In George Orwell's masterful dystopian novel, 1984, the world is ravaged by perpetual war, propag...

This essential trilogy gathers Kahlil Gibran’s The Madman (1918), The Forerunner (1920), and his ...

The Hollow Needle is one of Maurice Leblanc's best-known novels. In it the famous gentleman-burgl...

Five years after On the Road, the book that made him an overnight celebrity, Kerouac examines wit...

Often considered the wittiest play in the English language, The Importance of Being Earnest has t...

'If you have not already done so, make a note of the name, F. Scott Fitzgerald.' So begins the Ch...

Recalling the great confessional narratives from St. Augustine to Jean Jacques Rousseau, from Ben...

When a dead body, carefully arranged and naked except for a pince-nez, is discovered in a bathtub...

One of the great literary love stories of all time, Jane Eyre is also the story of a woman who sp...

A Daughter of the Samurai offers an elegant account of a world that had all but vanished by the t...

Arsène Lupin, an aristocratic thief, burst onto the scene in 1905 as the French answer to Sherloc...

Strikingly relevant and shrewdly observed, Mary McCarthy's On the Contrary collects articles, tal...

The Island of Doctor Moreau is a classic work of early science fiction and one of H. G. Wells' mo...

Includes The New York Times article on the obituary Wells wrote for himself in 1936, ten years be...

The adventure begins when eccentric German Professor Otto Lindenbrock and his nephew Axel deciphe...

Houses creak, shudder, moan, whistle, and whine. With eye-like windows and doors that appear, at ...

Published to unprecedented literary acclaim in 1924, the Pulitzer-winning novel So Big establishe...

Jack London's beloved 1903 masterpiece, The Call of the Wild, is unsurpassed as the gripping adve...

The publication of Encounters in1923 launched what would become a luminous forty-year writing car...

A casual wager hastens the elegant and exacting Phileas Fogg on a rollicking ride around the worl...

The eighteen stories collected in this volume showcase the simple eloquence of a spectacular lite...

From the dawn of storytelling we have been mesmerized, entertained, and fascinated by stories of ...

Frankenstein is the most celebrated horror story ever written and one of the best-selling books o...

The Great Gatsby is one of the greatest novels ever written and a masterpiece of American fiction...

Eloquent and assured, Mary McCarthy's The Stones of Florence beckons the reader on a brisk but sw...

Edwin A. Abbott's hallucinatory tale has captivated readers for more than a hundred years-includi...

Heart of Darkness describes a steamboat voyage up and down the Congo River by a British sea capta...

Mary Austin's love of the desert is everywhere evident in The Land of Little Rain, a collection o...

The Essential Poe gathers the most thrilling and enthralling of Poe's poems and short stories, in...

Three Men in a Boat, published in 1889, became an instant success and has never been out of print...

With a lack of sentimentality unusual for the genre, Venice Observed explores the history, art, a...

'It is just when a thing gets beyond me that Isuspect Arsène Lupin most.'from the bookSo confesse...

First published in 1923, Cane is a significant work of Modernist fiction and a literary Goliath o...

John Dos Passos's second novel, Three Soldiers, was published in 1921 after many rejections from ...

In 813, Maurice Leblanc's epic tale, Arsène Lupin, master of disguise and celebrity thief, is fra...

The Good Soldier opens with the famous line: 'This is the saddest story I have ever heard.' John ...

In Our Time, Ernest Hemingway's first collection of short stories, heralded the arrival of an ori...

The Enormous Room is a fictionalized autobiographical account of the three months that E. E. Cumm...

'It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be...

Kate Chopin's absorbing 1899 novel The Awakening tells the story of Edna Pontellier, a married wo...

Isabella Bird traveled by horseback from Truckee, California, through the Tahoe Basin and on to C...

Strange Stories from the Lodge of Leisures gathers twenty-five stories from Pu Songling's collect...

Edna Brush Perkins visited Death Valley with her good friend and fellow suffragette Charlotte Jor...

Oscar Wilde's social comedy, An Ideal Husband, has charmed and challenged audiences since its gla...

Taking inspiration from the infamous Panama scandals of 1892 and 1893-the biggest corruption bust...

Aboard the Abraham Lincoln, an American frigate, French oceanographer Pierre Aronnax and his unfl...

In this collection of ten stories, master of disguise and gentleman thief par excellence, Arsène ...

Lorelei Lee, a blonde flapper who narrates Gentlemen Prefer Blondes in the form of a diary, compl...