This 2nd volume contains the following 50 works, arranged alphabetically by authors’ last names: Jerome, Jerome K.: Three Men in a Boat Joyce, James: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Joyce, James: Ulysses Kingsley, Charles: The Water-Babies Kipling, Rudyard: Kim La Fayette, Madame de: The Princess of Clèves Laclos, Pierre Choderlos de: Dangerous Liaisons Lawrence, D. H.: Sons and Lovers Lawrence, D. H.: The Rainbow Le Fanu, Sheridan: In a Glass Darkly Lewis, Matthew Gregory: The Mon...

A young man arrives at a secluded mountain sanatorium expecting only a brief stay. Instead, he enters a world where ordinary routines dissolve, unfamiliar faces conceal hidden struggles, and every passing day seems to reshape his understanding of life.Surrounded by towering peaks and an atmosphere filled with quiet tension, he is drawn into conversations, relationships, and mysteries that challenge everything he once believed. As the boundary between health and illness, certainty a...

Sparks fly behind closed office doors when a grumpy billionaire seeks revenge on his high school sweetheart by becoming her new boss.If I want something, I go after it, and I want revenge on Dakota Atwell.I hate the way she’s lived rent-free in my head since the day she left me.I hate the way she smells like fresh flowers and citrus.I hate the way my pulse races every time she walks into my office.I hate the way I dream about touchin...

One night. No names. No faces. It should have been simple.When Rourke crashes a secret masquerade ball, she has no idea the nameless, faceless stranger she hooked up with is about to be her new boss. He has her running in circles like he’s trying to break her, but when her life is in danger, this mafia prince will stop at nothing to keep her safe.Cinderella meets Fifty Shades in this dark, royalty romance from USA Today bestselling author Jeana E. M...

A billionaire prince searches for a new wife in this intriguing tale of power and seduction from USA Today bestselling author Jeana E. Mann.When I walk into a room, people look twice. Once because I’m the Crown Prince of Androvia, and twice because I’m that guy—the one who makes your panties wet with just a smile. My life is grand until the unexpected death of my father. To claim the throne, I’ve got to find a wife in twenty-four hours or be forced to marry the wom...

An uptight accountant meets her match with a playboy bartender in the city’s most notorious nightclub.Ally Taylor is a good girl who likes safe, normal, boring guys. Jack Jameson is anything but safe. From his tattoos to his sexy grin, he’s the ultimate male package. Dating him goes against everything she believes in…but he gets her like no one else ever has. She’s strong-willed but not strong enough to resist the attraction between them or the temptation of having him in her bed.

One of the greatest works of twentieth-century European literature, in the definitive English translation‘Home and a settled life not only lay far behind, but also, and more importantly, they lay fathoms below him, and he was still climbing’It is summer time in the Swiss Alps. Hans Castorp, an ‘ordinary young man’, has arrived at an exclusive sanitorium for a brief visit to his convalescent cousin. Once there, time will lose its familiar contours, as Hans h...

She stole my money, my diamond cufflinks, and my car. I never expected her to steal my heart.This complicated, beautiful, annoying woman doesn’t know that I’m a thief too. Only, I don’t steal things. I steal secrets and sometimes people. And her name is next on my list.The problem? I admire her. Like her. Love her. So many wasted feelings because we aren’t meant to be. Years ago, I sold my soul and body to the devil. Now, my back is against the wall. If I w...

Black Identities and Media in the Twenty-First Century presents original scholarly essays, drawn from a range of theory-based applications and methodologies, that analyze media representations, effects, and practices relating to Black communities and their varying identities, with particular attention to attributes such as gender, sexuality, class, and ability status. By surveying newsprint, television, social media, podcasts, and more, this innovative collection explores intersec...

Thomas Mann was the 1929 Nobel Prize laureate, known for his series of highly symbolic and ironic epic novels and novellas, noted for their insight into the psychology of the artist and the intellectual. Death in Venice, this tale of forbidden love which has long intrigued the reading public, was his early masterpiece.

**The definitive translation of 'Arguably the great German novel' (**New York Times)‘This man is mad. Of that there can no longer be any doubt, and it is pitiable that no one representing psychiatric science is part of our circle’In May 1943 a middle-aged scholar retires to his study to reflect on the life and untimely death of his friend, a once-brilliant composer and the flower of German culture. He recalls how, consumed by over-reaching...

The acclaimed, definitive translation of Mann's magnum opus‘Deep is the well of the past. Should we not call it bottomless?’Thomas Mann described Joseph and His Brothers as his ‘pyramid’: his towering literary achievement, although the Nazi regime tried to sabotage its first publication. This lavish, sweeping saga retells the Biblical story of Joseph, whose dreams and visions set him apart from his siblings and lead him first to slavery and ultimat...