A farm is taken over by its overworked, mistreated animals. With flaming idealism and stirring slogans, they set out to create a paradise of progress, justice and equality. Thus the stage is set for one of the most telling satiric fables ever penned--a razor-edged fairy tale for grown-ups that...  more

A farm is taken over by its overworked, mistreated animals. With flaming idealism and stirring slogans, they set out to create a paradise of progress, justice and equality. Thus the stage is set for one of the most telling satiric fables ever penned--a razor-edged fairy tale for grown-ups that records the evolution from revolution against tyranny to a totalitarianism just as terrible. When Animal Farm was first published, Stalinist Russia was seen as its target. Today it is devastatingly clear that wherever and whenever freedom is attacked, under whatever banner, the cutting clarity and savage comedy of George Orwell's masterpiece have a meaning and message still ferociously fresh.

Emily, a chimp, is the only attentive student in Mr. Fatigay's class in the heart of South Africa. Her desire to learn, gather information, and better herself through knowledge touches the heart of her teacher, and gives Amy Flint-his alluringly hateful fiance-a competitor in the race for the...  more

Emily, a chimp, is the only attentive student in Mr. Fatigay's class in the heart of South Africa. Her desire to learn, gather information, and better herself through knowledge touches the heart of her teacher, and gives Amy Flint-his alluringly hateful fiance-a competitor in the race for the schoolteacher's hand in marriage. This classic work of biting satire and radiant prose playfully uses this strange courtship to illuminate two abiding kinds of souls, the faithful and the unfaithful, and shows how man's soul deepens in the presence of love.

Pi Patel, a God-loving boy and the son of a zookeeper, had a fervent love of stories and practices not only within his native Hinduism, but also Christianity and Islam. When Pi is sixteen, his family and their zoo animals emigrate from India to North America aboard a Japanese cargo ship. Alas,...  more

Pi Patel, a God-loving boy and the son of a zookeeper, had a fervent love of stories and practices not only within his native Hinduism, but also Christianity and Islam. When Pi is sixteen, his family and their zoo animals emigrate from India to North America aboard a Japanese cargo ship. Alas, the ship sinks--and Pi finds himself in a lifeboat, his only companions a hyena, an orangutan, a wounded zebra, and a 450-pound Bengal tiger. Soon the tiger has dispatched all but Pi. Can Pi and the tiger find their way to land? Can Pi's fear, knowledge, and cunning keep him alive until they do?

The classic Novella where a traveling salesman turns into a bug.

Pig Tales tells the story of a young woman who lands a position at Perfumes Plus, a beauty boutique/"massage" parlor. She enjoys extraordinary success until she slowly metamorphoses into. . . a pig. What happens to her then overturns all our ideas about men, women, and beasts. An overnight...  more

Pig Tales tells the story of a young woman who lands a position at Perfumes Plus, a beauty boutique/"massage" parlor. She enjoys extraordinary success until she slowly metamorphoses into. . . a pig. What happens to her then overturns all our ideas about men, women, and beasts. An overnight phenomenon in France, selling three thousand copies a day, Pig Tales is now being made into a major motion picture by celebrated director Jean-Luc Godard.

It was a dog's life for Fluke the puppy until the images that had been haunting his canine mind came into sharp focus -- he wasn't supposed to be a dog, he was actually a MAN! How had he ended up in this furry body? What of his wife, his child? What of HIM? Soon, though, the truth came...  more

It was a dog's life for Fluke the puppy until the images that had been haunting his canine mind came into sharp focus -- he wasn't supposed to be a dog, he was actually a MAN! How had he ended up in this furry body? What of his wife, his child? What of HIM? Soon, though, the truth came -- he the man had died, and had been reincarnated as a dog. And the visions hinted that he had been murdered! This begins a quest as Fluke sets out to his old town, determined to deliver out justice to whoever murdered him...

General FictionLarge Print EditionHoeg is an adventurous and intelligent writer whose future course seems happily, impossible to predict . . . one of the essential contemporary novelists. starred, Kirkus ReviewsNo imaginative writer today is more daring than Danish novelist Peter Hoeg. ...  more

General FictionLarge Print EditionHoeg is an adventurous and intelligent writer whose future course seems happily, impossible to predict . . . one of the essential contemporary novelists. starred, Kirkus ReviewsNo imaginative writer today is more daring than Danish novelist Peter Hoeg. starred, Booklist* A Literary Guild Main SelectionAn hour after nightfall the ape rose, wrapped an arm around Madelene, parted the screen of leaves at a shadowed spot, and leaped, almost horizontally, into what seemed to Madelene to be a pitch-black void. Madelene Burden is a Danish beauty who lives in an alcoholic haze while her husband, Adam, a behavioral scientist, dreams of restoring the London Zoo to its original glory. Hes about to get his chance with Erasmus, a 300-pound gorilla unlike any other. But a spark ignites between Madelene and Erasmus and begins a love affair as emotionally and erotically charged as any male-female relationship can be and a revelation that stuns the world.