Getting Married
by G B Shaw
George Bernard Shaw was born in Dublin in 1856. Before becoming a playwright he wrote music and literary criticism. Shaw used his writing to attack social problems such as education, marriage, religion, government, health care, and class privilege. Shaw was particularly conscious of the ex.... (Read more)

Gone With The Wind
by Margaret Mitchell
Set against the dramatic backdrop of the American civil war, Margaret Mitchell's magnificent historical epic is an unforgettable tale of love and loss..... (Read more)

Grain Of Sand
by Rabindranath Tagore
It is the story of the rich, flamboyant Mahendra and his simple, demure, beautiful wife Asha—a young couple who are befriended by the pragmatic Bihari. Their cozy domestic scenario undergoes great upheaval with the introduction of the vivacious Binodini, a young, attractive widow who com.... (Read more)

Great Expectations
by Charles Dickens
In the marshy mists of a village churchyard, a tiny orphan boy named Pip is suddenly terrified by a shivering, limping convict on the run. Years later, a supremely arrogant young Pip boards the coach to London where, by the grace of a mysterious benefactor, he will join the ranks of the id.... (Read more)

Hamlet
by William Shakespeare
The quintessential Shakespearean tragedy, whose highly charged confrontations and anguished soliloquies probe depths of human feeling rarely sounded in any art.

His father is dead. Has his mother married the killer? A ghost cries out for vengeance, but has the Prince w.... (Read more)

Hard Times
by Charles Dickens
Hard Times is set in industrial England at a period when utilitarianism seemed the order of the day. The author introduces us to a world of harsh realities and cold, loveless relationships to demonstrate how life denying utilitarianism can be.
Set in the imaginary industrial town of Co.... (Read more)

Harsh Voice
by Rebecca West
In these four brilliant short novels set in America, England and Paris, Rebecca West explores the lives and relationships of rich women and men who are ruled by 'the harsh voice we hear when money talks, or hate'. There is Josie, a flower of American girlhood whose boundless ambition.... (Read more)

Heart Of Darkness
by Joseph Conrad
In Conrad's haunting tale, Marlow, a seaman and wanderer, tells his travelling companions of his reconnaissance expedition for a Belgian trading company to its most remote outpost in central Africa, which brought him on the trail of the elusive Kurtz, a brilliant idealist gone rogue. He.... (Read more)

Henderson The Rain King
by Saul Bellow
Bellow's glorious, spirited story of an eccentric American millionaire who finds a home of sorts in deepest Africa.

Henderson has come to Africa on a spiritual safari, a quest for "the truth." His feats of strength, his passion for life, and, most importantly, his inadver.... (Read more)

I, Claudius
by Robert Graves
Considered an idiot because of his physical infirmities, Claudius survived the intrigues and poisonings of the reigns of Augustus, Tiberius, and the Mad Caligula to become emperor in 41 A.D. A masterpiece..... (Read more)