American Literature

Tremendous in scope and breathtaking in its suspense, Atlas Shrugged is Ayn Rand's magnum opus, an electrifying moral defense of capitalism and free enterprise....

The struggle for personal integrity in a world that values conformity above creativity is powerfully illustrated through three characters....

Harper Lee’s Pulitzer prize-winning masterwork of honor and injustice in the deep south - and the heroism of one man in the face of blind and violent hatred....

James Baldwin gives an electrifying reading about a young gay American in Paris recalling a dramatic and transforming incident from his boyhood, as he struggles to accept his sexual identity....

Past the rusted gates and untrimmed hedges, Hill House broods and waits….

Edgar Allan Poe was one of the most prolific authors of his time, eventually gaining recognition for his tales of horror and his uncanny ability to paint a macabre picture with words....

Little Women is a novel by American author Louisa May Alcott (1832–1888)....

Ernest Hemingway said, “All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn....

Refusing to be civilized by Southern society or cowed by his drunken father's lashings, young Huckleberry Finn decides he has only one option left: fake his own death....

A young governess arrives at Bly, a country home in Essex, England, to care for Miles and Flora, two precocious and pure children....

Here are all of Edgar Allan Poe’s great short stories in one 16-hour collection....

Written in 1952, this hugely successful novella confirmed Hemingway's power and presence in the literary world and played a large part in his winning the 1954 Nobel Prize for Literature....