution, told in the form of an action thriller of violent events, host to an... more info...

Ayn Rand's highly controversial novel tells the story of the desperate battle waged by architect Howard Roark, whose integrity was as unyielding as granite...of Dominique Francon, the exquisitely beautiful... more info...

This one-volume edition of the J.R.R. Tolkien's mythical epc contains the complete texts of all three books: The Fellowship of the Ring; The Two Towers; The Return of the King. With the One Ring having... more info...

An Oprah's Book Club selection. (Harper Perennial Modern Classics). The brilliant, surreal story of the rise and fall, birth and death of the mythical town of Macondo through thehistory of the Buendia... more info...

Charlotte Bronte poured her contemp for the stifling conventions society imposed upon a woman's right to conduct her own life into her story of the love between the governess Jaane Eyre and Mr. Rochester,... more info...

The book that launched the immensely popular series about the boy wizard and his battle with the evil Dark Lord, Voldemort. Having only known the horrors of life with an abusive Muggle (non-magical) family,... more info...

The infinitely absorbing story of aging Humbert Humbert's obsessive, devouring and doomed passion for the "nymphet" Lolita Haze. Set against a post-WWII American modernism that etches the "highway & travel... more info...

The year 1984 has come and gone...on. This "chilling, absorbing, satirical, momentous, prophetic & terrifying" novel of the human political condition - a blueprint for nightmare - remains indelibly the... more info...

First published in 1957, "On the Road" memorializes Kerouac's adventures with Neal Cassady on the way to inventing what would come to be known as the "Beat generation". 310p. more info...

This epic novel of love and (civil) war won the Pulitzer Prize and went on to give rise to two authorized sequels and one of the most popular and celebrated movies of all time. Though many novels have... more info...

(Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition). Now in paperback, the first new English translation of the monumental 19th-century Russian literary masterpiece. The doomed love affair between the sensuous and rebellious... more info...

Murder mystery, courtroom drama, exploration of erotic rivalry in a series of triangular love affairs involving the "wicked and sentimental" Fydor Pavolvich Karamazov and his three sons - the impulsive... more info...

Raskolnikov, a solitary student living in poverty in St. Petersburg, one day arrives at an idea. What if he were to rob and kill a person, anyone, a human being he bears no malice toward, just for the... more info...

(Perennial Classics). First published in 1943. The classic, poignant & deeply understanding coming-of-age story of the young, sensitive, and idealistic Francie Nolan. Through her eyes, readers are transported... more info...

A classic of contemporary American literature, the novel centers on the infamous fire-bombing of Dresden, Germany, "the Florence of the Elbe," in WII, as it intersects Billy Pilgrim's odyssey through time,... more info...

(Vintage International). The complete and unabridged text, as corrected and reset in 1961. Like the first American edition of 1934, this edition also contains the original foreword by the author and the... more info...

This novel, set in Afghanistan in the 1970s, tells the story of two boys growing up in Kabul, in the last peaceful days of the monarchy, before that country's revolution and its invasion by Russian forces.... more info...

New Preface. Though the author is now a posthumous literary figure, Yossarian's escapades to avoid and defame the act of committing warfare - against anyone and anything - continue their immortalizing... more info...

First published in 1939, "The Grapes of Wrath" quickly transmuted into a landmark of American literature, with its portrait of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless, of one man's fierce reaction... more info...

(Steinbeck Centennial Edition). First published in 1952. Set in the rich farmland of California's Salinas Valley, this sprawling and often brutal novel follows the intertwined destinies of two families... more info...

The quintessential novel of the Lost Generation, The sun Also Rises is one of Hemingway's masterpieces and a classic example of his spare but powerful writing style. A poignant look at the disillusionment... more info...

Richard Pevear & Larissa Volokhonsky, acclaimed & award-winning translators of many works of Russian literature, from Anna Karenina to The Brothers Karamazov, now turn their attention to Tolstoy's epic... more info...

This ever-wondrous enchanting prelude to The Lord of the Rings is based on the personal memoirs of Mr. Bilbo Baggins during the one exciting year in his otherwise quiet life. more info...

The seventh and - alas! - final installment of this remarkable series about the boy wizard Harry Potter has been released, fulfilling the wildest dreams of its dedicated readership. What is Harry's fate?... more info...

This brilliant epic novel set in New York and Prague centers on two misfit young men who make it big by creating comic-book super-heroes. Joe Kavalier, a young artist adept in the art of Houdiniesque escape... more info...

While Catherine Earnshaw forms a deep attachment to Heathcliff, her brother Hindley despises him as a rival. Heathcliff becomes torn between love for Catherine and the rage and humiliationi he suffers.... more info...

In the summer of 1953, during a Little League game, eleven-year-old Owen Meany, the only child of a New Hampshire granite quarrier - who doesn't believe in accidents - hits a foul ball that kills his best... more info...

(Penguin Classics). Thrown in prison for a crime he has not committed, Edmond Dantes is confined to the grim fortress of If. There he learns of a great hoard of treasure hidden on the Isle of Monte Cristo... more info...

This edition captures the playful, satirical and mysterious essence of Lewis Carroll's Alice stories. Noteon illustrations. B&W illus. 392p. more info...

First published in English in 1946. The author's first novel tells the story of an ordinary man who unwittingly gets drawn into a senseless murder on a sun-drenched Algerian beach, introducing millions... more info...

(HarperPerennial Modern Classics series). Huxley's tour de force is a darkly satiric vision of a "utopian" future - where humans are genetically bred and pharmaceutically anesthetized to passively serve... more info...

(Signet Classic Series). In picturesque 19th-century New England, tomboyish Jo, beautiful Meg, fragile Beth, and romantic Amy are responsible for keeping a home while their father is off to war. At thesame... more info...

The breathtaking story of Calliope Stephanides and three generations of the Greek-American Stephanides family. The novel uncovers a guilty family secret that turns Callie into Cal, one of the most audacious... more info...

Epic tale of Ahab's obsessive quest for the great white whale. more info...

The internationally acclaimed story about an Andalusian shepherd boy named Santiago who travels from his homeland in Spain to the Egyptian desert in search of a treasure buried in the Pyramids. Along the... more info...

Hugo's monumental tale of injustice, heroism & love follows the fortunes of Jean Valjean, an escaped convict determined to put his criminal past behind him. But his attempts to become a respected member... more info...

(Wordsworth Classics). The human story behind the French Revolution is embodied in four of Dickens's greatest characters: Madame Defarge, Lucie Manette and her husband Charles Darnay, and the misanthrope... more info...

Originally published in England in 1938; for its first American edition in 1946, Rand rewrote the book. This edition publishes the text of the American edition, followed by a facsimile of the original... more info...

This Kafkaesque novel is many things: the story of a marriage that mysteriously collapses; a jeremiad against the superficiality of contemporary politics; an investigation of painfully suppressed memories... more info...

(Penguin Classics). Perhaps the leading contender for the title of The Great American Novel, the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn might just have the inside track. Intended at first asthesimple story of... more info...

From what was initially to be a magazine piece, Truman Capote produced a paradigmatic reconstruction of the November 15, 1959 murder of the Clutter family in Holcomb, Kansas, carving out a new genre of... more info...

Vonnegut's satirical commentary on modern man and his madness, the book is an apocalyptic tale of Earth's ultimate fate. It features a midget as the protagonist; a complete original theology created by... more info...

(Contemporary Classics Series). A flawless evocation of an unrequited passion so strong that it binds three people's lives together for more than 50 years. In the story of Florentino Ariza, who waits more... more info...

With restored artwork, this universally cherished classic fable teaches the secret of what is really important in life. Color illus. 80p. For all ages!! more info...

A novel about a dashing, adventuresome librarian who travels involuntarily through time, and an artist whose life takes a natural sequential course, producing an impossibly romantic trap in this "spellbinding... more info...

First published in 1952. The nameless protagonist of this nightmare journey across the racial divide discovers unparalleled truths about the nature of bigotry and its effects on the minds of both victims... more info...

A young woman in love with a man torn between his love for her and his incorrigible womanizing: one of his mistresses and her humbly faithful lover - these are the two couples whose stories are told in... more info...

Chronicling the crack-up of Esther Greenwood: brilliant, beautiful, enormously talented, and successful, but slowly going under - maybe for the last time, poet Sylvia Plath masterfully draws the reader... more info...

The life and death of a famous mother, Jenny Fields, and her almost-famous son, T.S. Garp, told in a novel rich with "lunacy and sorrow" - a world of sexual extremes, even sexual assassinations. "But in... more info...

Vast and crowded, rich in irony and suspense, the novel is richer still in psychological insight. One of the bestr loved works of the 19th century, it introduces two of the era's most enduring characters... more info...

The novel that established Woolf as a leading writer of the 20th century is made up of three powerfully charged visions into the life of one family living in a summer house off the rocky coast of Scotland.... more info...

Spanning three decades, the novel is narrated by the wife and four daughters of Nathan Price, a fierce evangelical Baptist who takes his family and mission to the Belgian Congo in 1959. A tale of one family's... more info...

When Harry arrives back at Hogwarts for his third year, the atmosphere is tense. There's an escaped mass murderer on the loose, and the sinister prison guards of Azkaban have been called in to guard the... more info...

There is a door at the end of a silent corridor. And it's haunting Harry Potter's dreams. Why else would he be waking in the middle of the night, screaming in terror? Harry has a lot on his mind for this,... more info...

Written in 1952, this hugely successful novella is the story of an old Cuban fisherman down on his luck, and his supreme ordeal - a relentless, agonizing battle with a giant marlin far out in the Gulf... more info...

Based on a once-removed extrapolation of ideas (by way of Isaac Asimov's Foundation trilogy) to be found in Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - mainly, that history is shaped by the use of... more info...

Often considered Dickens's masterpiece, the novel blends together several literary genres - detective fiction, romance, melodrama & satire - to create an unforgettable portrait of the decay and corruption... more info...

Staring unflinchingly into the abyss of slavery, Morrison's spellbinding novel transforms history into a story on a biblical scale as well as a lullaby. Sethe, the protagonist, was born a slave and escaped... more info...

(Classic Library Collector's Edition). First published in 1861. From young Pip's first terrifying encounter with the convict Magwitch in the gloom of a graveyard, to the splendidly morbid set pieces in... more info...

As original a memoir as exists in recent American literature - the sheer poignancy of the author's grieving for a mother and father, both succumbing to cancer within a month of each other, and his arduous... more info...

Every weekend, in the basements and parking lots of bars across the country, young men with white-collar jobs and failed lives take off their shoes and shirts and fight each other barehanded just as long... more info...

The tragedy of the Compson family: beautiful, rebellious Caddy; the manchild Benjy; haunted, neurotic Quentin; Jason, the brutal cynic; and Dilsey, their black servant. A novel that rivals all others.... more info...

The portrait of a single day in a woman's life. Clarissa Dalloway, preoccupied with the last-minute details of party preparation, experiences a flood of memories that sets her awash in the sensations of... more info...

Newbery Medal winner. Given his lifetime assignment at the Ceremony of Twelve, Jonas becomes the receiver of memories shared by only one other in his community and discovers the terrible truth about the... more info...

(Penguin Classics). Bulgakov's fantastic, funny and devastating satire on Soviet life combines two sections set in contemporary Moscow and one in ancient Jerusalem,each brimming with characters both historical... more info...

This stunning parable of loss and disorientation tells of a city hit by an epidemic of "white blindness" that spares no one. One eyewitness to this nightmare guides seven strangers - among them a boy with... more info...

Winner of the Man Booker Prize. Alone in a lifeboat with a 450-pound Bengal tiger who makes short order of the hyena, the orangutan, and the wounded zebra. In a situation like this, fear, knowledge, and... more info...

(Penguin Classics). Emma Bovery forever is beautiful and bored, trapped in her marriage to a mediocre doctor and stifled by the banality of provincial life. An ardent devourer of sentimental novels, she... more info...

25th anniversary edition of Sendak's great classic about a boy named Max, sent to bed without supper, who imagines himself king of the mysterious Wild Things. The famous color illustrations have been replanted... more info...

This edition collects all seven volumes of the series in one book, presented according to the author's preferred order. A classic brimming over with journeys to the end of the world, fantastic creatures,... more info...

The most epic of the journeys of return - with a heightened sense of the life of the imagination transformed. more info...

Robert Langdon receives an urgent late-night call while on business in Paris. The elderly curator of the Louvre has been murdered inside the museum, his body surrounded by a series of bizarre ciphers scribbled... more info...

The memorable saga of the Glass family, in which author J.D. Salinger fictionally explores "the willingness to risk excess on behalf of one's obsessions" while making - out of necessity - the critical... more info...

(Time Quintet, #1). Winner of the 1964 Newbery Medal. Out of this wild night, a strange visitor comes to the Murry house and beckons Meg, her brother Charles Wallace, and their friend Calvin O'Keefe on... more info...

In this charismatic first novel, the author's namesake sets out to locate the woman who may or may not have saved his grandfather from the Nazis. Accompanied only by a faded photo, an old man haunted by... more info...

(Oxford World's Claassic). Spellbound before his own portrait, Dorian Gray utters a fateful wish. In exchange for eternal youth he gives his soul, to be corrupted by the malign influences of his mentor,... more info...

"It is the world of the near future, and Offred is a Handmaid in the home of the Commander and his wife. She is allowed out once a day to the food market, she is not permitted to read, and she is hoping... more info...