By Bill Bryson
With dazzling wit and astonishing insight, Bill Bryson—the acclaimed author of The Lost Continent—brilliantly explores the remarkable history,...
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...
By Alan Moore ,
Dave Gibbons (Illustrator/Letterer), John Higgins (Colorist)
This Hugo Award-winning graphic novel chronicles the fall from grace of a group of super-heroes plagued by all-too-human failings. Along the way, the...
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...
By Maggie Stiefvater
For years, Grace has watched the wolves in the woods behind her house. One yellow-eyed wolf—her wolf—is a chilling presence she can't seem to live...
By Alexander Hamilton,
James Madison, John Jay, Philo-Publius, Clinton Rossiter (Editor), Charles R. Kessler (Introduction)
The Federalist Papers are a series of 85 articles encouraging the ratification of the United States Constitution. The Federalist Papers serve as a...
By Virginia Woolf,
Eudora Welty (Foreword)
The serene and maternal Mrs. Ramsay, the tragic yet absurd Mr. Ramsay, and their children and assorted guests are on holiday on the Isle of Skye....
By William Shakespeare,
Robert Jackson (Editor), Barbara A. Mowat (Editor), Paul Werstine (Editor)
By John Bunyan
This famous story of man's progress through life in search of salvation remains one of the most entertaining allegories of faith ever written. Set...
By William Shakespeare,
Stanley Appelbaum (Editor)
Without a doubt the most important of Shakespeare's nondramatic works, the sonnets have engendered reams of scholarly disputation as to the identity...