Charles Smithson,a respectable engaged man,meets Sarah Woodruff as she stands on the Cobb at Lyme Regis,staring out to sea.Charles falls in love, but Sarah is a digraced woman,and their romance will defy all the stifling conventions of the Victorian age.
John Galsworthy's magnificent, well-loved "Forsyte Saga" traces the changing fortunes of the wealthy Forsyte dynasty through fifty years of material triumph and emotional disaster.
In this second part of John Galworthy's trilogy of love, power, money and family feuding, a new generation has arrived to divide the Forsyte clan with society scandals and conflicting passions.
John Grisham takes you into the heart of America s Deep South with a collection of stories connected by the life and crimes of Ford County: a place of harsh beauty where broken dreams and final wishes converge.
Rick Dockery was the third-string quarterback for the Cleveland Browns. In the AFC Championship game, to the surprise and dismay of virtually everyone, Rick actually got into the game.
Never published during his lifetime, John Kennedy Toole's hilarious satire, A Confederacy of Dunces is a Don Quixote for the modern age, and this Penguin Modern Classics edition includes a foreword by Walker Percy.
The residents of Pepsy Road, London-a banker and his shopaholic wife, an elderly woman dying of a brain tumour, the Pakistani family who run the local shop, the young football star from Senegal and his minder:
A successful and self-contained novelist, Felix Morsom suddenly gets thrust into the underworld of London's homeless, when a strange woman proclaims him the father of her son and he becomes a prime suspect in a murder case.
Just after the iron curtain fell on Eastern Europe John Steinbeck and acclaimed war photographer, Robert Capa ventured into the Soviet Union to report for the New York Herald Tribune.
Dramatic and intense, John Steinbeck's experimental play-novelette tells a tale that could happen anywhere and at any time, exploring as it does elemental human needs and passions.