Uncle Tom, Topsy, Sambo, Simon Legree, little Eva: their names are American bywords, and all of them are characters in Harriet Beecher Stowe's remarkable novel of the pre-Civil War South. Uncle Tom's Cabin was revolutionary in 1852 for its passionate indictment of slavery and for its presentation of Tom, "a man of humanity," as the first black hero in American fiction. Labeled racist and condescending by some contemporary critics, it remains a shocking,...

"The Little Prince" is French aviator Antonine de Saint-Exupery's most famous novella. The story, first published in 1943, is about a pilot who must make an emergency landing in the desert becaouse of engine problems. This is ironic, since the author himself took off in a plane over the Mediterranean just a year later and was never seen or heard from again. This timeless story has been adapted to various media over the decades, including stage, screen...

Marjorie, an aspiring young actress with romantic dreams, finds happiness in her middleclass fate after frustrating ambitions and a disillusioning love affair. "A starry-eyed young beauty, Marjorie Morgenstern is nineteen years old when she leaves New York to accept the job of her dreams--working in a summer-stock company for Noel Airman, its talented and intensely charismatic director. Released from the social constraints of her traditional Jewish...

She's the opposite of a damsel in distress: a famous movie star, very beautiful, very much in control of her life. She's just made one little mistake and now she needs Travis McGee to set it right. The money is good and Travis's funds are in need of replenishing. But that's not the only reason he takes the case. There is the movie star's assistant-- efficient and reserved, with a sadness underneath that makes McGee feel he'd brave any danger to help...

A teacher recounts a year on Yamacraw Island, off the South Carolina coast, when he helped black children gain an awareness of themselves as well as the world around them.

In this revised edition of his classic, Richard Dawkins demonstrates how cooperation can evolve even in a basically selfish world. Contains two new chapters and a wealth of new insights into the biological world.--From publisher description.

The pleasures of life aboard the Busted Flush are interrupted by a murder that plunges Travis McGee into a nightmare where nothing is as it seems, including the Church of the Apocrypha which he must infiltrate to find the truth.

Hired to find the person who killed an ailing tycoon, Travis McGee must contend with the tycoon's disinherited son and ex-wife.

Travis McGee is unnerved when he receives an unexpected guest-real estate developer Harry Broll, who is convinced that McGee is hiding his missing wife Angry and jealous, Harry gets off a shot before McGee can wrestle his gun away. The thing is, McGee hastn't seen of heard from Mary Broll in three years, and it isn't like her to keep troubles to herself-if she's alive to tell them.