Overview :A lively and compelling portrait of one of the most acerbic and distinctive voices in American literature, Ambrose Bierce: Alone in Bad Comp... Read More
Overview :The bitter 1876 contest between Ohio Republican Governor Rutherford B. Hayes and New York Democratic Governor Samuel Tilden was the most sen... Read More
Overview :In the very last paragraph of Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, the title character gloomily reckons that it's time "to light out... Read More
Overview :This is a collection of true stories about the characters and personalities of the folks I met, worked with and fought with while in the Mar... Read More
Overview :This is a collection of stories about the Morris family, our loved ones, friends and neighbors. It covers six decades of our efforts to surv... Read More
Overview :For nearly three years, Walt Whitman immersed himself in the devastation of the Civil War, tending to thousands of wounded soldiers and reco... Read More
Overview :For nearly three years, Walt Whitman immersed himself in the devastation of the Civil War, tending to thousands of wounded soldiers and reco... Read More
Overview :For a man who liked being called the American, Mark Twain spent a surprising amount of time outside the continental United States. Biographe... Read More
Overview :Arriving at the port of New York in 1882, a 27-year-old Oscar Wilde quipped he had "nothing to declare but my genius." But as Roy Morris, Jr... Read More
Overview :In 1933, experimental writer and longtime expatriate Gertrude Stein skyrocketed to overnight fame with the publication of an unlikely best s... Read More
Overview :He was short, foul-mouthed, and so constitutionally pugnacious that he once thrashed a Southern train conductor who treated him rudely. He r... Read More
Overview :He was short, foul-mouthed, and so constitutionally pugnacious that he once thrashed a Southern train conductor who treated him rudely. He r... Read More