Basil Hallward's is infatuated and impressed by Englishman Dorian Gray's beauty, and therefore Dorian has been the subject of most of Hallward's oil paintings. While Dorian is posing for a full-length portrait, he meets Lord Henry Wotton, a materialistic man who shares his hedonistic world view, stating that beauty is the only truly important thing in life. Dorian is persuaded to this point and through a course of events sells his soul so that his...

Over the course of his long and suspicious career, Mr. Snicket has investigated many things, including villainy, treachery, conspiracy, ennui, and various suspicious fires. In this book, he is investigating his own death.

Shunned by the literary establishment, Anna, following Ayn Rand's theory of rational selfishness, is offered a chance to kill the ego causing her pain at a mysterious commune on the island of Lesbos where she explores a very different kind of freedom -- communal love.

Raz, a mathematician, is among a cohort of secluded scientists and philosophers who are called upon to save the world from impending catastrophe.

Can't shake that bad mood? Maybe all you need is a new perspective ... and a pair of Rosie's glasses!

A professor of mathematics who claims to be an expert at nothing partners with an aspiring villain who wants to break into Fort Knox to steal a shoebox containing nothing, with the help of a brainwashed astrophysicist.

A collection of stories in which an Austrian writer analyzes the craft of writing and describes the people he met over the years. One of them is a former Miss Yugoslavia with whom he had a romance.

Seventeen-year-old Ocean Sun defers her acceptance to the university of her immigrant mother's dreams and moves from the Midwest to New York City to live off her own modest savings. There she meets Constantine Brave, and finds herself in entirely new territory without a map. In order to find her way she will need to open her heart, exhume the past, accept help from her friends, and trust herself. -- adapted from jacket