Nearly   seventy years after its original publication, Ray Bradbury’s internationally   acclaimed novel Fahrenheit 451 stands as a classic of world literature set in   a bleak, dystopian future. Today its message has grown more relevant than   ever before.

   Guy Montag is a fireman. His job is to destroy the most illegal of   commodities, the printed book, along with the houses in which they are   hidden. Montag never questions the destruction and ruin his actions produce,   returning each day to his bland life and wife, Mildred, who spends all day   with her television “family.” But when he meets an eccentric young neighbor,   Clarisse, who introduces him to a past where people didn’t live in fear and   to a present where one sees the world through the ideas in books instead of   the mindless chatter of television, Montag begins to question everything he   has ever known.

AN   INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • OVER 80 MILLION COPIES SOLD WORLDWIDE

   “Translated into 80 languages, the allegory teaches us about dreams,   destiny, and the reason we are all here.”—Oprah Daily, “Best Self-Help Books   of a Generation”

   “It’s a brilliant, magical, life-changing book that continues to blow my   mind with its lessons. [...] A remarkable tome.”—Neil Patrick Harris,   actor

   A special 25th anniversary edition of the extraordinary international   bestseller, including a new foreword by Paulo Coelho.

   Combining magic, mysticism, wisdom, and wonder into an inspiring tale of   self-discovery, The Alchemist has become a modern classic, selling millions   of copies around the world and transforming the lives of countless readers   across generations.

   Paulo Coelho's masterpiece tells the mystical story of Santiago, an   Andalusian shepherd boy who yearns to travel in search of a worldly treasure.   His quest will lead him to riches far different—and far more satisfying—than   he ever imagined. Santiago's journey teaches us about the essential wisdom of   listening to our hearts, of recognizing opportunity and learning to read the   omens strewn along life's path, and, most importantly, to follow our   dreams.

   “A magical little volume.”—San Francisco Chronicle

   “[This] Brazilian wizard makes books disappear from stores.”—The New York   Times

   “A sweetly exotic tale for young and old alike.”—Publishers Weekly

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   NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A coming-of-age classic about a young girl growing up   in Chicago • Acclaimed by critics, beloved by readers of all ages, taught in   schools and universities alike, and translated around the world—from the   winner of the 2019 PEN/Nabokov Award for Achievement in International   Literature.

   “Cisneros draws on her rich [Latino] heritage...and seduces with precise,   spare prose, creat[ing] unforgettable characters we want to lift off the   page. She is not only a gifted writer, but an absolutely essential one.” —The   New York Times Book Review

   The House on Mango Street is one of the most cherished novels of the last   fifty years. Readers from all walks of life have fallen for the voice of   Esperanza Cordero, growing up in Chicago and inventing for herself who and   what she will become. “In English my name means hope,” she says. “In Spanish   it means too many letters. It means sadness, it means waiting."

   Told in a series of vignettes—sometimes heartbreaking, sometimes   joyous—Cisneros’s masterpiece is a classic story of childhood and   self-discovery and one of the greatest neighborhood novels of all time. Like   Sinclair Lewis’s Main Street or Toni Morrison’s Sula, it makes a world   through people and their voices, and it does so in language that is poetic   and direct. This gorgeous coming-of-age novel is a celebration of the power   of telling one’s story and of being proud of where you're from.

The   "brilliant, funny, meaningful novel" (The New Yorker) that   established J. D. Salinger as a leading voice in American literature--and   that has instilled in millions of readers around the world a lifelong love of   books.


   "If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably   want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and   how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David   Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to   know the truth."

   The hero-narrator of The Catcher in the Rye is an ancient child of sixteen,   a native New Yorker named Holden Caufield. Through circumstances that tend to   preclude adult, secondhand description, he leaves his prep school in   Pennsylvania and goes underground in New York City for three days.

Inspiration   for the 2024 Tony Award Winner for Best Musical!

   Over 60 years of an iconic classic! The international bestseller-- a heroic   story of friendship and belonging.

   No one ever said life was easy. But Ponyboy is pretty sure that he's got   things figured out. He knows that he can count on his brothers, Darry and   Sodapop. And he knows that he can count on his friends—true friends who would   do anything for him, like Johnny and Two-Bit. But not on much else besides   trouble with the Socs, a vicious gang of rich kids whose idea of a good time   is beating up on “greasers” like Ponyboy. At least he knows what to   expect—until the night someone takes things too far.

   The Outsiders is a dramatic and enduring work of fiction that laid the   groundwork for the YA genre. S. E. Hinton's classic story of a boy who finds   himself on the outskirts of regular society remains as powerful today as it   was the day it was first published. "The Outsiders transformed young-adult   fiction from a genre mostly about prom queens, football players and high   school crushes to one that portrayed a darker, truer world." —The New   York Times
   "Taut with tension, filled with drama." —The Chicago   Tribune

   "[A] classic coming-of-age book." —Philadelphia Daily News

   A New York Herald Tribune Best Teenage Book
   A Chicago Tribune Book World Spring Book Festival Honor Book
   An ALA Best Book for Young Adults
   Winner of the Massachusetts Children's Book Award

Golding’s   iconic 1954 novel, now with a new foreword by Lois Lowry, remains one of the   greatest books ever written for young adults and an unforgettable classic for   readers of any age.
 
   This edition includes a new Suggestions for Further Reading by Jennifer   Buehler.

   At the dawn of the next world war, a plane crashes on an uncharted island,   stranding a group of schoolboys. At first, with no adult supervision, their   freedom is something to celebrate. This far from civilization they can do   anything they want. Anything. But as order collapses, as strange howls echo   in the night, as terror begins its reign, the hope of adventure seems as far   removed from reality as the hope of being rescued.

A   controversial tale of friendship and tragedy during the Great   Depression

   A Penguin Classic

   Over seventy-five years since its first publication, Steinbeck’s tale of   commitment, loneliness, hope, and loss remains one of America’s most widely   read and taught novels. An unlikely pair, George and Lennie, two migrant   workers in California during the Great Depression, grasp for their American   Dream. They hustle work when they can, living a hand-to-mouth existence. For   George and Lennie have a plan: to own an acre of land and a shack they can   call their own. When they land jobs on a ranch in the Salinas Valley, the   fulfillment of their dream seems to be within their grasp. But even George   cannot guard Lennie from the provocations, nor predict the consequences of   Lennie's unswerving obedience to the things George taught him.

   Of Mice and Men represents an experiment in form, which Steinbeck described   as “a kind of playable novel, written in a novel form but so scened and set   that it can be played as it stands.” A rarity in American letters, it   achieved remarkable success as a novel, a Broadway play, and three acclaimed   films. This edition features an introduction by Susan Shillinglaw, one of   today’s leading Steinbeck scholars.

   For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of   classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700   titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works   throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the   series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by   distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date   translations by award-winning translators.

NATIONAL   BESTSELLER • “Meditations offers a glimpse into [Marcus Aurelius’s] mind, his   habits, and his approach to life. . . . I think any reader would find   something useful to take away from it.”—James Clear, #1 New York Times   bestselling author of Atomic Habits

   “To me, this is the greatest book ever written. . . . It is the definitive   text on self-discipline, personal ethics, humility, self-actualization, and   strength. . . . If you’re going to read it, you absolutely have to go with   the Gregory Hays translation.”—Ryan Holiday, #1 New York Times bestselling   author of The Obstacle Is the Way

   “It is unbelievable to see how the emperor’s words have stood the test of   time. . . . Read a page or two anytime you feel like the world is too   much.”—Arnold Schwarzenegger, The Wall Street Journal
 
   Nearly two thousand years after it was written, Meditations remains   profoundly relevant for anyone seeking to lead a meaningful life.

   Your ability to control your thoughts—treat it with respect. It’s all that   protects your mind from false perceptions—false to your nature, and that of   all rational beings.
 
   A series of spiritual exercises filled with wisdom, practical guidance, and   profound understanding of human behavior, Marcus Aurelius’s Meditations   remains one of the greatest works of spiritual and ethical reflection ever   written. With bite-size insights and advice on everything from living in the   world to coping with adversity and interacting with others, Meditations has   become required reading not only for statesmen and philosophers alike, but   also for generations of readers who responded to the straightforward intimacy   of his style.
 
   In Gregory Hays’s translation—the first in nearly four decades—Marcus’s   thoughts speak with a new immediacy. In fresh and unencumbered English, Hays   vividly conveys the spareness and compression of the original Greek text.   Never before have Marcus’s insights been so directly and powerfully   presented.

   With an Introduction that outlines Marcus’s life and career, the essentials   of Stoic doctrine, the style and construction of the Meditations, and the   work’s ongoing influence, this edition makes it possible to fully rediscover   the thoughts of one of the most enlightened and intelligent leaders of any   era.

Harper   Lee's Pulitzer Prize-winning masterwork of honor and injustice in the deep   South—and the heroism of one man in the face of blind and violent   hatred.

   One of the most cherished stories of all time, To Kill a Mockingbird has   been translated into more than forty languages, sold more than forty million   copies worldwide, served as the basis for an enormously popular motion   picture, and was voted one of the best novels of the twentieth century by   librarians across the country. A gripping, heart-wrenching, and wholly   remarkable tale of coming-of-age in a South poisoned by virulent prejudice,   it views a world of great beauty and savage inequities through the eyes of a   young girl, as her father—a crusading local lawyer—risks everything to defend   a black man unjustly accused of a terrible crime.

Manor Farm is like any other English farm, expect for a drunken owner, Mr Jones, incompetent workers and oppressed animals. Fed up with the ignorance of their human masters, the animals rise up in rebellion and take over the farm. Led by intellectually superior pigs like Snowball and Napoleon, the animals how to take charge of their destiny and remove the inequities of their lives. But as time passes, the realize that things aren't happening quite as expected

Nineteen   Eighty-Four (also published as 1984) is a dystopian social science fiction   novel and cautionary tale by English writer George Orwell. It was published   on 8 June 1949 by Secker & Warburg as Orwell's ninth and final book   completed in his lifetime. Thematically, it centres on the consequences of   totalitarianism, mass surveillance and repressive regimentation of people and   behaviours within society. Orwell, a democratic socialist, modelled the   authoritarian state in the novel on Stalinist Russia and Nazi Germany. More   broadly, the novel examines the role of truth and facts within societies and   the ways in which they can be manipulated.

   The story takes place in an imagined future in the year 1984, when much of   the world is in perpetual war. Great Britain, now known as Airstrip One, has   become a province of the totalitarian superstate Oceania, which is led by Big   Brother, a dictatorial leader supported by an intense cult of personality   manufactured by the Party's Thought Police. Through the Ministry of Truth,   the Party engages in omnipresent government surveillance, historical   negationism, and constant propaganda to persecute individuality and   independent thinking.

A   classic work of American literature that has not stopped changing minds and   lives since it burst onto the literary scene, The Things They Carried is a   ground-breaking meditation on war, memory, imagination, and the redemptive   power of storytelling.
 
   The Things They Carried depicts the men of Alpha Company: Jimmy Cross,   Henry Dobbins, Rat Kiley, Mitchell Sanders, Norman Bowker, Kiowa, and the   character Tim O’Brien, who has survived his tour in Vietnam to become a   father and writer at the age of forty-three.
 
   Taught everywhere—from high school classrooms to graduate seminars in   creative writing—it has become required reading for any American and   continues to challenge readers in their perceptions of fact and fiction, war   and peace, courage and fear and longing.

   The Things They Carried won France's prestigious Prix du Meilleur Livre   Etranger and the Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize; it was also a finalist for   the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award.