The unforgettable novel of a childhood in a sleepy Southern town and the crisis of conscience that rocked it, To Kill A Mockingbird became both an instant bestseller and a critical success when it was first published in 1960. It went on to win the Pulitzer Prize in 1961 and was later made into an Academy Award-winning film, also a classic.Compassionate, dramatic, and deeply moving, To Kill A Mockingbird takes readers to the roots of human behavior - to innocence and experience, kindness and cruelty, love and hatred, humor and pathos. Now with over 18 million copies in print and translated into forty languages, this regional story by a young Alabama woman claims universal appeal. Harper Lee always considered her book to be a simple love story. Today it is regarded as a masterpiece of American literature.

Ivan Ilych, A Peaceful Public Official In The Russian Provinces, Has His Life Permanently Changed By A Serious Illness Which No Doctor Can Accurately Diagnose. Hailed As One Of The World's Supreme Masterpieces On The Subject Of Death And Dying, The Death Of Ivan Ilyich Is The Story Of A Worldly Careerist, A High Court Judge Who Has Never Given The Inevitability Of His Death So Much As A Passing Thought. But One Day Death Announces Itself To Him, And To His Shocked Surprise He Is Brought Face To Face With His Own Mortality. From World-renowned Novelist Leo Tolstoy Comes This Story Of A Worldly Careerist Who Must Consider Death For The First Time And Examine His Own Mortality. With A Superb Translation By Lynn Solotaroff, It Features An Introduction By Ronald Blythe. By Leo Tolstoy ; Translated By Lynn Solotaroff ; With An Introduction By Ronald Blythe.

This New Edition Of Tony Kushner's Masterpiece Is Published With The Author's Recent Changes And A New Introduction In Celebration Of The Twentieth Anniversary Of Its Original Production. One Of The Most Honored American Plays In History, Angels In America Was Awarded Two Tony Awards For Best Play And The Pulitzer Prize For Drama. It Was Made Into An Emmy Award-winning Hbo Film Directed By Mike Nichols. This Two-part Epic, Subtitled 'a Gay Fantasia On National Themes,' Has Received Hundreds Of Performances Worldwide In More Than Twenty-six Languages.--publisher's Description. Introduction By The Playwright -- Part One: Millennium Approaches -- Part Two: Perestroika. Tony Kushner. Includes Bibliographical References.

BOOKER PRIZE WINNER • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An affluent Indian family is forever changed by one fateful day in 1969, from the author of The Ministry of Utmost Happiness“[The God of Small Things] offers such magic, mystery, and sadness that, literally, this reader turned the last page and decided to reread it. Immediately. It’s that haunting.”—USA TodayCompared favorably to the works of Faulkner and Dickens, Arundhati Roy’s modern classic is equal parts powerful family saga, forbidden love story, and piercing political drama. The seven-year-old twins Estha and Rahel see their world shaken irrevocably by the arrival of their beautiful young cousin, Sophie. It is an event that will lead to an illicit liaison and tragedies accidental and intentional, exposing “big things [that] lurk unsaid” in a country drifting dangerously toward unrest.Lush, lyrical, and unnerving, The God of Small Things is an award-winning landmark that started for its author an esteemed career of fiction and political commentary that continues unabated.

“Surrender to this strange, beguiling world and be swept away on the wings of story. . . . It is difficult to imagine that many contemporary writers could give us a novel that provides so much deep satisfaction.” —Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post Book WorldA sweeping panoramic portrait of a complex, multiethnic society in flux, A Suitable Boy tells the story of ordinary people caught up in a web of love, ambition, humor, sadness, prejudice, reconciliation, the most delicate social etiquette, and the most appalling violence.Vikram Seth’s novel is, at its core, a love story: the tale of Lata’s—and her mother, Mrs. Rupa Mehra’s—attempts to find a suitable boy for Lata, through love or through exacting maternal appraisal. Set in the early 1950s in an India newly independent and struggling through a time of crisis, this compelling story takes us into the richly imagined world of four large extended families and spins a compulsively readable tale of their lives and loves.