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Sophie’s World
by Jostein Gaarder
Wanting to understand the most fundamental questions of the universe isn't the province of ivory-tower intellectuals alone, as this book's enormous popularity has demonstrated. A young girl, Sophie, becomes embroiled in a discussion of philosophy with a faceless correspondent. At the.... (Read more)
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Tender Is The Night
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Tender is the Night is a story set in the hedonistic high society of Europe during the "Roaring Twenties". A wealthy schizophrenic, Nicole Warren, falls in love with Dick Diver - her psychiatrist. The resulting saga of the Diver's troubled marriage and their circle of friends, inc.... (Read more)
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The Adventures Of Augie March
by Saul Bellow
Ranging from the depths of poverty to the heights of success (and back), this is the chronicle of a modern-day Columbus in search of reality and fulfillment. It concerns Augie March, a penniless and parentless Chicago boy growing up in the Great Depression who drifts through life latching .... (Read more)
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The Ambassadors
by Henry James
The Ambassadors is a subtle exploration of American responses to Europe in which a Boston blueblood's son becomes involved with an unsuitable woman.
This complex tale of self-discovery - considered by the author to be his best work - traces
the path of an aging idealist, La.... (Read more)
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The Awakening
by Kate Chopin
First published in 1899, this beautiful, brief novel so disturbed critics and the public that it was banished for decades afterward. Now widely read and admired, "The Awakening" has been hailed as an early vision of woman's emancipation. This sensuous book tells of a woman's ab.... (Read more)
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The Broken Wings
by Kahlil Gibran
This is the exquisitely tender story of love that beats desperately against the taboos of Oriental tradition. With great sensitivity, Gibran describes his passion as a youth for Selma Karamy, the girl of Beirut who first unfolded to him the secrets of love. But it is a love that is doomed .... (Read more)
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The Color Purple
by Alice Walker
The Color Purple is a classic, inspiring generations of readers. Set in the deep American South between the wars, it is the tale of Celie, a young black girl born into poverty and segregation. Raped repeatedly by the man she calls 'father', she has two children taken away from her, i.... (Read more)
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The Comedians
by Graham Greene
Three men meet on a ship bound for Haiti, a world in the grip of the corrupt "Papa Doc" and the Tontons Macoute, his sinister secret police. Brown the hotelier, Smith the innocent American, and Jones the confidence man — these are the "comedians" of Greene's title. Hiding .... (Read more)
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The Count Of Monte Cristo
by Alexandre Dumas
For Edmond Dantes, life couldn't be better. At 19, he is soon to be captain of his own ship and about to be married to his true love, Mercedes. But his life is suddenly turned upside down when on his wedding day he is arrested. Without a fair trial, he is condemned to solitary confinement.... (Read more)
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The Death Of The Heart
by Elizabeth Bowen
Elizabeth Bowen is widely considered to be one of the greatest novelists of this century. The Death of the Heart, a story of adolescent love and the betrayal of innocence, is perhaps Bowen's best-known book. When sixteen-year-old Portia, recently orphaned, arrives in London and fal.... (Read more)
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