Christopher Isherwood"When A Single Man was originally published, it shocked many by its frank, sympathetic, and moving portrayal of a gay man in midlife. George, the protagonist, is adjusting to...

Fyodor Dostoyevsky Raskolnikov, a destitute and desperate former student, wanders through the slums of St Petersburg and commits a random murder without remorse or regret. He imagines himself to be...

Anne Morrow Lindbergh This small book of great and simple wisdom has spoken to hundreds of thousands of readers, and continues to influence women's lives. In her afterword, Anne Morrow...

Henry James 'The apparition had reached the landing half-way up and was therefore on the spot nearest the window, where, at the sight of me, it stopped short'Oscar Wilde called...

Nancy Mitford One of Nancy Mitford’s most beloved novels, Love in a Cold Climate is a sparkling romantic comedy that vividly evokes the lost glamour of aristocratic life in England between the...

Author: Robert Louis Stevenson David Balfour, an honest subject of King George, faces a number of sticky problems before entering his inheritance as Laird of Shaws. Without David's intervention, "James...

Kingsley Amis Patrick Standish finds himself at the center of a whirlwind of woman trouble involving his neighbors, his coworkers, and his lovely wife, Jenny. January 1, 1989 by Penguin...

Mordecai Richler The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz is the novel that established Mordecai Richler as one of the world’s best comic writers. Growing up in the heart of Montreal’s Jewish ghetto,...

Arthur KoestlerArthur Koestler (1905-1983) was a journalist and psychologist, writer and public figure, world famous for his dystopian novel Darkness at Noon (1940), which marked his break with the Communist...

Joseph B Soloveitchik   oseph B. Soloveitchik, the rabbi known as “The Rav” by his followers worldwide, was a leading authority on the meaning of Jewish law and prominent force...

Willa Cather"This early novel is now held to be a very critical and pivotal one in the whole development of the novelist, and this new edition provides . . ....

Laura Ingalls Wilder Meet Laura Ingalls, the little girl who would grow up to write the Little House books.Pa Ingalls decides to sell the little log house, and the family...