Mikhail Saltykov-ShchedrinSearingly hot in the summer, bitterly cold in the winter, the ancestral estate of the Golovlyov family is the end of the road. There Anna Petrovna rules with an...

Ford Madox FordAt the fashionable German spa town Bad Nauheim, two wealthy, fin de siecle couples -- one British, the other American -- meet for their yearly assignation. As their...

Nikolai Gogol Gogol's works constitute one of Russian literature's supreme achievements, yet the nature of their brilliant originality, comic genius, and complex workings is difficult to summarize precisely. The Government...

Arnold Bennett Nella, daughter of millionaire Theodore Racksole, orders a dinner of steak and beer at the exclusive Grand Babylon Hotel in London. Her order is refused, so Theodore promptly...

John SteinbeckThe Pulitzer Prize-winning epic of the Great Depression, a book that galvanized—and sometimes outraged—millions of readers.First published in 1939, Steinbeck’s Pulitzer Prize-winning epic of the Great Depression chronicles the...

John Steinbeck, Adapted by Margaret Tarner Steinbeck's most powerful novel describes the lives of a homeless farming family as they travel across America in the Great Depression of the 1930s....

Samuel Pepys‘With one’s face in the wind you were almost burned with a shower of Firedrops . . .’A selection from Pepys’s startlingly vivid and candid diary. Originally written in...

Jack StackThe Great Game of Business: Unlocking the Power and Profitability of Open-Book ManagementIn the early 1980s, Springfield Remanufacturing Corporation (SRC) in Springfield, Missouri, was a near bankrupt division of...

F Scott FitzgeraldGenerally considered to be F. Scott Fitzgerald's finest novel, The Great Gatsby is a consummate summary of the "roaring twenties", and a devastating expose of the "Jazz Age"....

Thomas Keneally In the 19th century the Irish population was halved. This masterly book traces the three causes of this depletion; first the manine, second the Irish diaspora and the...

M Al GathafiThe Green Book is broken into three sections:The Solution of the Problem of Democracy: The Authority of the People.The Solution of the Economic Problem: Socialism.The Social Basis of...

Oscar Wilde In these delightful tales, Oscar Wilde employs all his grace, artistry and wit. The Happy Prince tells of the statue of a once pleasure-loving Prince which, with the...