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...

John Updike "A triumph."NEWSDAYThe assumptions and obsessions that control our daily lives are explored in tantalizing detail by master novelist John Updike in this wise, witty, and sexy story. Harry...

John Updike Winner of the 1991 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.In John Updike's fourth and final novel about ex-basketball player Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom, the hero has acquired heart trouble, a Florida...

John UpdikeRabbit, Run is the book that established John Updike as one of the major American novelists of his—or any other—generation. Its hero is Harry “Rabbit” Angstrom, a onetime high-school...

EL Doctorow   Published in 1975, Ragtime changed our very concept of what a novel could be. An extraordinary tapestry, Ragtime captures the spirit of America in the era between...