Foreign Language Fiction

Edmond Dantes, a sailor, returns home to Marseilles with the cargo he was assigned to retrieve and news of the death of that ship's captain. After making his report to the boss of the shipping company he is promoted to captain because of his loyalty and perserverance and joins his fiance to plan the... More

In Persuasion, Jane Austen's last completed novel, the conventional roles of hero and heroine are reversed and men and women are presented as moral equals. Ann Elliot, a young woman of breeding, leading a cinderella like existence with her father and imperious sister, frees herself from familial au... More

This unabridged Austen classic about a woman who casts off a lover because of his lack of wealth and social status features a dynamic cover and a new Introduction and Afterword.When Anne Elliot falls in love with a handsome and charming young man, she must make a wrenching decision. The man she love... More

Harry Potter thinks he is an ordinary boy - until he is rescued by a beetle-eyed giant of a man, enrols at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, learns to play Quidditch and does battle in a deadly duel.... More

The Philosopher's Stone attempts to reveal the hidden secrets that have bedevilled the philosophers for aeons. From Plato to Aristotle, to Descartes, Locke, Hume, Hegel and Kant; from Vivekananda, to Lao Tzu to the Buddha, The Philosopher's Stone attempts, in one mighty sweep, to reveal the great th... More

"Exodus" is an international publishing phenomenon--the towering novel of the twentieth century's most dramatic geopolitical event. Leon Uris magnificently portrays the birth of a new nation in the midst of enemies--the beginning of an earthshaking struggle for power. Here is the tale that swept the... More

This is young Pip's story. The story of his yearning to excel, to be loved. The story of his ineptitude and discontentment. In his journey through the various stages of his great expectations, he makes steady discoveries of human values. The touching, first-person narrative makes the story all the m... More

In the marshy mists of a village churchyard, a tiny orphan boy named Pip is suddenly terrified by a shivering, limping convict on the run. Years later, a supremely arrogant young Pip boards the coach to London where, by the grace of a mysterious benefactor, he will join the ranks of the idle rich an... More

Arguably the greatest science fiction writer who ever lived, Isaac Asimov also possessed one of the most brilliant and original minds of our time. His accessible style and far-reaching interests in subjects ranging from science to humor to history earned him the nickname "the Great Explainer." "I. A... More

In the slave market in a tropical Colombian seaport, venturing to buy a string of bells, the Marquis’s twelve-year-old daughter, Sierva Maria, is bitten by a rabid dog. ‘No medicine cures what happiness cannot,’ the wily physician Abrenuncio advises her father. Garcia Marquez’s magical novel... More

Why did Judas betray Jesus?The Pope recently referred to the continuing ‘mystery of Judas’. This intriguing book – the result of an intense collaboration between one of the world’s most popular storytellers and one of the world’s leading biblical scholars – throws a new light on the eve... More

The Faerie Queene is famous as an extended allegorical poem, so this guide encourages the reader to think about the process of reading, and particularly of reading allegory. The Faerie Queene is a demanding poem which requires not only an actively engaged reader but a reader prepared to learn differ... More

The unexpected never happens ... A man calls unexpectedly on his mistress and sees another man leaving her flat. Accusing her of being unfaithful, he quarrels with her, strikes her. She dies. Leaving unseen, he tips off the police so that the other man is arrested and charged ... has he achieved 'Th... More

At a Hallowe’en party, Joyce – a hostile thirteen-year-old – boasts that she once witnessed a murder. When no-one believes her, she storms off home. But within hours her body is found, still in the house, drowned in an apple-bobbing tub.That night, Hercule Poirot is called in to find the ‘ev... More

Saki's stories are beautifully varnished. taut pieces of writing, resolving on a twist at the last sentence. They reflect the manners and attitudes of the Edwardian society, from the point of view of the sardonic insider, and are at times marked by shades of black humour. This collection presents so... More

In her 53rd bestselling novel, Danielle Steel explores how a single shattering moment can change lives forever. "The Kiss" is at once a moving testament to the fragility of life and a breathtaking story about the power of love to heal, to free, to transform, and to make broken spirits whole. On a wa... More

Both Joseph K in The Trial and K in The Castle are victims of anonymous governing forces beyond their control. Both are atomized, estranged and rootless citizens deceived by authoritarian power. Whereas Joseph K is relentlessly hunted down for a crime that remains nameless, K ceaselessly attempts to... More

As a journalist, Paxton Andrews would experience Vietnam firsthand. We follow her from high school in Savannah to college in Berkeley and then to work in Saigon. For the soldiers she knew and met there, Viet Nam would change their lives in ways they could never have imagined. For the men in her life... More