Our all-time bestselling title, this classic and powerful novel spanning three generations of a Slovak immigrant family has been adopted for course use in more than 250 colleges and universities nationwide.Out of This Furnace, is Thomas Bell's most compelling achievement. Its story of three generations of an immigrant Slovak family - the Dobrejcaks - still stands as a fresh and extraordinary accomplishment.The novel begins in the mid-1880s with the...

The relationship between the presidency and the press has transformed—seemingly overnight—from one where reports and columns were filed, edited, and deliberated for hours before publication into a brave new world where texts, tweets, and sound bites race from composition to release within a matter of seconds. This change, which has ultimately made political journalism both more open and more difficult, brings about many questions, but perhaps the two most important are these: Are the hard ...

'One of the most important American novels of the twentieth century' The Times'It is sometimes advantageous to be unseen, although it is most often rather wearing on the nerves'Ralph Ellison's blistering and impassioned first novel tells the extraordinary story of a man invisible 'simply because people refuse to see me'. Published in 1952 when American society was in the cusp of immense change, the powerfully depicted adventures of Ellison...

**From the bestselling author of In Cold Blood and Breakfast at Tiffany's comes the story of three endearing misfits—an orphaned boy and two whimsical old ladies—who take up residence in a tree house.“Remarkable. . . . Infused with a tender laughter, charming human warmth, [and] a feeling for the positive quality of life.” —New York Herald Tribune**Set on the outskirts of a small Southern town, The Grass Harp tells the tale of three misfi...

The Pulitzer Prize–winning memoir about coming of age in America between the world wars: "So warm, so likable and so disarmingly funny" ( The New York Times).One of the New York Times' "50 Best Memoirs of the Past 50 Years"Ranging from the backwoods of Virginia to a New Jersey commuter town to the city of Baltimore, this remarkable memoir recounts Russell Baker's experience of growing up in pre–World War II America, before he went on to a ...

Samuel Dashiell Hammett (1894 – 1961) was an American author of hard-boiled detective novels and short stories.This Collection includes 16 stories:Arson PlusBodies Piled UpThe Second-Story AngelThe Road HomeThe Tenth ClewThe Man Who Killed Dan OdamsNight ShotsAfraid Of A GunZigzags Of TreacheryOne HourDeath On Pine StreetWho Killed Bob Teal?Nightmare TownThe Assistant MurdererMi...

**Winner of the 2018 Nebraska Book Award for FictionA rousing, suspenseful debut novel—True Grit meets Catch Me If You Can—based on the forgotten true story of a Robin Hood of the American frontier who pulls off the first successful kidnapping for ransom in U.S. history**“A kidnapper with a social-justice mission” (Time), Pat Crowe was once the most wanted man in America. World, Chase Me Down resurrects him, telling the electrifying story...

Alexandra—Sandy—Kellick had come from Colorado to help her aunt, May Brewster, with her antique shop in Massachusetts while that good lady went off on a buying trip.A small girl, with softly curling brown hair and a delicate heart-shaped face, Sandy looked almost too young to be left with such an important assignment, but she felt quite equal to the task. It would be fun, she thought, learning the antique business, and now, standing in the shop's wide driveway, she looked at the Wh...

John Dos Passos's literary response to Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal, The Grand Design critiques the gargantuan growth of bureaucracy in Washington during the Great Depression and World War II. The satiric novel conveys the author's frustration with federal overreach and the hollow rhetoric that sells it to the people."War is a time of Caesars," writes Dos Passos as he laments the death of idealistic, intelligent enterprises at the desks of elitist administrators. A...

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The Complete Novels of Sinclair Lewis offers an expansive exploration of American society in the early 20th century, encompassing his sharp critiques of cultural norms and the failings of capitalism. Lewis employs a rich, satirical style characterized by keen social observation and an unflinching gaze at the contradictions of American life. From the small-town struggles in "Main Street" to the critique of bourgeois morality in "Babbitt," these novels reveal the author's incisive examinatio...

The Pulitzer Prize–winning poet and historian recalls his midwestern boyhood in this classic memoir.Born in a tiny cottage in Galesburg, Illinois, in 1878, Carl Sandburg grew with America. As a boy he left school at the age of thirteen to embark on a life of work—driving a milk wagon and serving as a hotel porter, a bricklayer, and a farm laborer before eventually finding his place in the world of literature.In Always the Young Strangers, Sandburg ...