By Matthew Pearl
A magnificent blend of fact and fiction, a brilliantly realized paean to Dante's continued grip on our imagination, and a captivating thriller that...
By Virginia Woolf
An alternative cover edition exists here. In her most exuberant, most fanciful novel, Woolf has created a character liberated from the restraints of...
By Mark Twain,
Everett H. Emerson (Afterword)
This treasured historical satire, played out in two very different socioeconomic worlds of 16th-century England, centers around the lives of two boys...
By Boris Pasternak,
Max Hayward (Translator), Manya Harari (Translator), John Bayley (Introduction)
This epic tale about the effects of the Russian Revolution and its aftermath on a bourgeois family was not published in the Soviet Union until 1987....
By Mark Twain,
Guy Cardwell (Annotations), John Seelye (Introduction)
An adventure story for children, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is a fun-filled book that shows life along the Mississippi River in the 1840s. Written...
By Philip Pullman
Will is the bearer of the knife. Now, accompanied by angels, his task is to deliver that powerful, dangerous weapon to Lord Asriel - by the command...
By Arthur Conan Doyle,
Richard Lancelyn Green (Editor)
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is the series of short stories that made the fortunes of the Strand magazine in which they were first published,...
By Friedrich Nietzsche,
R.J. Hollingdale (Translator), Michael Tanner (Introduction)
Friedrich Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil is translated from the German by R.J. Hollingdale with an introduction by Michael Tanner in Penguin...
By Charlotte Brontë,
Stevie Davies (Editor/Introduction)
A gothic masterpiece of tempestuous passions and dark secrets, Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre is edited with an introduction and notes by Stevie Davis...