This winner of the National Book Award revolves around a young Texas rancher who rides into Mexico with two friends and embarks on a sometimes comic adventure that ends in an ill-fated romanced to coincide with one of the most highly anticipated movie events of the summer.

It's 1791. Friendly, handsome, and popular Billy Budd is a sailor on board the British warship...

In the entrance of the CIA headquarters looms a huge marble wall in to which seventy-one stars are carved - each representing an agent who has died in the line of duty...

In 1897 Buck, a shepherd dog, is kidnapped and shipped to the Klondike gold fields. Pressed into service...

In the intial response to the Office of the Independent Counsel's charges against President Clinton, the White House declares that the report is void of any evidence suggesting perjury, obstruction of justice, or witness tampering.

Whether it's a 300-year-old ghost who's scared out of his wits, a tenderhearted statue with a mission...

When the young orphan called Pip encounters the escaped convict Magwitch, the child's life is altered forever...

In this unusual recording, the talented actor Frank Muller reads Shakespeare's complete work with all stage directions, in the tradition of actors/managers/authors auditioning plays for their companies.

We could see them now, hundreds of little black figures riding through the chaparral. A spent bullet...

One of the great adventure novels of our language creates a most engaging central character...

Young Henry Fleming used to play soldier and dream of being a hero, but when he faces his first battle...

Wealthy ne'er-do-well Humphrey Van Weyden is a castaway who is put to work on the schooner Ghost, run...

The 154 sonnets of William Shakespeare contain some of the best-known, most-quoted lines in...

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times... So begins this classic, one of the most beloved...

Jack London's stories about man's relationship with nature and its creatures remain some of the...

Entertaining, sly, or poignant, the stories of O. Henry were - and remain - enormously popular...

Consider for a moment 55 words. It's an absurdly tiny number. It's what O. Henry might have conjured up if he'd only had...