By J.R.R. Tolkien,
Christopher Tolkien (Editor), Ted Nasmith (Illustrator)
The story of the creation of the world and of the First Age, this is the ancient drama to which the characters in The Lord of the Rings look back and...
By Ovid,
David Raeburn (Translation), Denis Feeney (Contributor)
Prized through the ages for its splendor and its savage, sophisticated wit, The Metamorphoses is a masterpiece of Western culture--the first attempt...
By Elizabeth Strout
At times stern, at other times patient, at times perceptive, at other times in sad denial, Olive Kitteridge, a retired schoolteacher, deplores the...
By Jennifer Egan
Bennie is an aging former punk rocker and record executive. Sasha is the passionate, troubled young woman he employs. Here Jennifer Egan brilliantly...
By J.D. Salinger
The hero-narrator of The Catcher in the Rye is an ancient child of sixteen, a native New Yorker named Holden Caulfield. Through circumstances that...
By Stieg Larsson,
Reg Keeland (Translator)
The stunning third and final novel in Stieg Larsson's internationally best-selling trilogy.Lisbeth Salander - the heart of Larsson's two previous...
By Annie Proulx
At thirty-six, Quoyle, a third-rate newspaperman, is wrenched violently out of his workaday life when his two-timing wife meets her just deserts. He...
By Madeleine L'Engle
Wind, unicorn, and boy merged into a single swiftness.When fifteen-year-old Charles Wallace Murry shouts out an ancient rune meant to ward off the...
By Neil Gaiman
God is dead. Meet the kids.Fat Charlie Nancy's normal life ended the moment his father dropped dead on a Florida karaoke stage. Charlie didn't know...
By Stephen Hawking
In the ten years since its publication in 1988, Stephen Hawking's classic work has become a landmark volume in scientific writing, with more than...