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Wuthering Heights
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...
Wide Sargasso Sea
By Jean Rhys
Prequel to Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte. Born into an oppressive, colonialist society, Creole heiress Antoinette Cosway meets a young Englishman who...
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
By Rebecca Skloot
From the back cover: Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor black tobacco farmer whose cells--taken without...
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...
Dead Until Dark
By Charlaine Harris
Sookie Stackhouse is just a small-time cocktail waitress in small-town Louisiana. Until the vampire of her dreams walks into her life-and one of her...
Republic
By Plato, G.M.A. Grube (Translator), C.D.C. Reeve (Editor)
Since its publication in 1974, scholars throughout the humanities have adopted G M A Grube's masterful translation of the Republic as the edition of...
Living Dead in Dallas
By Charlaine Harris
Cocktail waitress Sookie Stackhouse is having a streak of bad luck. First her co-worker is killed, and no one seems to care. Then she comes face to-...
The Origin of Species
By Charles Darwin, Julian Huxley (Introduction)
The classic that exploded into public controversy, revolutionized the course of science, and continues to transform our views of the world.Few other...
The Namesake
By Jhumpa Lahiri
Jhumpa Lahiri's Interpreter of Maladies established this young writer as one the most brilliant of her generation. Her stories are one of the very...
Beowulf
By Unknown, Seamus Heaney (Translator), Francis Barton Gummere
The earliest extant poem in a modern European language, "Beowulf" is an epic that reflects a feudal, newly Christian world of heroes and monsters,...