When the political and moral corruption of Vienna force the Duke Vincentio into hiding, he leaves... ... Read More

ISBN:  1-55994-816-7
Author:  William Shakespeare

Gregor Samsa wakes up one morning to find he has been transformed into a gigantic insect.... ... Read More

ISBN:  9-62634-286-2
Author:  Franz Kafka

Middlemarch is perhaps the finest novel in the English language. Set in a provincial town at the time of the Great Reform Bill... ... Read More

ISBN:  9-626-34196-3
Author:  George Eliot

Follow the fortunes and misfortunes of the famous Moll Flanders. She was born in Newgate, and during a life of continued variety for three-score years, besides her childhood, was 12 years a whore... ... Read More

ISBN:  9-626-34008-8
Author:  Daniel Defoe

Emile Zola, along with fellow novelists Honore de Balzac and Gustave Flaubert, was an early realist in French literature.... ... Read More

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Author:  Emile Zola

Young Nicholas`s father dies, leaving him penniless and responsible for his mother and sister. When... ... Read More

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Author:  Charles Dickens

When Nicholas`s father dies, his Uncle Ralph refuses to help, leaving the young man, his mother... ... Read More

ISBN:  1-55800-102-6
Author:  Charles Dickens

Maupassant is hailed as one of the greatest masters of the short story. This collection focuses upon the land he knew and loved so well - Normandy. Its people and its countryside are portrayed here in ... Read More

ISBN:  9-626-34048-7
Author:  Guy de Maupassant

Clever young Catherine so desperately wishes to "improve" upon her life that she imagines the worst... ... Read More

ISBN:  1-55690-381-2
Author:  Jane Austen

One of the great adventure novels of our language creates a most engaging central character... ... Read More

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Author:  Joseph Conrad

With the publication of this fiercely comic second novel, Charles Dickens`s eminent literary reputation... ... Read More

ISBN:  0-7861-0861-4
Author:  Charles Dickens

Young Oliver Twist, an orphan, runs away to London and falls in with Fagin and his band of child pickpockets... ... Read More

ISBN:  1-55690-390-1
Author:  Charles Dickens

"Speak of one that loved not wisely but too well." This moving tragedy tells the story of Othello... ... Read More

ISBN:  1-55994-730-6
Author:  William Shakespeare

The "mutual friend" of this novel`s title is John Harmon, a friend of Mr. Boffin and the Wilfers, who... ... Read More

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Author:  Charles Dickens

John Harmon`s harsh father leaves him a fortune with strings attached: in order to inherit, he... ... Read More

ISBN:  1-55800-066-6
Author:  Charles Dickens