Bernard MalamudIn A New Life, Bernard Malamud--generally thought of as a distinctly New York writer--took on the American myth of the West as a place of personal reinvention.When Sy Levin,...

Author: Thomas Hardy

James Joyce James Joyce's autobiographical A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is a vivid portrayal of emotional and intellectual development. This Penguin Modern Classics edition is edited with an...

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

James Salter "As nearly perfect as any American fiction I know," is how Reynolds Price (The New York Times) described this classic that has been a favorite of readers, both...