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Waverley (Penguin Classics)

by Walter Scott

Published: 2012-03-27

Paperback: 528 pages

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The first historical novel and an international bestseller.Sir Walter Scott was one of the bestselling novelists of the nineteenth century and is credited with establishing the historical novel. His first novel, Waverley (1814), tells the story of Edward Waverley, a naïve young man who ...

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The Mill on the Floss

by George Eliot

Published: 2013-09-05

Paperback: 346 pages

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This Eliot novel tells the story of Tom and Maggie Tulliver, a pair of siblings who grow up together on a river in early nineteenth century England. While Tom’s reserved nature and Maggie’s idealism produce differences that strain their love in times of hardship, the two ultimately reconcile when...

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The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale (Penguin Classics)

by Joseph Conrad

Published: 2007-09-25

Paperback: 320 pages

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Joseph Conrad's dark satire on English society In the only novel Conrad set in London, The Secret Agent communicates a profoundly ironic view of human affairs. The story is woven around an attack on the Greenwich Observatory in 1894 masterminded by Verloc, a Russian spy working for the pol...

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The Rainbow (Vintage Classics)

by D. H. Lawrence

Published: 2011-05-01

Paperback: 466 pages

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Prosecuted in an obscenity trial in 1915 for its frank treatment of sexuality, this novel chronicles the lines of three generations of the Brangwen family and the emergence of modern England Set between the 1840s and the early years of the 20th century, this novel tells the story of thre...

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Mrs Dalloway (Collins Classics)

by Virginia Woolf

Published: 2013-09-12

Kindle Edition: 225 pages

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HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics.Clarissa Dalloway is a woman of high-society – vivacious, hospitable and sociable on the surface, yet underneath troubled and dissatisfied with her life in post-war Britain. This disillusionment is a...

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In Ole Virginia: Or, Marse Chan and Other Stories (Southern Classics Series)

by Thomas Nelson Page

Published: 1991-12-15

Paperback: 228 pages

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More than any other writer, Thomas Nelson Page created the elegiac image of the “Old South,” a garden world of noble cavaliers and faithful retainers that has left its mark on the popular imagination to this day. The popularity of these stories, told with such sincere charm and affecti...

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The Awakening (Dover Thrift Editions)

by Kate Chopin

Published: 1993-11-04

Paperback: 128 pages

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When first published in 1899, The Awakening shocked readers with its honest treatment of female marital infidelity. Audiences accustomed to the pieties of late Victorian romantic fiction were taken aback by Chopin's daring portrayal of a woman trapped in a stifling marriage, who seeks an...

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Instinct: The Power to Unleash Your Inborn Drive

by T. D. Jakes

Published: 2014-05-06

Hardcover: 288 pages

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Modern life can seem like being lost in a jungle. With distractions and dangers emerging from every direction, it's easy to lose focus. Over time, we lose touch with one of our most powerful, purposeful, God-given attributes--the desire to be fruitful and multiply, what Bishop T. D. Jakes ...

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Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: The American Classic, in Words and Photographs, of Three Tenant Families in the Deep South

by Walker Evans, James Agee

Published: 2001-08-14

Kindle Edition: 500 pages

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This portrait of poverty-stricken Southern tenant farmers during the Great Depression has become one of the most influential books of the past century. In the summer of 1936, Pulitzer Prize–winning writer James Agee and photographer Walker Evans set out on assignment for Fortune magazine...

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The Golden Apples

by Eudora Welty

Published: 1956-09-14

Paperback: 288 pages

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Welty is on home ground in the state of Mississippi in this collection of seven stories. She portrays the MacLains, the Starks, the Moodys, and other families of the fictitious town of Morgana. “I doubt that a better book about ‘the South’-one that more completely gets the feel of th...