Henry van Dyke - Princeton professor, clergyman, wartime minister to the Netherlands, and a serious angler - knew the American outdoors and refused to sentimentalize the men who lived in it.
The book chronicles the history of Russia from its earliest days through its development as an empire, emphasizing the significant events and figures that shaped its evolution.
Roderick Hudson is Henry James's first true novel, written at thirty-two, and already the great theme of his life is here: the gifted American set loose in Europe with no notion of the price.
Kate Chopin's The Awakening was condemned as morbid and vulgar, quietly pulled from the shelves, and left unread for fifty years - and is now recognized as a landmark of American literature.
Thomas Love Peacock - by day an official of the East India Company, by night the sharpest satirist of his circle - retells the Robin Hood legend as high comedy.
Projekt 2050 - A new Earth ist ein leiser, tiefgrundiger Science - Fiction Roman uber Wiederaufbau ohne Allmacht, uber Fortschritt ohne Kontrolle uber die Frage, was Menschlichkeit bedeutet, wenn die Welt eine zweite Chance bekommt.
Leo Tolstoy published Childhood at twenty-three, anonymously, from an artillery post in the Caucasus - and the great editor Nekrasov printed it at once.
Seit Jahrhunderten zieht das Mittelalter Leserinnen und Leser in seinen Bann - eine Epoche voller Glaube, Aberglauben und der erschreckenden Macht kollektiver Angst.
En una Espana dividida por un muro que parte Madrid en dos, Alejandro Ruiz cruza la frontera con una mision que podria cambiar el destino de ambos bandos.
Written in the damp Concord parsonage where Emerson had lived before him, Mosses from an Old Manse gathers more than twenty of Nathaniel Hawthorne's finest tales and allegories: a scientist who cannot bear the small birthmark on his wife's cheek, a man who steps out of his life for twenty years to watch it from across the street, a garden whose beauty is deadly.
Gene Stratton-Porter waded into the Limberlost swamp with a heavy plate camera to photograph birds, and wrote fiction to pay for it - fiction that sold in the millions.
