New 6x9 inch paperback edition. A governess is hired to care for two children at a remote house in the pastoral countryside, where things turn for the worse when she becomes convinced the children are consorting with a pair of malevolent ghosts. Henry James's classic prose casts an eerie spell and challenges the reader to decide if the governess is merely insane or encounters real ghosts, and the dreadful implications of either conclusion.

Written in 1792, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman argues that women are not naturally inferior to men, but only appeared to be because they lacked education during that era. Wollstonecraft suggests that both men and women should be treated as rational beings and imagines a social order founded on reason. New 6x9 inch paperback edition. With the emergence of the feminist movement at the turn of the twentieth century, Wollstonecraft's advocacy of women's equality and critiques of conventional femininity became increasingly important. Today Wollstonecraft is regarded as one of the founding...

New 6x9 inch paperback edition. Pride and Prejudice addresses a key theme that most great novels pose: the search for self. Social standing and wealth are not necessarily advantages, as class divisions expose snobbery and ignorance, so clearly demonstrated as the Bennet sisters search for suitable husbands. Cover painting by George Romney circa 1784.

New 6x9 inch paperback edition. Focusing on the gradual unfolding of moral and spiritual sensibilities, Jane Eyre follows the emotions and experiences of its eponymous character, including her growth to adulthood. Charlotte Bronte's novel contains elements of social criticism, with a strong sense of morality at its core, and was consider ahead of its time due to its portrayal classism, sexuality, religion, and proto-feminism. Cover painting by John Singer Sargent."

New 6x9 inch paperback edition. Set at a farmhouse on the Yorkshire moors, Wuthering Heights is the story of the destructive effect that jealousy and vengefulness have on individuals and their communities. Cover painting by James McNeill Whistler.

New 6x9 inch paperback edition. Nine essays on literature by Arthur Schopenhauer.

New 6x9 inch paperback edition. In addition to "Love," this edition also includes Chekhov's short stories "Lights," "A Story Without an End," "Mari D'elle," "A Living Chattel," "The Doctor," "Too Early ," "The Cossack," "Aborigines," "An Inquiry," "Martyrs," "The Lion and the Sun," "A Daughter of Albion," "Choristers," "Nerves," "A Work of Art," "A Joke," "A Country Cottage," "A Blunder," "Fat and Thin," "The Death of a Government Clerk," "A Pink Stocking," and "At a Summer Villa."

New 6x9 inch paperback edition. The second, and most popular, book of the "Leatherstocking Tales" pentalogy, by James Fenimore Cooper, "The Last of the Mohicans" is a historical story set in 1757, during the French and Indian War (the Seven Years' War), when France and Great Britain battled for control of North America. Cover painting by Charles Bird King, 1821.

New 6x9 inch paperback edition. Regarded as one of the most colorful autobiographies ever written (and also one of the first autobiographies written), the chronicle of Renaissance artist Benvenuto Cellini's life is an epic tale of exaggerated proportions. Cellini's loves, hatreds, passions, delights, brawls and battles, along with extraordinary events, and even supernatural phenomena, are narrated in an energetic, direct, and often racy style. Completed in 1563, Cellini's autobiography is also historically important for its firsthand account of daily life in Renaissance Italy. This 1887...

Eccentric scientist, Victor Frankenstein, creates a grotesque creature using an unorthodox scientific experiment in one of the earliest examples of science fiction, and an all-time classic Gothic horror story.