When Mark Twain was growing up, all he wanted to be was a steamboat man. And so Twain ran away... ... Read More

ISBN:  1-55690-309-X
Author:  Mark Twain

The time is 1953, the year of Queen Elizabeth`s coronation; the place is a minor boys` school isolated in the Yorkshire moors. At the center of the story... ... Read More

ISBN:  0-7861-0418-X
Author:  AS Byatt

Of all Charles Dickens` novels, this is perhaps the most revealing, both of Dickens himself and of the society of his time... ... Read More

ISBN:  0-7861-0382-5
Author:  Charles Dickens

Of all Charles Dickens` novels, this is perhaps the most revealing, both of Dickens himself and of the society of his time... ... Read More

ISBN:  0-7861-0382-5
Author:  Charles Dickens

In this, Chaucer`s finest work, the poet tells of meeting at the Tabard Inn with 30 others to make the usual April pilgrimage to Becket`s shrine at Canterbury.... ... Read More

ISBN:  0-7861-2239-0
Author:  Geoffrey Chaucer

The House of the Seven Gables is a fixture in Salem - and seemingly fixed in time. As the ancestral home... ... Read More

ISBN:  1-55690-926-8
Author:  Nathaniel Hawthorne

In 1897, at the age of 50, Bram Stoker was touring manager to the actor Henry Irving and was enjoying a modest success as a journalist and writer.... ... Read More

ISBN:  0-7861-1322-7
Author:  Bram Stoker

In this powerful novel that will confirm his reputation as one Britain`s brightest literary lights, A.N. Wilson proposes an experiment in alchemy: to the sadness of the people living out their lives i ... Read More

ISBN:  0-7861-0972-6
Author:  AN Wilson

This brilliant satirical novel, tracing the life and loves of Ernest Pontifex, has continued in popularity since its original publication in 1903.... ... Read More

ISBN:  0-7861-1946-2
Author:  Samuel Butler

First published in 1851, this realistic account of a whaling voyage contains within a symbolic account of the conflict between man and his fate... ... Read More

ISBN:  0-7861-1865-2
Author:  Herman Melville

Patricia Highsmith`s debut novel made her famous.... ... Read More

ISBN:  0-7531-0575-6
Author:  Patricia Highsmith

The novelist Maurice Bendrix`s love affair with his friend`s wife, Sarah, had begun in London during the Blitz.... ... Read More

ISBN:  0-7540-0325-6
Author:  Graham Greene

The Crusaders, led by Richard I of England, are encamped in the Holy Land, and torn by the dissensions and jealousies of the leaders.... ... Read More

ISBN:  0-7861-2157-2
Author:  Sir Walter Scott

This is the original classic story of Bram Stoker`s undead monster.... ... Read More

ISBN:  N/A
Author:  Bram Stoker

The adventure begins when a strange Icelandic parchment is uncovered in an old bookstore and reaches a fevered pitch that never lets up as.... ... Read More

ISBN:  0-7861-1899-7
Author:  Jules Verne