"Just two years after completing Crime and Punishment, Dostoevsky produced a second novel with a very different man at its center. In The Idiot, the saintly Prince Myshkin returns to Russia from a Swiss sanatorium and finds himself a stranger in a society obsessed with wealth, power, and sexual conquest. He soon becomes entangled in a love triangle with a notorious kept woman, Nastasya, and a beautiful young girl, Aglaya. Extortion and scandal escalate...

The story of Thomas Sutpen, an enigmatic stranger who came to Jefferson in the early 1830s to wrest his mansion out of the muddy bottoms of the north Mississippi wilderness. He was a man, Faulkner said, "who wanted sons and the sons destroyed him."

Translators of poems include Stephen Edward De Vere, John Dryden, Francis William Newman, Theodore Martin, Philip Francis, Anna Seward, Francis Howes, Arthur S. Way, Alexander Falconer Murison, John Conington, John Charles Baring, E.C. Cox, Franklin P. Adams, Roswell Martin Field, William Dowe, Louis Untermeyer, Elizabeth Carter, Austin Dobson, Lucius Morris Beebe, Thomas Charles Baring, Edward Yardley, William Sinclair Marris, Edward Sullivan, J.H....

Tells the stories of Cortes' subjugation of the Aztecs in Mexico and Pizzaro's subjugation of the Incas in Peru.

It is a cold-hearted, tough-as-nails rags-to-riches story told in first person narration by a hero who has no scruples. It tells the story of Harry Bogen who rises from $15-a-week shipping clerk to become the president of 7th Avenue's top clothing line. He will stab anybody in the back to get what he wants. His early success gives him the joy of being able to buy his mother some new furniture and new clothes. But as he gains money and power, that's...

"A portrait of a Bostonian and of the traditionbound, gilded society in which in which he lived. The story of three generations of Apley men, a story of the maturing of America, a story of the golden era of American security from 1866 to 1933. It is a fascinating, warm, witty and delightful story." --

The adventures and experiences of Danny, his friends, and his house set in Monterrey, California just before World War II.

Presents Thoreau's reflections on his experience living alone in the woods surrounding Walden Pond as well as his philosophy concerning man's need to reevaluate life and commune with nature.