American Studies

Author	Thornton Wilder
ISBN	0060088877

This beautiful new edition features unpublished notes for the novel and other illuminating documentary material, all of which is included in a new Afterword by Tappan Wilder.

On Friday noon, July the twentieth, 1714, the finest bridge in all Peru broke and precipitated five travelers into...

Author	Booth Tarkington
ISBN	1434100243

Alice Adams, the daughter of middle-class parents, wants desperately to belong with the people of "high society" who live in her town. Ultimately, her ambitions are tempered by the realities of her situation, which she learns to accept with grace and style. Alice's resiliency of spirit makes her one...

Author	Willa Cather
ISBN	1600969798

One of Ours is Willa Cather's 1923 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about the making of an American soldier. Claude Wheeler, the sensitive but aspiring protagonist, has ready access to his family's fortune but refuses to settle for it. Alienated from his uncaring father and pious mother, and rejected...

Author	Edna Ferber
ISBN	1417906774

Winner of the 1924 Pulitzer Prize, So Big is widely regarded as Edna Ferber's crowning achievement. A rollicking panorama of Chicago's high and low life, this stunning novel follows the travails of gambler's daughter Selina Peake DeJong as she struggles to maintain her dignity, her family, and her...

Author	Dinaw Mengestu
ISBN	1594489408

A haunting and powerful first novel that views the streets of Washington, D.C. and Addis Ababa through the eyes of Sepha who, seventeen years ago, fled Ethiopia during the Revolution, and now runs a failing convenience store in a poor African-American neighborhood in Washington. Published as The...

Author	Euripides
ISBN	0226307832

Rhesus by Euripides is about an event told in Book Ten of Homer’s Iliad. It is a short play. It’s interesting but without the dramatic impact of Medea, Orestes or Electra.

The play contains spying, disguises, deception, murder, mistaken identity, manipulation by the gods, horse theft...