Subtitled "A Study of Provincial Life", George Eliot's novel "Middlemarch" chronicles the titular nineteenth-century Midlands town in the midst of political and social change. Eliot explores the upheaval brought about by these transformations through...

This volume is a cornucopia of thrills and chills, featuring 25 tales of the uncanny and macabre regarded to be among the finest weird tales in the English language. Its stellar line-up of authors includes Edgar Allan Poe, H. P. Lovecraft, Arthur Mac...

For fans of the great detective, this volume collects 10 classic tales of mystery and detection. In addition to the complete short novel "The Hound of the Baskervilles", it includes several stories that Holmes s creator, Arthur Conan Doyle, himself s...

This volume features the first two novels of L. Frank Baum s classic Oz series for younger readers. In The Wonderful Wizard of Oz , young Dorothy Gale and her dog Toto are transported by a powerful cyclone to the magical land of Oz, where they team u...

"Monsters: Mary Shelley's 'Frankenstein' and 'Mathilda'" presents Mary Shelley's most popular works, accompanied by a critical introduction and commentary by scholar Claire Millikin Raymond. Cultures create and ascribe meaning to monsters, endowing t...

In "The Iliad "Homer sang of death and glory, of a few days in the struggle between the Greeks and the Trojans. Mortal men played out their fate under the gaze of the gods. "The Odyssey" is the original collection of tall traveller's tales. Odysseus,...

With subtle, bemused humor and an unerring eye for human frailty, Michel Layaz writes about the hidden tensions within families, the awkwardness of adolescence, and the drama of intimacy between friends and lovers. His fifth novel, "My Mother's Tears...

Eight years ago, Anne Elliot fell in love with poor, but ambitious, naval officer Captain Frederick Wentworth, a choice with which Anne's family was dissatisfied. Lady Russell, friend and mentor to Anne, persuaded the younger woman to break off the m...

After moving to a cottage in Devonshire, the women of the Dashwood family begin adjusting to a new life and a new social circle. Soon, Elinor is being courted by the gentlemanly Edward Ferrars and Marianne finds herself torn between two suitors, the...

First published in 1878, Tolstoy's masterpiece tells the story of a woman who seems to have everything: beauty, wealth, popularity and son she adores. Then she meets the impetuous officer Count Vronsky and their affair scandalises society and family.