Anthony TrollopeAnthony Trollope is most famous for his portrait of the professional and landed classes of Victorian England, especially in his Palliser and Barsetshire novels. But he was also the...

Author: DH Lawrence A sequel to the banned novel, The Rainbow, Women in Love follows the tumultuous lives of the Brangwen sisters, Gudrun and Ursula. Turning his keen eye on...

Colleen McCullough   A sweeping epic of ancient Rome from the #1 bestselling author of The Thorn BirdsIn this breathtaking follow-up to The October Horse, Colleen McCullough turns her attention...

Ben JonsonThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from...

Gustave FlaubertEmma Bovary is the beautiful wife of Charles Bovary and one of the great heroines of literature. Emma attempts to escape her tedious marriage by entering into romantic fantasies,...

Philippe Huisman and MG DortuSketches, paintings, letters, and statements by the French artist provide insights into his troubled family background, dissolute lifestyle, and preoccupation with Parisian low life

Walter ScottGuy Mannering is an astrologer who only half-believes in his art. Instead he places his faith in patriarchal power, wealth and social position.But the Scotland of this novel is...

Fay WeldonThe Life and Loves of a She Devil(She Devil #1)Ruth Patchett never thought of herself as particularly devilish. Rather the opposite in fact -- simply a tall, not terribly...

Marilyn FfrenchBy the author of the groundbreaking feminist novel The Women's Room, The Bleeding Heart is a compelling novel about the devastating power of marriage -- and the unexpected power...

Robertson Davies"Should I have taken the false teeth?" This is what Dr. Jonathan Hullah, a former police surgeon, thinks after he watches Father Hobbes die in front of the High...

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 . . ....

Simon Sebag Montefiore   Inspired by a true story, prize-winning historian and acclaimed novelist Simon Sebag Montefiore explores the consequences of forbidden love in this heartbreaking epic of marriage, childhood,...