Books in Signet books series

Married as a child bride to a tenant farmer she had never met, Rukmani works side by side in the field with her husband to wrest a living from a land ravaged by droughts, monsoons, and insects. With remarkable fortitude and courage, she meets changing times and fights poverty and disaster. This beautiful and eloquent story tells of a simple peasant woman in a primitive village in India whose whole life is a gallant and persistent battle to care for those she loves—an unforgettable novel that “will wring your heart out” (Associated Press).

National Bestseller On November 15, 1959, in the small town of Holcomb, Kansas, four members of the Clutter family were savagely murdered by blasts from a shotgun held a few inches from their faces. There was no apparent motive for the crime, and there were almost no clues. As Truman Capote reconstructs the murder and the investigation that led to the capture, trial, and execution of the killers, he generates both mesmerizing suspense and astonishing empathy. In Cold Blood is a work that transcends its moment, yielding poignant insights into the nature of American violence.

Renowned 19th-century author Nathaniel Hawthorne writes fully in his own time, not haunting his characters with the American past as in his more famous works THE HOUSE OF SEVEN GABLES and THE SCARLET LETTER. Published in 1852, THE BLITHEDALE ROMANCE remains a captivating work about politics, love, the supernatural, and idealism, written with Hawthorne's sharp wit and deep intelligence.

First published in Hungary under the title Lathatatlan Ember in 1901. The narrator and hero of the novel is a young Byzantine freedman who falls in love with the daughter of a Hunnish nobleman and commits himself to slavery among the Huns in the hope of eventually marrying her. Set around the time of Attila, the novel includes dramatic accounts of the Battle of the Catalaunian Plains between the Huns and the Romans, and of Attila's funeral.

Amy Dorrit€™s father is not very good with money. She was born in the Marshalsea debtors€™ prison and has lived there with her family for all of her 22 years, only leaving during the day to work as a seamstress for the forbidding Mrs. Clennam. But Amy€™s fortunes are about to change€”the arrival of Mrs. Clennam€™s son Arthur, back from working in China, heralds the beginning of stunning revelations not just about Amy but also about Arthur himself.