Margot Livesey, a native of Scotland, is the author of Criminals and, most recently, The Missing World. She lives in Massachus ...

The upper stratum of New York society into which edith Wharton was born in 1862 provided her with an abundance of material as a novelist but ...

This literary trifle, A Message to Garcia, was written one evening after supper, in a single hour. It was on the Twenty-second of February, ...

Rich with surprise and hilarious adventure, The Prince And The Pauper is a delight satire of england's romantic past and a joyful boy ...

Jack London (1876-1916), by turns a renegade adventurer, a war correspondent, and an avowed socialist, first achieved fame with The Son o ...

Hailed by Victor Hugo as "the real epic of our age," Ivanhoe was an immensely popular bestseller when first published in 1819. The ...

White Lies ...

In these stories about the men and women of the struggling lower middle class and their anxious desires for respectability, Joyce creates an ...

W. Somerset Maugham was born in Paris in 1874. He trained as a doctor in London where he started writing his first novels. In 1926 he bought ...