The statistics, the testimony and the rest of the historical record of the Holocaust tell a story of unimaginable horror. William Styron-s novel Sophie-s Choice makes it personal, in a tale that is both heartbreaking and riveting in its humanity and perception. It tells the story of an Auschwitz survivor, a beautiful Polish Catholic woman named S...more
"The Scarlet Letter" is a timeless tale of passion and revenge, guilt and grace, sin and redemption. It cemented Nathaniel Hawthorne's reputation as America's greatest writer of fiction. This is a beautiful, new, top-quality edition of Hawthorne's masterwork.
One of our country's most acclaimed and beloved entertainers, Steve Martin has written a novella that is unexpectedly perceptive about relationships and life. Martin is profoundly wise when it comes to the inner workings of the human heart. Mirabelle is the "shopgirl" of the title, a young woman, beautiful in a wallflowerish kind of way, who works...more
The first rule about fight club is you don't talk about fight club.Chuck Palahniuk's outrageous and startling debut novel that exploded American literature and spawned a movement. Every weekend, in the basements and parking lots of bars across the country, young men with white-collar jobs and failed lives take off their shoes and shirts and fight e...more
Six shorter works - The Piazza, Bartleby, Benito Cereno, The Lightning-Rod Man, The Encantadas, and The Bell-Tower - by master storyteller Herman Melville. Wonderfully melding story, character, symbol, and theme with deft description of,the natural and manmade world, the author gives us strange and compelling stories that are as fascinating in our ...more
"Kublai Khan does not necessarily believe everything Marco Polo says when he describes the cities visited on his expeditions, but the emperor of the Tartars does continue listening to the young Venetian with greater attention and curiosity than he shows any other messenger or explorer of his." So begins Italo Calvino's compilation of fragmentary ur...more
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