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Author: Avery Monsen

The perfect place for recording notes and doodles, or just pondering the inevitable, this irresistibly tactile, felt-covered and stitched journal features the dinosaur star of the breakout best seller All My Friends Are ...

Author: Henry David Thoreau

An updated edition of Thoreau's most widely read works.

Self-described as "a mystic, a transcendentalist, and a natural philosopher to boot," Henry David Thoreau dedicated his life to preserving his freedom as a m ...

Author: Ian Frazier

Ian Frazier's anthology is a literary cavalcade of contemporary American funnymen - and funnywomen - of the page. Selected by the beloved humourist and featuring 40 of the greatest pieces of comic writing in our time, "H ...

Author: Mark Twain

You had better shove this in the stove, Mark Twain said at the top of an 1865 letter to his brother, 'for I don't want any absurd 'literary remains' and 'unpublished letters of Mark Twain' published after I am planted'. ...

Author: Jonathan Franzen

A brilliant personal history from the award-winning author of 'The Corrections'. Jonathan Franzen, bestselling author of 'Freedom' and the highly acclaimed 'The Corrections', arrived late, and last, in a family of boys ...

Author: John Matteson

A brilliant writer and a fiery social critic, Margaret Fuller (1810-1850) was perhaps the most famous American woman of her generation. Outspoken and quick-witted, idealistic and adventurous, she was the leading female f ...

Author: Sydelle Pearl

It is a fascinating biography that brings to life one of 19th century America's most popular and highly regarded poets. Best known for "The Song of Hiawatha", and "Paul Revere's Ride", Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-18 ...

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Author: Edgar Allan Poe

This companion volume to "Tales of Mystery & Imagination" contains Poe's best-known poetry and a selection of his very best stories, including some fine tales from the last decade of his tragically short life. Many of th ...

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Author: Andrew Bernstein

The novel that made Ayn Rand famous, The Fountainhead is perceived as a modern classic. Taking place in New York City in the 1920s and 1930s, it chronicles the efforts of architect Howard Roark to achieve success on his ...

Author: Gail Galvan

HS - Hoosier Storybook 2004 is a literary dream come true. Hoosier authors stir up ingredients for some savory literary chicken soup. Sit back and relax while they tell you a bedtime story or share a heartfelt poem. Enjo ...

Author: Amal Talaat Abdelrazek

This is a profound study of how contemporary Arab American women writers who have been marginalized and silenced, especially after 9/11, are pointing out the racism, oppression, and marginalization they experience in the ...

Author: Stephen P. Knadler

Denying its formative dialogues with minorities, the white race, Stephen P. Knadler contends, has been a fugitive race. While the "white question," like the "Negro question," and the "woman question" a century earlier, h ...

Author: Anthony Dawahare

A call to recognize Marxism's underestimated influence on the course of African American lettersDuring and after the Harlem Renaissance, two intellectual forces --nationalism and Marxism--clashed and changed the future o ...

Author: Rick Ritter & Paul Richards

Hope and Healing For All Who Have Been Touched by War Made in America, Sold in the Nam brings together the writings of more than two dozen Vietnam-era veterans who have never before had the chance to speak their peace. T ...

Author: Eric Hoffer

Eric Hoffer--one of America's most important thinkers and the author of The True Believer--lived for years as a Depression Era migratory worker. Self-taught, his appetite for knowledge--history, science, mankind--formed ...

Author: Eric Hoffer

Eric Hoffer-one of America's most important thinkers and the author of The True Believer-lived for years as a Depression Era migratory worker. Self-taught, his appetite for knowledge-history, science, mankind-formed the ...

Author: Doreen Fowler & Ann J. Abadie

The essays in this volume address William Faulkner and the issue of race. Faulkner resolutely has probed the deeply repressed psychological dimensions of race, asking in novel after novel the perplexing question: what do ...

Author: Tony Leuzzi

"Passwords Primeval" sets aside the artificial boundaries of poetry "schools" and "movements" to cut to the "art" of the matter. Tony Leuzzi's astounding knowledge of poetry draws new insights from such luminaries ...

Author: Bridget T. Heneghan

Even before mass marketing, American consumers bought products that gentrified their households and broadcast their sense of "the good things in life." Bridging literary scholarship, archeology, history, and art history, ...

Author: Dorothy B. Richardson

A Trip to Niagara; or, Travellers in America, a three-act comedy, opened at New York's Bowery Theatre on November 28, 1828, for a long run. Scripted and later published by William Dunlap (1766-1839), the so-called "fathe ...