May Sarton has been writing and publishing poetry for over sixty years. A House of Gathering gives her poetry long-overdue critical attention and discusses Sarton's place among modern and contemporary world authors. As working...

The classic novel--and hit Broadway show--about escaped convict Jean Valjean and young orphan Cosette is now a Bullseye Step into Classics title. Featuring easy-to-read text, big type, and short chapters, this engaging adaptation...

The tale of a young woman entangled with the powerful Mr Rochester. What lurks in the attic at Thornfield, the ancestral home? Will the governess Jane Eyre discover the secret - and having discovered it, live to regret that...

Originally published in 1951, a love story set in post war Britain about the relationship that grows between an upper-class girl living in a grand house and a young national serviceman stationed nearby. From the author of THE...

This book examines five of the most influential Chinese-born women writers of the post-war era: Nie Hualing, Yu Lihua, Chen Ruoxi, Li Li, and Zhong Xiaoyang. They have become a dominating force in Chinese literature today,...

Geared very much to the needs of those coming to Homer for the first time, this book provides an unexpurgated text, commentary and introduction to books 6 and 7 of the Odyssey .

The first volume in Laxalt's Basque family trilogy, is the coming of age story of a boy named Pete. Too prone to dreams, Pete undergoes his rites of passage - cruelty and kindness, disillusionment, love and terror, pathos and...