Authors, A-Z

A successful blend of naturalism and symbolism give Chekhov's plays a perennial appeal - the proof of which is the still popular productions of Chekhov in many languages of the World.Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860-1904) is one of the most celebrated Russian playwrights and short story writers whose w... More

Rubaiyat, originally composed by Omar Khayyam, suggests withdrawal from the sorry scheme of things. Over the centuries it has gained immense fame for its romantic melancholy. First published in March 1859 as an unpretentious and anonymous pamphlet, its true literary worth was later discovered by Ros... More

Hardy's fourth novel, published in 1874 Madding Crowd became so successful that Hardy was able to give up architecture and devote himself to writing.Thomas Hardy was born on Egdon Heath, in Dorset, near Dorchester on June 2, 1840. Hardy succeeded on the death of his friend George Meredith to the pre... More

"It is among such communities as these that happiness will find her last refuge on earth..". Against this backdrop Hardy tells a vivid story of life in rural Wessex which centres on the independent and beautiful Bathsheba Everdene. She decides to manage the farm she has inherited and finds herself i... More

When Isabel Archer, a young American woman with looks, wit, and imagination, arrives in Europe, she sees the world as 'a place of brightness, of free expression, of irresistible action'. She turns aside from suitors who offer her their wealth and devotion to follow her own path. But that way leads t... More

In the afterglow of triumph - her widely celebrated, Pultizer Prize-winning bestseller, Beloved - Toni Morrison moves to even higher ground. Jazz is spellbinding for the haunting passion of its profound love story, and for the bittersweet lyricism and ref It is winter, barely three days into 1926, s... More

Samuel Pickwick, his well-fed body and unsinkable good spirits clad in tights and gaiters, sallies forth through the noisy streets of London and into the colorful country inns of rural England for a picaresque series of sparkling encounters with love and misadventure.The high-spirited work of a youn... More

Impostors abound in the latter-day Eden that is Blandings Castle In Something Fresh, the first Blandings novel, the impostors in question are Ashe Marson and Joan Valentine, two impecunious authors. Their brief: to steal back a scarab that Lord Emsworth has carelessly purloined from his... More

Tracy Whitney is on top of the world. Young, beautiful, intelligent, she is about to marry into wealth and glamour – until, betrayed by her own innocence, she finds herself in prison, framed by a ruthless mafia gang, abandoned by the man she loves. Beaten and broken, but surviving with dazzling i... More

This volume brings together all the novels, except The Company of Women, by India's most widely read and celebrated author. Included here are the classic Train to Pakistan that describes the tragedy of Partition through the love story of a Sikh dacoit and a Muslim girl; I Shall Not Hear the Nigh... More

In a sleepy little New England village stands a dark, weather-beaten, many-gabled house. This brooding mansion is haunted by a centuries-old curse that casts the shadow of ancestral sin upon the last four members of the distinctive Pyncheon family. Mysterious deaths threaten the living. Musty docume... More

First published in 1894 and 1895, The Jungle Books remain some of the most beloved tales of all time.Adored by readers of all ages, these classic stories in two volumes spin the unforgettable story of Mowgli -- a boy raised by a pack of wolves -- as he learns indelible lessons about the laws of the ... More

One of the best-loved works of Kipling, The Jungle Book is a classic tale of a young boy's growing up in the jungle.Born in Bombay in 1865, Rudyard Kipling went to England to finish his studies and came back and lived in India for several years. He wrote a number of poems and tales, establishing him... More

Complete and unabridged. Follow the adventures of young Mowgli, a boy raised by wolves in the dark jungles of India, in this enduring classic. Mowgli and his animal friends live and play in the jungle, learning the laws of survival in a wonderful, yet dangerous world where man is only a visitor.Tor ... More

Enduring Literature Illuminated by Practical ScholarshipStories about the collective struggle of the Irish working class -- one of the world's most compelling portraits of urban life.Each Enriched Classic Edition includes: A concise introduction that gives readers important background information A... More

A collection of short stories published in 1914, Dubliners revolves around the everyday lives of men, women and children in fin de siecle Dublin.James Joyce (1882-1941), Irish novelist, noted for his experimental use of language in such works as Ulysses (1922) and Finneganns Wake (1939). Joyce's tec... More

A collection of essays argues that philosophy is an essential element of human life--a force that shapes human character and national culture and destiny--and offers the rational philosophy of Objectivism as an alternative.... More