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The Stranger
By Albert Camus, Matthew Ward (Translator)
Since it was first published in English, in 1946, Albert Camus's first novel, THE STRANGER (L'etranger), has had a profound impact on millions of...
Girl with a Pearl Earring
By Tracy Chevalier
History and fiction merge seamlessly in Tracy Chevalier's luminous novel about artistic vision and sensual awakening. Through the eyes of sixteen-...
The Trial
By Franz Kafka, Breon Mitchell (Translator), Arthur H. Samuelson (Contributor)
Written in 1914 but not published until 1925, a year after Kafka's death, The Trial is one of the most important novels of the twentieth century: the...
Great Expectations
By Charles Dickens, David Trotter (Introduction), Charlotte Mitchell (Editor)
See alternate cover edition hereDickens's magnificent novel of guilt, desire, and redemption The orphan Pip’s terrifying encounter with an escaped...
Mrs. Dalloway
By Virginia Woolf, Maureen Howard (Foreword)
In this vivid portrait of one day in a woman's life, Clarissa Dalloway is preoccupied with the last-minute details of party preparation while in her...
The Tempest
By William Shakespeare
Putting romance onstage, The Tempest gives us a magician, Prospero, a former duke of Milan who was displaced by his treacherous brother, Antonio....
Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China
By Jung Chang
The story of three generations in twentieth-century China that blends the intimacy of memoir and the panoramic sweep of eyewitness history—a...
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
By Mildred D. Taylor
Why is the land so important to Cassie's family? It takes the events of one turbulent year—the year of the night riders and the burnings, the year a...
The Fiery Cross
By Diana Gabaldon
The year is 1771, and war is coming. Jamie Fraser’s wife tells him so. Little as he wishes to, he must believe it, for hers is a gift of dreadful...
This Is Your Mind on Plants
By Michael Pollan
In This Is Your Mind on Plants, Michael Pollan dives deep into three plant drugs--opium, caffeine, and mescaline--and throws the fundamental...