Quick view As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner As I Lay Dying is the harrowing, darkly comic tale of the Bundren family's trek across Mississippi to bury Addie, their wife and mother, as told by each of the family members--including Addie herself. View Details
Quick view All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque Paul Baumer enlisted with his classmates in the German army of World War I. Youthful, enthusiastic, they become soldiers. But despite what they have learned, they break into pieces under the first bombardment in the trenches. And as horrible war plods... View Details
Quick view The Crucible by Arthur Miller Based on historical people and real events, Miller's play uses the destructive power of socially sanctioned violence unleashed by the rumors of witchcraft as a powerful parable about McCarthyism. View Details
Quick view The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer Here are tales told by members from all parts of English society of the 14th century, reflecting on life as they travel the road from Southwark to Canterbury. View Details
Quick view Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne The familiar characters of Hawthorne's dark tale of pride and guilt in colonial New England are given new and added immediacy in the 24 wood engravings by master illustrator Barry Moser. View Details
Quick view Ivanhoe by Walter Scott Ivanhoe brings alive 12th-century England and its people: Ivanhoe, the disinherited knight, his fair lady, Rowena, Richard the Lion Hearted and Robin Hood. Through them the past of England comes alive--a past of crusades, chivalry and courtly love. View Details
Quick view The Invisible Man by H G Wells A stranger emerges out of a freezing February day with a request for lodging in a cozy provincial inn. Who is this out-of-season traveler? More confounding is the thick mask of bandages obscuring his face. Why is he disguised in such a manner? What... View Details
Quick view Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison An African-American man's search for success and the American dream leads him out of college to Harlem and a growing sense of personal rejection and social invisibility. View Details
Quick view Intruder in the Dust by William Faulkner At once an engrossing murder mystery and an unflinching potrait of racila injustice in the Reconstruction South, Intruder in the Dust stands out as a true classic of Southern literature. View Details
Quick view The Iliad by Home In this widely acclaimed verse translation of Homer's great epic, Robert Fagles combines the skills of poet and scholar. He brings the energy of contemporary language to this enduring heroic work, but maintains the drive and metric music of Homer's... View Details
Quick view King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table by Roger Green King Arthur, Queen Guinevere, Merlin the Wizard, Morgan le Fay the sorceress, Sir Lancelot, Sir Galahad and the other Knights of the Round Table are all here, in a stirring retelling that has become a classic. View Details
Quick view Kindred by Octavia Butler Dana, a modern black woman, is celebrating her twenty-sixth birthday with her new husband when she is snatched abruptly from her home in California and transported to the antebellum South. Rufus, the white son of a plantation owner, is drowning, and... View Details
