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A new illustrated gift edition of a beloved classic. Three hundred years ago, a great deal of the world as we now know it was still undiscovered.

Unhappy with the poor living conditions they must endure, the animals of Manor Farm gather for a secret meeting to plan a revolt.

The Old Man and the Sea is one of Hemingway's most enduring works.

In this allegory, the author's reaction to the Holocaust, the animals of the forest are carried away, one type after another, by the Terrible Things, not realizing that if perhaps they would all stick together and not look the other way, such terrible things might not happen.

The terrifying tale of Joseph K, a respectable funtionary in a bank, who is suddenly arrested and must defend his innocence against a charge about which he can get no information.

This Special Edition includes a 1989 interview from public radio's Fresh Air in which Terry Gros speaks with Ken Kesey about the influences and inspirations for his most important novels, and his status as a 1960's counter-culture icon.

Ruth Ann Boatwright, a South Carolina bastard, tells her life with her family and the emotional and physical violence she experiences.

An abridgement of the nineteenth-century novel in which a young seaman joins the crew of the whaling ship Pequod whose fanatical Captain Ahab is in determined pursuit of the white whale Moby Dick.

Anna Karenina tells of the doomed love affair between the sensuous and rebellious Anna and the dashing officer, Count Vronsky.

When overweight Billy Halleck accidentally hits a gypsy woman as she is crossing the street, he senses a curse upon him as he begins to lose weight and it continues until he fears for his life.

Presents a new translation of Kafka's final novel about the land-surveyor K's obsessive attempts to reach the castle, illustrating man's struggle against bureaucracy.

A moral allegory, set in ancient India, about one soul's quest for the ultimate answer to the enigma of man's role in this world.

The Pequod, commanded by peg-legged Captain Ahab, sets out on a whaling voyage.

Paulo, having faced a crisis of faith and set off on a trip in search of spiritual renewal and growth, meets Hilal, a woman he betrayed five hundred years earlier, and, together, they travel through space and time on a mission to find love, forgiveness, courage, and happiness.

A political satire in which the animals take over running the farm, but find their utopian state turning into a dictatorship.