Set in the Parisian underworld and plotted like a detective story, Les Misérables follows the adventures of Jean Valjean, originally an honest peasant, who was imprisoned for nineteen years for...
A Muslim cleric predicts planes will fall from the sky, and America braces for a terrorist attack. But when the prediction proves true, the real cause is far more terrifying: a microbe that eats...
Called by Time magazine, "the premier spy novelist of his time and perhaps of all time," John LeCarré has elevated the spy novel to its highest point. Call for the Dead is his first novel...
11 Days in December: Christmas at the Bulge, 1944 tells the dramatic story of one of the grimmest points of World War II and its Christmas Eve turning toward victory.
Often considered to be Jane Austen's finest work, Emma is the story of a charmingly self-deluded heroine whose injudicious matchmaking schemes often lead to substantial mortification. Emma,...
E. M. Forster's celebrated social comedy explores romantic intrigue and prim propriety among a colorful cast of Edwardian characters. Lucy Honeychurch, a young English woman traveling in Italy with...
