Classics

Scandal, treachery and crime are rife in Old London Town. A king blackmailed by his mistress, dark dealings in opium dens, stolen jewels, a missing bride....

Late one moonlit night, Walter Hartright encounters a solitary and terrified woman dressed all in white. He saves her from capture by her pursuers, and determines to solve the mystery of her distress....

MacKayla Lane's life is good. She has great friends, a decent job, and a car that breaks down only every other week or so....

Fifteen-year-old Laura lives apart from her family for the first time, teaching school in a claim shanty 12 miles from home. She is very homesick but keeps at it....

Blackwater is the saga of a small town, Perdido, Alabama, and Elinor Dammert, the stranger who arrives there under mysterious circumstances on Easter Sunday, 1919....

The Pevensie siblings travel back to Narnia to help a prince denied his rightful throne as he gathers an army in a desperate attempt to rid his land of a false king. But in the end, it is a battle of honor between two men alone that will decide the fate of an entire world....

A lean, fleet-footed translation that recaptures Homer’s “nimble gallop” and brings an ancient epic to new life....

The Dawn Treader is the first ship Narnia has seen in centuries. King Caspian has built it for his first voyage to find the seven lords, good men whom his evil uncle Miraz banished when he usurped the throne....

Uncle Tom's Cabin opens with a Kentucky farmer named Arthur Shelby facing the loss of his farm because of debts....

Prodigal Summer weaves together three stories of human love within a larger tapestry of lives in southern Appalachia....

If Max Brod had obeyed Franz Kafka's dying request, Kafka's unpublished manuscripts would have been burned, unread....

With the same suppleness, energy, and range of voices that won their translation of The Brothers Karamazov the PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Prize, Pevear and Volokhonsky offer a brilliant translation of Dostoevsky's classic novel....

Springtime is finally arriving on Gardam Street, and there are surprises in store for each member of the family....

Welcome to Ringworld, an intermediate step between Dyson Spheres and planets....

Ulysses is regarded by many as the single most important novel of the 20th century....

William Stoner is born at the end of the 19th century into a dirt-poor Missouri farming family.....

At long last, Lady Sybil has lured her husband, Sam Vimes, on a well-deserved holiday away from the crime and grime of Ankh-Morpork....

A mysterious island, shrouded in fear, evil, and darkness. Here the amoral General Zaroff hunts....

Listening to The Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan can be a bit challenging. Not so with this version that translates the original archaic language into simple, conversational English, allowing all listeners to easily navigate the most popular Christian allegory of all time....

Ayla, one of the most remarkable and beloved heroines in contemporary fiction, continues to explore the world and the people around her with curiosity, insight, and, above all, courage....