Fiction - Classics

" Musil belongs in the company of Joyce, Proust, Kafka, and Svevo. . . . (This translation) is a literay and intellectual event of singular importance." --New Republic.Author: Robert MusilPublisher: VintagePublished: 12/09/1996Pages: 1072Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 2.35lbsSize: 7.90h x 5.20w x 2.20dISBN: 9780679768029Review Citation(s): New...

The dramatic true account of the two legendary lions that terrorized railway workers during the construction of the Uganda Railway in East Africa at the end of the nineteenth century.In 1898, Lieutenant Colonel John Henry Patterson was sent to British East Africa to oversee...

The Mansion completes Faulkner's great trilogy of the Snopes family in the mythical county of Yoknapatawpha, Mississippi, which also includes The Hamlet and The Town. Beginning with the murder of Jack Houston, and ending with the murder of Flem Snopes, it traces the downfall...

The 75th anniversary edition of The Martian Chronicles, a seminal work in Ray Bradbury's career, whose extraordinary power and imagination remain undimmed by time's passage. In The Martian Chronicles, Ray Bradbury, America's preeminent storyteller, imagines a place of hope, dreams, and metaphor--of crystal pillars...

The Masque of the Red Death By Edgar Allan PoeAuthor: Edgar Allan PoePublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublished: 05/31/2018Pages: 26Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.11lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.05dISBN: 9781719299343Accelerated Reader:Reading Level: 7.9Point Value: 0.5Interest Level: Upper GradeQuiz #/Name: 8632 / Masque of the Red DeathThis...

A 50th-anniversary Deluxe Edition of the incomparable 20th-century masterpiece of satire and fantasy, in a newly revised version of the acclaimed Pevear and Volokhonsky translation Nothing in the whole of literature compares with The Master and Margarita. One spring afternoon, the Devil, trailing fire...

This is the acclaimed, bestselling translation of Mikhail Bulgakov's masterwork, an undisputed classic of Russian and world literature. "A soaring, dazzling novel." (New York Times) A novel of inexhaustible energy, humor, and philosophical depth, The Master and Margarita is an audacious revision of the...

A masterful translation of one of the great novels of the 20th century Nothing in the whole of literature compares with The Master and Margarita. Full of pungency and wit, this luminous work is Bulgakov's crowning achievement, skilfully blending magical and realistic elements, grotesque...

A "soaring, dazzling novel" (The New York Times), Mirra Ginsburg's critically-acclaimed translation of one of the most important and best-loved modern classics in world literatureThe Master and Margarita has been captivating readers around the world ever since its first publication in 1967. Written during...

The underground masterpiece of twentieth-century Russian fiction, Mikhail Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita was written during Stalin's regime and could not be published until many years after its author's death.When the devil arrives in 1930s Moscow, consorting with a retinue of odd associates--including a...

The Masterpiece is the tragic story of Claude Lantier, an ambitious and talented young artist who has come from the provinces to conquer Paris but is conquered instead by the flaws of his own genius. Set in the 1860s and 1870s, it is the...

"Loud, slap dash and uproarious...extraordinarily original and funny."--New York TimesNow, for the first time in a standalone edition, Thornton Wilder's brilliant, hilarious play which was adapted into the hit Broadway musical Hello, Dolly with an afterword by Wilder's nephew, Tappan Wilder.Horace Vandergelder, a wealthy...

From the master of Southern Gothic, Carson McCullers's coming-of-age story like no other about a young girl's fascination with her brother's wedding.Twelve-year-old Frankie is utterly, hopelessly bored with life until she hears about her older brother's wedding. Bolstered by lively conversations with her family...

A collection of short stories about Sherlock Holmes, the world's greatest detective. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, Arthur Conan Doyle's second collection of stories featuring the world's greatest detective, includes eleven tales of intrigue that will puzzle all but the most astute of readers....

Don your Lincoln green and prepare for merriment! What could be merrier than joining Robin Hood's band of Merry Men for adventures in the English countryside? Pirates of the trees rather than the seas, Little John, Friar Tuck, Will Scarlet, and many others ensure...

Franz Kafka's 1915 novella of unexplained horror and nightmarish transformation became a worldwide classic and remains a century later one of the most widely read works of fiction in the world. It is the story of traveling salesman Gregor Samsa, who wakes one morning...

"When Gregor Samsa woke up one morning from unsettling dreams, he found himself changed in his bed into a monstrous vermin." With this startling, bizarre, yet surprisingly funny first sentence, Kafka begins his masterpiece, The Metamorphosis. It is the story of a young man...

Enriched Classics offer readers accessible editions of great works of literature enhanced by helpful notes and commentary. Each book includes educational tools alongside the text, enabling students and readers alike to gain a deeper and more developed understanding of the writer and their work....

The Metamorphosis is a novella by Franz Kafka, first published in 1915. It has been cited as one of the seminal works of fiction of the 20th century and is studied in colleges and universities across the Western world. The story begins with a...

"The Metamorphosis" (original German title: "Die Verwandlung") is a short novel by Franz Kafka, first published in 1915. It is often cited as one of the seminal works of fiction of the 20th century and is widely studied in colleges and universities across the...