Derace Kingsley`s wife ran away to Mexico to get a quickie divorce and marry a Casanova-wannabe named Chris Lavery. Or so the note she left her husband insisted. Trouble is, when Philip Marlowe asks Lavery about it he...
The Murders in the Rue Morgue and Other Tales
`...an agility astounding, a strength superhuman, a ferocity brutal, a butchery without motive, a grotesquerie in horror absolutely alien from ` Horror, madness, violence and the dark forces hidden in humanity abound...
Ardent, impulsive, thirsty for knowledge, Maggie Tulliver is one of the great heroines of literature. George Eliot drew on her own anguished childhood when she depicted the stormy relationship between Maggie and Tom...
Newly repackaged, here are the five masterpieces by one of the world`s greatest playwrights, in translation by Ann Dunnigan. As Robert Brustein declares in the foreword to this edition: "in the modern theater...there...
The Mysterious Stranger and Other Stories
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact,...
The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor
The sequel to The Mummy and The Mummy Returns. Rick and Evelyn O’Connell answer a new call to adventure— as an ancient evil rises to threaten the world. When dashing adventurer Alex O’Connell is tricked into awakening...
Russia`s great nineteenth-century satirical absurdist shows what happens when a man wakes up with his nose missing, and illustrates the folly of boasting.`Strangely enough, I mistook it for a gentleman at first....
Only a few years ago, the Obamas were a normal married couple, living an ordinary life. Now they work, eat and play in front of the whole world. In this fascinating look at the couple living at America`s most famous...
The Outsiders by is a ground-breaking, timeless story by a brilliant writer. `...the hand at the back of my neck was strong. I`m drowning, I thought ...`The Socs` idea of having a good time is beating up Greasers like...
