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Enraged by the oil scandals of the Harding administration in the 1920s, Sinclair tells a gripping tale of avarice, corruption, and class warfare, featuring a cavalcade of characters, including sena

Harry Haller is a sad and lonely figure, a reclusive intellectual for whom life holds no joy.

This National Book Award winning novel traces five days in the life of a man whose wife has recently left him for his best friend.

Trollope examines the Victorian woman and her predicament. "What should a woman do with her life?" asks Alice Vavasor, who vacillates between two suitors, and each woman has her own answer.

Features selected readings from the works of James Joyce, whose works came to define the modernist movement in literature.

This is the story of a man who said that he would stop the motor of the world and did. Is he a destroyer, or a liberator?

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 author of The Razor's Edge explores the longing for love and freedom in this coming-of-age story-"a novel of the utmost importance" (Theodore Dreiser).

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

Three of Dickens's most compelling orphan protagonists'Oliver Twist, Pip, and Esther Summerson'in three of his greatest novels.

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.