didactic fiction

A miser learns the true meaning of Christmas when three ghostly visitors review his past and foretell his future.

Eighteen-year-old Carrie Meeber moves from a small town to Chicago. She dreams of becoming an actress and uses her sexuality to fulfill her goals. After awhile she rebels against all classic morality and becomes a fallen woman.

Tess Durbeyfield attempts to restore her family's fortunes by claiming their connection with the the aristocratic d'Urbervilles. After Alec d'Urberville seduces her and makes her life miserable, she meets and falls in love with Angel Clare.

Fyodor Dostoevsky's classic nineteenth-century Russian novel that chronicles the murder of depraved landowner Fyodor Karamazov and the subsequent investigation and trial of his killers.

A man recalls his past life as a respected Parisian lawyer until his predicted downfall, in one terrible instant.

A young woman finds herself the victim of fate and of forces beyond her control in nineteenth-century England.

A graphic adaptation of Oscar Wilde's novel in which Dorian Gray, an exceptionally beautiful young man in Victorian England, retains his youthful and innocent appearance over the years while his portrait reflects both his age and evil soul as he pursues a life of decadence and corruption.

An adaptatioan of Oscar Wilde's story in which an incredibly handsome young man in Victorian England retains his youthful appearance over the years while his portrait reflects both his age and evil soul as he pursues a life of decadence and corruption.

Presents the original text of Thomas Carlyle's "Sartor Resartus" as well as changes made by Carlyle in subsequent editions and appendices containing commentary by Carlyle about his work.

Presents the classic story of Dr. Zhivago and Lara who fall in love in the midst of the turmoil of the Russian Revolution.