political fiction

A retelling of Charles Dickens's novel "Hard Times," in which disciplinarian Thomas Gradgrind must reexamine his utilitarian worldview when his daughter's upbringing and loveless marriage lead her to a crisis.

In Russia, Yuri Zhivago is a young doctor and poet trying to care for his wife and family when he meets Lara, the love of his life. When revolution breaks out, their world is torn apart, and their lives are at risk.

Ralph Singh, born of Indian heritage, raised on a British island in the Caribbean, and educated in England,retreats to London to write his memoirs, but is drawn back to Isabella where his involvement in the political atmosphere helps him sort out the struggles of his past.

The central figure of this novel is a young man whose parents were executed for conspiring to steal atomic secrets for Russia. His name is Daniel Isaacson, and as the story opens, his parents have been dead for many years. He has had a long time to adjust to their deaths. He has not adjusted.

"...[a] newly discovered final novel by seminal Harlem Renaissance writer Claude McKay, a rich and multilayered portrayal of life in 1930s Harlem world..."--Provided by publisher.

Presents Upton Sinclair's classic 1906 novel about the conditions of the Chicago stockyards through the eyes of a young struggling immigrant, and includes a profile of the author, introduction, and textual notes.