Author: Thomas Hardy Tempestuous Eustacia Vye passes her days dreaming of passionate love and the escape it may bring from the small community of Egdon Heath. Hearing that Clym Yeobright...

Dov IndigDear Dov, You must really be surprised to be receiving a letter from a girl you don't know... Dov Indig was killed on October 7, 1973, in a holding...

Philip LarkinA subtle and moving account of a young English undergraduate from the provinces, this portrait of Oxford during the war is now regarded by man critics as a classic...

Author: Mario Vargas Llosa Mario Vargas Llosa, the internationally acclaimed author of The Storyteller, adds his own finely-tuned poetic polish to this erotic exploration of carnality in one family. He...

Clare CherryParents, Please Don't Sit on Your Kids: A Parent's Guide to Nonpunitive Discipline

Bram Stoker   Take the papers that are with this, the diaries of Harker and the rest, and read them, and then find the great Un-Dead, and cut off his...

Nathaniel HawthorneSet in 17th-century Puritan Boston, Massachusetts, during the years 1642 to 1649, it tells the story of Hester Prynne, who conceives a daughter through an affair and will not...

Tom Wolfe"I looked around and people's faces were distorted...lights were flashing everywhere...the screen at the end of the room had three or four different films on it at once, and...

Michael Ondaatje   With ravishing beauty and unsettling intelligence, Michael Ondaatje's Booker Prize-winning novel traces the intersection of four damaged lives in an Italian villa at the end of World...

Bernard MalamudIn A New Life, Bernard Malamud--generally thought of as a distinctly New York writer--took on the American myth of the West as a place of personal reinvention.When Sy Levin,...

Thomas MannFelix Krull was a young and good-looking lad who created for himself a personality to charm and deceive the world of wealth and to allow him to pursue a...

William BlakeSongs of Innocence, and of Experience, and The Book of ThelA DIVINE IMAGECruelty has a human heart,And Jealousy a human face;Terror the human form divine,And Secresy the human dress.The...