Quick view Penrod by Booth Tarkington One of the most popular American authors of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Pulitzer Prize winner Booth Tarkington was acclaimed for his novels set in small Midwestern towns. "Penrod" tells of a boy growing up in Indianapolis at the... View Details
Quick view Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather Death Comes for the Archbishop is Willa Cather's best-known novel, a narrative whose spare beauty achieves epic--and even mythic--qualities as it recounts a life lived simply in the silence of the southwestern desert. View Details
Quick view Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons When sensible, sophisticated Flora Poste is orphaned, she decides to descend on her relatives at Cold Comfort Farm, and put their lives in order. View Details
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 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 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 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 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 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