A true classic of modern literature that has been described as “one of the most disturbing novels in existence” (Time Out), Hunger is the story of a Norwegian artist who wanders the streets, struggling on the edge of starv...

In Thomas Hardy's classic novel, an ambitious man discovers that the blind energies and defiant acts that brought him to power can also destroy him.

A fiftieth anniversary edition of Catch-22, one of the twentieth century's most revered novels.

The creator of Hemingway on Fishing returns with a loving tribute to the writer's passion for game hunting, retracing his various expeditions throughout the world, from the snow of Kilamanjaro to his American adventures. Reprint. 25,0...

At the age of twenty-two, Ernest Hemingway wrote his first short story, 'Up in Michigan.' Seventeen years and forty-eight titles later, he was the undisputed master of the short-story form and the leading American man of letters. The ...

Ernest Hemingway was one of America's best known and most beloved authors. This was a his first published book. These three stories and ten poems served notice that a major new talent had arrived and the rules of American Literature w...

The World Literature series reproduces the greatest books the world over with only the highest production standards. History, philosophy, psychology, political theory, fiction, and ancient texts are now accessible to everyone at an ex...

In love? You? Nonsense! Nonsense! Nonsense! You do not know what the word means. You are like a — like a fish, with no more love in you than a fish, and no more heart than a fish, and...Book #9 of 15 in the SDE Classics Romance Coll...

Originally published in 1933, Lost Horizon gained unrivaled popularity from coast to coast, particularly after Frank Capra's spellbinding 1937 film introduced audiences nationwide to its stunning tale of revolution, utopia, emotion, ...

This Modern Library Paperback Classics edition brings together one of literature's most famous ghost stories and one of Henry James's most unusual novellas. In The Turn of the Screw, a governess is haunted by ghosts from her young cha...

Henry James, a master of haunting atmosphere and riveting tension, presents one of the most famous ghost stories of all time. A young governess is sent to a country home to take charge of two orphans, and unsettled by a sense of inte...

A new edition of the innovative, emotionally complex novel. After her parents' bitter divorce, young Maisie Farange finds herself shuttled between her selfish mother and vain father, who value her only as a means for provoking each o...

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 ...

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...

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 ...

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...

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.

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...

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...

Unpublished in Melville’s lifetime, BILLY BUDD is considered one of his greatest works. It began as a ballad, but grew into a short novel with an ambiguous plot that raises more questions than it answers, about good and evil, ju...

Herman Melville was born in New York City on August 1st, 1819, the third of eight children. At the age of 7 Melville contracted scarlet fever which was to permanently diminish his eyesight. At this time Melville was described as being...