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The novel that inspired the now-classic film The Caine Mutiny and the hit Broadway play The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial, Herman Wouk's boldly dramatic, brilliantly entertaining novel of life-and mutiny-on a Navy warship in the Pacific theater was immediately embraced, upon its original publication in 1951, as one of the first serious works of American fiction to grapple with the moral complexities and the human consequences of World War II. In the...

Toole's lunatic and sage novel introduces one of the most memorable characters in American literature, Ignatius Reilly, whom Walker Percy dubs "slob extraordinaire, a mad Oliver Hardy, a fat Don Quixote, a perverse Thomas Aquinas rolled into one." Set in New Orleans, A Confederacy of Dunces outswifts Swift, one of whose essays gives the book its title. As its characters burst into life, they leave the region and literature forever changed by their...

Memoirs of the adventures of David Balfour in the year 1751. How he was kidnapped and cast away; his sufferings in a desert isle; his journey in the wild highlands; his acquaintance with Alan Breck Stewart and other notorious Jacobites; with all that he suffered at the hands of his uncle Ebenezer Balfour of Shaws, falsely so called (from title page).

Truly one of the most remarkable books to come out of the war. Mr. Michener is a born story-teller. THE NEW YORK TIMES Winner of the 1948 Pulitzer Prize for FictionEnter the exotic world of the South Pacific, meet the men and women caught up in the drama of a big war. The young Marine who falls madly in love with a beautiful Tonkinese girl. Nurse Nellie and her French planter, Emile De Becque. The soldiers, sailors, and nurses playing at war and waiting...

Eleven of the most popular tales of the immortal sleuth include "Silver Blaze, " concerning the "curious incident of the dog in the night-time"; "The Greek Interpreter, " starring Holmes's even more formidable brother, Mycroft; and "The Final Problem, " the detective's notorious confrontation with arch-criminal Moriarty at the Reichenbach Falls. Holmes and Dr. Watson remain history's greatest detective team, and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's portrayals...

"Sherlock Holmes was the most popular character in Victorian fiction, but when arch-enemy Moriarty bumped him off at the Reichenbach Falls in "The Final Problem" (1893), many readers were angry and dismayed. Some even cancelled their subscriptions to 'The Strand' magazine where Holmes was the star turn. The 'Return of Sherlock Holmes,' published in 1903-4, was Arthur Conan Doyle's belated but brilliant response. What you get for your money here is...

A young boy living in the Florida backwoods is forced to decide the fate of a fawn he has lovingly raisesd as a pet.

Includes twenty-five stories including the Klondike stories, and other stories spanning American author Jack London's career.