Penguin classics

Fanny Price, a teenaged girl of low social rank brought up on her wealthy relatives' countryside estate, feels the sharp sting of rejection when her cousin Edmund, the only person who treats her as an equal, is won over by a flirtatious, exciting--and unprincipled--London girl.

Presents a novel in which Cal and Aron, twin brothers in early twentieth-century California, act out a modern-day version of the Bible story of Cain and Abel.

Huck, in flight from his murderous father, and Jim, in flight from slavery, pilot their raft down the Mississippi River in search of freedom.

A collection of four English comedies from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

The spacecraft Discovery journeys to the outer edge of the solar system, and two navigators become uneasy when Hal, the craft's talking computer system, demonstrates unusual behavior.

Contains more than fifty short stories by Damon Runyon, based on the colorful characters he met on Broadway in the early twentieth century, and includes selections entitled "The Bloodhounds of Broadway," "Earthquake," and others.

Presents articles from major newspapers, underground presses, oral histories, police reports, and FBI files that focus on Black Muslim leader Malcolm X.