First published in 1925, "In Our Time" is a collection of short stories and vignettes by Ernest Hemingway written at the beginning of his literary career. Hemingway began working on some of the stories and pieces of prose that would make up the collection in 1923 and continued working on and refining his stories for the next two years. Many of the stories center around Hemingway's well-known and semi-autobiographical character, Nick Adams. Several...

A young Algerian, Meursault, afflicted with a sort of aimless inertia, becomes embroiled in the petty intrigues of a local pimp and, somewhat inexplicably, ends up killing a man. Once he's imprisoned and eventually brought to trial, his crime, it becomes apparent, is not so much the arguably defensible murder he has committed as it is his deficient character. In the story of an ordinary man who unwittingly gets drawn into a senseless murder on a sun-drenched...

The decisions of a few industrial leaders shake the roots of capitalism and reawaken man's awareness of himself as an heroic being.

In a collection of travel adventures, the author journeys from the rivers of Honduras to the grasslands of Mongolia, from Yellowstone's famed geysers to the deep jungles of Peru.

"1880's, runaway orphans, kidnapping, Medicine Bow, Wyoming"-- "Michael and Michele Dunn, twelve-year-old twins, are wealthy orphans living with their socialite businesswoman aunt, Angela Dunn, in Chicago. Angela is too committed to running the family business to raise the twins and she makes arrangements with the Illinois Detective Agency to send them to California to live with distant relatives. The detective agency is run by the son of its founder,...

"This is a story of a small family of wolves who are unlike any others.The family consists of Mother and Father Wolf and their four little cubs. Their nanny is Isaac Willoughby Troxell, but for obvious reasons, he is always called Mr. Troxell. Bryson and Ed Wolf are usually rowdy and often in trouble. Angeline is the family athlete. Erskine Wolf is a delightful little wolf who gets into mischief, but likes to snuggle with his mother at bedtime. He...

Overview: Alexandre Dumas's novel of justice, retribution, and self-discovery - one of the most enduringly popular adventure tales ever written - appears here in a newly revised translation. "This novel tells the story of Edmond Dantes, wrongfully imprisoned for life in the supposedly impregnable sea fortress the Chateau d'If. After a daring escape, and after unearthing a hidden treasure revealed to him by a fellow prisoner, he devotes the rest of...