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NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE • The masterpiece of Nobel Prize winner Albert Camus now in a striking American English translation. The Stranger remains vital for its unsettling insights into the impossibility of moral certainty in the face of violence.
“Matthew Ward has done Camus and us a great service. The Stranger is now a different and better novel for its American readers; it is now our classic as well as France’s.”—Chicago...

When Algernon and Jack fall in love with two young ladies, they do it under false pretenses that cause confusion and mayhem to threaten the relationships. Includes a chronology of the playwright's life and work; social, political, cultural, and economic context of the play; the play's performance history; and analysis and commentary on the play's major themes and issues.

Dostoevsky's final, greatest novel, The Brothers Karamazov, paints a complex and richly detailed portrait of a family tormented by its extraordinarily cruel patriarch, Fyodor Pavlovich, whose callous decisions slowly decimate the lives of his sons - the eponymous brothers Karamazov - and lead to his violent murder. In the aftermath of the killing, the brothers contend with dilemmas of honor, faith, and reason as the community closes in on the murderer...

Color photographs and text explore the way Kwanzaa is celebrated. Describes traditions associated with the African American holiday including lighting seven candles, community gathering and unity, and the exchange of simple gifts.

"The candles are lit, the food is prepared, and the sweet smell of copal floats in the air on Día de Muertos. Built with love and dedication, the family ofrenda stands with pride. As everyone gathers to share in this ritual, each element added to the ofrenda is infused with significance-from the sugar skulls placed with care on top of the embroidered cloth to the golden petals that guide the way. Told after the style of the English nursery rhyme...

Reminiscences of the pleasures of life in the mountains as a child.

The collection that established O'Connor's reputation as one of the American masters of the short story. The volume contains the celebrated title story -- a tale of the murderous fugitive The Misfit -- as well as The Displaced Person and eight other stories.

In Thomas Hardy's first major literary success, independent and spirited Bathsheba Everdene has come to Weatherbury to take up her position as a farmer on the largest estate in the area. Her bold presence draws three very different suitors: the gentleman-farmer Boldwood, the soldier-seducer Sergeant Troy, and the devoted shepherd Gabriel Oak. Each, in contrasting ways, unsettles her decisions and complicates her life, and tragedy ensues, threatening...

Struggling with the monstrous Bloomfield children and then disdained in the superior Murray household, governess, Agness Grey's story is a tale of Victorian chauvinism and ruthless materialism.

Sensational, dramatic, packed with rich excitement and filled with the sweep and violence of human passions, LES MISERABLES is not only superb adventure but a powerful social document. The story of how the convict Jean-Valjean struggled to escape his past and reaffirm his humanity, in a world brutalized by poverty and ignorance, became the gospel of the poor and the oppressed.