A once rare disease, autism is now a worldwide epidemic affecting half a million American children.

The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 led most American citizens to feel that we are no longer safe and secure in our communities.

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 Curious Case of Benjamin Button is a 1922 short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald.

The Americanization of Edward Bok is an autobiography, told in the third person.

The Lady and the Pirate is a romance adventure novel from the well-known American author.

A recognized Latin American history masterpiece The History of the Conquest of Peru.

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.

Charles Eastman, whose Sioux name was Ohiyesa (pronounced Oh hee' yay suh).

Charles Eastman, whose Sioux name was Ohiyesa (pronounced Oh hee' yay suh).

American novelist and designer Edith Wharton traveled to Morocco after the end of World War I.

The Path of the Law is a short essay by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

The Portrait of a Lady is perhaps Henry James' greatest novel.

A beautiful American girl, Daisy Miller, is pursued by the sophisticated Winterbourne.

William Wells Brown's Clotel or, The President's Daughter is often considered the first novel.

Collected here are a number of short stories by the popular American writer.

The social philosopher Richard B. Gregg is credited with coining the term voluntary simplicity.

Maggie: A Girl of the Streets is a novella by American author Stephen Crane.