Quick view Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut One of Vonnegut's most highly praised novels. Filled with humor and unforgettable characters, this apocalyptic story tells of Earth's ultimate end, and presents a vision of the future that is both darkly fantastic and funny, as Vonnegut weaves a... View Details
Quick view Candide by Voltaire "Candide" is the story of a gentle man who, though pummeled and slapped in every direction by fate, clings desperately to the belief that he lives in "the best of all possible worlds." On the surface a witty, bantering tale, this eighteenth-century... View Details
Quick view Beloved by Toni Morrison Morrison's magnificent Pulitzer Prize-winning novel--first published in 1987--brings the unimaginable experience of slavery into the literature of today and into the reader's comprehension. View Details
Quick view April Morning by Howard Fast The story of one day in the life of a young American boy in colonial Lexington, the day on which he joined the militia and saw his father shot down by the British. View Details
Quick view Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy Considered by some to be the greatest novel ever written, "Anna Karenina" is Tolstoy's classic tale of love and adultery set against the backdrop of high society in Moscow and Saint Petersburg. A rich and complex masterpiece, the novel charts the... View Details
Quick view Animal Farm: A Fairy Story by George Orwell As ferociously fresh as it was more than a half century ago, this remarkable allegory of a downtrodden society of overworked, mistreated animals, and their quest to create a paradise of progress, justice, and equality is one of the most scathing satires... View Details
Quick view Animal Farm by George Orwell In this controversial classic fairy tale, a farm is taken over by its overworked, mistreated animals. With flaming idealism and stirring slogans, they set out to create a paradise of progress, justice, and equality, setting the stage for one of the most... View Details
Quick view An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser A tremendous bestseller when it was published in 1925, "An American Tragedy" is the culmination of Theodore Dreiser's elementally powerful fictional art. Revised reissue. View Details
Quick view Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carrol A little girl falls down a rabbit hole and discovers a world of nonsensical and amusing characters. View Details
Quick view Absalom, Absalom!: The Corrected Text by William Faulkner Faulkner's classic story of Thomas Sutpen, an enigmatic stranger who came to Jefferson in the early 1830s to wrest his mansion out of the muddy bottoms of the north Mississippi wilderness, is now available in a corrected text Vintage Edition. View Details
Quick view A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce The chronicle of Stephen Dedalus's Dublin childhood and youth offers an oblique self-portrait of the young James Joyce. Exuberantly inventive, this coming-of-age story is a tour de force of style and technique. View Details
Quick view A Gathering of Old Men by Ernest J Gaines A story about race relations which takes place on a Louisiana plantation. A farmer is dead, eighteen old black men each claim to have killed him, and the sheriff must figure out who to arrest. View Details
