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A High Wind In Jamaica
by Richard Hughes
Richard Hughes's celebrated short novel is a masterpiece of concentrated narrative. Its dreamlike action begins among the decayed plantation houses and overwhelming natural abundance of late nineteenth-century Jamaica, before moving out onto the high seas, as Hughes tells the story of a.... (Read more)
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A Passage To India
by E M Forster
A classic account of the clash of cultures in British India after the turn of the century. A Passage to India is a novel by E. M. Forster set against the backdrop of the British Raj and the Indian independence movement in the 1920s. The story revolves around four characters: Dr. Aziz, his .... (Read more)
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A Room With A View
by E M Forster
This Edwardian social comedy explores love and prim propriety among an eccentric cast of characters assembled in an Italian pensione and in a corner of Surrey, England. A charming young English woman, Lucy Honeychurch, faints into the arms of a fellow Britisher when she witnesses a murder .... (Read more)
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A Suitable Boy
by Vikram Seth
A Suitable Boy is Vikram Seth's epic love story set in India. Funny and tragic, with engaging, brilliantly observed characters, it is as close as you can get to Dickens for the twentieth century. The story unfolds through four middle class families - the Mehras, Kappoors, Khans and Chatte.... (Read more)
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A Tale Of Two Cities
by Charles Dickens
They fled to London, seeking safety, and found each other--Dr. Manette, falsely imprisoned for decades; his daughter, Lucie, whose stunning beauty was matched by her loyalty and grace; and Charles Darnay, who abandoned a royal title he hated to risk being called a traitor in France, a spy .... (Read more)
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An American Tragedy
by Theodore Dreiser
The classic depiction of the harsh realities of American life, the dark side of the American Dream, and one man's doomed pursuit of love and success.
This big turbulent novel by Theodore Dreiser takes an unrepentant look at the sexual non-reticence of the day with a browsing ho.... (Read more)
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Animal Farm
by George Orwell
George Orwell's timeless fable--a parable for would-be liberators everywhere, glimpsed through the lens of our own history 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.... (Read more)
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Animal Farm
by George Orwell
George Orwell's 1945 satire on the perils of Stalinism has proved magnificently long-lived as a parable about totalitarianism anywhere - and has given the world at least one immortal phrase: Everyone is equal, but some are more equal than others. This classic political fable is often ci.... (Read more)
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Anna Karenina
by Leo Tolstoy
A magnificent drama of vengeance, infidelity, and retribution, "Anna Karenina" portrays the moving story of people whose emotions conflict with the dominant social mores of their time. Sensual, rebellious Anna falls deeply and passionately in love with the handsome Count Vronsky. Whe.... (Read more)
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Anthem
by Ayn Rand
This expanded edition of Ayn Rand's classic tale of a future dark age of the great "We"--in which individuals have no name, no independence, and no values--is a beautifully written, powerful novel that projects current social trends into the future, and anticipates such later Rand.... (Read more)
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