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Herman Melville's classic novel about a young seaman who joins the crew of a whaling ship commanded by the fanatical Captain Ahab, who is in pursuit of a white whale.

Gregory Peck won an Oscar for his brillan perforamnce as the southern lawyer who defends a black man accused of rape in this film.

A literary sensation when originally published fifty years ago, The Yearling has gone on to become a classic work of American literature.

An annotated edition of American author Mark Twain's 1889 social and technological satire in which Hank Morgan, a nineteenth-century American, is transported to sixth-century England.

Presents the original text of the Mark Twain story that relates the escapades of Tom Sawyer and his friends in a small, 19th-century town on the Mississippi River, and provides side notes, illustrations, and annotations that contain information on the history, geography, and social customs of the day.

Designed to acquaint readers with famous stories, this book, in graphic novel format, retells Mark Twain's "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn," a story of a boy and a runaway slave as they float down the Mississippi River on a raft.

Recounts the life and adventures of Robin Hood, who, with his band of followers, lived as an outlaw in Sherwood Forest dedicated to fight against tyranny.

In Russia, Yuri Zhivago is a young doctor and poet trying to care for his wife and family when he meets Lara, the love of his life.

"[T]hree men embark on an epic journey under the sea with the mysterious Captain Nemo aboard his submarine the Nautilus.

Presents Charles Dickens's classic novel set in London and Paris during the French Revolution and includes explanatory notes, an author chronology, a historical time line, a theme and plot outline, contemporary and modern critical analyses, discussion questions, and a list of related books and films.

Set during the Great Depression, the powerful story tells of the Joad family's trek from the dust bowl of Oklahoma to the promise of a new life in California.

A film adaptation of Daphne du Maurier's novel in which the second Mrs.

Thomas Hardy's classic novel about a young woman who finds herself the victim of fate and of forces beyond her control in nineteenth-century England; and contains explanatory notes and introduction.

Wang Lung, a peasant farmer in China, becomes a prosperous landowner with the help of his humble wife, O'Lan, but the newly accumulated wealth brings its own problems to the family.