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This 1856 novella from the master of fantasy and the supernatural is a brilliant and witty examination of man's innermost fantasies and fears.When Paul d'Aspremont travels to Naples to join Alicia Ward, his beautiful fiancé, he is surprised to see her grow pale under...

When the immoral libertine Monsieur de Franval marries and fathers a daughter, he decides to inculcate in her a sense of absolute freedom, an unconventional education that involves the two becoming secret lovers. But Franval's virtuous, God-fearing wife becomes suspicious and confronts him, setting...

On a train journey, Pozdnyshev tells his story to a stranger: how his relationship with his wife gradually deteriorated from one of love and passion to jealousy and resentfulness, culminating in a mad act of desperation while she practised Beethoven's Kreutzer Sonata with her...

When her wealthy family prepares to host a lavish summer party, the young, hitherto sheltered Laura Sheridan suddenly feels a kinship with the staff and the helpers hired to set up the venue for the festivities. As she learns of the death of one...

As a lifelong socialist, Shaw believed that economic inequality was a poison destroying every aspect of human life, perverting family affections and the relations between the sexes. According to him, all British institutions were “corrupted at the root by pecuniary interest” – and idealism,...

When the young American Frederick Winterbourne meets his compatriot Daisy Miller in the garden of a grand hotel in Switzerland, he is struck by her beauty, but slightly unsettled by her open ways and her flirtatiousness. Undeterred by this and by his aunt's disapproval,...

Dune #3. Now in a beautiful new package; book three in Frank Herbert's magnificent Dune Chronicles--one of the most significant sagas in the history of literary science fiction.The Children of Dune are twin siblings Leto and Ghanima Atreides, whose father, the Emperor Paul Muad'Dib,...

The Christmas season offers little cheer for Eileen Dunlop, an unassuming yet disturbed young woman trapped between her role as her alcoholic father’s caretaker in a home whose squalor is the talk of the neighborhood and a day job as a secretary at the...

What was once the western United States is now home to the Republic, a nation perpetually at war with its neighbors. Born into an elite family in one of the Republic's wealthiest districts, fifteen-year-old June is a prodigy being groomed for success in the...

This edition of Macbeth is edited with an introduction by series editor Stephen Orgel. and was recently repackaged with cover art by Manuja Waldia. Waldia received a Gold Medal from the Society of Illustrators for the Pelican Shakespeare series. The legendary Pelican Shakespeare series...

The Call Of The Wild is the  story of Buck, a dog stolen from his home and thrust  into the merciless life of the Arctic north to  endure hardship, bitter cold, and the savage  lawlessness of man and beast. White Fang  is the adventure of an animal -- part...

One day, the mother was a mother, but then one night, she was quite suddenly something else... An ambitious mother puts her art career on hold to stay at home with her newborn son, but the experience does not match her imagination. Two years...

Philip Roth crafts a devastating portrait of a nation’s broken promise—and one man’s fall from the American dream into chaos. Seymour "Swede" Levov has everything: a flawless athletic legacy, a beauty queen wife, a thriving family business, and a picture-perfect home in postwar suburban...

Foundation #2. As Hari Seldon struggles to perfect his revolutionary theory of psychohistory and ensure a place for humanity among the stars, the great Galactic Empire totters on the brink of apocalyptic collapse. Caught in the maelstrom are Seldon and all he holds dear,...

After the death of his father, fifteen-year-old Copper must confront inevitable and enormous change, including the aftermath of his own betrayal of his best friend. Between episodes of Copper’s emerging story, letters from his uncle share knowledge and offer advice on life’s big questions. ...

A classic tale of terror and grotesquerie by the original master of horror. H. P. Lovecraft proclaimed his Dunwich Horror "so fiendish" that his editor at Weird Tales "may not dare to print it." The editor, fortunately, knew a good thing when he saw...

Jacqueline Woodson's National Book Award and Newbery Honor winner is a powerful memoir that tells the moving story of her childhood in mesmerizing verse. Raised in South Carolina and New York, Woodson always felt halfway home in each place. In vivid poems, she shares...

A clockwork English gentleman. A reckless wager. A race against time. October 1872. When the unflappable Phileas Fogg bets his fortune that he can circle the globe in just eighty days, he sets off with his loyal valet, Passepartout, on an unforgettable adventure. From...

In the sleepy Flemish town of Quiquendone, life moves at a glacial pace—arguments are rare, romances stretch on for decades, and excitement is virtually unknown. That is, until the enigmatic Dr. Ox arrives with a bold plan to modernize the town’s lighting system. But...

This in-depth guide explores Benjamin Britten’s operatic adaptation of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, his seventh major opera, which premiered in 1960. Working alongside his partner, tenor Peter Pears, Britten transformed Shakespeare’s beloved comedy into a haunting and lyrical operatic experience—retaining much of the original...

A bold and eccentric attempt to reach the moon—via vials of dewdrops—sends the narrator on a strange and dreamlike journey. What begins as a fantastical expedition soon lands him in a landscape resembling the Garden of Eden, inhabited by Biblical patriarchs and overseen by...

At once retrospective and radically new, The Scarlet Letter portrays seventeenth-century Puritan New England, a time period irreversibly encoded in the American identity. Hawthorne built one of the most incisive and devastating human dramas ever written out of a community and its outcasts: Hester...

Narnia... a land frozen in eternal winter, a country waiting to be set free. On a daring quest to save a life, two friends are hurled into another world, where an evil sorceress seeks to enslave them. But then the lion Aslan's song weaves...

Four adventurous siblings—Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy Pevensie—step through a wardrobe door and into the land of Narnia, a land frozen in eternal winter and enslaved by the power of the White Witch. But when almost all hope is lost, the return of the...

Jude was seven years old when her parents were murdered and she and her two sisters were stolen away to live in the treacherous High Court of Faerie. Ten years later, Jude wants nothing more than to belong there, despite her mortality. But many...

A powerful curse forces the exiled Queen of Faerie to choose between ambition and humanity in this highly anticipated and jaw-dropping finale. Power is much easier to acquire than it is to hold onto. Jude learned this lesson when she released her control over...

Life in the community where Jonas lives is idyllic. Designated birthmothers produce newchildren, who are assigned to appropriate family units. Citizens are assigned their partners and their jobs. No one thinks to ask questions. Everyone obeys. Everyone is the same. Except Jonas. Not until...

Sasha has had it. She cannot bring herself to respond to another inane, “urgent” email or participate in the corporate employee joyfulness program. She hasn’t seen her friends in months. Sex? Seems like a lot of effort. Even cooking dinner takes far too much...

One of Shakespeare’s great tragedies—a sweeping tale of politics, passion and power set against the backdrop of ancient Rome and Egypt. At its heart is the doomed love between Mark Antony, a Roman general torn between duty and desire, and Cleopatra, the fiercely intelligent...

Mallory Greenleaf walked away from the chess world years ago, vowing never to return after it fractured her family. Now her life is about keeping things together: working a thankless job, caring for her mom and sisters and avoiding anything that might stir up...

Misery Lark has always been the outcast of her powerful Vampyre lineage, living quietly among humans to escape the shadow of her father’s rule. But peace comes at a cost. To uphold a tenuous treaty between Vampyres and their bitter enemies, the Weres, Misery...

Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book 1. When a substitute teacher transforms into a deadly Fury and attacks him, Percy Jackson discovers the truth: he's the son of Poseidon, god of the sea, and a central player in an ancient prophecy. Accused of stealing...

Sadie Wen is a high-achieving student who secretly vents her frustrations in a folder of unsent emails—messages she never intended anyone to read, especially those about her academic rival, Julius Gong. But when the emails are suddenly sent out, Sadie becomes the most unpopular...

In a kingdom ruled by fear, hope is rebellion—and love could be the deadliest weapon of all. Joseon, 1506. Under the bloodstained reign of King Yeonsan, the people are silenced. Books are burned. Girls are stolen. And no one dares defy the crown—until seventeen-year-old...

What if no one remembered you... but one person did? In 1714, in a quiet corner of France, a desperate young woman strikes a bargain with a dark god: she will live forever—but be remembered by no one. Not a friend. Not a lover....

Maya Killgore is 23, navigating graduate school and uncertainty about her future—when she crosses paths with 38-year-old biotech executive Conor Harkness, her brother’s best friend. Their attraction is undeniable, yet laden with cliché: the age gap, the career imbalance, and the lingering moral question...

A timeless guide to the creative life from one of literature’s most profound voices. At the dawn of the twentieth century, poet Rainer Maria Rilke exchanged a series of heartfelt letters with a young aspiring writer—a correspondence that would become a lasting source of...

What if you were told the exact moment you'd die? Would it change how you lived? On her twenty-eighth birthday, Allegra Patel—a cheerful flight attendant used to smoothing turbulence in the sky—faces a far more unnerving kind of disruption. During a frustrating delay, a...

In 18th-century Ghana, two half-sisters are born in separate villages, unaware of each other's existence. One is married off to a British colonizer and lives in luxury within the Cape Coast Castle. The other is seized during a raid, imprisoned in that same fortress,...

Emily Wilde, 3. The story follows Professor Emily Wilde, a brilliant but introverted scholar of faerie lore, as she travels to the fae realm of Silva Lupi with her fiancé, the charming and mysterious fae prince Wendell Bambleby. Wendell has returned home to claim...

Written after the sudden loss of her beloved father in the summer of 2020, Notes on Grief unfolds against the backdrop of a world transformed by the COVID-19 pandemic. Separated from her family during lockdowns, Adichie confronts the shock of his passing, the pain of...

Serena Paris is orphaned, packless, and utterly unique. Revealed as the first Human–Were hybrid, she was meant to bridge a centuries-old divide between species. Instead, her existence has made her a marked woman—caught in the deadly political crossfire of Weres, Vampyres, and Humans alike....

Ruth Jefferson has spent more than twenty years as a labor and delivery nurse in a Connecticut hospital, but nothing prepares her for the day she is abruptly removed from a newborn’s care. The baby’s parents, identified as white supremacists, demand that Ruth—who is...

When Lockwood, the new tenant of Thrushcross Grange on the bleak Yorkshire moors, is forced to seek shelter one night at Wuthering Heights, the home of his landlord. There he discovers the history of the tempestuous events that took place years before- of the...

Emily Walker likes her life orderly and undisturbed—especially by Jack Bennett, her long-standing nemesis. He is nothing like the swoon-worthy heroes she invents in her secret life as a romance novelist, which is why she was more than content when he left Rome, Kentucky,...

Annie Walker is determined to find her perfect match—someone who fits neatly into her calm, contented life running the flower shop in Rome, Kentucky. But in a town where everyone knows everyone, eligible men are in short supply. Is it too late to become...

After all the pain between them, can they find their way back to each other? Ruby Bell thought what she shared with James Beaufort was something truly special. All Ruby wants is her old life back—back to the days before Maxton Hall, before James...

Can they save themselves—or will they destroy each other? Ruby is reeling: her worst nightmare has come true, and now Oxford—and all the dreams she thought were finally within reach—hang in the balance. Even worse, everything points to James as the one responsible, despite...

The Spiderwick Chronicles #1 After finding a mysterious, handmade field guide in the attic of the ramshackle old mansion they’ve just moved into, Jared; his twin brother, Simon; and their older sister, Mallory, discover that there’s a magical and dangerous world existing parallel to...

They come from different worlds, and yet they are meant for each other. After earning a scholarship to Maxton Hall, one of England’s most prestigious and expensive private schools, all she wants is to keep her head down, work hard, and secure a place...