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Unhappy with the poor living conditions they must endure, the animals of Manor Farm gather for a secret meeting to plan a revolt.

Presents nineteenth-century Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson's novel about good and evil in human nature, in which a scientist named Dr.

When Humphrey Van Weyden finds himself sailing to Japan aboard the Ghost, he has to face weeks of brutality at the hands of Captain Wolf Larsen, until he decides to take desperate measures to save himself and the rest of the crew.

Recounts how the leopard got his claws and teeth and why he rules the forest with terror.

In this allegory, the author's reaction to the Holocaust, the animals of the forest are carried away, one type after another, by the Terrible Things, not realizing that if perhaps they would all stick together and not look the other way, such terrible things might not happen.

When Papa Rabbit does not return home as expected from many seasons of working in the great carrot and lettuce fields of El Norte, his son Pancho sets out on a dangerous trek to find him, guided by a coyote.

An African American woman searches for a fulfilling relationship through two loveless marriages and finally finds it in the person of Tea Cake, an itinerant laborer and gambler.

This Special Edition includes a 1989 interview from public radio's Fresh Air in which Terry Gros speaks with Ken Kesey about the influences and inspirations for his most important novels, and his status as a 1960's counter-culture icon.

Ruth Ann Boatwright, a South Carolina bastard, tells her life with her family and the emotional and physical violence she experiences.

Presents the text of the 1927 novel about two priests, friends since their childhood in France, who set out to establish the new Roman Catholic diocese in the American Southwest; and includes explanatory notes, as well as a historical essay that traces the artistic and spiritual development that led to the novel's creation.

A deaf-mute who has lost his only friend to a hospital for the insane becomes the recipient of the confidences of several other town residents.

A satire of the Soviet Union in which the animals take over running a farm, but find their utopain state turning into a dictatorship.

Presents Robert Louis Stevenson's classic horror tale in which a respected doctor who lives a secret double life begins losing his identity to his violent, evil side.

"William Golding's unforgettable classic of boyhood adventure and the savagery of humanity comes to Penguin Classics in a stunning Graphic Deluxe Edition with a new foreword by Lois Lowry As provocative today as when it was first published in 1954, Lord of the Flies continues to ignite passionate debate with its startling, brutal portrait of human nature.

After following paths and signs determined by others, a young boy finally realizes that he must find his own individual way in life.