This collection includes a selection of H.P. Lovecrafts finest chilling tales. Lovecrafts most famous monster is Cthulhu, a gargantuan beast which has been lying dormant for millions of years but rises up and forces mankind to recogn...

In James Weldon Johnson's emotionally gripping and poignant look into race relations, a half-white half-black man of very light complexion must choose between his heritage and the art that he loves and the ability to escape the inhere...

Joyce's celebrated short-story sequence provides a vivid and disturbing picture of early 20th-century Dublin and its inhabitants, whom Joyce saw as trapped in a repressed and stultifying environment. The stories are divided into five ...

Continuing the masterly reading of short stories, this volume contains the last five stories from the Dubliners collection: A Painful Case, Ivy Day in the Committee Room, A Mother Grace, and perhaps the most well known of all, The Dea...

Franz Kafka's The Metamorphosis climaxes in the very first line--the protagonist has indeed been transformed. The critical questions lie in the interpretation of the transformation. Kafka has been said to have offered everything from ...

Kafka’s stories--bleak, painfully comic, enigmatic--are invariably about man’s alienation from daily life, but he creates a rich variety of worlds, from the absurdity of the hunger artist in his cage, to Gregor Samsa&rsquo...

First published in 1925, The Trial, one of Franz Kafka's best-known works, tells the story of a man arrested for an unknown crime by a remote, inaccessible authority and his struggle for control over the increasing absurdity of his li...

The beloved Victorian children's tale-now available in its original unabridged edition Instantly popular upon its initial publication in 1863, The Water Babies is at once a bewitching childhood fantasy and a skillfully woven moral all...

Drawn from the wondrous tales told to Kipling as a child by his Indian nurses, Just So Stories creates the magical enchantment of the dawn of the world, when animals could talk and think like people.

The Second Jungle Book is a sequel to The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling. First published in 1895, it features five stories about Mowgli and three unrelated stories, all but one set in India, most of which Kipling wrote while living i...

First published in 1782, 'Les Liasons Dangereuses' was then a best-seller despite the scandal it incurred upon members of the French aristocracy, exposing as it did the endless debauchery and degeneracy that went on behind the facade ...

Torn between his passion for two women and his abiding attachment to his mother, young Paul Morel struggles with his desire to please everyone---particularly himself---in D. H. Lawrence's highly autobiographical novel.

Torn between his passion for two women and his abiding attachment to his mother, young Paul Morel struggles with his desire to please everyone---particularly himself---in D. H. Lawrence's highly autobiographical novel.

First published in 1913, "Sons and Lovers" is D. H. Lawrence's provocative semi-autobiographical novel. The work is based in part on his own family, his mother married a miner like the matriarch of the novel and consequently...

Another thrilling mystery story in which the famous French investigative journalist Joseph Rouletabille, who was first introduced in Gaston Leroux's masterpiece The Mystery of the Yellow Room, makes his appearance before the public ag...

Another thrilling mystery story in which the famous French investigative journalist Joseph Rouletabille, who was first introduced in Gaston Leroux's masterpiece The Mystery of the Yellow Room, makes his appearance before the public ag...

Sinclair Lewis's epic of the booming 1920s uniquely captures the relentless culture of American business. A classic novel about conformity in small-town America, celebrated for its comic tone, satire, and vivid dialogue.

How Green Was My Valley is Richard Llewellyn's bestselling -- and timeless -- classic, as well as the basis of a beloved film. As Huw Morgan is about to leave home forever, he reminisces about the golden days of his youth when South W...

Jack London's two most beloved tales of survival in Alaska were inspired by his experiences in the Yukon during the Klondike Gold Rush. Both novels grippingly dramatize the harshness of the natural world and what lies beneath the thin...

Two classic stories-one indispensable volume. Timeless tales of wolves, dogs, men, and the wild, The Call of the Wild and White Fang are two of the world's greatest adventure stories.

Impressed into service aboard the seal-hunting Ghost, Humphrey Van Weyden becomes an unwilling participant in a tense shipboard drama. With a wary eye, he watches the vessel’s abusive captain, Wolf Larsen, an enigma who can abandon ...

Korea's most prized literary masterpiece: a Buddhist journey questioning the illusions of human life—presented in a vivid new translation by PEN/Hemingway finalist Heinz Insu Fenkl *Named one of the year's most anticipated books by ...

The world-famous masterpiece by Nobel laureate Thomas Mann -- here in a new translation by Michael Henry Heim Published on the eve of World War I, a decade after Buddenbrooks had established Thomas Mann as a literary celebrity, Death ...

The story of Hans Castorp's bizarre study at an Alpine sanatorium embodies a subtle commentary on conditions in Europe before World War I

A magnificent reconstruction of Napoleon's life and legend written by a distinguished Oxford scholar.

Julie Wallace is just eighteen in 1934 when her father risks their life savings on a struggling newspaper and moves the family to a flood-prone Pennsylvania town. It is here a young woman's convictions take firm root, as Julie finds h...

Considered by many to be W. Somerset Maugham's masterpiece, Of Human Bondage traces the travels of Philip Carey to Germany, Paris, and London while exploring his intellectual, emotional, and psychological development and, later, his d...

This collection features one of Maugham's most famous tales, 'Rain,' concerning the clash between a missionary and a prostitute. It also includes 'Macintosh,' a psychological study of the competition between two officials; 'The Fall o...

Inspired by the life of artist Paul Gauguin, The Moon and Sixpence is the complex story of Charles Strickland, a man who abandons his family and his secure life as an English businessman to pursue an uncertain but meaningful existence...

A novel commenting on race, class, and individual responibility intertwines the stories of a dying middle-aged druggist, a corrupt old judge who cherishes his grand Southern lifestyle, the judge's orphaned grandson, and an angry Black...