Cracked on the head by a crowbar in nineteenth-century Connecticut, Hank Morgan wakes to find himself in King Arthur's England....

Guy Carpenter has a prestigious job at NASA, a devoted wife and new baby, and, aside from a troublemaking cat, a settled, quiet life....

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Charlotte Bronte's beloved novel, Jane Eyre, tells the story of a spirited orphan girl who...

A runaway best seller in France and winner of the 1991 Prix Interallie, Sebastien Japrisot's novel about World War I was acclaimed as a latter-day War and Peace....

Charles Dickens made the first of 3 trips to the United States in 1842, when he was 30 and already...

The funeral of Molly Lane brings together old friends Clive Linley and Vernon Halliday. Both were...

Ben Hur could be said to be the first American blockbuster. When it was published in 1880, it sold over two-million copies and was translated into numerous languages...

Take delight in two of the most retold and famous horror stories of all time....

Five stories from influential women writers of the 19th century and the first decades of the 20th century....

Sorely wounded and fatally disillusioned in the fighting at Petersburg, Inman, a Confederate soldier, decides to walk back to his home in the Blue Ridge Mountains and to Ada, the woman he loved....

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On a sunny afternoon, the middle-aged writer Joe Rose and his wife look up from their picnic in the countryside to see an elderly man desperately trying to anchor his giant helium balloon....

Humor and pathos are deftly woven together in this remarkable New York Times best seller that has won sweeping critical acclaim....

A professor shows a colleague a painting that he has kept secret for decades...