Penguin classics

An annotated edition of Irish author James Joyce's 1914 work made up of fifteen short stories about strangers of various classes who all live in Dublin. Also includes a chronology of the stories' composition, a list of character connections between "Dubliners" and Joyce's "Ulysses, " and an excerpt from an opera referred to in the text.

Michael Henchard, an unemployed farmhand, gets drunk and sells his wife and baby daughter, but his past come back to haunt him years later when he becomes of Mayor of Casterbridge.

The epic poem recounting the experiences of Odysseus during his return from the Trojan War.

A rebel named Randle Patrick McMurphy is committed to a mental ward and challenges the authority of its dictatorial head nurse. Includes line drawings by the author.

Anne Elliot, persuaded by family and friends that the charming and handsome Frederick Wentworth is not worthy of her regard, questions her decision to send him away until he returns seven years later, his circumstances much improved.

A mid-twentieth-century Jewish man who has failed in all of his major professional and personal endeavors sets out on a philosophical letter writing campaign to anyone and everyone who will read his thoughts--friends, enemies, and strangers.

A work of political philosophy addressing the idea that obedience to authority, especially in the form of a large bureaucracy such as the political state, is really just a natural response of human nature.

A reprint of Harlem Renaissance writer Nella Larsen's 1929 novel in which Irene, an African-American woman with a comfortable life, is disturbed by the return of a childhood friend, Clare, who has passed for white since adolescence and now wants to rejoin the African-American community.

A collection of horror stories by Shirley Jackson.

Presents stage adaptations of two works by John Steinbeck, featuring "Of Mice and Men," and a lesser known work, "The Moon Is Down," in which a peaceable town is taken over by enemy troops during World War II.