Robin HobbRobin Hobb returns to the sea with Mad Ship, the second book in a projected trilogy set in the same world as her famed Farseer series. Many unresolved questions...

Gustave FlaubertEmma Bovary is the beautiful wife of Charles Bovary and one of the great heroines of literature. Emma attempts to escape her tedious marriage by entering into romantic fantasies,...

Edith WhartonJohn Durham, while he waited for Madame de Malrive to draw on her gloves, stood in the hotel doorway looking out across the Rue de Rivoli at the afternoon...

Sabahattin Ali Her dark eyes were lost in thought, absently staring into the distance, drawing on a last wisp of hope as she searched for something that she was almost...

William Goldman Starting out as a boy in the Catskills, Corky develops into a brilliant and famous magician whose long-hidden secret and expert skills attract dark forces intent on destroying...

Gershom Sholem A collection of lectures on the features of the movement of mysticism that began in antiquity and continues in Hasidism today.

Insolent and defiant, the Chants de Maldoror, by the self-styled Comte de Lautreamont (1846-70), depicts a sinister and sadistic world of unrestrained savagery and brutality. One of the earliest and...

Jane Austen Written in 1814, Mansfield Park is one of Jane Austen's most complex and fascinating achievements. This is a story of richness of character over the flash of personality,...

Reader's Digest Earth's Great Natural A breathtaking photographic essay with impressive pictures of gemstones, precious metals, industrial ores and rocks, soils and chemicals with short explanatory texts that describe how...

Elizabeth Gaskell   This is a tale of Dives and Lazarus, of the comfortable pinnacle and the miserable base of the Victorian social pyramid. It is told, however, without simplification...

PL TraversAn extraordinary English nanny blows in on the East Wind with her parrot-headed umbrella and magic carpetbag and introduces her charges, Jane and Michael, to some delightful people and...

PL Travers 'When Jane and Michael Banks draw up an advertisement for a nanny, Mary Poppins arrives on a gust of the East Wind and slides up the bannister, changing...