Susanna Rowson's Charlotte Temple became a huge seller in America from its first publication there in 1794, subsequently going through over two hundred editions.
Cranford is the best-known novel of the 19th century English writer Elizabeth Gaskell.
The first novel by English writer Elizabeth Gaskell, Mary Barton was published in 1848.
Born in Exile is an 1892 novel by George Robert Gissing, a prominent realist author of late-Victorian England who wrote twenty-three novels between 1880 and 1903.
William Dean Howells' 1885 novel, The Rise of Silas Lapham tells the story of its protagonist's materialistic aspirations; his rise from rags to riches.
It goes without saying that this book is to be enjoyed with a dram or two of your favorite single malt. Don't have one? Don't worry, you will.
Wallace Stevens' torrid words serve as both epigraph and incantation for Adrienne Weiss's powerful debut collection.
The Debaucher, Jason Camlot's third collection of poetry, walks an oscillating lyrical tightrope between realms of cosmopolitan sophistication and ribald hilarity.
Abundantly Simple is a brilliantly funny response to the enormously popular and saccharine-sweet bestseller Simple Abundance.
A review from the PENN STATER, Sept./Oct. 1997: ". . .Braund's descriptions of his agricultural mission will interest some readers.
Twenty-four-year-old Jane Marshall is unattractive, poor, struggling to educate herself.
Twelve British Statisticians provides a description of the lives and contributions of a dozen scientists.
These two stories by Koos Rozemond, with English translations by Aart van den End.
A 400-year-old puzzle, a modern-day hunt to the death.
The secret Society for Emigrant Women runs an international rescue operation for runaway women.
At the height of the Cold War a Russian girl plots to steal the mummified body of Lenin.
Don't Try and Sell Me No Pink Flamingos: From the forward by George Garrett York Harbor.
Our meddling intellect misshapes the beauteous forms of things; we murder to dissect.
The setting is mainly Elima, a composite of the Hawaiian Islands.
Elima?imaginary Elima. It is one of the Neighbor Islands.