John GalsworthyThe nine novels which make up The Forsyte Chronicles -- one of the most popular and enduring works of 20th century literature -- chronicle the ebbing social power of...

Daniel DefoeThe Fortunes & Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders (aka Moll Flanders) is a novel by Daniel Defoe, first published in 1722. It purports to be the true account...

Ayn Rand The revolutionary literary vision that sowed the seeds of Objectivism, Ayn Rand's groundbreaking philosophy, and brought her immediate worldwide acclaim.This modern classic is the story of intransigent young...

Nikos KazantzakisThe Fratricides by the Greek author Nikos Kazantzakis recounts the tragic violence that swallowed the Greek countryside in the civil war of the late 1940s. Castello, a village in...

Ernest Hemingway   The last uncompleted novel of Ernest Hemingway, published posthumously in 1986, charts the life of a young American writer and his glamorous wife who fall for the...

O Henry A young woman makes a drastic decision—and her husband has a Christmas surprise in return. A dying girl attaches her fate to that of a leaf. A writer...

Simon MawerMarian Sutro is an outsider: the daughter of a diplomat, brought up on the shores of Lake Geneva and in England, half French, half British, naive yet too clever...

Hermann HesseThe Glass Bean Game is an ultra-aesthetic game which is plated by the scholars, creamed off in childgood and nurtured in elite schools, in the province of Castalia.The Master...

Author: Edmund Crispin A series of murders puts to the test the detective skills of Gervase Fen who ingeniously sorts out an intricate puzzle. January 1, 1979 by Avon Books...

Author: Herman Wouk Interweaves the lives and fates of fictional characters and real-life notables to tell the story of Israeli history to the climactic events of the Yom Kippur War...

Thomas BulfinchThis work brings together the stories of the gods and goddesses of Greece, Rome and Northern mythology. It demonstrates how these images have helped enrich the development of English...

Henry James'A thing to marvel at, a thing to be grateful for.'A rich American art-collector and his daughter Maggie buy in for themselves and to their greater glory a beautiful...