Classic fiction: general and literary

The novel follows young Thea Konborg's growth from provincial Midwesterner to acclaimed international opera singer.

The Iliad is an epic Greek poem written by philosopher Homer, and is considered one of the oldest pieces of western literature still in existence.

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is a short story by F.

London, 1920s.

Rip Van Winkle is a short story by the American author Washington Irving first published in 1819.

Experiencing a story read out loud is one of the oldest forms of entertainment there is.

A deluxe Harper Perennial Legacy Edition, with an introduction from Margot Livesey, award-winning and New York Times best-selling author of The Flight of Gemma HardyA compelling historical novel of two families wrestling with questions of honor, class, loyalty, democracy, and independence during the American Revolution, now available in a Harper Perennial Modern Classics Legacy Edition.

Written in a decade when American music and literature were exploding in new directions, F.

Originally published in Harte's 1875 short-story collection The Tales of the Argonauts, "e;How Santa Claus Came to Simpson's Bar"e; is set in California in the early 1860s and, like the rest of the tales in that collection, features the gold-seeking Argonauts.

Originally published anonymously in 1912, The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man revealed as never before the color line dividing America, and the price it exacted on those souls who could traverse the two worlds.

With a contemporary review by R.

But you live like such a fool-of course you're bored!