HC Classics
ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF SOLITUDE
Written by Gabriel García Márquez
The brilliant, bestselling, landmark novel that tells the story of the Buendia family, and chronicles the irreconcilable conflict between the desire for solitude and the need for love--in rich, imaginative prose that has come to define an entire genre known as "magical realism." (Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)
TEMPLE OF THE GOLDEN PAVILION
Written by Mishima, Yukio
In The Temple of the Golden Pavilion, celebrated Japanese novelist Yukio Mishima creates a haunting portrait of a young man's obsession with idealized beauty and his destructive quest to possess it fully.
DEMOCRACY IN AMERICA
Written by Tocqueville, Alexis De
Still the most penetrating and astute picture of American life, politics, and morals ever written, Tocqueville's complete, two-volume masterwork is as relevant today as in the mid-nineteenth century.
GARDEN OF THE FINZI-CONTINIS
Written by Bassani, Giorgio
Giorgio Bassani's acclaimed novel of unrequited love and the plight of the Italian Jews on the brink of World War II has become a classic of modern Italian literature.
GULLIVER'S TRAVELS
Written by Swift, Jonathan
(Book Jacket Status: Not Jacketed) An immediate success on its publication in 1726, GULLIVER'S TRAVELS was read, as John Gay put it, "from the cabinet council to the nursery." Dean Swift's great satire is presented here in its unexpurgated entirety.
PARADE'S END
Written by Ford, Ford Madox
Ford Madox Ford's acclaimed masterpiece is widely considered one of the best novels of the twentieth century. Parade's End was originally published in four parts (Some Do Not . . ., No More Parades, A Man Could Stand Up--, and Last Post) between 1924 and 1928.
CONFESSIONS
Written by Rousseau, Jean-Jacques
Rousseau's ideas have influenced almost every major political development of the last two hundred years, and are crucial to an understanding of phenomena as diverse as the French Revolution, modern educational theory, and the contemporary environmental movement. This is reason enough to draw attention to his startlingly alive autobiography.
NEW TESTAMENT-KJV
John Drury's clear, marvelously erudite, and richly detailed introduction to the Everyman's Library edition of the New Testament reminds us why the King James Version, first published in 1611, has been the favorite of English readers for centuries.
SCARLET LETTER
Written by Hawthorne, Nathaniel
In the puritan atmosphere of colonial New England, Hester Prynne is forced to wear a scarlet A (for adultery) for giving birth to an illegitimate daughter. The child's father, the minister Arthur Dimmesdale, knows peace only after he has been shamed into confessing. Hester, however, acknowledging no sin, cannot find such peace.
CANTERBURY TALES
Written by Chaucer, Geoffrey
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.
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