The Rise of Silas Lapham

Fall of the House of Usher and Other, Th

Together in one indispensable volume, "The Time Machine "and "The Invisible Man "are masterpieces of irony and imaginative vision from H. G. Wells, the father of science fiction. "The Time Machine" conveys the Time Traveller into the distant future and an extraordinary world. There, stranded on a slowly dying Earth, he discovers two bizarre races: the effete Eloi and the subterranean Morlocks a ha...

"Two worst things as can happen to a child is never to have his own way – or always to have it." When her parents die, Mary, spoiled, yet unloved, is shipped from India to England to live with her absent uncle. When she discovers a secret garden, and starts to tend to it, like the flowers, she comes to life. One day she hears a cry from within the mansion, and soon learns that she is not the ...

Paradise Lost and Other Poems

Poems by Robert Frost (Centennial Edition)

Ivanov * The Sea Gull * Uncle Vanya * The Three Sisters * The Cherry Orchard “Let the things that happen onstage be just as complex and yet just as simple as they are in life,” Chekhov once declared. “For instance, people are having a meal, just having a meal, but at the same time, their happiness is being created, or their lives are being smashed up.” So it is that his plays express life throu...

A collection of six short novels from the celebrated author of The Portrait of a Lady and Washington Square… By turns chilling, funny, tragic, and profound, Henry James’s short novels allow readers to experience the full range of his skills and vision. The title story, a chilling masterpiece of psychological terror, mixes the phantoms of the mind with those of the supernatural. “Daisy Miller,”...

Jacob's Room