|
 |
|
|
Huckleberry Finn, rebel against school and church, casual inheritor of gold treasure, rafter of the Mississippi, and savior of Jim the runaway slave, is the archetypal American maverick. Fleeing... |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Perhaps the best-loved nineteenth-century American novel, Mark Twain’s tale of boyhood adventure overflows with comedy, warmth, and slapstick energy. It brings to life an array of irresistible... |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Edith Wharton's masterful portrait of desire and betrayal during the sumptuous Golden Age of Old New York, a time when society people "dreaded scandal more than disease." |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Selected to tell the American Experience: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving, The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane, The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calavaras County by Mark Twain, The... |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| On what might become one of the most significant days in her husband’s presidency, Alice Blackwell considers the strange and unlikely path that has led her to the White House–and the... |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
George Orwell's classic satire of the Russian Revolution has become an intimate part of our contemporary culture, with its treatment of democratic, fascist, and socialist ideals through an animal... |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Sensual, rebellious Anna falls deeply and passionately in love with the handsome Count Vronsky. When she refuses to conduct the discreet affair that her cold, ambitious husband—and Russian high... |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
This collection of some of the best-known and best-loved tales from The Arabian Nights' Entertainments, or The Thousand and One Nights, includes the stories of Sinbad and his voyages, Ali Baba and... |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
The late, great Kurt Vonnegut wrestles with the horrors of his age in this collection of unpublished writings that showcase his trademark humor and humanism. Varied in form and tone, the pieces are... |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
First published in 1899, this revolutionary novel so disturbed critics and the public that it was banished for decades afterward. Now widely read and admired, The Awakening has been hailed as... |
|
|
|
