Emanuel Litvinoff The first novel of the Faces of Terror Trilogy is set around the Siege of Sidney Street and the fermenting anarchism of East London. The novel describes youth...

Alistair Cooke Drawing on a lifetime of journalistic encounters with the great and the famous, Alistair Cooke profiles the six extraordinary men who impressed him the mostOver the course of...

Frederick Baron Corvo One day George Arthur Rose, hack writer and minor priest, discovers that he has been picked to be Pope. He is hardly surprised and not in the...

RS Surtees Soapy Sponge's ruthless pursuit of his passion for fox-hunting at the expense of others, brings him into contact with a Dickensian gallery of observed characters, from Dukes to...

Francis Leopold McClintock January 1, 1998 by Konemann

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Author: Saul Bellow Abe Ravelstein is a brilliant professor at a prominent midwestern university and a man who glories in training the movers and shakers of the political world. He...

Author: Saul Bellow The novel, for which Bellow won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1976, is a self-described "comic book about death," whose title character is modeled on the...