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Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time
Invisible Man is a milestone in American literature, a book that has continued to engage reade...
Winner of the Booker Prize.
India, 1857—the year of the Great Mutiny, when Muslim soldiers turned in bloody rebellion on their British overlords. This time of convulsio...
With the publication of her first novel, THE HEART IS A LONELY HUNTER, Carson McCullers, all of twenty-three, became a literary sensation. With its profound sense of moral...
Some journeys are best left unmade.
Kit and Port Moresby are Americans abroad. Struggling to save their marriage, they resolve to trade civilization for the wilderness ...
First published in 1908, The Old Wives' Tale affirms the integrity of ordinary lives as it tells the story of the Baines sisters--shy, retiring Constance and defiant, roma...
Beerbohm's satire of undergraduate life at Oxford, "Zuleika Dobson", first published in 1911, is a classic work whose neglect is sure to remedied by this republication in ...
When first published in 1899, `The Awakening` shocked readers with its honest treatment of female marital infidelity. Audiences accustomed to the pieties of late Victorian...
Novel tracing Jude Fawley's life from his aspirations of intellectual freedom to his early death.
HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. At the peak of European Imperialism, steamboat captain Charles Marlow travels deep into ...
Florentino Ariza has never forgotten his first love. He has waited nearly a lifetime in silence since his beloved Fermina married another man. No woman can replace her in ...
A foundling of mysterious parentage brought up by Mr. Allworthy on his country estate, Tom Jones is deeply in love with the seemingly unattainable Sophia Western, the beau...
Роман, знаковый как для творчества Андре Жида, так и для французской литературы первой половины XX века вообще.
Роман, во многом предсказавший мотивы, которые стали впос...
A tale of sin, punishment and atonement, The Scarlet Letter exposes the moral rigidity of a 17th-Century Puritan New England community when faced with the illegitimate chi...
This epic poem is the oldest known to exist in history, predating Homer's Iliad by about 1500 years. Gilgamesh, the hero, discovers he has godly blood, so sets out on a jo...
Томас Гоббс (1588—1679) — классик политической и правовой мысли, выдающийся английский философ. В своем основном произведении `Левиафан` впервые в Новое время разработал с...
In creating his acclaimed masterpiece Parade's End, Ford Madox Ford wanted the Novelist in fact to appear in his really proud position as historian of his own time . . . T...
'Sartor Resartus' ("The Tailor Retailored") is ostensibly an introduction to a strange history of clothing by the German Professor of Things in General, Diogenes Teufelsdr...
Sea Garden is presented here in a high quality paperback edition. This popular classic work by H. D. (Hilda Doolittle) is in the English language, and may not include grap...