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The story of The Anarchist Banker takes place in a Lisbon café where the narrator meets an old friend, now a wealthy banker.

Tolstoy's first published novel and the beginning of his Autobiographical Trilogy.

Tolstoy's first published novel and the beginning of his Autobiographical Trilogy.

The third and final novel in Tolstoy's Autobiographical Trilogy, following Childhood and Boyhood.

The iconic Gothic horror classics that gave birth to the monstrous myths that still inhabit our nightmares.

A classic collection of American short stories about the lives of the late-nineteenth-century citizens of Maine.

The novel that inspired the beloved Broadway musical: Jean Valjean's immortal adventure among the dispossessed of nineteenth-century Paris.

The acclaimed Russian novelist's epic morality tale of a young man's horrifying crime and his struggle for redemption. Rodion Raskolnikov, a young man living in St.

This classic mind-shattering tale, which "ranks high among the horror stories of the English language," plunges into the darkness of the Cthulhu mythos (Time).

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.

The groundbreaking novella that gave rise to science fiction's original space hero, Buck Rogers.

A gifted gambler fights to survive on a hostile planet in this classic novel from the creator of science fiction antihero the Stainless Steel Rat. The gravity is twice that of Earth.

Hugo Award Finalist: A mystery at the heart of a desert planet and its ruling class must be solved in this thrilling tale from a Grand Master of Science Fiction.

Two young boys find some very unusual new pets in this short story from a Grand Master of Science Fiction.

The "shocking" and "suspense-packed" bestseller about one teacher's stand against student violence, and the basis for the Academy Award-nominated film (The New York Times B