Henry Shackleford is a young slave living in the Kansas Territory in 1857, when the region is a battleground between anti- and pro-slavery forces. When John Brown, the legendary abolitionist, arrives in the area, an argument between Brown and...
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Two short stories, from the English novelist and short story writer, whose writings can be seen as critiques of Victorian era attitudes, particularly those toward women, with complex narratives and dynamic women...
A Lear of the Steppes and Other Stories (1870, 1899),
by Ivan Turgenev
(1818-1883) Translated from the Russian
by Constance Black Garnett
Table of Contents
Introduction, by Edward Garnett, 1898
A Lear of the...
The Land Of...
Letters from the...
A Midsummer...
Upon his return to Europe from fighting on the eastern front in World War I, Franz Tunda finds that the old order is gone and Europe has changed utterly. Disillusioned by the new ideologies, he is the archetypal modern man taken up by the currents...
Mister...
"Once upon a time, there was a woman who discovered that she had turned into the wrong person." So Anne Tyler opens this irresistible new novel.
The woman is Rebecca Davitch, a fifty-three-year-old grandmother. Is she an impostor in her own...
Supernaturally tinged stories from William T. Vollmann, author of the National Book Award winner Europe Central.
In this magnificent new work of fiction, his first in nine years, celebrated author William T. Vollmann offers a collection...