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...

Author: Robert Silverberg Humans have emerged to reclaim the Earth after the Long Winter. But they never anticipated the battle that awaited them . . .As Earth thaws after the...

Author: Arthur Miller Written in 1945, Focus was Arthur Miller's first novel and one of the first books to directly confront American anti-Semitism. It remains as chilling and incisive today...

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...

Sir Walter ScottWith an Introduction and Notes by David Blair. From its first publication in 1816 Rob Roy has been recognised as containing some of Scott's finest writing and most...

Vladimir Nabokov   Awe and exhilaration—along with heartbreak and mordant wit—abound in Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov's most famous and controversial novel, which tells the story of the aging Humbert Humbert's obsessive,...

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: 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: 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: Edmund Crispin Theater companies are notorious hotbeds of intrigue, and few are more intriguing than the company currently in residence at Oxford University. Center-stage is the beautiful, malicious Yseut,...

Author: Edmund Crispin Oxford don Gervase Fen is at the film studios to advise about a film biography of Alexander Pope, when he learns of Gloria's death. She appears to...

Author: Edmund Crispin Richard Cadogan is at loose ends in Oxford, very late at night. Charmed by the window display of an old-fashioned toyshop, he is worried to find the...