Browsing: Classics

How does “happily ever after” really work? With such different personalities, Darcy and Elizabeth surely need to work on their…

A “brilliant and compelling” classic (The Spectator) from a Pulitzer and Nobel Prize–winning author hailed as “one of America’s greatest writers” (The Times): In the Deep South, the Bundren family bears the body of wife and mother Addie on a laborious journey to Jefferson, Mississippi.

Written when Ernest Hemingway was thirty years old and lauded as the best American novel to emerge from World War…

A “rip-roaring… classic” tale (Publishers Weekly): In 1930s Los Angeles, Mildred strives for a better life — but her love for her selfish daughter could be her undoing. “Nobody has quite pulled it off the way Cain does” (Tom Wolfe).

A New York Times bestseller from the author of Rosemary’s Baby: When Joanna and her family move to Stepford, they soon realize that a dark secret lurks under the town’s seemingly perfect facade… “Masterful, ridiculously well-crafted” (Esquire), with over 5,800 five-star ratings on Goodreads!

James M. Cain, virtuoso of the roman noir, gives us a tautly narrated and excruciatingly suspenseful story in Double Indemnity, an X-ray…

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize“A masterpiece. . . . It has the completeness, [the] finality, that grips and exalts and…

Willa Cather’s best known novel is an epic–almost mythic–story of a single human life lived simply in the silence of…

Jean Webster (1876-1916) was an American novelist, playwright, and social activist. During the start of the twentieth century (1912), Webster…

In the summer of 1960, an unknowable evil begins to pervade the town of Elm Haven… A Bram Stoker Award–winning author delivers chills and thrills in this “outstandingly eerie horror story” (Publishers Weekly) with over 6,100 five-star Goodreads ratings.