Thomas Pynchon Read the cult classic behind the major new film starring Joaquin Phoenix, Reese Witherspoon and Josh Brolin.It's been a while since Doc Sportello saw his ex-girlfriend, when suddenly...

Harriet Beecher Stowe When Eliza Harris learns her son is to be sold to another master, she flees the Kentucky plantation where she is held as a slave, while Uncle...

Annemarie Selinko First published in 1953, this riveting true-life tale comes to life in diary form, giving readers an inside glimpse at the young Napoleon and his family. Désirée is...

William Wordsworth One of the most enduringly popular of the Romantic poets, William Wordsworth epitomized the spirit of his age with his celebration of the natural world and his belief...

Jean Webster One of the great novels of American girlhood, Jean Webster's Daddy-Long- Legs (1912) follows the adventures of an orphan named Judy Abbott, whose letters to her anonymous male benefactor trace...

Alexandre Dumas May 1, 2001 by International Law and Taxation Publishers

Ellis Peters The third omnibus edition of Ellis Peters' compulsive and bestselling mediaeval whodunnits.The Sanctuary Sparrow: Sudden drama strikes the Benadictine monastery at Shrewsbury when a young man, pursued by...

Leon Uris 'All the clues were there. The sudden increase of shipping from Soviet-bloc nations into a revitalised Cuban port, the influx of thousands of Soviet 'technicians'. Numerous unidentified trips...

Leon Uris Exodus is an international publishing phenomenon--the towering novel of the twentieth century's most dramatic geopolitical event. Leon Uris magnificently portrays the birth of a new nation in the midst...

Philip Magnus January 1, 1954 by John Murrary

Charles Dickens Considered by many readers, including Shaw, Chesterton, Conrad and Trilling, as one of Dickens's finest achievements, Bleak House tells the complex story of a notorious lawsuit in which love and...

John SteinbeckUnburdened by the material necessities of the more fortunate, the denizens of Cannery Row discover rewards unknown in more traditional society. Henry the painter sorts through junk lots for...