By J.R.R. Tolkien,
Christopher Tolkien (Editor, Introduction, Commentary)
Mythic lore and forgotten legends are unveiled in stories of the three ages of Middle-earth unearthed by Christopher Tolkien from his father's...
By Sue Monk Kidd
Set in South Carolina in 1964, The Secret Life of Bees tells the story of Lily Owens, whose life has been shaped around the blurred memory of the...
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 Anne Frank,
Eleanor Roosevelt (Introduction), B.M. Mooyaart-Doubleday (Translator)
Discovered in the attic in which she spent the last years of her life, Anne Frank’s remarkable diary has become a world classic—a powerful reminder...
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 Toni Morrison
Staring unflinchingly into the abyss of slavery, this spellbinding novel transforms history into a story as powerful as Exodus and as intimate as a...
By Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn,
Ralph Parker (Translator), Yevgeny Yevtushenko (Introduction), Eric Bogosian (Afterword), Alexander Tvardovsky (Foreword)
Solzhenitsyn's first book, this economical, relentless novel is one of the most forceful artistic indictments of political oppression in the Stalin-...
By Dava Sobel
During the great ages of exploration "the longitude problem" was the greatest of scientific challenges. Lacking the ability to determine their...
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...