Jacopo StoppaIncludes Turner's works from National Gallery, London; National Maritime Museum (Greenwich), London; Tate Britain, London; University Museum, Liverpool; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland; Museum...

Evelyn WaughLaced with cynicism and truth, "A Handful of Dust" satirizes a certain stratum of English life where all the characters have wealth, but lack practically every other credential. Murderously...

Kathrine Kressman TaylorA rediscovered classic, originally published in 1938 and now an international bestseller.When it first appeared in Story magazine in 1938, Address Unknown became an immediate social phenomenon and...

Hermann HesseNarcissus is a teacher at Mariabronn, a monastery in medieval Germany, and Goldmund his favourite pupil. While Narcissus remains detached from the world in prayer and meditation, Goldmund runs...

Vladimir Nabokov   Awe and exhilaration—along with heartbreak and mordant wit—abound in Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov's most famous and controversial novel, which tells the story of the aging Humbert Humbert's obsessive,...

Author: Jean-Paul Sartre In this novel, Antoine Roquentin, an introspective historian, records the disturbing shifts in his perceptions and his struggle to restore meaning to life in a continuing present...

Julian BarnesBeginning with an unlikely stowaway's account of life on board Noah's Ark, A History of the World in 10½ Chapters presents a surprising, subversive, fictional history of earth told...

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...

Thomas MannWritten by the most important figure in German literature in the first half of this century, The Magic Mountain is in Mann's own words 'a dialectic novel'. The seeting...

Author: Sholom AleichemSholom Aleichem was one of the greatest- if no the greatest-- Yiddish writer of modern times. A masterful storyteller and an accomplished humorist, he attained worldwide fame through...

Charles BukowskiA dark, brilliant novel of astonishing pitch, set in Provincetown, a "spit of shrub and dune" captured here in the rawness and melancholy of the off-season, "Tough Guys Don't...

Author: William Shakespeare Antony and CleopatraCoriolanusCymbelineHamlet, Prince of DenmarkJulius CaesarKing LearMacbethOthello, the Moor of VenicePericlesRomeo and JulietTimon of AthensTitus AndronicusTroilus and Cressida