A first novel, Rutherfurd's sweeping saga of the area surrounding Stonehenge and Salisbury, England, covers 10,000 years and includes many generations of five families. Each family has one or more characteristic types who appear in successive centuries: the round-headed balding man who is good with his hands; the blue-eyed blonde woman who insists on having her independence; the dark, narrow-faced fisher of river waters and secrets. Their fortunes...

Winner of the National Book Award, this bestseller describes army life in Hawaii on the eve of Pearl Harbor. "The publishers believe that the appearance of this novel is of comparable importance to the publication of This Side of Paradise or Look Homeward, Angel. For like the first novels of Fitzgerald and Wolfe, From Here to Eternity introduces a writer who will take a commanding place in American literature. The events of the novel occur in Hawaii...

The relationship between half-brothers Manfred De La Rey and Shasa Courtney explodes as South Africa is torn by racial conflict, and the Courtney family is torn by Tara's forbidden love.

A classic of the sea, telling of the pursuit of Moby Dick, the white whale who defied capture. October 18th, 2001, marks the 150th anniversary of the publication of the greatest novel in American literature. The Modern Library trade paperback edition exclusively features the timeless illustrations of Rockwell Kent, an Introduction by Elizabeth Hardwick, commentary by Herman Melville and William T. Porter, contemporary reviews from John Bull and The...

They had been newlyweds once, fabulously happy, but that was before the war--before Ann's startling career success and Phillip's long, slow courtship of failure. Yet even without fireworks, somehow their marriage survived. Then, astonishingly, at an age when such things were not supposed to happen, Ann met Adam--and nothing had ever felt so glorious--or so complicated. Suddenly, whatever the obstacles, it was a time for love...--Page 4 of cover.

A family saga featuring four generations of strong-willed women. They are Anne, a Southern belle who runs off with a riverboat gambler; Arden, her convent-educated daughter whose life of luxury ends with the Civil War; Felicity, a widow with two plantations to manage; and Lee Ann, caught between her mother and grandmother. By the author of Deepwater.

A feud between two Southern families--the Gearys and the Barbarossas--is given a new twist when a Geary woman falls under the spell of a Barbarossa's sexual magnetism. A violent tale of greed and love.

Irish king Conaire Mor defies the doom foretold for him in this retelling of an Irish legend.