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This classic story of high adventure, manic obsession and metaphysical speculation was Melville's masterpiece. This edition includes passages from ...

D. H. Lawrence's "John Thomas and Lady Jane" offers a provocative exploration of sexuality, love, and the complex dynamics of human relationships s...

Graham Greene's 'long journey through time' began in 1904, when he was born into a tribe of Greenes based in Berkhamstead at the public school wher...

Each of these short stories was written specifically for Christmas. They combine concern for social ills with the myths and memories of childhood a...

A $60-million PG movie from Walt Disney pictures is released in Summer 2005. It stars Martin Freeman as Arthur Dent, Sam Rockwell as Zaphod Beebleb...

By the time Nashe understood what was happening to him, he was past the point of wanting it to end . . .'Following the death of his father and the ...

Baghdad is holding a secret superpower summit, but the word is out, and an underground organization in the Middle East is plotting to sabotage the ...

Kellerman isnt just an Edgar Award-winning thriller writer, hes a prominent child psychologist, and it shows in Billy Straight . The hero is a 12-y...

In the beginning, there was chaos..." Margaret Atwood's chilling new novel Oryx and Crake moves beyond the futuristic fantasy of her 1985 bestselle...

THE COMPLETE FATHER BROWN STORIES (COMPLETE COLLECTION) 

That black figure, with its eyes of fire, struck down through all my adult thoughts and feelings, and for a moment the forgotten horrors of childho...

Librarian note: an alternate cover for this edition can be found here . After Rain - Twelve remarkable stories by the master storyteller William Tr...

Huckleberry Finn had a tough life with his drunk father until an adventure with Tom Sawyer changed everything. But when Huck's dad returns and kidn...

Written in verse, this was Vikram Seths first novel. Set in the 1980s, in the affluence and sunshine of Californias silicon valley, it is the story...

The Man in the Iron Mask is the final episode in the cycle of novels featuring Dumas celebrated foursome of D Artagnan, Athos, Porthos and Aramis, ...

Fans of H.G. Wells's famous, genre-spawning science fiction novels may be startled to read his less-remembered but once bestselling The History of ...

Cranford depicts the lives and preoccupations of the inhabitants of a small village - their petty snobberies and appetite for gossip, and their loy...

Wounded, dehydrated, and escaping a violent feud with the men of Bob Sutton's ranch, trace Jordan is near collapse when he descends from the heat o...

Includes the ever popular "If", along with the best of Kipling''s powerful, fluent poetry.

With an Introduction and Notes by David Blair. From its first publication in 1816 Rob Roy has been recognised as containing some of Scotts finest w...

O, grief hath changed me since you saw me last,And careful hours with Time’s deformed handHave written strange defeatures in my face.But tell me ye...

High in the pine forests of the Spanish Sierra, a band of anti-fascist guerrilla prepares to blow up a strategically vital bridge. Robert Jordan, a...

A collection of ten stories of air battles in the sky; of the nightmare of being shot down; of the infectious madness of conflict; and of the nervy...