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Invisible Man
by Ralph Ellison
Ralph Ellison's impassioned first novel, winner of the prestigious American National Book Award, tells the story of an invsible man "simply because people refuse to see me". Yet his powerfully depicted adventures go far beyond the story of one man.
Ralph Elllison's Invisibl.... (Read more)
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Ivanhoe
by Sir Walter Scott
Sir Walter Scott's 1819 novel "Ivanhoe" is the story of one of the last remaining Saxon noble families. Set in 1194, after the end of the Third Crusade, this historical work of fiction is the story of Wilfred of Ivanhoe, who has fallen out of favor with his father due to his alleg.... (Read more)
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Julius Caesar
by William Shakespeare
To the events surrounding the assassination of Julius Caesar in 44BC, Shakespeare introduces the dangerous themes of thwarted ambition and political reaction.
The ominous Ides of March threaten to destroy Julius Caesar's hold over the Roman Senate. He is.... (Read more)
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Kim
by Rudyard Kipling
Kim, a young Irish orphan, is brought up in the native quarter of Lahore. While he is accompanying a Tibetan lama on his search for the River of Immortality, Kim is picked up by the British and groomed for the Secret Service. His first assignment is to capture the papers of a Russian spy i.... (Read more)
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Light In August
by William Faulkner
Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature A landmark in American fiction, Light in August explores Faulkner's central theme: the nature of evil. Joe Christmas - a man doomed, deracinated and alone - wanders the Deep South in search of an identity, and a place in society. After killing hi.... (Read more)
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Little Women
by Louisa May Alcott
The story of a year in the life of the March family. While their father is away in the civil war, the four sisters and their mother work hard to maintain a happy and peaceful home. We hear of their troubles and their joys and come to sympathize with the characters, Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy<.... (Read more)
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Lolita
by Vladimir Nabokov
Despite its lascivious reputation, the pleasures of Lolita are as much intellectual as erogenous. It is a love story with the power to raise both chuckles and eyebrows. Humbert Humbert is a European intellectual adrift in America, haunted by memories of a lost adolescent love. When he meet.... (Read more)
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Lord Jim
by Joseph Conrad
An adventure novel with deep psychological insights, Lord Jim vividly draws on Conrad's first-hand experience in the Far East and as a ship officer. The master story teller captures the enthralling life of seamen and their life and agony, dwelling on the true story of Jim, the chief mat.... (Read more)
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Lord Of The Flies
by William Golding
The classic, startling, and perennially bestselling portrait of human nature.
The tale begins after a plane wreck deposits a group of English school boys, aged six to twelve on an isolated tropical island. Their struggle to survive and impose order quickly evolves from a battle ag.... (Read more)
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Loving, Living, Party Going
by Henry Green
Henry Green explored class distinctions through the medium of love. This volume brings together three of his novels contrasting the lives of servants and masters (Loving); workers and owners, set in a Birmingham iron foundry (Living); and the different lives of the wealthy and the ordinary.... (Read more)
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