The midnight hour approaches. You lie in bed and try to sleep, but there is the howling of the wind outside, the creak of a...
A comprehensive collection of Mark Twain's earlier writings, now in an affordable new edition from Signet Classics. This richly entertaining and comprehensive collection presents sixty-five...
Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe is the third novel by George Eliot, published in 1861. An outwardly simple tale of a linen weaver, it...
The epic poem of honor and bravery Written by an anonymous fourteenth-century poet, ",Sir Gawain and the Green Knight", is recognized as an equal to...
In these wonderfully illustrated tales, renowned storyteller Howard Pyle carries us back to the enchanting world of King Arthur and his Round Table. The book...
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. . . .”Lucie Manette had been separated from her father for eighteen years...
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Heartbreaking American masterpiece of the ",Roaring Twenties", based on Fitzgerald's own experience.It is the French Riviera in the 1920s. Nicole and Dick Diver are a...
Tess is an innocent young girl until the day she goes to visit her rich 'relatives', the D'Urbervilles. Her encounter with her manipulative cousin, Alec,...
Edith Wharton (1862–1937) wrote carefully structured fiction that probed the psychological and social elements guiding the behavior of her characters. Her portrayals of upper-class New...
From the awe-inspiring story of the Creation to the defeats and triumphs of the Children of Israel and the life, death, and Resurrection of Jesus,...
'She felt a cozy solidarity with the big company of the voluntary dead.' Wise-cracking and heartbreaking, these tales of women on the...
'Time is a catastrophe, perpetual and irreversible.' Science and fiction interweave delightfully in these playful Cosmicomic short stories. Penguin Modern: fifty...
'They didn't seem to take much interest in my private parts which to tell the truth were nothing to write home about, I...
The celebrated master of the macabre, Edgar Allan Poe brought his nightmare imaginings to life in classic stories told in a signature style. This volume...
From the acclaimed author of The Old Ways and Landmarks -- an essay on the beauty and joy of reading, for anyone who has ever...
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