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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 wonderfully charming and intelligent Elizabeth Bennett is the heroine of what is recognized as one of the great novels in literature. Readers for generations have been captiavated not only by the novel's... more info...

This is the definitive, textually accurate edition of a 20th-century classic, based on the Cambridge critical edition that is drawn on the manuscript and surviving proofs of the novel, along with Fitzgerald's... 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...

(Modern Classics). In a sleepy village in the Shire, a young hobbit is entrusted with an immense task. He must make a perilous journey across Middle-earth to the Crack of Doom, there to destroy the Ruling... more info...

(Modern Classics). The Company of the Ring is sundered. Frodo and Sam continue their journey alone down the great River Anduim - alone that is, save for a mysterious creeping figure that follows wherever... more info...

(Modern Classics). The armies of the Dark Lord are massing as his evil shadow spreads ever wider. Men, Dwarves, Elves and Ents unite forces to do battle against the Dark. Meanwhile, Frodo and Sam struggle... 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 the history of the Buendia... more info...

(Signet Classic). First published in 1847. Jane Eyre is an orphan, penniless and plain, but full of courage and spirit. She has endured incredible hardship to secure her humble status as a governess in... 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 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...

Set against the dramatic backdrop of the American Civil War in 1860s Atlanta, Margaret Mitchell's magnificent historical epic/saga is an unforgettable story of love and loss, of a nation mortallly divided... more info...

Anna Karenina has beauty, social position, wealth, a husband, and an adored son, but her existence seems empty. When she meets the dashing officer count Vronsky she rejects her marriage and turns to him... 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...

First published in 1866, this murderer's story told from a murderer's point of view has implicated even the most innocent reader in its enormities. A cat-and-mouse game between a tormented young killer... more info...

(HarperPerennial Modern Classics). The beloved American classic about a young girl's coming-of-age at the turn of the century is a poignant and moving tale filled with compassion and cruelty, laughter... 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...

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...

(Vintage Classics). Paris in the twenties: Pernod, parties and expatriate Americans, loose-living on money from home. Jake is wildly in love with Brett Ashley, aristocratic and irresistibly beautiful,... 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...

A great modern classic and the prelude to The Lord of the Rings Trilogy, The Hobbit centers on the life and adventures in Middle Earth of the Hobbit Bilbo Baggins. And, in Tolkien's own words, "In following... 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...

(Classic Library Collector's Edition). First published in 1847. A craggy, harsh, unyielding novel of emotional brutishness, of confinement and flight, of dependence and vengeance that has been popularized... 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...

(Penguin Classics, The Centenary Edition). This is the most comprehensively annotated edition available and includes the manuscript version of Alice's Adventures Under Ground and Carroll's 1887 essay '"Alice"... 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 the... more info...

Due to a rare genetic mutation - and a guilty family secret - Calliope Stephanides is part girl, part boy. And even though the gene's epic travels have ended, her own odyssey is just beginning. From the... 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...

Centennial edition of Ayn Rand's classic tale of a future dark age of the great "We" - a world that deprives individuals of name, independence, and values. Features include excerpts from documents by Ayn... 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...

Penetrating analysis of the life an English provincial town set during the time of social unrest prior to the first Reform Bill of 1832. 688p. Pap. more info...

(Wordsworth Classics). The most autobiographical of Woolf's novels, reflecting her cilldhood experiences. 151p. more info...

(HarperPerennial Modern Classics series). A New York Times bestseller. A suspenseful epic of one family's tragic undoing and remarkable reconstruction over the course of three decades in postcolonial Africa.... 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...

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...

(Vintage Classics). One day in a woman's life: Clarrisa Dalloway is preoccupied with the last-minute details of a party she is to give that evening. As she readies her house sheis flooded with memories... 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...

The author was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1998. In this novel (now a major motion picture), a city is hit by an epidemic of "white blindness" that spares no one. Authorities confine the... 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...

A collection of all seven volumes of the series, 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...

More than 80 million copies sold! An ingenious code hidden in the works of Leonardo da Vinci. A desperate race through the cathedrals and castles of Europe. An astonishing truth concealed for centuries...unconcealed... 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...

(Wordsworth Classics). Wilde's only novel, published in 1890, centers around a dissolute Victorian with a 'closet secret'. The story self-consciously experiments with the notion of sin as an element of... 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...