By Emily Brontë,
Baruch Hochman (Notes by)
"My greatest thought in living is Heathcliff. If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be... Nelly, I am Heathcliff! He's...
By John Bunyan
This famous story of man's progress through life in search of salvation remains one of the most entertaining allegories of faith ever written. Set...
By Robin Hobb
In a faraway land where members of the royal family are named for the virtues they embody, one young boy will become a walking enigma.Born on the...
By C.S. Lewis
The first book in C. S. Lewis's acclaimed Space Trilogy, which continues with Perelandra and That Hideous Strength, Out of the Silent Planet begins...
By Italo Calvino,
William Weaver (Translator)
"Kublai Khan does not necessarily believe everything Marco Polo says when he describes the cities visited on his expeditions, but the emperor of the...
By John Milton,
John Leonard (Editor, Contributor)
John Milton's Paradise Lost is one of the greatest epic poems in the English language. It tells the story of the Fall of Man, a tale of immense drama...
By Abraham Verghese
Marion and Shiva Stone are twin brothers born of a secret union between a beautiful Indian nun and a brash British surgeon. Orphaned by their mother’...
By Benjamin Hoff,
Ernest H. Shepard (illustrator)
"Thought-provoking and charming."-- "Library Journal" Not all Great Masters of Wisdom are venerable graybeards. One is as familiar to us as that...
By Jon Krakauer
Librarian's Note: An alternate cover edition can be found hereIn April 1992 a young man from a well-to-do family hitchhiked to Alaska and walked...
By Umberto Eco,
William Weaver (Translator), R.C.S. Libri (Idea)
It is April 1204, and Constantinople, the splendid capital of the Byzantine Empire, is being sacked and burned by the knights of the Fourth Crusade....