Author: Robert Louis Stevenson 'I was going to sea myself; in a schooner with pigtailed singing seamen...to seek for buried treasures!'When a rum-soaked old buccaneer expires at the Admiral Benbow...

Niccolò Machiavelli, Peter Bondanella(Editor, Translator), Mark Musa(Editor, Translator)Edited and translated by Peter Bondanella and Mark Musa, "The Portable Machiavelli" not only gives the casual reader a chance to read different...

Jack LondonThe Sea-Wolf is a 1904 psychological adventure novel by Jack London about a literary critic Humphrey van Weyden.The story starts with him aboard a San Francisco ferry, called Martinez,...

Sir Arthur Conan DoyleUndoubtedly the best-known detective in literature, Sherlock Holmes was the creation of British author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930), who endowed his super sleuth with an extraordinary...

VS NaipaulA magnet to the poets, philosophers, teachers, troubadours and misfits who people the town of Port of Spain, Miguel Street is a place where tales of glory and debauchery...

Robin HobbRobin Hobb returns to the sea with Mad Ship, the second book in a projected trilogy set in the same world as her famed Farseer series. Many unresolved questions...

The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy(The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy #0.5-5)Douglas AdamsAt last in paperback in one complete volume, here are the five novels from Douglas Adams's Hitchhiker...

Erich FrommIn this provocative book, the distinguished author writes to break the deadlock in the struggle between the instinctivism of Konrad Lorenz and behavior psychologist B.F. Skinner.

Jonathan SwiftIntroducing young readers to literary classics will be easy with each of the twelve titles in the Treasury of Illustrated Classics series. Each title contains short, concise chapters for...

Updated from the popular 35-year retrospective collection, this book surveys an extra 15 years of his work. Included here are more than 75 unabridged stories, essays, personal reminiscences, and reviews,...

Glenn DomanHow to Teach Your Baby to Read (The Gentle Revolution)

Chinua Achebe   More than two million copies of Things Fall Apart have been sold in the United States since it was first published here in 1959. Worldwide, there are...