Sal Paradise, a young innocent, joins his hero, the mystical traveller Dean Moriarty, on a breathless, exuberant ride back and forth across the United States. Their hedoni...
Wise Blood, Flannery O'Connor's first novel, is the story of Hazel Motes who, released from the armed services, returns to the evangelical Deep South. There he begins a pr...
Pearson Graded Readers have the largest collection of graded reader titles in the world. Titles range but are not limited to the classics, biographies, fairy tales, and wo...
Книга "Рассказы Ника Адамса" - это собранные под одной обложкой рассказы разных лет, объединенные главным героем.
Неадаптированный текст снабжен подробными комментариями...
Один из крупнейших мастеров американской прозы XX века, автор романов, новелл, лауреат Пулитцеровской (1953) и Нобелевской (1954) премий. В России на протяжении почти полу...
During one hot summer on Long Island, Jay Gatsby throws an amazing party every weekend. He is an extremely wealthy man, although no one knows where he or his money have co...
ЗНАМЕНИТАЯ КЛАССИКА НА АНГЛИЙСКОМ ЯЗЫКЕ «Мартин Иден» – выдающийся роман Джека Лондона о человеке из низов, простом моряке, добившемся успеха, о поиске места в жизни, мука...
A lesser-known American classic, McTeague explores the darker side of success and the pitfalls of marriage for a turn-of-the-century couple.
McTeague is the story of a ...
Sister Carrie
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(2)When a girl leaves her home at eighteen, she does one of two things. Either she falls into saving hands and becomes better, or she rapidly assumes the cosmopolitan standar...
This edition also includes the short stories The Veteran and The Open Book.
The Red Badge of Courage is one of the greatest war novels of all time. It reports on the Am...
Upton Sinclair’s classic revelatory novel about turn-of-the-century business and immigrant labor practices.
Jurgis Rudkus, a young Lithuanian immigrant in search of a b...
Hailed as a masterpiece from the moment of its first publication, Revolutionary Road is the story of Frank and April Wheeler, a bright, beautiful, and talented couple whos...
'I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.'
Defeated and embittered by a country which treats him as a non-being, the 'invisible man' retreats...
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Toni Morrison’s Beloved is a spellbinding and dazzlingly innovative portrait of a woman haunted by the past.
Sethe was born a slave and e...
Twenty-four years after her first novel, Housekeeping, Marilynne Robinson returns with an intimate tale of three generations from the Civil War to the twentieth century: a...
In "American Pastoral", Philip Roth gives us a novel of unqualified greatness that an elegy for all the twentieth century's promises of prosperity, civic order, and domest...
A monument to sloth, rant and contempt, a behemoth of fat, flatulence and furious suspicion of anything modern - this is Ignatius J. Reilly of New Orleans, noble crusader ...
Humbert Humbert is a middle-aged, fastidious college professor. He also likes little girls. And none more so than Lolita, who he'll do anything to possess. Is he in love o...
Herman Melville's thrilling nautical adventure--a timeless allegory and an epic saga of heroic determination and conflict. At the heart of Moby-Dick is the powerful, unkno...
The first-ever graphic novel adaptation of Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five, an American classic, is one of the world’s great anti-war books.
An American classic an...