The Grapes of Wrath
Author: John Steinbeck, a 20th-century American writer This Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by the Nobel Laureate author describes a crucial period in the history of the United States of America –…
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The Good Earth
Author: Pearl S. Buck, a 20th-century American writer The masterpiece of the American Nobel Laureate author who introduced the Far East to the West, this rags-to-riches story of a Chinese…
The Fall of the House of Usher
Author: Edgar Allan Poe, a 19th-century American writer, poet, and editor. A mid-nineteenth-century American classic, supernatural horror pervades this narrative. Roderick Usher, the scion of the renowned House of Usher,…
The Diary of a Young Girl
Author: Anne Frank, a German-Dutch diarist. A true and historically important account by a teenage victim of the Holocaust, Anne's diary published over the years in several edited versions, continues…
The Catcher in the Rye
Author: J.D. Salinger, a 20th-century American author. This twentieth-century coming-of-age novel has been criticized for its irreverent language, but its empathetic and accurate use of that language by the teenaged…
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Author: Mark Twain, a 19th-century American writer, humorist, and publisher. The protagonist of this delightful and insightful adventure is the orphan Tom, a mischievous but intelligent boy living with his…
Frankenstein
Author: Mary Shelley, a 19th-century English novelist Rarely has a novel captured the popular imagination and inspired innumerable adaptations and references across time and space as Shelley’s Frankenstein. Written in…
Pride and Prejudice
Author: Jane Austen, an English novelist of the late eighteenth century. Published anonymously in early nineteenth century England, Austen’s second novel is different from contemporary didactic and moralizing writing, describing…
Paradise Lost
Author: John Milton, a 17th-century English poet and intellectual. Written in unrhymed verse in the seventeenth century, this epic describes the fall of Man from God’s grace through the machinations…
Oliver Twist
Author: Charles Dickens, an English writer of the Victorian Era The touching story of an orphan in early nineteenth-century England, this novel critiques the conditions of the poor and helpless…