Mary Lennox is the "little pig", sent to Misselthwaite Manor, on the Yorkshire moons, to live with her uncle after parents die of cholera

The raw material for The Interpretation of Dreams was provided by Freud himself. Spurred on by the death of his father, he began analyzing his own dreams, in the process recreating lost childhood memories and uncovering the roots of his own neuroses. He concluded that dreams were filled with latent meaning, their bizarre imagery and peculiar narratives concealing deep-seated, instinctual motives and desires

Winner of the 1921 Pulitzer Prize, The Age of Innocence is Edith Wharton`s masterful portrait of desire and betrayal during the sumptuous Golden age of Old New York, a time when society poeple "dreaded scandal more than disease"

Faith, Hope, Mercy, Envy, Ignorance, Guilt: These are not abstract concepts, but the names of vividly imagined, sharply drawn human characters encountered by Christian, the hero of The Pilgrim`s Progress.

First published in 8 A.D., Ovid`s Metamorthoses remains one of the most accessible and attractive avenues to the treasures of Greek mythology

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

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

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

A master of characterization, Stendhal paints a fascinating, multi-layered portrait of Julien Sorel, who endures as one of literature`s most complex and sirprisingly sympathetic characters - a would-be manipulator out of his depth in a sea of sharks