Samuel RichardsonThe publication of Pamela in 1740 marked a defining moment in the emergence of the modern novel. It vividly describes a young servant's long resistance to the attempts of...

John MiltonThis epic is Milton's most famous work, employing the heterodox theology later expounded in De Doctrina Christiana.

MiltonMilton's Paradise Lost is one of the greatest epic poems in the English language. It tells the story of the Fall of Man, a tale of immense drama and excitement,...

Clare CherryParents, Please Don't Sit on Your Kids: A Parent's Guide to Nonpunitive Discipline

Alistair MacLeanIn wartime, people are either friends of enemies.In wartime, friends are friends and enemies die.PARTISANSWhen Tito's rebel forces resist occupation, the Germans infiltrate and plan their destruction.PARTISANSThree Yugoslavs set...

Gunter Grass In this extraordinary memoir, Nobel Prize-winning author Gunter Grass remembers his early life, from his boyhood in a cramped two-room apartment in Danzig through the late 1950s, when The...

Honoré de BalzacPère Goriot is the tragic story of a father whose obsessive love for his two daughters leads to his financial and personal ruin. Interwoven with this theme is...

Patrick SüskindAn acclaimed bestseller and international sensation, Patrick Suskind's classic novel provokes a terrifying examination of what happens when one man's indulgence in his greatest passion—his sense of smell—leads to...

Author: Martin Gardner Riddles, puzzles, mazes, illusions, and tricky questions designed to amuse and amaze young readers.

Jane Austen   Twenty-seven-year old Anne Elliot is Austen's most adult heroine. Eight years before the story proper begins, she is happily betrothed to a naval officer, Frederick Wentworth, but...

Jane Austen Written at the end of the Napoleonic Wars, Persuasion is a tale of love, heartache and the determination of one woman as she strives to reignite a lost...

JM Barrie One starry night, Peter Pan and Tinker Bell lead the three Darling children over the rooftops of London and away to Neverland - the island where lost boys...