Author: Edmund Crispin In the course of this funny, fiendish mystery with an operatic theme, eccentric Oxford don Gervase Fen has to unravel two murders, cope with the unpredictability of...

Author: Robert James Waller Neither Robert Kincaid nor Francesca Johnson are in the first bloom of youth. Both of them are content with their lives. Yet when Robert turns into...

Author: Truman Capote “What I've found does the most good is just to get into a taxi and go to Tiffany's. It calms me down right away, the quietness and...

Author: Paul Finkleman Perhaps no other Supreme Court decision has had the political impact of Dred Scott v. Sandford . Using a variety of documents that reflect regional opinions and...

Author: DH Lawrence With its four-letter words and its explicit descriptions of sexual intercourse, Lady Chatterley's Lover is the novel with which D.H. Lawrence is most often associated. First published...

John Galsworthy John Galsworthy OM (1867-1933) was an English novelist and playwright. He is viewed as one of the first writers of the Edwardian era; challenging in his works some...

Valerio Massimo Manfredi "Who bloodied the Star of the Argeads?Who killed my father?"Continuing the epic saga of Alexander the Great, The Sands of Ammon brilliantly describes Alexander's quest to conquer Asia, the...

George Bernard Shaw Experience the works of George Bernard Shaw with Arms and the Man & John Bull's Other Island, two classic plays set in the late 19th century. This...

Fredrico Garcia Lorca In these three plays, García Lorca's acknowledged masterpieces, he searched for a contemporary mode of tragedy and reminded his audience that dramatic poetry-or poetic drama-depends less on...

Author: Thomas Hardy Forced by her parents' ambitions among her wealthy D'Urberville cousins, Tess Durbeyfield attracts the unscrupulous Alec. Seduced and discarded, she finds work as a milkmaid, and her...

Chosen by Vernon Scannell  1987, British hardcover edition, Oxford University Press, London, UK. 354 pages. A beautifully printed, superb volume, written by British writers, who hunting / fishing / horse...

Francis Leopold McClintock January 1, 1998 by Konemann