David Foster WallaceA gargantuan, mind-altering tragi-comedy about the Pursuit of Happiness in America. Set in an addicts' halfway house and a tennis academy, and featuring the most endearingly screwed-up family...

Thomas Pynchon Read the cult classic behind the major new film starring Joaquin Phoenix, Reese Witherspoon and Josh Brolin.It's been a while since Doc Sportello saw his ex-girlfriend, when suddenly...

Author: Sholom Aleichem Inside Kasrilevke is full of the special magic of Sholom Aleichem: the clear view, the kind of knowing that would break the spirit if it were not...

Peter DeVries Published January 1, 1971

William FaulknerThis novel, by Nobel Prize-winning William Faulkner, was published in 1948.It focuses on Lucas Beauchamp, a black farmer accused of murdering a white man. He is exonerated through the...

Corneila Meigs Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy, the four famous March sisters in Little Women, were more than just storybook characters. The author, Louisa May Alcott, based that book on...

Jean RacineDepicts a princess' absolute submission to her father's will. This title shows a woman's struggle to overcome her overwhelming passion for her stepson - an obsession that brings destruction...

Harry BowlingThe classic novel from the much-loved King of Cockney sagasIronmonger Street in 1920 is one of the most unsightly turnings in Bermondsey, its residents hardened to the grim poverty...

Sinclair Lewis It Can’t Happen Here is the only one of Sinclair Lewis’s later novels to match the power of Main Street, Babbitt, and Arrowsmith. A cautionary tale about the fragility of democracy, it...

Sir Walter ScottFor this novel, Scott moved far away from the setting of his own turbulent time. He went back to the late 12th century, and to England rather than...

Sir Walter Scott  Romance and Adventure! King Richard the Lion-Hearted. . . Robin Hood. . . the fair princess Rowena. . . the bewitching Rebecca. . . and the most...

Virginia Woolf   In her third novel, Virginia Woolf discovers her own unique voice as a novelist and the impressionistic style of her great later works. This definitive edition contains...