William Gibson   Case was the sharpest data thief in the matrix--until he crossed the wrong people and they crippled his nervous system, banishing him from cyberspace. Now a mysterious...

  George Gissing A semi-autobiographical novel about a group of novelists and journalists striving to earn a living while dealing with poverty, stress and marital problems. This is considered to...

Elie WieselBorn in the town of Sighet, Transylvania, Elie Wiesel was a teenager when he and his family were taken from their home in 1944 to Auschwitz concentration camp, and...

Staughton LyndNonviolence in America is a comprehensive compilation of first-hand sources that document the history of nonviolence in the United States from colonial times to the present. Editors Staughton and...

Elizabeth Gaskell When her father leaves the Church in a crisis of conscience, Margaret Hale is uprooted from her comfortable home in Hampshire to move with her family to the...

Jane AustenNorthanger Abbey tells the story of a young girl, Catherine Morland who leaves her sheltered, rural home to enter the busy, sophisticated world of Bath in the late 1790s....

Fyodor Dostoyevsky In 1864, just prior to the years in which he wrote his greatest novels -- Crime and Punishment, The Idiot, The Possessed and The Brothers Karamazov -- Fyodor...

Willa Cather"This early novel is now held to be a very critical and pivotal one in the whole development of the novelist, and this new edition provides . . ....

John SteinbeckThey are an unlikely pair: George is “small and quick and dark of face”; Lennie, a man of tremendous size, has the mind of a young child. Yet they...

Jane HisseyThe original classic children's story about a bear and his best friends, now in its 35th year!Once, long ago, Bramwell Brown saw the much-loved Old Bear packed away in...

Chaim Potok From the celebrated author of The Chosen and My Name Is Asher Lev, a trilogy of related novellas about a woman whose life touches three very different menÂstories...

TS Eliot and Axel Scheffler Cats! Some are sane, some are mad and some are good and some are bad.Meet magical Mr Mistoffelees, sleepy Old Deuteronomy and curious Rum Tum...