Overview :Handsome, reserved, almost frighteningly aloof until he was approached, then playful, cordial, Nathaniel Hawthorne was as mercurial and doub... Read More
Overview :A New York Times Notable Book of 2013A Kirkus Best Book of 2013A Bookpage Best Book of 2013Dazzling in scope, Ecstatic Nation illuminates on... Read More
Overview :Nineteenth-Centuery American Writers on Writing features essays, letters, poems, prose, and excerpts of interviews by fifty-seven leading au... Read More
Overview :A magnificent history of the 1925 Scopes trial and how the teaching of evolution in public schools exposed profound divisions in America abo... Read More
Overview :The daughter of an Indianapolis mortician, Janet Flanner really began to live at the age of thirty, when she fled to Paris with her female l... Read More
Overview :Devoted, eccentric, and compelling, Gertrude and Leo Stein were constant companions, from childhood to adulthood, until, finally, they spoke... Read More
Overview :White Heat is the first book to portray the remarkable relationship between America's most beloved poet and the fiery abolitionist who first... Read More
Overview :NATIONAL BESTSELLER - "Brenda Wineapple's wonderful account of the Scopes trial sheds light not only on the battles of the past but on the s... Read More
Overview :NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY Jennifer Szalai, The New York Times - The New York Times Book Review - NPR - Publishers Weekly "... Read More