Holly Goldberg Sloan
American film director, producer, screenwriter and New York Times bestselling novelist.
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Wendell Berry
American novelist, poet, essayist, environmental activist, cultural critic, and farmer
The World-Ending Fire
Ruled by the violence and greed of unbridled consumerism, Wendell Berry speaks out in these prescient essays, drawn from his fifty-year campaign on behalf of American lands and communities
A Hero of Our Time
A Hero of Our Time (Russian: Герой нашего времени, tr. Gerój nášego vrémeni, IPA: [ɡʲɪˈroj ˈnaʂɨvə ˈvrʲemʲɪnʲɪ]) is a novel by Mikhail Lermontov, written in 1839, published in 1840, and revised in 1841. It is an example of the superfluous man novel, noted for its compelling Byronic hero (or antihero) Pechorin and for the beautiful …
Sudden Fiction
Gathers seventy stories by Paley, Hannah, Barthelme, Cheever, Updike, Tallent, Carver, Boyle, Williams, Oates, Hemingway, and Malamud
The Complete Works of O. Henry
Well known for their wit, wordplay, warm characterization and clever twist endings
Complete Poems and Songs of Robert Burns
This anthology contains a complete compendium of all poems and songs written by Scotland’s national poet – Robert Burns. Arranged according to the date they were written, this anthology contains both famous and lesser known works by Burns. Written in his distinct style, replete with slang and terminology native to his homeland, the poet covers …
The Devil’s Dictionary
“Dictionary, n: A malevolent literary device for cramping the growth of a language and making it hard and inelastic. This dictionary, however, is a most useful work.” Bierce’s groundbreaking Devil’s Dictionary had a complex publication history. Started in the mid-1800s as an irregular column in Californian newspapers under various titles, he gradually refined the new-at-the-time …
Fathers and Sons
One of the greatest nineteenth century Russian novels, and has long been acclaimed as Turgenev’s finest work
Cyrano de Bergerac
French novelist, playwright, epistolarian, and duelist