Ivan VladislavicThis dazzling portrait of Johannesburg is one of the most haunting, poetic pieces of reportage about a metropolis since Suketu Mehta’s Maximum City. Through precisely crafted snapshots, Ivan Vladislavic...

Author: AA Milne Featuring favorite quotes from the original texts and E. H. Shepard's incomparable illustrations, this book offers wisdom for everyone--wisdom that our chum Pooh has gained himself, usually...

Alice WalkerPossessing the Secret of Joy is the story of Tashi, a tribal African woman who lives much of her adult life in North America. As a young woman, a...

Charles BukowskiHenry Chinaski is a lowlife loser with a hand-to-mouth existence. His menial post office day job supports a life of beer, one-night stands and racetracks. Lurid, uncompromising and hilarious,...

Clem SunterThis of all the statements made day after day in the conversations and newspapers and on television and radio which are accepted at face value.Think of all the implicit...

Jane Austen   Since its immediate success in 1813, Pride and Prejudice has remained one of the most popular novels in the English language. Jane Austen called this brilliant work...

Geoffrey LeechOver the years, pragmatics - the study of the use and meaning of utterances to their situations - has become a more and more important branch of linguistics, as...

Maurice S. FriedmanProblematic Rebel: Melville, Dostoievsky, Kafka, Camus

Arthur Conan DoyleThis Halcyon Classics ebook is Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's classic adventure story THE LOST WORLD.Follow Professor Challenger on his expedition to the Tepuyes plateau in South America where...

Leon Uris   In Queen’s Bench Courtroom Number Seven, famous author Abraham Cady stands trial. In his book The Holocaust—born of the terrible revelation that the Jadwiga Concentration Camp was...

Sir Walter Scott Quentin Durward (1823), Scott's first "European" novel, was an experiment in transferring the historical romance to foreign soil. Fifteenth-century France, the French Revolution, and contemporary Britain all...

Gloria Repp Kuri's father plants their yams in the usual way, except for one thing. He does not pray to the spirits. He says, "Behold, God is mighty," and he...