Sophie's Choice

William Styron

In this extraordinary novel, Stingo, an inexperienced twenty-two year old Southerner, takes us back to the summer of 1947 and a boarding house in a leafy Brooklyn suburb. There he meets Nathan, a fiery Jewish intellectual; and Sophie, a beautiful and fragile Polish Catholic. Stingo is drawn into the hea...

Gulliver's Travels

Jonathan Swift

Irish writer and clergyman Jonathan Swift's best known work and a classic of English literature. The book satirizes human nature and Swift claimed that he wrote it "to vex the world rather than divert it." The book follows Lemuel Gulliver and his fantastical travels to foreign lands where he encounters ...