Neither Edith Wharton nor E. M. Forster admired it, but Louis Auchincloss calls The Wings of the Dove 'perhaps the greatest of Henry James's novels.' Published in 1902, the novel represented ... more »

Bubbling potions can be bad for your health!  Just ask Dr. Jekyll.  By day, he's a kind doctor.  But by night, he's the merciless kill Mr. Hyde.  And all because of a magic formula.  Will anybody fi... more »

Perhaps the greatest of all adventure stories for boys and girls, Treasure Island began, a brave boy who finds himself among pirates, and of the sinister pirate-cook Long John Silver holds children ... more »

Hailed as one of the world's supreme masterpieces on the subject of death and dying, The Death of Ivan Ilyich is the story of a worldly careerist, a high court judge who has never given the i... more »

The adventures of Sir Roger de Coverley (country gentry) appeared in the English periodical The Spectator between 1711 and December 1712. Even more successful than its predecessor, The Tatler, The S... more »

The bloody, horrible feud between the Jorth and Isbel families puts generations six feet underground. Their viciousness went beyond understanding, their vengeance was unrelenting, and their violence... more »

America's master storyteller makes the frontier live again. West of Fort Henry, in the wild and lawless country, the tribes are massing for a unified attack that will smash and destroy the isolated ... more »

Grey's epic story tells of a young man determined to lay the Union Pacific Railroad across the Wyoming Mountains, while enemies--and unexpected love--put his dream to the test

Horse hunter Lin Sloan never wanted anything more than the wild stallion he called Wildfire. Lucy Bostil found the horse and the unconscious man who had roped him. She saved both their lives and too... more »

The classic children's story featuring the adventures of timid Mole, cheerful Rat, reclusive Badger, and boastful Toad. When Mole goes boating with the Water Rat instead of spring-cleaning, he disco... more »

Kenneth Grahame's unjustly neglected collections of vignettes, reminiscences, and inventions capture the ingenuities of a family of children--three boys and two girls--who live magnanimous lives nou... more »

One of the greatest of twentieth-century novelists and poets, D. H. Lawrence wrote and lived with a passionate intensity that shocked his contemporaries. Lawrence composed Women in Love while at the... more »

Need to seize a country? Have enemies you must destroy? In this handbook for despots and tyrants, the Renaissance statesman Machiavelli sets forth how to accomplish this and more, while avoiding the... more »

While Candide is without a doubt a farcical, humorous, and far-fetched tale, a seriousness lies beneath its satirical veneer. Candide is the story of an innocent young man embarking on a series of a... more »

In the remote border country of South Utah, a man is about to be whipped by the Mormons in order to pressure Jane Withersteen into marrying against her will. The punishment is halted by the arrival ... more »

Kenneth Ward, a young eastern lad just out of prep school, goes west on his summer break to join his friend Dick Leslie, a forest ranger in Arizona. Ken is honest and loyal but hot-headed, and runs ... more »

Almayer's Folly was Conrad's first novel, set in a remote Bornean outpost at the end of the 19th century. Conrad draws on his own experience to present the strains of life at a cultural crossroads. ... more »

"Amy Foster" tells the story of an Eastern European immigrant shipwrecked off the coast of England, and his ultimately doomed love affair with the dim-witted Amy Foster.

Conrad's most technically ambitious work is a psychologically penetrating portrait of a young woman's transformation from a vulnerable, almost tragic figure to a self-respecting woman--and Conrad's ... more »

The story of a captain and his inseparable tie to life on the seas.

The protagonist harbors a terrible secret that inhibits his ability to confront the woman he loves and find the wife he longs for.

At its heart, this classic novel is a book about the sea. Published in 1900, Lord Jim was originally intended as a short story. It grew to a full-length book as Conrad explored in great depth the pe... more »

The twenty-six essays collected in Notes on Life and Letters offer a kaleidoscopic view of Joseph Conrad's literary views and interest in the events of his day, including the Titanic disaster, First... more »

Throughout his fiction, Conrad is concerned with moral dilemmas, the isolation of the individual to be tested by experience, and the psychology of inner urges in both groups and individuals. Some Re... more »