Overview :April, 1984. Winston Smith thinks a thought, starts a diary, and falls in love. But Big Brother is watching him, and the door to Room 101 ca... Read More
Overview :Thrown in prison for a crime he has not committed, Edmond Dantès is confined to the grim fortress of If. There he learns of a great hoard of... Read More
Overview :Anyone who has read J.D. Salinger's New Yorker stories, particularly A Perfect Day for Bananafish, Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut, The Laughin... Read More
Overview :In The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald captures the flamboyance, the carelessness and the cruelty of the wealthy during America's Jazz Age... Read More
Overview :Told in language of great simplicity and power, this story of courage and personal triumph remains one of Ernest Hemingway's most enduring w... Read More
Overview :A special fiftieth anniversary edition of Kurt Vonnegut's masterpiece, "a desperate, painfully honest attempt to confront the monstrous crim... Read More
Overview :Set against the backdrop of Napoleon's invasion of Russia, War and Peace follows five different Russian families over fifteen years: as cour... Read More
Overview :Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. Alice Walker's iconic modern classic is now a Penguin Book. A powerful cultural to... Read More
Overview :Anna Karenina is the wife of a well-respected government official. When she travels to St. Petersburg to reconcile her brother and his wife,... Read More
Overview :Narrated by the sailor Ishmael, Moby-Dick is the tale of the maniacal quest of Ahab, captain of the whaling ship Pequod, as he seeks vengean... Read More
Overview :The novel's fast-moving story is set in the royal court of Louis XIII, where the swaggering King's Musketeers square off against their rival... Read More
Overview :Pecola Breedlove, a young black girl, prays every day for beauty. Mocked by other children for the dark skin, curly hair, and brown eyes tha... Read More
Overview :Robert Louis Stevenson's nineteenth-century novel Treasure Island set the tone for countless other pirate stories. Perhaps the most iconic p... Read More
Overview :The author writes: FRANNY came out in The New Yorker in 1955, and was swiftly followed, in 1957 by ZOOEY. Both stories are early, critical e... Read More
Overview :"Marvelous . . . Vonnegut] wheels out all the complaints about America and makes them seem fresh, funny, outrageous, hateful and lovable."-... Read More