 | The Killer Angels: A Novel of the Civil War (Modern Library)
Release Date: November 2, 2004| Series: Modern Library A reissue of a Pulitzer prize-winning classic, and now the major motion picture GETTYSBURG. As a result of these acclamations, this book is considered one of the greatest novels written on the Civil War. ...
 |  | The House at Riverton: A Novel
Release Date: March 3, 2009The House at Riverton is a gorgeous debut novel set in England between the wars. It is the story of an aristocratic family, a house, a mysterious death and a way of life that vanished forever, told in flashback by a woman who witnessed it all and kept a secret for decades. Grace Bradley went to work at Riverton House as a servant when she was just a girl, before the First World War. For years her life was inextricably tied up with the Hartford family, most particularly the two daughters, Hannah and Emmeline. In the summer of 1924, at a glittering society party ...
|  | Norwegian Wood
Release Date: September 12, 2000First American PublicationThis stunning and elegiac novel by the author of the internationally acclaimed Wind-Up Bird Chronicle has sold over 4 million copies in Japan and is now available to American audiences for the first time. It is sure to be a literary event.Toru, a quiet and preternaturally serious young college student in Tokyo, is devoted to Naoko, a beautiful and introspective young woman, but their mutual passion is marked by the tragic death of their best friend years before. Toru begins to adapt to campus life and the lonelin...
| ![Nervous Conditions [Import]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41MR%2Bw3TBjL._SL500_PIsitb-sticker-arrow-big,TopRight,35,-73_OU01_SS500_.jpg) | Nervous Conditions [Import]
Publication Date: October 10, 2004| ISBN-10: 0954702336 | ISBN-13: 978-0954702335| Edition: Second edition Dangaremba s acclaimed first novel tells of the coming-of-age of Tambu, and through her, also offers a profound portrait of African society. In awarding Nervous Conditions the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Africa in 1989, the judges described the book as a beautiful and sensitive exploration of the plight and struggle of an African people.... A distinguishing feature of this work is its courageous honesty and devastating understatement. ...
|  | The Good Earth (Enriched Classics)
Release Date: March 29, 2005ENDURING LITERATURE ILLUMINATED BY PRACTICAL SCHOLARSHIPA poignant tale about the life and labors of a Chinese farmer during the sweeping reign of the country¹s last emperor.EACH ENRICHED CLASSIC EDITION INCLUDES:• A concise introduction that gives readers important background information• A chronology of the author's life and work• A timeline of significant events that provides the book's historical context• An outline of key themes and plot points to help readers form their own interpretations• Detailed explanatory not...
|  | Before I Go to Sleep: A Novel
Release Date: February 7, 2012 Memories define us. So what if you lost yours every time you went to sleep? Your name, your identity, your past, even the people you love—all forgotten overnight. And the one person you trust may be telling you only half the story. Welcome to Christine’s life....
|  | Gilgamesh: A New English Version
Release Date: January 24, 2006| ISBN-10: 0743261690 | ISBN-13: 978-0743261692| Edition: 1ST Gilgamesh is considered one of the masterpieces of world literature, but until now there has not been a version that is a superlative literary text in its own right. Acclaimed by critics and scholars, Stephen Mitchell's version allows us to enter an ancient masterpiece as if for the first time, to see how startlingly beautiful, intelligent, and alive it is. ...
|  | The Call of the Wild (Dover Thrift Editions)
Publication Date: July 1, 1990| Series: Dover Thrift Editions A classic novel of adventure, drawn from London's own experiences as a Klondike adventurer, relating the story of a heroic dog, who, caught in the brutal life of the Alaska Gold Rush, ultimately faces a choice between living in man's world and returning to nature. Note. ...
|  | Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold
Publication Date: July 9, 1980“I saw well why the gods do not speak to us openly, nor let usanswer . . . Why should they hear the babble that we think we mean? Howcan they meet us face to face till we have faces?” Hauntedby the myth of Cupid and Psyche throughout his life, C.S. Lewis wrotethis, his last, extraordinary novel, to retell their story through thegaze of Psyche’s sister, Orual. Disfigured and embittered, Orual lovesher younger sister to a fault and suffers deeply when she is sent awayto Cupid, the God of the Mountain. Psyche is forbidden to look upon thegod&rsquo...
|  | In Cold Blood
Release Date: March 5, 2002On November 15, 1959, in the small town of Holcomb, Kansas, four members of the Clutter family were savagely murdered by blasts from a shotgun held a few inches from their faces.There was no apparent motive for the crime, and there were almost no clues.Five years, four months and twenty-nine days later, on April 14, 1965, Richard Eugene Hickock, aged thirty-three, and Perry Edward Smith, aged thirty-six, were hanged from the crime on a gallows in a warehouse in the Kansas State Penitentiary in Lansing, Kansa.In Cold Blood is the story of the lives and deaths of the...
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