James JoyceJoyce wrote the first draft of a work he called Stephen Hero between 1901 and 1906, but was dissatisfied and later wrote and developed it. He partially destroyed this...

John IrvingOwen Meany, the only child of a New Hampshire granite quarrier, believes he is God's instrument; he is.This is John Irving's most comic novel; yet Owen Meany is Mr....

Zhores A. Medvedev, Roy Aleksandrovich Medvedev January 1, 1974 by Penguin Books

EM Forster Wit and intelligence are the hallmarks of these two probing portraits of the English character written by E.M. Forster. Both are stories of extreme contrasts--in values, social class...

Gustave Flaubert Frederic Moreau, a provincial young man who dreams of wealth and fame, falls in love with Madame Arnoux and cultivates a friendship with her husband in order to...

Carlos Castaneda"A man of knowledge is free...he has no honor, no dignity, no family, no home, no country, but only life to be lived." --don JuanIn 1961 a young anthropologist...

Christopher Isherwood"When A Single Man was originally published, it shocked many by its frank, sympathetic, and moving portrayal of a gay man in midlife. George, the protagonist, is adjusting to...

Hans FalladaIt is summer, 1929, and in a small German town a storm is brewing. The shabby reporter Tredup leads a precarious existence working for the Pomeranian Chronicle - until...

Sally WittmanPublisher:Scholastic, London, 1980, ©1978

Tennessee WilliamsThe story of Blanche DuBois and her last grasp at happiness, and of Stanley Kowalski, the one who destroyed her chance.

Vikram Seth Vikram Seth's novel is at its core a love story, the tale of Lata - and her mother's attempts to find her a suitable husband, through love or...

Charles Dickens   A Tale of Two Cities is Charles Dickens’s great historical novel, set against the violent upheaval of the French Revolution. The most famous and perhaps the most...