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
Quick view A Christmas Memory by Truman Capote Three stories describe a boy's relationship with his elderly cousin and alcoholic father and the indelible holiday memories they provided him. View Details
Quick view 1984 by George Orwell Satire on the possible horrors of a totalitarian regime in England in 1984. View Details
Quick view Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte "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 always, always in my mind: not as a pleasure... but as my own being." Wuthering Heights is the only novel... View Details
Quick view The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck Now available in a Penguin Classics edition, Steinbeck's classic comes with a completely revised Introduction and, for the first time, detailed notes by leading Steinbeck scholar Robert DeMott. View Details
Quick view The Epic of Gilgamesh by Anonymou Miraculously preserved on clay tablets dating back as much as four thousand years, the poem of Gilgamesh, king of Uruk, is the world's oldest epic, predating Homer by many centuries. The story tells of Gilgamesh's adventures with the wild man Enkidu,... View Details
Quick view The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton The winner of the 1921 Pulitzer Prize, Wharton's acclaimed novel is the story of a passion threatened by convention and played out against a backdrop or New York City's upper class, unimaginable wealth, and unavoidable tragedy. View Details
Quick view Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Mihailovich Dostoevsky A desperate young man plans the perfect crime -- the murder of a despicable pawnbroker, an old women no one loves and no one will mourn. Is it not just, he reasons, for a man of genius to commit such a crime, to transgress moral law -- if it will... View Details
