Some of the greatest works of fiction which have enthralled millions of book lovers all over the world.
- Kane And Able By Jeffrey Archer
Two strangers born worlds apart. William Lowell Kane and Abel Rosnovski, one the son of a Boston millionaire, the other a penniless polish immigrant-born on the same day near the turn of the century on opposite sides of the world-are brought together by fate and the quest of a dream. One destiny that would define them both. Two men-ambitious, powerful, ruthless-are locked in a relentless struggle to build an empire, fueled by their all-consuming hatred. Over sixty years and three generations, through war, marriage, fortune, and disaster, Kane and Abel battle for the success and triumph that only one man can have. Over sixty years and three generations, through war, marriage, fortune, and disaster, Kane and Abel battle for the success and triumph that only one man can have.
- The Godfather by Mario Puzo
Mario Puzo has here created an extraordinary novel; it pulsates with dramatic and evil incident, brute rage, and the naked terror of an infamous underworld. Puzo takes us inside the violence-infested society of the Mafia and its gang wars. He shows us its trials by gunfire and torture and the nature of Mafia friendship. The Godfather is essentially the story of a man and his power, and it is a reading experience one is not likely to forget. The Godfather is Mafia leader Vito Corleone, benevolent despot who stops at nothing to gain and hold power. The Godfather is a friendly man, a’reasonable’ man, a just man - and the deadliest gang leader in the Cosa Nostra. The Godfather’s command post is a fortress on Long Island, from which he presides over a vast underground empire that encompasses the rackets, gambling, bookmaking, and unions. Tyrant, blackmailer, murderer - he gives his friendship(no man dares refuse it), rights wrongs(even murder is not too great a price for’justice’). His influence runs through all levels of American society, from the cop on the beat to the nation’s mighty. Mario Puzo introduces us to an extraordinary gallery of men and women and re-creates the feudal world of the Mafiosi. The elements of this world explode electrically to life in this violent and impassioned chronicle. It is a spellbinding story, written with authentic knowledge of this particular milieu and with the hand of a master storyteller.
- The Fountain Head
Six decades after its publication, The Fountainhead is still very much alive. New readers by the hundreds find it every day, and as many old acquaintances return to it with revived curiosity. Every new reading is an occasion to reflect on the qualities that have made this novel an enduring achievement. Easiest to specify is the book’s political and ideological significance. The Fountainhead originally provided, and continues to provide, a powerful inspiration to the individualist movement in America and throughout the world. More than any other work, The Fountainhead reawakened popular enthusiasm for a way of thinking, and a way of life, that in 1943 was regarded by virtually every sector of intellectual opinion as outmoded, discredited, and even dangerous. Thecourageous challenge to accepted ideas was rendered still more courageous by her willingness to state her individualist premises in the clearest terms and to defend the most radical implications that could be drawn from them. For many people, the ideological significance of The Fountainhead has tended to obscure its literary significance. Friends as well as foes of the novel have focused their attention almost exclusively on its ideas, noticing literary issues only by a kind of peripheral vision. And there is another obstacle to literary assessment - the difficulty of determining exactly what one is assessing. To determine how well the writer does her literary work, we need to determine what kind of literary work she is doing. But when common literary terms are applied to so individual a book as The Fountainhead - not a page of which could be mistaken for anything other than a page of The Fountainhead, by Ayn R Those common terms lose much of their usefulness. Even to classify The Fountainhead as a novel seems slightly beside the point. It can be called a novel in roughly the same way in which the architectural creations of its protagonist, Howard Roark, can be called houses, apartment complexes, filling stations, and office buildings. The Fountainhead is a story about characters set in more or less realistic social contexts; it is therefore a novel, according to one conventional definition of that term; but the word doesn’t really tell us much about it - just as words like’house’ and’apartment complex’ fall short of evoking the kind of thing that Roark builds. When Gail Wynand, the publisher of the New York Banner, commissions Roark to design a house for him, he says he wants it to be a’palace, ’ a’fortress, ’ a’treasury, ’ and a’temple.’ Clearly, he wants something more than a house; he wants something completely individual -’a separate world’ with a distinctive but almost indefinable’Roark quality.’ Similarly, Ayn’s vast, self-commissioned work is a novel and something more than a novel. It’s a metaphysical statement, a treatise on psychological theory, an aesthetic manifesto, a commentary on American architecture, an analysis of ethics, a declaration of political principles. It has often been seen as a palace, fortress, treasury, and temple; and, let me add, one doesn’t have to be a simple-minded’cultist’ to see it in that way. Each of those terms - palace, fortress, treasury, temple - suggests a monumental self-enclosure and self-integrity. The application of all these terms to a single building suggests a monumental integration of complex qualities. What Ayn says of Roark’s buildings helps to identify the kind of building that she wanted to erect out of words; it identifies the kind of aspirations that give The Fountainhead its distinctive character as a work of literature. But I’m afraid I’m getting ahead of myself. I’ve come perilously close to stating my conclusions without providing evidence for them. Let’s do as Ayn liked to do: let’s start with the basics, and see what can be built on them. The Fountainhead is a work of American literature; of that we can be sure. And I want to emphasize the word American, because it’s an adjective that we don’t take seriously enough when we talk about The Fountainhead. This book is saturated with American experience, with the life of the American city, with the lives of American people pursuing archetypically American occupations - businessman, journalist, builder of skyscrapers. It is filled with the language, the gestures, the strange social customs and improvisations of Americans.
- If Tommorrow Comes By Sidney Sheldon
This is a story of intrigue and revenge. Tracy Whitney is young, beautiful and intelligent - and about to marry into wealth and glamour. Until, suddenly, she is betrayed, framed by a ruthless Mafia gang, abandoned by the man she loves. Only her ingenuity saves her and helps her fight back. An engrossing thriller and a sureshot page turner.
- Second Lady By Irving Wallace
On a state visit to Moscow, Billie Bradford, the beautiful and brilliant wife of the President of the United States, is abducted and REPLACED. A tale of daring international duplicity in which sex becomes the ultimate secret weapon. A brilliant action packed work of fiction.