Oscar Wilde In The Critic as Artist , arguably the most complete exploration of his aesthetic thinking, and certainly the most entertaining, Oscar Wilde harnesses his famous wit to demolish...

  Winifred Holtby This is the story of Muriel Hammond, at twenty living within the suffocating confines of Edwardian middle-class society in Marshington, a Yorkshire village. A career is forbidden...

Author: Arthur Miller "I believe that the reader will discover here the essential nature of one of the strangest and most awful chapters in human history," Arthur Miller wrote of...

Robertson Davies"Should I have taken the false teeth?" This is what Dr. Jonathan Hullah, a former police surgeon, thinks after he watches Father Hobbes die in front of the High...

Walter Retan A biography of Daniel Boone discusses his childhood, shooting skills, legendary feats, his crossing of the Appalachian Mountains, his encounters with native Americans, and his role in their...

Jim Bishop"THE DAY KENNEDY WAS SHOT" is the first complete minute-by-minute, hour-by-hour, person-by-person account of the events of November 22, 1963.Jim Bishop began work on this book the Sunday following...

G VermesThe manuscripts found in the Qumran caves, dating from about 200 BC to AD 70, are associated with the Essene sect described by several classical authors. Yet despite their...

Author: Saul BellowRacist, traitor, or fool? College dean in Chicago, Albert Corde stands accused.Pilloried by the media for publishing scathing articles exposing local corruption, Corde has also embroiled himself in...

Elizabeth Bowen It is London in the late 1930s, and into a coterie of rather grand early-middle-aged people the sixteen-year-old orphan Portia is plunged beyond her depth. Disconcertingly vulnerable, Portia...

Carl SaganHow can we make intelligent decisions about our increasingly technology-driven lives if we don’t understand the difference between the myths of pseudoscience and the testable hypotheses of science? Pulitzer...

Robertson Davies   The complete volume of Robertson Davies's acclaimed trilogy, featuring Fifth Business , The Manticore , and World of Wonders , with a new foreword by Kelly Link Fifth...

Frederick Forsyth#1 New York Times bestselling author Frederick Forsyth delivers a frighteningly possible novel of international terrorism and impending war...As the Russian people face starvation, the Politburo is faced with...