By Sarah Waters
No one and nothing is as it seems in this Dickensian novel of thrills and reversals. Sue Trinder is an orphan, left as an infant in the care of Mrs....
By John Irving
It has been said before, and it shall be said 1,000 times again: John Irving is the American Dickens. Rich in characterization, epic in scope, The...
By William Shakespeare,
Barbara A. Mowat (Editor), Paul Werstine (Editor), Catherine Belsey (Contributor)
Shakespeare's intertwined love polygons begin to get complicated from the start--Demetrius and Lysander both want Hermia but she only has eyes for...
By William Faulkner
“I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire. . . . I give it to you not that you may remember time, but that you might forget it now and then...
By Stephen King
"I HAVE NEVER BEEN SO CLOSE. I HEAR ALL MY LOST FRIENDS AND THEIR LOST FATHERS WHISPERING TO ME. THEY WHISPER ON THE TOWER'S VERY BREATH."
Roland...
By Jonathan Safran Foer
A young man arrives in the Ukraine, clutching in his hand a tattered photograph. He is searching for the woman who fifty years ago saved his...
By John Grisham
"The hill people and the Mexicans arrived on the same day. It was a Wednesday, early in September 1952. The Cardinals were five games behind the...
By Stephen King
"Sometimes dead is better...."When the Creeds move into a beautiful old house in rural Maine, it all seems too good to be true: physician father,...
By Willa Cather,
Kathleen Norris (Foreword)
Willa Cather’s heartfelt novel is the unforgettable story of an immigrant woman’s life on the hardscrabble Nebraska plains. Through Jim Burden’s...
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...