Arnold Bennett Nella, daughter of millionaire Theodore Racksole, orders a dinner of steak and beer at the exclusive Grand Babylon Hotel in London. Her order is refused, so Theodore promptly...

Devora Omer January 1, 1991 by B'nai B'rith Books

Rudyard Kipling Kipling portrays school as the first stage of a much larger game, a pattern maker for the experiences of life. Implied throughout the book is the question 'What...

Nancy Milford Biography of Zelda Fitzgerald, wife of American author F. Scott Fitzgerald July 1, 1971 by Avon

Author: Mario Vargas Llosa A subtle and enlightening novel about a neglected human rights pioneer by the Nobel Laureate Mario Vargas Llosa.In 1916, the Irish nationalist Roger Casement was hanged...

Author: Charlotte Bronte Ofarim's "Step by Step" 6th Level 2007

Gustave Flaubert Frederic Moreau, a provincial young man who dreams of wealth and fame, falls in love with Madame Arnoux and cultivates a friendship with her husband in order to...

Simmel A shattering novel of intrigue and terror. From the golden sunshine of Hollywood, where a man is given the most desperate and dangerous assignment of his life. To the...

Robert Ludlum March 28, 1983 by Bantam Books

Voltaire Robert M. Adams’s superlative revised translation of Candide provides the basis for this widely adopted Norton Critical Edition. The accompanying apparatus has been revised in accordance with recent biographical...

Mark Twain Hilariously picaresque, epic in scope, alive with the poetry and vigor of the American people, Mark Twain's story about a young boy and his journey down the Mississippi...

Samuel Richardson