Penguin classics

Embittered by a false accusation and disappointed in friendship and love, the weaver Silas Marner retreats into a life alone with his loom and his gold. Fate steals his gold and replaces it with a golden-haired foundling child.

Beautiful Undine Spragg from Apex, Kansas, is a social climber. Her society career, marriages, divorces, and conquests are all part of her greed.

Contains the pastoral poems of Roman poet Virgil, presented in Latin with English translations.

Presents Lord Byron's early-nineteenth-century mock epic about the seductions, betrayals, adventures, and mishaps of the legendary Spanish rake Don Juan, and includes extensive explanatory notes, a scholarly introduction, and a substantial further reading list.

The personal, often painful, histories of four Chinese American women who began meeting in San Francisco in 1949 to play mah jong are revealed as the daughter of one who has died searches for her sisters in China to tell them about the mother they never knew.

Chronicles the joys and troubles of the four March sisters--Meg, Jo, Amy, and Beth--as they grow into young ladies and marry in nineteenth-century New England.

"A book of...prose poetry fables written in English by the Lebanese-American artist, philosopher and writer Kahlil Gibran"--Wikipedia.

A translation of Welsh poetry written Taliesin and a number of unnamed poets.

Henderson, a middle-aged American millionaire, travels to Africa in search of a more rewarding life, and finds himself regarded as a messiah when he manages to bring rain to a drought-stricken tribe.

Presents the text to H.G. Wells' classic late nineteenth-century novel "The Time Machine," and includes a short biographical essay on the author, introduction, and notes.