Animal Farm (Signet Classics) - George Orwell

Animal Farm (Signet Classics)
By George Orwell

Orwell's brilliant 1946 satire, chronicling a revolution staged by the animals on Mr. Jones's farm.

Sailor Song - Ken Kesey

Sailor Song
By Ken Kesey

The October Country - Ray Bradbury

The October Country
By Ray Bradbury, Joe Mugnaini

Welcome to a land Ray Bradbury calls "the Undiscovered Country" of his imagination--that vast territory of ideas, concepts, notions and conceits where the stories you now hold were born. America's premier living author of short fiction, Bradbury has spent many lifetimes in this remarkable place--strolling through empty, shadow-washed fields at midnight; exploring long-forgotten rooms gathering dust behind doors bolted years ago to keep strangers locked out.. and secrets locked in. The nights are longer in this country. The cold hours of darkness move like autumn mists deeper and deeper toward winter. But the moonlight reveals great magic here--and a breathtaking vista.

The October Country is many places: a picturesque Mexican village where death is a tourist attraction; a city beneath the city where drowned lovers are silently reunited; a carnival midway where a tiny man's most cherished fantasy can be fulfilled night after night. The October Country's inhabitants live, dream, work, die--and sometimes live again--discovering, often too late, the high price of citizenship. Here a glass jar can hold memories and nightmares; a woman's newborn child can plot murder; and a man's skeleton can war against him. Here there is no escaping the dark stranger who lives upstairs...or the reaper who wields the world. Each of these stories is a wonder, imagined by an acclaimed tale-teller writing from a place shadows. But there is astonishing beauty in these shadows, born from a prose that enchants and enthralls. Ray Bradbury's The October Country is a land of metaphors that can chill like a long-after-midnight wind...as they lift the reader high above a sleeping Earth on the strange wings of Uncle Einar.

Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury

Fahrenheit 451
By Ray Bradbury

Nowadays firemen start fires. Fireman Guy Montag loves to rush to a fire and watch books burn up. Then he met a seventeen-year old girl who told him of a past when people were not afraid, and a professor who told him of a future where people could think. And Guy Montag knew what he had to do....

Lord of the Flies (Casebook) (Casebook Edition Text Notes and Criticism) (Paperback)

Lord of the Flies (Casebook) (Casebook Edition Text Notes and Criticism) (Paperback)
by William Golding (Author), James Robert Baker (Editor), Arthur P. Ziegler (Editor)