Virginia Miner, a 50-something, unmarried tenured professor, is in London to work on her new book about children's folk rhymes....

Francis Phelan, ex-ballplayer, part-time gravedigger, full-time drunk, has hit bottom....

A group of low-ranking real-estate salesmen are trying to survive in a cut-throat office culture....

Considered the definitive history of the American healthcare system, The Social Transformation of American Medicine examines how the roles of doctors, hospitals, health plans, and government programs have evolved over the last two and a half centuries....

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, this novel about a resilient and courageous woman has become a Broadway show and a cultural phenomenon....

This play tells the powerful story of an epileptic woman in her early 40s systematically preparing her own death...and the frantic and touching efforts of her mother to stop her....

In this heartfelt memoir by the Masterpiece Theatre host, Pulitzer Prize winner, and groundbreaking New York Times columnist, Russell Baker traces his youth in the mountains of rural Virginia....

This renowned journalist's classic Pulitzer Prize winning investigation of schizophrenia follows a flamboyant and fiercely intelligent young woman....

The hero of John Updike's Rabbit, Run (1960), ten years after the hectic events described in Rabbit Redux (1971), has come to enjoy considerable prosperity as Chief Sales Representative of Springer Motors, a Toyota agency in Brewer, Pennsylvania....

In this stunning biography, William McFeely brings us a thoroughly compelling story of a tangled life....

The Soul of a New Machine is an essential chapter in the history of the machine that revolutionized the world in the 20th century....

The hero of John Kennedy Toole's incomparable, Pultizer Prize–winning comic classic is one Ignatius J. Reilly, an obese, self-absorbed, hapless Don Quixote of the French Quarter, whose half-hearted attempts at employment lead to a series of wacky adventures among the lower denizens of New Orleans.

A deeply touching and funny play about three eccentric sisters from a small Southern town rocked by scandal when Babe, the youngest, shoots her husband....

This superbly told story brings to life one of the most remarkable rulers––and men––in all of history and conveys the drama of his life and world....

Norman Mailer's Pulitzer Prize-winning and unforgettable classic about convicted killer Gary Gilmore. The Executioner's Song follows the short, blighted life of Gary Gilmore who became famous after he robbed two men in 1976 and killed them in cold blood....

Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all time. Described by the Chicago Tribune as "a classic", The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt stands as one of the greatest biographies of our time....

Here are twelve magnificent stories in which John Cheever celebrates—with unequaled grace and tenderness—the deepest feelings we have.

It's a curious homecoming for Vince, the son nobody seems to remember....

With characteristic pungency and simplicity of style, the author of Sociobiology challenges old prejudices and current misconceptions about the nature-nurture debate....

Dr. Carl Sagan takes us on a great adventure, offering his vivid and startling insight into the brain of man and beast....