An essential document of American history, Narrative of Sojourner Truth swirls with the fiery insights of this complex, accomplished, and magnetic woman, a peacher and a suffragist, and one of our most consummately human figures

At first glance, Three Lives seems to be three straightforward portraits of woman living in the early twentieth century. "The Good Anna" describes an exacting German house servant; "Melanctha" explores the love affair of an African American woman; and "The Gentle Lena" narrates the fate of a patient German maid

The Time Machine, H.G.Well`s first novel, is a tale of Darwinian evoluation taken to extremes. Its hero, a young scientist, travels 800,000 years into the future and discovers a dying earth populated by two humanoid species: the brutal Morlocks and gentle Eloi. The invisible Man mixes terror, suspense, and psychology in a tale of an equally adventuresome scientist who discovers the formula for invisibility - a secret that drivers him mad

"The history of every country begins in the heart of a man or a woman", writes Willa Cather in O Pioneers! The country is America; the woman is Alexandra Bergson, a fiercely independent young Swedish immigrant girl who inherits her father`s farm in Nebraska. A model of emotional strength, courage, and resolve, Alexandra fights long and hard to transform her father`s patch of raw, wind-blasted prairie into a highly profitable business

Western philosophy starts with Socrates and his student Plato. By the way of the dialectic that evolved between master and student, Plato invented the philosophical method of inquiry and analysis, and became the first to use a logical framework to ask - and try to answer - the eternal questions about ethics, politics, art, and life that still haunt humanity: What is virtue? What is justice?

Set in and around New Orleans, The Awakening tells the story of Edna Pontellier, a young wife and mother. While a vacation, Edna meets the son of a Louisiana resort owner, with whome she gradually falls in love. As she pulls away from her husband, Edna begins to develop a sense of her-self as a whole perpon, with unique wants, interests, and desires. Determined to control her own life, she flouts convention by moving out of her husband`s house, having an adulterous affair, and becoming an artist

Considered the greatest satire ever written in English, Jonathan Swift`s Gulliver`s Travels chronicles the fantastic voyages of Lemuel Gulliver, principally to four marvelous realms: Lilliput, where the people are six inches tall; Brobdingnag, a land inhabited by giants; Laputa, a wondrous flying island; and a country where the Houyhnhnms, a race of intelligent horses, are served by savage humanoid areatures called Yahoos

The Rise of Silas Lapham, one of the first American novels of manners, one of the first to look at the American businessman and self-made millionaire, and one of the first to employ realism - a style that would come to dominate twentieth-century American fiction

Through brimming with exciting exploits, this journey is also metaphorical - a spiritual and psychological trip to the center of the human soul. While many of Verne`s scientific speculations have been proven, it is this author`s remarkable ability to fashion a rousing tale full of compelling characters, extraodinary adventures, and provocative ideas that ensures he will be read for years to come.

One of the greatest novels of the twentieth century, Joseph Conrad`s Nostromo is an enticing and riveting tale of love, revolution, and politics set in the mythical South American country of Costaguana during the 1890s