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Dickens's widely read satirical account of the Industrial Revolution. Dickens creates the Victorian industrial city of Coketown, in northern England, and its unforgettable citizens, such as the unwavering utilitarian Thomas Gradgrind and the factory owner Josiah Bounderby, and the result is his famous critique of capitalist philosophy, the...

&';These tales reinvigoratethe short story with a jittery sense of adventure.&' San Francisco Chronicle Dave EggersPulitzer Prize finalist for A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius and author of What Is the What and The Circle, among other booksdemonstrates his mastery of the short story."e;Another"e;"e;What It Means When a Crowd in...

First published in Italy in 1957 amid international controversy,Doctor Zhivagois the story of the life and loves of a poet/physician during the turmoil of the Russian Revolution. Taking his family from Moscow to what he hopes will be shelter in the Ural Mountains, Zhivago finds himself instead embroiled in the battle between the Whites and the...

Six foot six, 242 pounds, and possessed of a scant IQ of 70, Forrest Gump is the lovable, surprisingly savvy hero of this classic comic tale. His early life may seem inauspicious, but when the University of Alabama's football team drafts Forrest and makes him a star, it sets him on an unbelievable path that will transform him from Vietnam hero...

National BestsellerMurders present meet murders past in P.D. James&'s latest harrowing, thought-provoking  thriller.  Commander Adam Dalgliesh is already acquainted with the Dupayne--a museum  dedicated to the interwar years, witha room celebrating the most notorious murders  of that time--when he is called to investigate the killing of one of the...

In Success Amis pens a mismatched pair of foster brothers--one a quivering condom of neurosis and ineptitude, the other a bundle of contempt, vanity and stock-response--in a single London flat. He binds them with ties of class hatred, sexual rivalry, and disappointed love, and throws in a disloyal girlfriend and a spectacularly unstable sister to...