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Macbeth
by William Shakespeare
Macbeth is a dark and bloody drama of ambition, murder, guilt and revenge. Prompted by the prophecies of three mysterious witches and goaded by his ambitious wife, the Scottish thane Macbeth murders Duncan, King of Scotland, in order to succeed him on the throne. This foul deed soon entang.... (Read more)
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Main Street
by Sinclair Lewis
This classic by Sinclair Lewis shattered the sentimental American myth of happy small-town life with its satire of narrow-minded provincialism. Reflecting his own unhappy childhood in Sauk Centre, Minnesota, Lewis's sixth novel attacked the conformity and dullness he saw in mid-western .... (Read more)
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Mansfield Park
by Jane Austen
Jane Austen's delightful, carefully wrought novels of manners remain surprisingly relevant, nearly 200 years after they were first published.
From its sharply satiric opening sentence, Austen's Mansfield Park deals with money and marriage, and how strongly they affect each other. Shy.... (Read more)
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Middlemarch
by George Eliot
Middlemarch is a novel about youthful rebellion: Dorothea, a young girl, decides to marry an aged academic, Casaubon, against the advice of her friends and family. Casaubon dies and Dorothea marries his nephew, Will. The novel is set in a small town, Middlemarch, and traces the arrival of .... (Read more)
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My Antonia
by Willa Cather
MY ANTONIA is the wistful tale of an immigrant girl from Bohemia, who has settled in Nebraska. Narrated by Antonia's childhood friend Jim Burden, the novel draws heavily upon Willa Cather's own formative years, as well as, through the persona of Jim, Cather's experience of New Yor.... (Read more)
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Native Son
by Richard Wright
Widely acclaimed as one of the finest books ever written on race and class divisions in America, this powerful novel reflects the forces of poverty, injustice, and hopelessness that continue to shape out society.
Right from the start, Bigger Thomas had been headed for jail. It could h.... (Read more)
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No Longer At Ease
by Chinua Achebe
The story of a man whose foreign education has separated him from his African roots and made him parts of a ruling elite whose corruption he finds repugnant. More than thirty years after it was first written, this novel remains a brilliant statement on the challenges still facing African s.... (Read more)
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Nostromo
by Joseph Conrad
One of the greatest novels of the twentieth century, Joseph Conrad’s Nostromo is an immensely exciting tale of love, revolution, and politics set in the mythical South American country of Costaguana during the 1890s.
Ten years after his father is murdered by a brutal dictator, E.... (Read more)
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Of Human Bondage
by W. Somerset Maugham
OF HUMAN BONDAGE is the first and most autobiographical of Maugham's masterpieces. It tells the story of Philip Carey, an orphan eager for life, love and adventure. After a few months studying in Heidelberg, and a brief spell in Paris as a would-be artists, Philip Settles in London to t.... (Read more)
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On The Road
by Jack Kerouac
On the Road chronicles Jack Kerouac's years traveling the North American continent with his friend Neal Cassady, 'a sideburned hero of the snowy West.' As ';Sal Paradise' and 'Dean Moriarty,' the two roam the country in a quest for self-knowledge and experience. Keroua.... (Read more)
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