Max Brod Max Brod, a successful novelist, was a boyhood companion of Kafka's and remained closely tied to him until Kafka's death in 1924. He was undoubtedly the one man...

William Golding Sammy Mountjoy, artist, rises from poverty and an obscure birth to see his pictures hung in the Tate Gallery. Swept into World War II, he is taken as...

Nikos KazantzakisFreedom or Death by Nikos Kazantzakis is a novel on the heroic or epic scale about the rebellion of the Greek Christians against the Turks on the island of...

John FowlesThe scene is the village of Lyme Regis on Dorset's Lyme Bay..."the largest bite from the underside of England's out-stretched southwestern leg." The major characters in the love-intrigue triangle...

Daphne du MaurierBored with the frivolous life of the royal court, the captivating Lady Dona St. Columb retires to her country estate, leaving her dull husband behind in town. In...

Author: Edmund Crispin Oxford don Gervase Fen is at the film studios to advise about a film biography of Alexander Pope, when he learns of Gloria's death. She appears to...

Jeffrey Eugenides Jeffrey Eugenides's novels explore themes of adolescence, self-discovery, familial love, and modern America. This short story collection, which includes two previously unpublished tales, features characters living through personal...

Judy BlumeFudge Hatcher--the five-year-old human hurricane--is back for more antics as he makes sure there is never a dull moment at the family's summer rental house. His latest plan is...

Rabbi Avrohom Blumenkrantz The Laws of A digest - only printed in 1984 Best Seller!! Excellent digest of the intricate Laws Of Niddah (Family Purity) written by HaRav Avraham Blumenkrantz...

Henry James With an Introduction and Notes by Martin Scofield, University of Kent at Canterbury. Henry James was arguably the greatest practitioner of what has been called the psychological ghost story....

Anne Morrow Lindbergh This small book of great and simple wisdom has spoken to hundreds of thousands of readers, and continues to influence women's lives. In her afterword, Anne Morrow...

Tracy ChevalierA brilliant historical novel on the corruption of innocence, using the famous painting by Vermeer as an inspiration. Griet, the young daughter of a tilemaker in seventeeth century Holland,...