Agatha Christie's greatest sleuth in fourteen of his greatest cases, including Murder on the Orient Express, Death on the Nile, and Evil Under the Sun. Drawn from Christie dramas...

Brutus and Cassius are dead at Philippi, leaving two men to inherit the world. One is twenty-year-old Octavian, whose brilliance, subtlety and political cunning give the lie to his small, sickly...

In debt after her husband's unexpected death, Meg Rosenthal secures a job as a teacher at an upstate New York boarding school. Leaving suburban Long Island, Meg and her teenage daughter, Sally,...

When Trollope returned to England in 1872, after a long visit to Australia, he was horrified by the immorality and dishonesty he found. In a fever of indignation he wrote 'The Way We Live Now',...

Lively, absorbing, often outrageously funny, Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales is a work of genius, an undisputed classic that has held a special appeal for each generation of readers. The Tales...

English gentleman Benjamin Knowles plunges into love with the strong-minded New York actress and part-time prostitute Polly Lucking. As they set out on an extraordinary transcontinental race west,...

Dave Eggers illuminates the history of the civil war in Sudan through the eyes of Valentino Achak Deng, a refugee now living in the United States. We follow his life as he's driven from his home...

Experience Tolkien's best-known works in a whole new light! These full-cast dramatizations of "The Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit," and "Tales From the Perilous Realm" feature specially-composed...

First published in 1908, 'The Old Wives' Tale' tells the story of the Baines sisters shy, retiring Constance and defiant, romantic Sophia over the course of nearly half a century. Bennett traces...

This brilliant and compelling novel is at once a lyrical description of the Fens, a fictional autobiography, and an impassioned defence of history. The narrator, an English schoolteacher, and his...

This novel tells of three young people from very different backgrounds, whose fates are bound together in strange ways. The vision of one of them, Hugh, brings all three together, and gives each...

In the fourth of the ‘Palliser’ stories, Trollope follows Phineas Finn’s return to the dangerous world of Westminster politics.

When his political rival is murdered, Phineas is...

Frank Gresham is set upon an unsuitable match. The son of the impoverished squire of Greshambury, he has fallen in love with the obscure and penniless Mary Thorne, ward of Doctor Thorne.

Introducing the Wu family--father Nan, mother Pingping, and son Taotao. We meet them as they arrange to fully sever ties with China in the aftermath of the 1989 massacre at Tiananmen Square, and...

This is the second book of Simon Schama’s epic three-volume journey into Britain’s past. It is a compelling chronicle of the changes that transformed every strand and stratum of British life,...