Salman Rushdie   Before Salman Rushdie had that problem with a certain religious-political figure with a serious need to chill out, he'd already shown he was an important literary force....

Joseph Heller The sequel to Catch-22, the classic that came to symbolize the absurdity of war, takes on politics, the greed of business, and the decline of society and brings...

Nikos KazantzakisFreedom or Death by Nikos Kazantzakis is a novel on the heroic or epic scale about the rebellion of the Greek Christians against the Turks on the island of...

Mark TwainA stirring account of America's vanished past...The book that earned Mark Twain his first recognition as a serious writer...Discover the magic of life on the Mississippi.At once a romantic...

Ernest Hemingway High in the pine forests of the Spanish Sierra, a guerilla band operating behind the lines of Franco's army prepares to blow up a vital bridge. Robert Jordan,...

Sir Arthur Conan DoyleThe Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is the series of short stories that made the fortunes of the Strand magazine, in which they were first published, and won...

Daoma WinstonA saga of the joys, tragedies, loves, villanies, and heroics of four generations involved with the Fall River Line, a seagoing passenger service between New York and Boston

David BlairThis superb new collection brings together stories from the earliest decades of Gothic writing with later 19th and early 20th century tales from the period in which Gothic diversified...

Clive Cussler1954. Vixen 03 is down. The plane, bound for the Pacific carrying thirty-six Doomsday bombs — canisters armed with quick-death germs of unbelievable potency — vanishes. Vixen has in...

Charles and Mary LambGives an introduction to Shakespeare's greatest plays. This work reveals the power of "Hamlet" and "Othello", the fun of "As You Like It", and the drama of...

Milan KunderaAll too often, this brilliant novel of thwarted love and revenge miscarried has been read for its political implications. Now though, a quarter century after The Joke was first...

Ottenheimer Publishers A magical adaptation Charles Perrault’s French classic that has been translated and illustrated by Marcia Brown, earning her the Caldecott Medal as well as the love of children...