John Kennedy Toole   Ignatius J Reilly of New Orleans is a noble crusader against a world of dunces. In magnificent revolt against the twentieth century, Ignatius propels his monstrous...

Charlotte BronteJane Eyre...is a book after our own hearts." So wrote the influential literary critic of Charlotte Brontë's day. George Henry Lewes.Immediately recognized as a masterpiece when it was first...

Carlos Castaneda"A man of knowledge is free...he has no honor, no dignity, no family, no home, no country, but only life to be lived." --don JuanIn 1961 a young anthropologist...

Virginia WoolfHeralded as Virginia Woolf's greatest novel, this is a vivid portrait of a single day in a woman's life. When we meet her, Mrs. Clarissa Dalloway is preoccupied with...

Beatrix Potter"Once upon a time there was a little girl called Lucie, who lived at a farm called Little-town..."'The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle' was first published in 1905, and is...

Ebenezer Cobham Brewer

Ernest HemingwayIt has been said of Ernest Hemingway that half the writers of the twentieth century have tried to imitate him and the other half have tried not to. A...

Gertrude Chandler Warner Henry, Jessie, Violet, and Benny used to live alone in a boxcar. Now they have a home with their grandfather and are determined to solve the mystery...

Author: Johann Wyss This classic has been simplified, the vocabulary controlled to a level of approximately 1300 words, and the sentence structures chosen with care for this pre-intermediate stage. The...

Elizabeth Gaskell When her father leaves the Church in a crisis of conscience, Margaret Hale is uprooted from her comfortable home in Hampshire to move with her family to the...

Bryce CourtnayThe time is 1939. White South Africa is a deeply divided nation with many of the Afrikaner people fanatically opposed to the English. The world is also on the...

Author: William Shakespeare This above all: to thine own self be true;And it must follow, as the night the day,Thou canst not then be false to any man.The searing tragedy...