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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde might represent one of the first literary memes, dropping into the western canon like a bombshell, and staying put 150 years later.

Seventy years after Ayn Rand published her warning to the world about collectivism, you can't throw a rock without hitting a collectivist. What will it take to awaken us to the surpassing value of individual liberty?

Using both satire and tragedy to explore medical and scientific themes. Lewis offers sharp criticism and wicked humor in discussing drugs, public health, and immunology, and more.

It is easy to miss the undercurrents of the early 20th century which compelled Jack London to write one of his most famous books. London's devout adherence to philosophical naturalism, expressed unabashedly in his time as 'survival of the fittest, ' is front and center in this book, White Fang, and his other well-known work, The Call of the Wild (ISBN: 9781645940098). The conviction that man is mere animal, borne up by Darwinian principles, co...

The Painted Veil by W. Somerset Maugham, is magical tale about the disillusionment of life.

Many would suggest that it certainly could happen 'here, ' which is precisely the point that Sinclair Lewis was making when he wrote this book in 1935.

The Sun Also Rises tracks the aftermath of the lives of men and women recently emerged from that calamity which we call World War I.

Humphrey Van Weyden is rescued by the cruel and nihilistic captain 'Wolf' Larsen. Humphrey's body, spirt, and ideology are challenged while living at the edge of survival.

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The Wind in the Willows is a children's story focused around four animals as they find themselves in a series of misadventures.

Before William Faulkner won the Nobel Prize in Literature, he was the author of "Soldiers' Pay", his first novel, published in 1926.

Are we witnessing a psychotic break? Or, has someone with physical features strikingly similar to his own spotted an opportunity, and seized it?

In the 1928 The Call of Cthulhu H. P. Lovecraft draws forth from his dreams and imagination all the dark things.

Considered one of the greatest literary achievements of the 19th century, The Death of Ivan Ilyitch by Leo Tolstoy rocks the reader out of his smug self-assurance that he is 'living as he ought.' Having accomplished this, the next question is raised: "If I certainly know that I have not lived as I have ought, and I certainly know that I will die tomorrow, with no time to make amends, what possible hope for me is left?" Astute readers will unde...

Where Angels Fear to Tread catapulted E.M. Forster into his renowned career as an author.

Popular mystery author Agatha Christie's "The Man in the Brown Suit" follows Anne Beddingfield, an orphan who watches a man fall mysteriously to his death in the tube station. Though his death seems accidental, Anne finds a note that he dropped, and suddenly she finds herself on the next boat to South Africa, trying to solve a mystery.

Little Lainey Lou was born with a limb difference. She has three fingers on her left hand, but it doesn't slow her down a bit. Today she wants to make a craft for her empty bedroom wall. Lainey Lou knows just who to call for this crafting emergency. Crafting Gram is on her way with all kinds of crafting supplies. Come and see their ideas, and what they decide to make for Lainey Lou's bare wall space.

The Box-Car Children is a classic tale which turned into a wildly popular series enjoyed by two generations. This edition is a facsimile of the original 1924 and includes all of the full color illustrations. As a facsimile, it has not been altered in anyway and will have that 'old book' feel. You enjoyed this book as a child, now let your children and grandchildren share in your joy.

Hercule Poirot, the eccentric detective featured in most of Agatha Christie's works, is back again to solve another set of mysteries in "Poirot Investigates, " a collection of short mysteries.

Written by classic English author Rudyard Kipling, Just So Stories is considered not only a quintessential children's book, but one of Kipling's best works. Just So Stories is a collection of origin stories, fictional tales that explain why animals have certain characteristics and other themes akin to that. Kipling's book features stories such as "How the Whale Got His Throat, " or why large whales eat small prey, and "How the Alphabet Was Mad...