The autobiographical novel of a journey from the Britishcolony of Trinidad to the ancient countryside of England.

"I am going to take a heroine whom no-one but myself will muchlike," Jane Austen wrote, but young Emma Woodhouse, in spite of herweaknesses, has charmed generations of readers. Bossy, a littlespoilt, and too eager to control other's lives for what shebelieves is their own good, she creates misunderstandings withevery tactic she employs. But when her attempts to match-make goawry, she learns a hard lesson about life, love, and growing up.The world's greatest works of literature are now available inbeautiful keepsake volumes. Bound in real cloth, and featuring giltedges and ribbon markers, these beautifully produced books are awonderful way to build a handsome library of classic literature.These are the essential novels that belong in every home. They'lltransport readers to imaginary worlds and provide excitement,entertainment, and enlightenment for years to come. All of thesenovels feature attractive illustrations and have an unequalledperiod feel that will grace the library, the bedside table orbureau.

The inspiration for the major motion picture starring BradPitt and Cate Blanchettaplus eighteen other stories by the belovedauthor of "The Great Gatsby" IN THE TITLE STORY, a baby born in1860 begins life as an old man and proceeds to age backward. F.Scott Fizgerald hinted at this kind of inversion when he called hisera aa generation grown up to find all Gods dead, all wars fought,all faiths in man shaken.a Perhaps nowhere in American fiction hasthis aLost Generationa been more vividly preserved than inFitzgeraldas short fiction. Spanning the early twentieth-centuryAmerican landscape, this original collection captures, withFitzgeraldas signature blend of enchantment and disillusionment,America during the Jazz Age.

The first book of the definitive three-volume collection ofshort stories by the prolific Isaac Asimov, whose tales havedelighted countless fans for over half a century--a must for everyscience fiction bookshelf.

'I am the enfant terrible of literature and science. If Icannot, and I know I cannot, get the literary and scientificbig-wigs to give me a shilling, I can, and I know I can, heavebricks into the middle of them.' With "The Way of All Flesh",Samuel Butler threw a subversive brick at the smug face ofVictorian domesticity. Published in 1903, a year after Butler'sdeath, the novel is a thinly disguised account of his own childhoodand youth 'in the bosom of a Christian family'. With irony, wit andsometimes rancour, he savaged contemporary values and beliefs,turning inside-out the conventional novel of a family's lifethrough several generations.

Meet Sugar, a nineteen-year-old prostitute innineteenth-century London who yearns for escape to a better life.From the brothel of the terrifying Mrs. Castaway, she begins herascent through society, meeting a host of lovable, maddening,unforgettable characters on the way. They begin with WilliamRackham, an egotistical perfume magnate whose empire is fueled byhis lust for Sugar; his unhinged, child-like wife Agnes; hismysteriously hidden-away daughter, Sophie; and his pious brotherHenry, foiled in his devotional calling by a persistentlyless-than-chaste love for the Widow Fox. All this is overseen byassorted preening socialites, drunken journalists, untrustworthyservants, vile guttersnipes, and whores of all stripes andpersuasions. Teeming with life, this is a big, juicy must-read of a novel thathas enthralled hundreds of thousands of readers-and will continueto do so for years to come.

Sixteen-year-old Katya Spivak is out for a walk on thegracious streets of Bayhead Harbor with her two summer babysittingcharges when she's approached by silver-haired, elegant MarcusKidder. At first his interest in her seems harmless, even pleasant;like his name, a sort of gentle joke. His beautiful home, thechildren's books he's written, his classical music, the marvelousart in his study, his lavish presents to her -- Mr. Kidder's lifecouldn't be more different from Katya's drab working-classexistence back home in South Jersey, or more enticing. But bydegrees, almost imperceptibly, something changes, and posing forMr. Kidder's new painting isn't the lighthearted endeavor it oncewas. What does he really want from her? And how far will he go toget it? In the tradition of Oates's classic story "Where Are YouGoing, Where Have You Been?" "A Fair Maiden "is an unsettling,ambiguous tale of desire and control.

It is the most famous military installation in the world. Andit doesn't exist. Located a mere seventy-five miles outside of LasVegas in Nevada's desert, the base has never been acknowledged bythe U.S. government-but Area 51 has captivated imaginations fordecades. Myths and hypotheses about Area 51 have long abounded, thanks tothe intense secrecy enveloping it. Some claim it is home to aliens,underground tunnel systems, and nuclear facilities. Others believethat the lunar landing itself was filmed there. The prevalence ofthese rumors stems from the fact that no credible insider has everdivulged the truth about his time inside the base. Until now. Annie Jacobsen had exclusive access to nineteen men who servedthe base proudly and secretly for decades and are now aged 75-92,and unprecedented access to fifty-five additional military andintelligence personnel, scientists, pilots, and engineers linked tothe secret base, thirty-two of whom lived and worked there forextended periods. In Area 51, Jac

In this book, the author of Seven Gothic Tales gives atrue account of her life on her plantation in Kenya. She tells withclassic simplicity of the ways of the country and the natives: ofthe beauty of the Ngong Hills and coffee trees in blossom: of herguests, from the Prince of Wales to Knudsen, the old charcoalburner, who visited her: of primitive festivals: of big game thatwere her near neighbors--lions, rhinos, elephants, zebras,buffaloes--and of Lulu, the little gazelle who came to live withher, unbelievably ladylike and beautiful.

Few novelists have conveyed the subtleties and nuances oftheir own social milieu with the wit and insight of Jane Austen.Here in one volume are her seven great novels: Sense andSensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, NorthangerAbbey, Persuasion, and Lady Susan. Through her vivacious andspirited heroines and their circle, Austen vividly portrays Englishmiddle-class life as the eighteenth century came to a close and thenineteenth century began. Each of the novels is a love story and astory about marriage—marriage for love, for financial security, forsocial status. But they are not romances; ironic, comic, and wise,they are masterly evocations of the society Jane Austen observed.This beautiful volume covers the literary career of one ofEngland’s finest prose stylists of any century.

Tiny Patrick Henry College, a Christian school just outsidethe nations capital, grooms ambitious young evangelicals intotomorrows conservative elite. The future front lines of politics,entertainment, and science will be commanded by these idealisticgraduates, who plan to lead the battle in reclaiming a godlessnation. Hanna Rosins "superb work of extended reportage" (ChicagoSun Times)takes us into the halls and dorms and hearts of PatrickHenry, following students from the campus to the White House,Congress, conservative think tanks, Hollywood, and other keycenters of influence. Lively and evenhanded, her account revealsthe evangelical movement at a moment of crisis and climax, itsfuture leaders struggling to resist the temptations of modern lifeeven as they try to remake the world in their image. Hanna Rosinhas crafted a vibrant, insightful look at kids who may very well bein charge of our country someday.

Nine strokes from an old country church toll out the death ofan unknown man and call Lord Peter Wimsey to one of his mostbaffling cases. Set in the strange, flat fen-country of EastAnglia, this is a classic tale of suspense by a master ofmystery.

First published in 1939, these three short novels secured theauthor's reputation as a master of short fiction.

At Westish College, a small school on the shore of LakeMichigan, baseball star Henry Skrimshander seems destined for bigleague stardom. But when a routine throw goes disastrously offcourse, the fates of five people are upended. Henry's fight against self-doubt threatens to ruin his future.College president Guert Affenlight, a longtime bachelor, has fallenunexpectedly and helplessly in love. Owen Dunne, Henry's gayroommate and teammate, becomes caught up in a dangerous affair.Mike Schwartz, the Harpooners' team captain and Henry's bestfriend, realizes he has guided Henry's career at the expense of hisown. And Pella Affenlight, Guert's daughter, returns to Westishafter escaping an ill-fated marriage, determined to start a newlife. As the season counts down to its climactic final game, these fiveare forced to confront their deepest hopes, anxieties, and secrets.In the process they forge new bonds, and help one another findtheir true paths. Written with boundless intelligence and filledwith the

Stunning reissue of an international bestseller, from theauthor of The Joy Luck Club and The Bonesetter's DaughterOlivia Yeeis only five years old when Kwan, her older sister from China,comes to live with the family and turns her life upside down,bombarding her day and night with ghostly stories of strangeancestors from the world of Yin. Olivia just wants to lead a normalAmerican life. For the next thirty years, Olivia endures visitsfrom Kwan and her ghosts, who appear in the living world to offeradvice on everything from restaurants to Olivia's failed marriage.But just when she cannot bear it any more, the revelations of atragic family secret finally open her mind to the startling truthshidden in Kwan's unorthodox vision of the world.

In the town of Hawkins Hollow, itas called the Seven. Everyseven years, on the seventh day of the seventh month, madnessdescends on this small town. But three men bound by blood and threewomen bound by ancestry to a demon have pledged their soulsaandtheir heartsato stop it.

Look at the Birdie is a collection of fourteen short storiesfrom one of the most original writers in American fiction. Thisseries of perfectly rendered vignettes, never before published inKurt Vonnegut’s lifetime, reveals a warm, wise, and funny portraitof life in post–World War II America—a world where squabblingcouples, high school geniuses, misfit office workers, andsmall-town lotharios struggle to adapt to changing technology,moral ambiguity, and unprecedented affluence. Featuring a Forewordby author and longtime Vonnegut confidant Sidney Offit, Look at theBirdie is an unexpected gift for readers who thought thatVonnegut’s voice had been stilled forever—and serves as a terrificintroduction to his short fiction for anyone who has yet toexperience his genius.

city is hit by an epidemic of "white blindness" which sparesno one. Authorities confine the blind to an empty mental hospital,but there the criminal element holds everyone captive, stealingfood rations and raping women. There is one eyewitness to thisnightmare who guides seven strangers-among them a boy with nomother, a girl with dark glasses, a dog of tears-through the barrenstreets, and the procession becomes as uncanny as the surroundingsare harrowing. A magnificent parable of loss and disorientation anda vivid evocation of the horrors of the twentieth century,Blindness has swept the reading public with its powerful portrayalof man's worst appetites and weaknesses-and man's ultimatelyexhilarating spirit. The stunningly powerful novel of man's will tosurvive against all odds, by the winner of the 1998 Nobel Prize forLiterature.

Together in one extraordinary boxed set- "Naked in Death,""Glory in Death," and "Immortal in Death"-the first three In Deathnovels featuring New York Police Lieutenant Eve Dallas. Naked inDeath Eve Dallas is a New York police lieutenant using herinstincts to hunt for a ruthless killer. Breaking every rule, Evegets involved with Roarke, an Irish billionaire-and a suspect inEve's murder investigation. But passion and seduction have rulesall their own. Glory in Death Police Lieutenant Eve Dallas has noproblem finding connections between two violent crimes. Bothvictims were beautiful and highly successful women whose intimaterelations with men of great power and wealth provide Eve with along list of suspects-including her own lover, Roarke. Immortal inDeath A top model is dead, the victim of a brutal murder. PoliceLieutenant Eve Dallas puts her professional life on the line totake the case when suspicion falls on her best friend, the otherwoman in a fatal love triangle. And beneath the facade of glamour,Ev