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The Red Badge of Courage (Scribner Illustrated Classic Series)
Stephen Crane - Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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As important a book today as it was when it was first written, The Red Badge of Courage tells the story of Henry Fielding, a farm boy who sets out in search of glory by running away from home to join the Civil War, only to find himself running away from the battlefield in terror during... |
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The Sound and the Fury: The Corrected Text with Faulkner's Appendix
William Faulkner - Modern Library
Format: Hardcover
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Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all timeFrom the Modern Library’s new set of beautifully repackaged hardcover classics by William Faulkner—also available are Snopes, As I Lay Dying, Light in August, Absalom, Absalom!, and Selected Short StoriesThe... |
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Their Eyes Were Watching God: A Novel
Zora Neale Hurston - Harper Perennial Modern Classics
Format: Paperback
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A PBS Great American Read Top 100 Pick"A deeply soulful novel that comprehends love and cruelty, and separates the big people from the small of heart, without ever losing sympathy for those unfortunates who don't know how to live properly." - Zadie SmithOne of the most important... |
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On the Road
Jack Kerouac
Format: Book
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"On the Road chronicles Jack Kerouac's years traveling the North American continent with his friend Neal Cassady, "a sideburned hero of the snowy West." As "Sal Paradise" and "Dean Moriarty," the two roam the country in a quest for self-knowledge |
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A Separate Peace
John Knowles
Format: Hardcover
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An American classic and great bestseller for over thirty years, A Separate Peace is timeless in its description of adolescence during a period when the entire country was losing its innocence to the second world war. Set at a boys boarding school in New England during the early years of World... |
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To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee - HarperAudio
Format: Audiobook
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Harper Lee's classic novel of a lawyer in the deep south defending a black man charged with the rape of a white girlOne of the best-loved stories of all time, To Kill a Mockingbird has earned many distinctions since its original publication in 1960. It won the Pulitzer Prize, has been translated... |
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The Call of the Wild
Jack London
Format: Paperback
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?No other popular writer of his time did any better writing than you will find in The Call of the Wild.?--H. L. Mencken One of the greatest American storytellers, Jack London enjoyed phenomenal popularity in his own time and remains widely read throughout the world. Hi |
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The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
Carson McCullers - Houghton Mifflin
Format: Print book
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With the publication of her first novel, THE HEART IS A LONELY HUNTER, Carson McCullers, all of twenty-three, became a literary sensation. With its profound sense of moral isolation and its compassionate glimpses into its characters' inner lives, the novel is considered McCullers' finest... |
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Moby-Dick
Herman Melville
Format: Paperback
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Moby-Dick, by Herman Melville, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted e |
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Edgar Allan Poe: Sixty-Seven Tales
Edgar Allan Poe
Format: Book
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67 tales from a master of the short story. Includes the incomparable The Fall of the House of Usher, The Cask of Murders in the Rue Morgue, The Pit and the Pendulum and The Tell-Tale Heart as well as "The Raven" and The Narrative of Arthur Gordon |
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The Catcher in the Rye
J. D. Salinger - Back Bay Books
Format: Paperback
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Anyone who has read J.D. Salingers New Yorker stories--particularly A Perfect Day for Bananafish, Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut, The Laughing Man, and For Esme With Love and Squalor--will not be surprised by the fact that his first novel is full of children. The hero-narrator of The Catcher... |
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The Grapes of Wrath
John Steinbeck - Penguin Books
Format: Paperback
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First published in 1939, Steinbeck's Pulitzer Prize-winning epic of the Great Depression chronicles the Dust Bowl migration of the 1930s and tells the story of one Oklahoma farm family, the Joads-driven from their homestead and forced to travel west to the promised land of California. Out of their... |
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Walden: 150th Anniversary Illustrated Edition of the American Classic
Henry David Thoreau
Format: Print book
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Now featuring an Introduction by Don Henley, founder of the Walden Woods Project, this beautiful commemorative edition of Thoreau's masterpiece features spectacular color photographs that capture Walden as vividly as Thoreau's words do. Henry David Thor |
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The Age of Innocence
Edith Wharton
Format: Book
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With her Pulitzer Prize-winning The Age of Innocence (1920) , Wharton recreated the Old New York of her own childhood, in a moving tale of passion and desire. "Edith Wharton is a writer who brings glory to the name of America, and this is her best book. It is one of the best |
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Native Son
Richard Wright - Harper Perennial Modern Classics
Format: Paperback
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Right from the start, Bigger Thomas had been headed for jail. It could have been for assault or petty larceny; by chance, it was for murder and rape. Native Son tells the story of this young black man caught in a downward spiral after he kills a young white woman in a brief moment of panic.... |
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Go Tell It on the Mountain (Vintage International)
James Baldwin - Vintage
Format: Mass Market Paperback
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In one of the greatest American classics, Baldwin chronicles a fourteen-year-old boys discovery of the terms of his identity. Baldwins rendering of his protagonists spiritual, sexual, and moral struggle of self-invention opened new possibilities in the American language and in the way Americans... |
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Fahrenheit 451
Ray Bradbury
Format: Paperback
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Internationally acclaimed with more than 5 million copies in print, Fahrenheit 451 is Ray Bradbury's classic novel of censorship and defiance, as resonant today as it was when it was first published nearly 50 years ago.Guy Montag was a fireman whose job it was to st |
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My Antonia
Willa Cather
Format: Book
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In this powerful and astonishing novel, Willa Cather created one of the most winning yet thoroughly convincing heroines in American fiction. Antonia Shimerda, the daughter of Bohemian immigrants, not only survives her father's suicide, poverty, and a failed romance, she triumphs w |
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The Last of the Mohicans
James Fenimore Cooper
Format: Book
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The Last of the Mohicans, by James Fenimore Cooper, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of c |
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The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald - Scribner
Format: eBook
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The exemplary novel of the Jazz Age, F. Scott Fitzgeralds' third book, The Great Gatsby (1925) , stands as the supreme achievement of his career. T. S. Eliot read it three times and saw it as the "first step" American fiction had taken since Henry James; H. L. Mencken... |
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The Scarlet Letter:
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Format: Paperback
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An iconic novel dressed in a fierce design by acclaimed fashion illustrator Ruben Toledo. Other titles in the couture-inspired collection include Jane Eyre, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Dracula, Wuthering Heights and Pride and Prejudice.Ruben Toledo's breathtaking drawings h |
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The Old Man and The Sea
Ernest Hemingway - Scribner
Format: Paperback
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The Old Man and the Sea is one of Hemingway's most enduring works. Told in language of great simplicity and power, it is the story of an old Cuban fisherman, down on his luck, and his supreme ordeal -- a relentless, agonizing battle with a giant marlin far out in the Gulf Stream. Here Hemingway... |
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Washington Square
Henry James
Format: Paperback
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It's time to rediscover the wonderful books we all cherish.Originally published in 1880, Washington Square was praised for its depiction of the complicated relationship between a father and daughter. Catherine Sloper lives in New York City's fashionable Washington Square |
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Go Tell It on the Mountain (Vintage International)
James Baldwin - Vintage
Format: Mass Market Paperback
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In one of the greatest American classics, Baldwin chronicles a fourteen-year-old boys discovery of the terms of his identity. Baldwins rendering of his protagonists spiritual, sexual, and moral struggle of self-invention opened new possibilities in the American language and in the way Americans... |
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Babbitt
Sinclair Lewis
Format: Book
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A novel "saturated with americanca's vitality" (Rebecca West) -the story of a middle-class businessman and social climber whose name became synonymous with smug conformity. "I wish I had written Babbitt" (H. G. Wells) . |
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