As I Lay Dying is one of the most influential novels in American modernist literature, a groundbreaking work in which William Faulkner reshaped the possibilities of the novel through stream-of-consciousness narration, fractured perspectives, and stark emotional power.
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Cimarron by Edna Ferber is a sweeping classic American historical novel that captures the raw ambition, danger, and promise of the Oklahoma Land Rush and the shaping of the American frontier.
A landmark of Harlem Renaissance fiction, Not Without Laughter by Langston Hughes is a moving and beautifully observed portrait of African American life in early twentieth-century America.
A sweeping masterpiece of historical literary fiction, Rogue Herries by Hugh Walpole launches the epic Herries Chronicle-a richly emotional family saga set against the dramatic beauty of England's Lake District.
A powerful classic of British literary fiction, Exiles by Warwick Deeping is a moving novel of love, loss, and self-discovery set in the emotionally unsettled years following World War I.