"American writing, before and after Dreiser's time, differedalmost as much as biology before and after Darwin," said H. L.Mencken. Sister Carrie, Dreiser's great first novel, transformedthe conventional "fallen woman" story into a bold and trulyinnovative piece of fiction when it appeared in 1900. Na?ve youngCaroline Meeber, a small-town girl seduced by the lure of themodern city, becomes the mistress of a traveling salesman and thenof a saloon manager, who elopes with her to New York. Both itssubject matter and Dreiser's unsparing, nonjudgmental approach madeSister Carrie a controversial book in its time, and the workretains the power to shock readers today.

Edited, introduced and annotated by Cedric Watts, Professor of English Literature, University of Sussex. Shakespeare's Macbeth is one of the greatest tragic dramas the world has known. Macbeth himself, a brave warrior, is fatally impelled by supernatural forces, by his proud wife, and by his own burgeoning ambition. As he embarks on his murderous course to gain and retain the crown of Scotland, we see the appalling emotional and psychological effects on both Lady Macbeth and himself. The cruel ironies of their destiny are conveyed in poetry of unsurpassed power. In the theatre, this tragedy remains perennially engrossing.

From Library Journal The published editions of Women in Love , probably Lawrence'sgreatest novel, have always been remarkably corrupt due to alengthy, complex process of revision and tran*ion, athreatened libel suit, and numerous unauthorized bowdlerizations.The editors of this new Cambridge Edition have labored scrupulouslyto produce an authoritative text. What emerges, if not dramaticallydifferent, is fresher and more immediate. The introduction providesa valuable history of the novel's composition, revision,publication, and reception, and though the elaborate textualapparatus is strictly for advanced students of bibliography, thenotes are splendid. Lawrence's 1919 Foreword and two earlydiscarded chapters are also included. The recovery of a modernclassic. Keith Cushman, Univ. of North Carolina, Greensboro Download De*ion Privately printed in 1920 and published commercially in 1921,Women in Love is the novel Lawrence himself considered hismasterpiece. Set in the English Midla

Evil masterminds beware! Sherlock Holmes is back! Ten years after his supposed death in the swirling torrent of the Reichenbach Falls locked in the arms of his arch enemy Professor Moriarty, Arthur Conan Doyle agreed to pen further adventures featuring his brilliant detective. In the first story, The Empty House, Holmes returns to Baker Street and his good friend Watson, explaining how he escaped from his watery grave.