One of the outstanding novels in the canon of American literature, My Ántonia tells of the life of early American pioneers in the vast frontier farmlands of Nebraska. Infused with a gracious passion for the land, it renders a deeply moving portrait of a community and the free-spirited girl at... View...

Paradise Lost is the greatest epic poem in the English language. View...

Frederick Winterbourne, an American expatriate visiting at Vevey, Switzerland, meets commonplace, newly rich Mrs. Miller from Schenectady, New York, her mischievous small son and her daughter, Daisy, an “inscrutable combination of audacity and innocence.” The Millers have no perception of the... View...

Classic story of a hasty world tour taken up on a gentelmen's club wager View...