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Published in 1884, Ramona is an American novel written by Helen Hunt Jackson. The novel is set in Southern California after the Mexican-American War and is the story of a mixed-race Scottish-Native American orphan girl growing up in Southern...

I Am Legend is a science-fiction horror novel written by Richard Matheson, published in 1954. It dives deep into a plot with disease-infested zombie-vampires taking over the world through an apocalypse. It follows the story of Robert Neville, an...

It is not known who wrote The Brome Play of Abraham and Isaac; what is known is that it was written in middle England in the fifteenth century in East Anglian English. East Anglian English was one of the dialects that had the greatest influence on...

If the last name "Durrell" seems familiar to you, it is probably because the author's brother, Gerald, is the author of a series of incredibly popular comedic autobiographical novels, the most famous of which, My Family and Oher Animals, has been...

Zitkala-Sa is a Sioux activist and writer, and the stories collected in this anthology represent the horrible and difficult experiences the Native Americans endured at the special schools created just for them by European missionaries. The...

By G.K. Chesterton's own admission, this poem is not meant to be historically accurate; in fact, it is a highly romanticized account of the adventures of King Alfred the Great, King of Saxon Britain, and in the introductory prose to the poem,...

The Triumph of the Will is widely considered - and considered for the worse - to be the most effective piece of political propaganda ever produced. When you consider the amount of propaganda that has been given to the world by oligarchs and...

Although she was a Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist, Eudora Welty was also that rare thing in the literary field - an author who is more well-known for her short stories than for her essays, novels, or poems. From an early age she loved the written...

Willa Cather was not just an author - although she was a prolific one. She was also an unofficial anthropologist, writing about life on the Great Plains and basing the majority of both her novels and her short stories on the people and the lives...

Dinner Along the Amazon is a book of twelve short stories by Canadian author Timothy Findley. He was a part of the Southern Ontario Gothic genre, a sub-genre of the gothic novel, and a title invented by Findley himself. The region provides the...

Me and Earl and the Dying Girl is American Jesse Andrews' 2012 debut smash hit. Released in March 2012 in hardcover and May 2013 in paperback, Me and Earl and the Dying Girl follows Greg Gaines as he begins to really bond with another kid named...

The Butterfly Hotel is a collection of poetry by Trinidadian-British writer and activist Roger Robinson. The collection contains three sections, each about a different aspect of Robinson's life.

Raised in Trinidad, Robinson spent most of his adult...

Michael Chabon’s first book is called "The Little Knife" and Other Short Stories. It had, similarly to many other collections, different names depending on where and when it was published. "The Little Knife" and Other Short Stories is often called...

Galway Kinnell, award-winning poet, had a knack for poetry that explores the whole of humanity rather than focusing on trivial, mundane matters. His poems connect seemingly small, unrelated events of everyday life to large-scale, socio-cultural...

W.D. Snodgrass won the 1960 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry after only one year in the public eye as a published poet. Born in Pennsylvania on 5th January 1926, William de Witt Snodgrass wrote under two pseudonymys; W.D. Snodgrass, an abbreviation of...

Henry Lawson (1867- 1922) is synonymous with Australian literature. He was writing fiction and poetry that has been essential in defining the Australian national character at the exact time that Australia itself was becoming a reality. Lawson’s...

Zee Edgell is a Fawcett Society Book Prize winning author, and received this accolade in 1982 after the publication of Beka Lamb. Not only was it Edgell's first novel to earn international recognition, it was also the first novel by any Belizean...

David Fincher's The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008), loosely based on the short story of the same name by F. Scott Fitzgerald, was nominated for a miraculous thirteen Academy Awards, winning three - Best Art Direction, Best Makeup, and Best...

Heartland is a memoir by writer Sarah Smarsh to be published on September 18, 2018. Set in 1980's and 1990's Kansas, the book follow the story of young Smarsh, daughter of a poor wheat farmer. With themes of America's continuously changing...

Robert Graves is considered one of England's pre-eminent war poets - one of a group of young men whose poetry written in the trenches of France during World War One came to symbolize the awfulness of the conditions that they were sent to fight in,...

In 1938, George Orwell published Homage to Catalonia, an autobiographical novel that detailed his participation and experiences in the Spanish Civil War. The war was fought between the left-leaning Republicans, who were forged in an alliance with...

Darkness at Noon is the best-known work of Hungarian-born British writer Arthur Koestler. It was published in 1940 during World War Two and speaks far louder about Koestler's feelings of disgruntlement and disillusionment with the Russian...

Gail Godwin is an American novelist and short story writer, born in 1937. Throughout her career, she has published 14 individual novels, as well as two collections of short stories. Godwin was raised in North Carolina, where she gradually picked...

Published in 1854, The Lamplighter is realistic fiction novel by American novelist Maria Cummins. The novel takes on a sentimental point of view, with themes that try to persuade the reader towards the righteous path of being kind towards...