The Iron Heel (1908)Set in the future, “The Iron Heel” describes a world in which the division between the classes has deepened, creating a powerful Oligarchy that retains control through terror. A ma
Crime flourished in eighteenth-century England, thanks to the conspicuous wealth of the upper classes and the lack of any kind of police force. Many people, bound by a life of exhausting poverty, saw
"Trollope did not write for posterity," observed Henry James. "He wrote for the day, the moment; but these are just the writers whom posterity is apt to put into its pocket.
A Dark Night's Work is an 1863 novel by Elizabeth Gaskell. It was first published serially in Charles Dickens's magazine All the Year Round. The word "dark" was added to the original title by Dickens
Written four hundred years before the birth of Christ, this detailed contemporary account of the struggle between Athens and Sparta stands an excellent chance of fulfilling the author's ambitious clai
A brilliant new translation by Christine Donougher of Victor Hugo's thrilling masterpiece, with an introduction by Robert Tombs. Les Miserables (literally, 'The Wretched') is the basis for both the lo
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)Samuel Butler was among the most wide-ranging of the accomplished crew of late Victorian writers to which be belonged -- a forceful controversialist in the debates that s
The unique narrative of a slave who fled to freedom and sailed aboard a whaling vessel. John Thompson was born into slavery on a Maryland plantation in 1812. Originally published in 1856, The Life of
Commemorating the eightieth anniversary of Sacco and Vanzetti's execution- with a new cover and new foreword Electrocuted in 1927 for the murder of two guards in Massachusetts, the Italian- American
The first collection to bring together the forgotten female voices of the Middle Ages. Artfully arranged to follow the life stages of a medieval woman living a secular existence, this remarkable volu
The best of one of England's greatest writers about seafaring and the sea. John Masefield is one of the greatest storytellers of life at sea. Based on a recently rediscovered early manuscript, this c
The Shooting Party, Chekhov's only full-length novel, centres on Olga, the pretty young daughter of a drunken forester on a country estate, and her fateful relationships with the men in her life. Ador
Richard Jefferies was the most imaginative and least conventional of nineteenth-century observers of the natural world. Trekking across the English countryside, he recorded his responses to everything
Galileo Ranks alongside Mother Courage and Mr. Puntila as one of Brecht?s most intensely alive, human, and complex characters. In Life of Galileo, the great Renaissance scientist is in a brutal strugg
An unforgettable tragicomic novel of sexual and political intrigue in 19th-century Spain One of the greatest nineteenth-century Spanish novels, The House of Ulloa follows pious Father Julian Alvarez,
