CLASSICS

This volume, first published in 1856, includes three of the tales widely considered to be among Melville's masterpieces. In 'Bartleby, the Scrivener', a Wall Street lawyer hires a melancholy young...

''There is only one book to a man,'' John Steinbeck wrote of East of Eden. ''It haseverything in it I have been able to learn about my craft or profession...

"The more I know of the world, the more am I convinced that I shallnever see a man whom I can really love. I require so much!"Marianne Dashwood wears her...

'Shoot all the Bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a Mockingbird.' A lawyer's advice to his children as he defends the...

Franz Kafka's 1915 novella of unexplained horror and nightmarish transformation became a worldwide classic and remains a century later one of the most widely read works of fiction in the...

In The Descent of Man Darwin addresses many of the issues raised by his notorious Origin of Species: finding in the traits and instincts of animals the origins of the...

"The more I know of the world, the more am I convinced that I shallnever see a man whom I can really love. I require so much!"Marianne Dashwood wears her...

Daniel Defoe's bawdy tale of a woman's struggle for independence and redemption, Moll Flanders is edited with an introduction and notes by David Blewett in Penguin Classics.Born in Newgate prison...

'Shoot all the Bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a Mockingbird.'A lawyer's advice to his children as he defends the real...

Valley of the Squinting Windows is a classic Irish novel set in central Ireland c. 1914-16 in Garradrimna is a tiny village where everyone is interested in everyone else's business....