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  • Youth
    Author:
    Asimov, Isaac
    Summary:

    Two young boys find some very unusual new pets in this short story from a Grand Master of Science Fiction. Tagging along while his astronomer father visits an industrialist at his vast estate, young Slim is lucky enough to make fast...
  • Youth
    Author:
    Tolstoy, Leo
    Summary:

    The third and final novel in Tolstoy's Autobiographical Trilogy, following Childhood and Boyhood. In Youth, Leo Tolstoy's protagonist-now a fervent sixteen-year-old-eagerly prepares to strike out on his own. And as he does so...
  • Wives and daughters
    Author:
    Gaskell, Elizabeth
    Summary:

    Secrets and scandals steer a young woman's life as she comes of age and finds love in Victorian England. Seventeen-year-old Molly Gibson has grown up under the watchful eye of her widowed father, the doctor Mr. Gibson. After one of...
  • Verdict of twelve
    Author:
    Postgate, Raymond
    Summary:

    A woman is on trial for her life, accused of murder. The twelve members of the jury each carry their own secret burden of guilt and prejudice which could affect the outcome. In this extraordinary crime novel, we follow the trial through...
  • Vanity fair
    Author:
    Thackeray, William Makepeace
    Summary:

    This classic story of two nineteenth-century social climbers is the basis for countless films and TV series, and one of the UK's "Best-Loved Novels." Before the Real Housewives, there were Becky Sharp and Amelia Sedley....
  • The wayward bus
    Author:
    Steinbeck, John
    Summary:

    In his first novel to follow the publication of his enormous success, The Grapes of Wrath, Steinbeck�s vision comes wonderfully to life in this imaginative and unsentimental chronicle of a bus traveling California�s back roads,...
  • The virgin and the gypsy
    Author:
    Lawrence, D. H.
    Summary:

    In a claustrophobic household, oppressed by her blind, toad-like grandmother and a cowardly, conventional father, Yvette's exuberance seems doomed to suppression. But meeting a gypsy awakens unfamiliar emotions in her, making her...
  • The time traders
    Author:
    Norton, Andre
    Summary:

    The first novel in the classic series, in which wars are no longer fought on land, in the air, or on the sea-but throughout time and space itself ... The never-ending tension between Russia and the United States has been escalated by a...
  • The story of classic crime in 100 books
    Author:
    Edwards, Martin
    Summary:

    This book tells the story of crime fiction published during the first half of the twentieth century. The diversity of this much-loved genre is breathtaking, and so much greater than many critics have suggested. To illustrate this, the...
  • The sleeper awakes
    Author:
    Wells, H. G.
    Summary:

    This frighteningly prophetic tale from the progenitor of modern science fiction remains as powerful today as when it was written-more than a century ago. Firebrand activist Graham falls into a drug-induced sleep in 1897 London-and is...
  • The odyssey
    Author:
    Homer
    Summary:

    The Ancient Greek tale of Odysseus, cursed to wander the perilous world on his epic voyage home. The decade-long Trojan War has come to an end and Odysseus, the King of Ithaca instrumental in securing victory for the Greeks, finally...
  • The long arm of the law
    Author:
    Summary:

    In classic British crime fiction, dazzling detective work is often the province of a brilliant amateur - whereas the humble police detective cuts a hapless figure. The twelve stories collected here strike a blow for the professionals,...
  • The last best friend
    Author:
    Sims, George
    Summary:

    "The small man standing on the narrow ledge stared fixedly forward with eyes made wide and blank by terror." At 2pm on a Monday in 1966, Ned Balfour wakes in Corsica beside a beautiful woman. In the same instant, back in...
  • The incredible crime
    Author:
    Austen-Leigh, Lois
    Summary:

    Prince's College, Cambridge, is a peaceful and scholarly community, enlivened by Prudence Pinsent, the Master's daughter. Spirited, beautiful, and thoroughly unconventional, Prudence is a remarkable young woman. One fine...
  • The iliad
    Author:
    Homer
    Summary:

    Alexander Pope's beautiful verse translation of the Ancient Greek epic of the Trojan War. One of the oldest surviving works in Western literature, Homer's epic poem has captivated readers for millennia. Set at the end of the...
  • The idiot
    Author:
    Dostoevsky, Fyodor
    Summary:

    Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky' s masterful translation of The Idiot is destined to stand with their versions of Crime and Punishment, The Brothers Karamazov, and Demons as the definitive Dostoevsky in English. After his...
  • The food of the gods and how it came to earth
    Author:
    Wells, H. G.
    Summary:

    There's a heavy price to pay for the manipulation of nature in this novel from the revered author of The War of the Worlds and The Time Machine. It begins as a boon for mankind-the creation of the substance Herakleophorbia IV. When...
  • The end of the web
    Author:
    Sims, George
    Summary:

    Leo Selver, a middle-aged antiques dealer, is stunned when the beautiful and desirable Judy Latimer shows an interest in him. Soon they are lying in each other's arms, unaware that this embrace will be their last. Popular opinion...
  • The devil and other stories
    Author:
    Tolstoy, Leo.
    Summary:

    This collection of eleven stories spans virtually the whole of Tolstoy's creative life. While each is unique in form, as a group they are representative of his style, and touch on the central themes that surface in War and Peace...
  • The defiant agents
    Author:
    Norton, Andre
    Summary:

    A battle for survival begins and ends in the human mind in the thrilling novel from the Time Traders series. The latest gambit by the Western powers to outmaneuver the Russians was Operation Cochise-which launched Travis Fox and his...

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