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Anna Karenina
Leo Tolstoy ; edited and introduced by Leonard J. Kent and Nina Berberova
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A famous legend surrounding the creation of "Anna Karenina" tells us that Tolstoy began writing a cautionary tale about adultery and ended up falling in love with his magnificent heroine. It is rare to find a reader of the book who doesn't experience the same kind of emotional upheaval. Anna Karenina is filled with major and minor characters who exist ...
1993; 927 p.; isbn:0679600795 More Information |
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Seek my face
John Updike
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John Updike's twentieth novel, like his first, The Poorhouse Fair (1959), takes place in one day, a day that contains much conversation and some rain. The seventy-eight-year-old painter Hope Chafetz, who in the course of her eventful life has been Hope Ouderkirk, Hope McCoy, and Hope Holloway, answers questions put to her by a New York interviewer named ...
2002; ; isbn:0375414908 More Information |
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Old school : a novel
by Tobias Wolff.
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"Determined to fit in at his New England prep school, the narrator has learned to mimic the bearing and manners of his adoptive tribe while concealing as much as possible about himself. His final year, however, unravels everything he's achieved, and steers his destiny in directions no one could have predicted." "The school's mystique is rooted in Literature, ...
2003; 195 p.; isbn:0375401466 More Information |
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Stranger in a strange land
Heinlein, Robert A. (Robert Anson), 1907-
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