Category
Classic Fiction: Literary and General
The Bell 2001
A lay community of thoroughly mixed-up people is encamped outside Imber Abbey, home of an order of sequestered nuns. A new bell is being installed when suddenly the old bell, a legendary symbol of religion and magic, is rediscovered. And then things begin to change.
Meanwhile the wise old Abbess...
On the Seventh Day, Book 1
By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept tells the heartfelt story of Pilar, a strong yet guarded woman, and her childhood friend, now a charismatic spiritual leader. Reuniting after eleven years, their relationship takes them on an emotional and spiritual odyssey in a small village in the French...
The Castle 1992
When a man known only as K. arrives in a remote village claiming to have been summoned as the Castle’s land surveyor, he expects to begin his work without delay. Instead, he finds himself entangled in a web of unclear authority, shifting rules, and distant officials who remain just out of reach.
As...
"If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to...
In the vibrant streets of New Orleans, Ignatius J. Reilly lives with his long-suffering mother, railing against modern society from the comfort of his cluttered bedroom. Armed with a sharp tongue, a medieval worldview, and an inflated sense of his own intellect, Ignatius considers himself a defender...
The Debut 2018
Since childhood, Ruth Weiss had been escaping from life into books, and from the attentions of her eccentric parents into the gentler warmth and company of friends and lovers. Now at forty years old, an academic devoted to the study of Balzac, she believes that literature has ruined her life and...
Delta Wedding 2020
From one our most treasured American writers, Delta Wedding is a vivid and charming portrait of a large southern family, the Fairchilds, who live on a plantation in the Mississippi delta. The story, set in 1923, is exquisitely woven from the ordinary events of family life, centered around the visit...
Dracula 2024
Originally published in 1897, *Dracula* is one of the most enduring and influential works of literature ever written, spawning countless adaptations and reimaginings from every generation of readers.
Stoker’s epistolary novel follows young English lawyer Jonathan Harker who arrives in Transylvania...
Fahrenheit 451 2012
Guy Montag is a fireman. His job is to destroy the most illegal of commodities, the printed book, along with the houses in which they are hidden. Montag never questions the destruction and ruin his actions produce, returning each day to his bland life and wife, Mildred, who spends all day with her...
A Farewell to Arms 1997
Known for its autobiographical elements, A Farewell to Arms tells the story of Frederic Henry, an American lieutenant stationed in Italy during World War I. There, he meets and falls in love with an English nurse, Catherine Barkley. Though the horrors of the war threaten to pull them apart, Henry...
Published in 1940, For Whom the Bell Tolls tells of loyalty and courage, love and defeat, and the tragic death of an ideal. Robert Jordan is a young American in the International Brigades attached to an antifascist guerilla unit in the mountains of Spain. In his portrayal of Jordan’s love for the...
Frankenstein 2025
Frankenstein has terrified and delighted readers since its initial publication in 1818. Victor Frankenstein’s Creature—stitched together from the limbs of the dead, taken from “the dissecting room and the slaughterhouse”—is a grotesque being who, rejected by his maker and starved of human...
Free Fall 2026
Sammy Mountjoy is an artist who has risen from poverty to see his pictures hung in the Tate Gallery. Swept into World War II, he is captured as a German prisoner of war, threatened with torture and locked in a cell of total darkness. He emerges transfigured by his ordeal, realising how his choices...
The Garden of Eden 1995
A sensational bestseller when it appeared in 1986, The Garden of Eden is the last uncompleted novel of Ernest Hemingway, which he worked on intermittently from 1946 until his death in 1961. Set on the Côte d'Azur in the 1920s, it is the story of a young American writer, David Bourne, his glamorous...
Angle of Repose 1992
Confined to a wheelchair and struggling with his own failed marriage, historian Lyman Ward retreats to his grandparents’ old home in California to write about their lives. Through letters, journals, and memories, he reconstructs the story of his grandmother, Susan Burling Ward, a talented artist who...
The Good Apprentice 2001
Edward Baltram is overwhelmed with guilt. His nasty little prank has gone horribly wrong: He has fed his closest friend a sandwich laced with a hallucinogenic drug and the young man has fallen out of a window to his death. Edward searches for redemption through a reunion with his famous father, the...
A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories is a collection of short fiction set largely in the American South, where ordinary lives are disrupted by moments of violence, revelation, and moral reckoning. The stories follow a range of characters—families, drifters, preachers, and outsiders—whose...
Herc 2025
This should be the story of Hercules: his twelve labors, his endless adventures… Everyone’s favorite hero, right? Well, it’s not. This is the story of everyone else.
Alcmene: Herc’s mother (she has knives everywhere)
Hylas: Herc’s first friend (they were more than friends)
Megara: Princess of...
Intruder in the Dust 1991
A classic Faulkner novel which explores the lives of a family of characters in the South. An aging black who has long refused to adopt the black's traditionally servile attitude is wrongfully accused of murdering a white man.
A collection of stories linked by a mysterious and forbidden play, The King in Yellow, whose contents are said to drive those who read it into madness. Across these tales, reality begins to fray as characters encounter strange symbols, shifting identities, and glimpses of a hidden world where the...
It’s America in 1962. Slavery is legal once again. The few Jews who still survive hide under assumed names.
In this dystopian world, we meet characters like Frank Frink, a dealer of counterfeit Americana who is himself hiding his Jewish ancestry; Nobusuke Tagomi, the Japanese trade minister in San...
Amerika 1996
Kafka’s first and funniest novel, Amerika tells the story of the young immigrant Karl Rossmann who, after an embarrassing sexual misadventure, finds himself “packed off to America” by his parents. Expected to redeem himself in this magical land of opportunity, young Karl is swept up instead in a...
The Metamorphosis 1972
When traveling salesman Gregor Samsa wakes one morning to find himself transformed into a monstrous insect, his ordinary life is instantly undone. Unable to leave his room or communicate with those around him, Gregor becomes trapped within the very home he once supported.
As his condition isolates...
From one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century, the author of The Metamorphosis and The Trial: a collection that brings together the stories he allowed to be published during his lifetime, including his best-known tale of a man who wakes up transformed into an insect.
To Max Brod, his...
Nuns and Soldiers 2002
Set in London and in the South of France, this brilliantly structured novel centers on two women: Gertrude Openshaw, bereft from the recent death of her husband, yet awakening to passion; and Anne Cavidge, who has returned in doubt from many years in a nunnery, only to encounter her personal Christ....
Santiago, an aging Cuban fisherman, has gone eighty-four days without catching a single fish. Dismissed as unlucky by others and pitied by those who know him, he remains determined to prove his skill and endurance. Setting out alone into the Gulf Stream, he ventures farther than usual, driven by...
Perfume 2001
In the slums of eighteenth-century France, the infant Jean-Baptiste Grenouille is born with one sublime gift—an absolute sense of smell. As a boy, he lives to decipher the odors of Paris, and apprentices himself to a prominent perfumer who teaches him the ancient art of mixing precious oils and...
Aphrodite 2025
Aphrodite saw the gods on Mount Olympus and decided she wanted a piece of what they had. Only problem is, she’s not a goddess, just a lowly being who's supposed to remain in a distant cave, keeping the threads of Fate woven neatly. But Aphrodite’s never let anyone tell her what to do…
Weaving...
Schindler's List 1993
Based on a true story, Schindler's List follows Oskar Schindler, an unlikely hero whose transformation unfolds against the backdrop of Nazi-occupied Poland during World War II. A businessman and opportunist at the outset, Schindler arrives in Kraków seeking profit, exploiting the cheap labor of...
The Sea, the Sea 2001
Charles Arrowby, leading light of England's theatrical set, retires from glittering London to an isolated home by the sea. He plans to write a memoir about his great love affair with Clement Makin, his mentor, both professionally and personally, and amuse himself with Lizzie, an actress he has...
The Shipping News 1994
At thirty-six, Quoyle, a third-rate newspaperman, is wrenched violently out of his world when his two-timing wife meets her just desserts. He retreats with his two daughters to his ancestral home on the starkly beautiful Newfoundland coast, where a rich cast of local characters all play a part in...
In the small town of Maycomb, Alabama, during the Great Depression, young Scout Finch grows up alongside her brother Jem under the watchful guidance of their father, Atticus, a principled lawyer. Through long summers and quiet school days, the children become fascinated by their reclusive neighbor,...
The Trial 1992
On the morning of his thirtieth birthday, Josef K. is arrested—though no one will tell him why.
As he continues his ordinary life, Josef is drawn into a strange and unsettling legal process, navigating a maze of courts, officials, and opaque procedures. The charge against him is never explained,...
Perfume 2001
In the slums of eighteenth-century France, the infant Jean-Baptiste Grenouille is born with one sublime gift—an absolute sense of smell. As a boy, he lives to decipher the odors of Paris, and apprentices himself to a prominent perfumer who teaches him the ancient art of mixing precious oils and...
The Metamorphosis 1972
When traveling salesman Gregor Samsa wakes one morning to find himself transformed into a monstrous insect, his ordinary life is instantly undone. Unable to leave his room or communicate with those around him, Gregor becomes trapped within the very home he once supported.
As his condition isolates...
In the small town of Maycomb, Alabama, during the Great Depression, young Scout Finch grows up alongside her brother Jem under the watchful guidance of their father, Atticus, a principled lawyer. Through long summers and quiet school days, the children become fascinated by their reclusive neighbor,...
Free Fall March 3, 2026
Sammy Mountjoy is an artist who has risen from poverty to see his pictures hung in the Tate Gallery. Swept into World War II, he is captured as a German prisoner of war, threatened with torture and locked in a cell of total darkness. He emerges transfigured by his ordeal, realising how his choices...
Aphrodite November 11, 2025
Aphrodite saw the gods on Mount Olympus and decided she wanted a piece of what they had. Only problem is, she’s not a goddess, just a lowly being who's supposed to remain in a distant cave, keeping the threads of Fate woven neatly. But Aphrodite’s never let anyone tell her what to do…
Weaving...
Frankenstein October 28, 2025
Frankenstein has terrified and delighted readers since its initial publication in 1818. Victor Frankenstein’s Creature—stitched together from the limbs of the dead, taken from “the dissecting room and the slaughterhouse”—is a grotesque being who, rejected by his maker and starved of human...
Herc September 9, 2025
This should be the story of Hercules: his twelve labors, his endless adventures… Everyone’s favorite hero, right? Well, it’s not. This is the story of everyone else.
Alcmene: Herc’s mother (she has knives everywhere)
Hylas: Herc’s first friend (they were more than friends)
Megara: Princess of...
Dracula August 27, 2024
Originally published in 1897, *Dracula* is one of the most enduring and influential works of literature ever written, spawning countless adaptations and reimaginings from every generation of readers.
Stoker’s epistolary novel follows young English lawyer Jonathan Harker who arrives in Transylvania...
Delta Wedding June 2, 2020
From one our most treasured American writers, Delta Wedding is a vivid and charming portrait of a large southern family, the Fairchilds, who live on a plantation in the Mississippi delta. The story, set in 1923, is exquisitely woven from the ordinary events of family life, centered around the visit...
The Debut June 12, 2018
Since childhood, Ruth Weiss had been escaping from life into books, and from the attentions of her eccentric parents into the gentler warmth and company of friends and lovers. Now at forty years old, an academic devoted to the study of Balzac, she believes that literature has ruined her life and...
The Man in the High Castle January 24, 2012
It’s America in 1962. Slavery is legal once again. The few Jews who still survive hide under assumed names.
In this dystopian world, we meet characters like Frank Frink, a dealer of counterfeit Americana who is himself hiding his Jewish ancestry; Nobusuke Tagomi, the Japanese trade minister in San...
Fahrenheit 451 January 10, 2012
Guy Montag is a fireman. His job is to destroy the most illegal of commodities, the printed book, along with the houses in which they are hidden. Montag never questions the destruction and ruin his actions produce, returning each day to his bland life and wife, Mildred, who spends all day with her...
By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept May 23, 2006
On the Seventh Day, Book 1
By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept tells the heartfelt story of Pilar, a strong yet guarded woman, and her childhood friend, now a charismatic spiritual leader. Reuniting after eleven years, their relationship takes them on an emotional and spiritual odyssey in a small village in the French...
The King in Yellow and Other Horror Stories July 30, 2004
A collection of stories linked by a mysterious and forbidden play, The King in Yellow, whose contents are said to drive those who read it into madness. Across these tales, reality begins to fray as characters encounter strange symbols, shifting identities, and glimpses of a hidden world where the...
Nuns and Soldiers July 30, 2002
Set in London and in the South of France, this brilliantly structured novel centers on two women: Gertrude Openshaw, bereft from the recent death of her husband, yet awakening to passion; and Anne Cavidge, who has returned in doubt from many years in a nunnery, only to encounter her personal Christ....
The Good Apprentice December 1, 2001
Edward Baltram is overwhelmed with guilt. His nasty little prank has gone horribly wrong: He has fed his closest friend a sandwich laced with a hallucinogenic drug and the young man has fallen out of a window to his death. Edward searches for redemption through a reunion with his famous father, the...
The Bell December 1, 2001
A lay community of thoroughly mixed-up people is encamped outside Imber Abbey, home of an order of sequestered nuns. A new bell is being installed when suddenly the old bell, a legendary symbol of religion and magic, is rediscovered. And then things begin to change.
Meanwhile the wise old Abbess...
The Sea, the Sea March 1, 2001
Charles Arrowby, leading light of England's theatrical set, retires from glittering London to an isolated home by the sea. He plans to write a memoir about his great love affair with Clement Makin, his mentor, both professionally and personally, and amuse himself with Lizzie, an actress he has...
Perfume February 13, 2001
In the slums of eighteenth-century France, the infant Jean-Baptiste Grenouille is born with one sublime gift—an absolute sense of smell. As a boy, he lives to decipher the odors of Paris, and apprentices himself to a prominent perfumer who teaches him the ancient art of mixing precious oils and...
A Farewell to Arms April 1, 1997
Known for its autobiographical elements, A Farewell to Arms tells the story of Frederic Henry, an American lieutenant stationed in Italy during World War I. There, he meets and falls in love with an English nurse, Catherine Barkley. Though the horrors of the war threaten to pull them apart, Henry...
Amerika July 2, 1996
Kafka’s first and funniest novel, Amerika tells the story of the young immigrant Karl Rossmann who, after an embarrassing sexual misadventure, finds himself “packed off to America” by his parents. Expected to redeem himself in this magical land of opportunity, young Karl is swept up instead in a...
For Whom the Bell Tolls June 10, 1996
Published in 1940, For Whom the Bell Tolls tells of loyalty and courage, love and defeat, and the tragic death of an ideal. Robert Jordan is a young American in the International Brigades attached to an antifascist guerilla unit in the mountains of Spain. In his portrayal of Jordan’s love for the...
The Metamorphosis & Other Stories November 14, 1995
From one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century, the author of The Metamorphosis and The Trial: a collection that brings together the stories he allowed to be published during his lifetime, including his best-known tale of a man who wakes up transformed into an insect.
To Max Brod, his...
The Garden of Eden September 6, 1995
A sensational bestseller when it appeared in 1986, The Garden of Eden is the last uncompleted novel of Ernest Hemingway, which he worked on intermittently from 1946 until his death in 1961. Set on the Côte d'Azur in the 1920s, it is the story of a young American writer, David Bourne, his glamorous...
The Old Man and the Sea May 5, 1995
Santiago, an aging Cuban fisherman, has gone eighty-four days without catching a single fish. Dismissed as unlucky by others and pitied by those who know him, he remains determined to prove his skill and endurance. Setting out alone into the Gulf Stream, he ventures farther than usual, driven by...
The Shipping News June 1, 1994
At thirty-six, Quoyle, a third-rate newspaperman, is wrenched violently out of his world when his two-timing wife meets her just desserts. He retreats with his two daughters to his ancestral home on the starkly beautiful Newfoundland coast, where a rich cast of local characters all play a part in...
A Confederacy of Dunces January 21, 1994
In the vibrant streets of New Orleans, Ignatius J. Reilly lives with his long-suffering mother, railing against modern society from the comfort of his cluttered bedroom. Armed with a sharp tongue, a medieval worldview, and an inflated sense of his own intellect, Ignatius considers himself a defender...
Schindler's List December 1, 1993
Based on a true story, Schindler's List follows Oskar Schindler, an unlikely hero whose transformation unfolds against the backdrop of Nazi-occupied Poland during World War II. A businessman and opportunist at the outset, Schindler arrives in Kraków seeking profit, exploiting the cheap labor of...
The Castle November 3, 1992
When a man known only as K. arrives in a remote village claiming to have been summoned as the Castle’s land surveyor, he expects to begin his work without delay. Instead, he finds himself entangled in a web of unclear authority, shifting rules, and distant officials who remain just out of reach.
As...
The Trial June 30, 1992
On the morning of his thirtieth birthday, Josef K. is arrested—though no one will tell him why.
As he continues his ordinary life, Josef is drawn into a strange and unsettling legal process, navigating a maze of courts, officials, and opaque procedures. The charge against him is never explained,...
Angle of Repose May 1, 1992
Confined to a wheelchair and struggling with his own failed marriage, historian Lyman Ward retreats to his grandparents’ old home in California to write about their lives. Through letters, journals, and memories, he reconstructs the story of his grandmother, Susan Burling Ward, a talented artist who...
Intruder in the Dust October 29, 1991
A classic Faulkner novel which explores the lives of a family of characters in the South. An aging black who has long refused to adopt the black's traditionally servile attitude is wrongfully accused of murdering a white man.
The Catcher in the Rye May 1, 1991
"If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to...
To Kill a Mockingbird October 11, 1988
In the small town of Maycomb, Alabama, during the Great Depression, young Scout Finch grows up alongside her brother Jem under the watchful guidance of their father, Atticus, a principled lawyer. Through long summers and quiet school days, the children become fascinated by their reclusive neighbor,...
A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories August 23, 1977
A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories is a collection of short fiction set largely in the American South, where ordinary lives are disrupted by moments of violence, revelation, and moral reckoning. The stories follow a range of characters—families, drifters, preachers, and outsiders—whose...
The Metamorphosis February 1, 1972
When traveling salesman Gregor Samsa wakes one morning to find himself transformed into a monstrous insect, his ordinary life is instantly undone. Unable to leave his room or communicate with those around him, Gregor becomes trapped within the very home he once supported.
As his condition isolates...