Henry Carter Hull

The many adventures of Mr. Bean, the accident-prone Englishman who gets into oddball situations.

A collection of twenty-two short fiction stories by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Carol Shields.

Former BBC correspondent Duncan Hewitt examines twenty-first-century Chinese society, characterized by soaring car ownership, private schooling, and rural migration, describing the life of the average Chinese citizen.

Advice geared to contemporary living on correct behavior in a wide variety of situations.

A typical day in the lives of the employees, customers, and passersby of a Los Angeles car wash in the 1970s.

Lily Bart, a socialite in turn of the century New York who learns the precariousness of her position when her beauty starts attracting unwelcome interest and jealousy.

The Gypsy Tea Kettle. Polly's Cheerio Tea Room. The Mad Hatter. The Blue Lantern Inn. These are just a few of the many tea rooms - most owned and operated by women -- that popped up across America at the turn of the last century, and exploded into a full-blown craze by the 1920s. Colorful, cozy, festive, and inviting, these new-fangled eateries offered women a way to celebrate their independence and creativity. Sparked by the Suffragist movement,...

The classic satire of greed, corruption, and paranoia in czarist Russia In a small Russian town, the rich wield the power of the gods over their serfs, who remain enslaved even in death. Life is turned upside down with the arrival of Chichikov, a mysterious gentleman who wants to buy the rights to these useless "dead souls." What is this strange traveler up to? Is he mad, or does he know something the townspeople don't? As Chichikov visits local landowners,...

Contains a collection of new and selected short stories by National Book Award winning author Joyce Carol Oates.