By W. Somerset Maugham,
Benjamin DeMott (Introduction), Maeve Binchy (Afterword)
The first and most autobiographical of Maugham's masterpieces. It is the story of Philip Carey, an orphan eager for life, love and adventure. After a...
By William Faulkner
As I Lay Dying is Faulkner’s harrowing account of the Bundren family’s odyssey across the Mississippi countryside to bury Addie, their wife and...
By Alan Paton
Cry, the Beloved Country, the most famous and important novel in South Africa’s history, was an immediate worldwide bestseller in 1948. Alan Paton’s...
By C.S. Lewis,
Pauline Baynes (Illustrations)
A wild gallop for freedom. Narnia... where horses talk... where treachery is brewing... where destiny awaits. On a desperate journey, two runaways...
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 C.S. Lewis,
Pauline Baynes (Illustrator)
Journeys to the end of the world, fantastic creatures, and epic battles between good and evil—what more could any reader ask for in one book? The...
By Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
An Oprah’s Book Club SelectionA New York Times Book Everyone Will Be Talking About“This sweeping, brilliant and beautiful narrative is at once a love...