These are the passionate and poignant letters from General George E. Pickett, C.S.A.
Why did a Union-loving, secession-opposing young college student volunteer.
The $30,000 Bequest And Other Stories is a collection of short stories by the iconic American writer and humorist Mark Twain.
Arnold Bennett's The Grand Babylon Hotel, from 1902, tells the story of a German prince mysteriously disappearing.
The Iron Heel is a dystopian novel by American writer Jack London, first published in 1908.
James Weldon Johnson's The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man is the fictional account of the life of a young American man in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge opens with the story's hero, Peyton Farquhar, hanging bound from a bridge, awaiting hanging.
Frederick Douglass was an ex-slave and a great orator in early 19th-century USA.
Wieland, named by his father after a German nickname for the devil.
The Lady and the Pirate is a romance adventure novel from the well-known American author.
Nostromo is a classic anti-hero, who lives in a fictitious mining village on the coast.
Hailed as one of American literature's most influential works.
The Path of the Law is a short essay by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
A beautiful American girl, Daisy Miller, is pursued by the sophisticated Winterbourne.
Collected here are a number of short stories by the popular American writer.
Maggie: A Girl of the Streets is a novella by American author Stephen Crane.
A country girl moves to the big city and lives her own version of the American Dream.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman's 1892 short story, The Yellow Wallpaper is a valuable piece of American.
In How to Tell a Story and Other Essays, iconic American author Mark Twain discusses his own experience as a writer and his personal style.
One of the most famous non-fiction American books, Walden by Henry David Thoreau is the history of Thoreau's visit to Ralph Waldo Emerson's woodland retreat near Walden Pond.