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Hailed as one of the most enduringly popular works of the twentieth century, The Wind in the Willows is a classic of magical fancy and enchanting w...

The Signet Classics edition of the Shakespeare play that straddles the line between tragedy and comedy.When jealous King Leontes falsely accuses hi...

THE INSPIRATION FOR THE CLASIC FILM“Follow the yellow brick road!” Since it first appeared in 1900, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz has brought joy to g...

THE ACCOMPLISHED AND HEARTBREAKING FIRST NOVEL THAT CATAPULTED F. SCOTT FITZGERALD TO LITERARY FAME AT THE AGE OF TWENTY-THREEConsidered scandalous...

Published together for the first time are three of Ayn Rand's most compelling stage plays. The courtroom drama Night of January 16th, famous for it...

As part of the Signet Classics Shakespeare Series edited by Sylvan Barnet of Tufts University, this edition includes commentaries on both plays as ...

“Anyone who has ever wondered what it really means to be Black will find the answer in this book.”—MINNEAPOLIS TRIBUNETo Be Young, Gifted and Black...

His journey through the East began in 1271—when, still a teenager, he set out of Venice and found himself traversing the most exotic countries. His...

The rousing seafaring classic of adventure, pirates, and buried treasure“Fifteen men on a dead man’s chest—Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!”For sheer...

The Signet Classics edition of William Shakespeare's vision of the Trojan War.This story of doomed love explores the relationship between Troilus, ...

The Signet Classics edition of William Shakespeare's comedy of lovers misled.Romantic folly and false identites abound as an unusual love triangle ...

Tracing an awe-inspiring oceanic route from Boston, around Cape Horn, to the California coast, Two Years Before the Mast is both a riveting story o...

Harriet Beecher Stowe's timeless and moving novel, an incendiary work that fanned the embers of the struggle between free and slave states into the...

The dramatic autobiographical account of Booker T. Washington’s unique American experience—a struggle against social and ideological bias that he b...

They are the fearful images that have stalked humanity’s nightmares for centuries, supernatural creatures that feast on flesh and haunt the soul, m...

Fleeing an unhappy past in England, penniless Lucy Snowe starts life anew at a boarding school in cosmopolitan Villette, a stand-in for Brussels. T...

Henry David Thoreau reflects on life, politics, and society in these two inspiring masterworks: Walden and Civil Disobedience. In 1845, Thoreau mov...

The classic tale of love, privilege, and family from one of the nineteenth century's greatest novelists Back when New York was still young, so was ...

Ayn Rand's first published novel, a timeless story that explores the struggles of the individual against the state in Soviet Russia. First publ...

A superb analysis of how to listen to music intelligentlyLegendary composer Aaron Copland raises two basic questions: Are you hearing everything th...

Martin Luther King’s classic exploration of the events and forces behind the Civil Rights Movement—including his Letter from Birmingham Jail, April...

Winesburg, Ohio, gave birth to the American story cycle, for which William Faulkner, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and later writers were forever indebted. ...

From Kate Chopin’s turn-of-the-century Lousiana, to Gertrude Stein’s war-time Paris, to Alice Walker’s modern-day America, here are twenty-six shor...

Emily Brontë’s only novel and a gothic classic—a gripping story of obsession, revenge, and tragedy—now the feature film “Wuthering Heights” from Em...