Henry Roth When Henry Roth published Call It Sleep, his first novel, in 1934, it was greeted with critical acclaim. But in that dark Depression year, books were hard to...

Douglas Adams "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"Seconds before the Earth is demolished for a galactic freeway, Arthur Dent is saved by Ford Prefect, a researcher for the revised Guide....

Robert Ludlum After WWII the surviving children of the leaders of a Nazi covenant must redistribute the wealth of their fathers/leaders to the survivors of the Halocaust. September 1, 1978...

Penelope Mortimer "The Pumpkin Eater "is a surreal black comedy about the wages of adulthood and the pitfalls of parenthood. A nameless woman speaks, at first from the precarious perch...

Homer Dating to the ninth century B.C., Homer’s timeless poem still vividly conveys the horror and heroism of men and gods wrestling with towering emotions and battling amidst devastation and...

Irwin Shaw What happens to a loving, self-reliant family when a rich and influential man intercedes on their behalf is revealed in this story of sudden temptations and misguided benevolence....

Virginia Woolf   In her third novel, Virginia Woolf discovers her own unique voice as a novelist and the impressionistic style of her great later works. This definitive edition contains...

Ralph Waldo Emerson Ralph Waldo EmersonBorn in Boston in 1803, Ralph Waldo Emerson has been called a "cosmic optimist" and the first of American Romantics. Enormously influential and controversial in...

G Ernest Wright January 1, 1960 by Westminster Press

Robertson Davies   The complete volume of Robertson Davies's acclaimed trilogy, featuring Fifth Business , The Manticore , and World of Wonders , with a new foreword by Kelly Link Fifth...

Alexander Kinglake I had come, as it were, to the end of this wheel-going Europe, and now my eyes would see the splendour and havoc of the East. April 1,...

Winifred Holtby A new TV tie-in edition of Winifred Holtby's classic novel, accompanying Andrew Davies's (Bleak House, Little Dorrit) three-part adaptationThe community of South Riding, like the rest of England, lives...