Exploring Top Books of Shelfari

The Everyman's Library Pocket Poets hardcover series is popular for its compact size and reasonable price which does not compromise content. Poems: Whitman contains forty-two of the American master's poems, including "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry," "Song of Myself," "I Hear America Singing," "Halcyon Days," and an index of first lines.

Novels and Social Writings (Library of America)

Novels and Social Writings (Library of America)

by Jack London

Jack London is a powerful witness to the political upheavals of the twentieth century and their terrifying contradictions. By turns impoverished laborer, renegade adventurer, war correspondent in Mexico, dedicated socialist, and writer of enormous worldwide popularity, London dramatized his ideas about modern societies through incidents of adventure, romance, and brutal violence. "The Iron Heel," an... (more)

Moby Dick (Oxford Illustrated Classics)

by Herman Melville

In this adaptation for children of Herman Melville's masterpiece, Geraldine McCaughrean recounts the tale of the obsessed Captain Ahab pursuing the great white whale, Moby Dick, a creature as vast and dangerous as the sea itself. McCaughrean's vivid and compelling language is beautifully complemented by Victor Ambrus's evocative pictures of ships, the tumultuous sea, and the monstrous whale himself.

Poems.

by John Crowe Ransom

Anthology of American Literature : Colonial Through Romantic

Anthology of American Literature : Colonial Through Romantic

by George McMichael, J.C. Levenson, Leo Marx, David E. Smith, Mae Miller Claxton, Susan Bunn

This leading, two-volume anthology represents America's literary heritage from the colonial times of William Bradford and Anne Bradstreet to the contemporary era of Saul Bellow and Alice Walker. The first volume covers Christopher Columbus through Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson. Additional Hopi and Navajo myths. Presents multiple selections by authors. Provides an expanded chronological chart. Presents many... (more)

$Fr\c3\bchst\c3\bcck bei Tiffany. Ein Kurzroman und drei Erz\c3\a4hlungen.$

Fr\c3\bchst\c3\bcck bei Tiffany. Ein Kurzroman und drei Erz\c3\a4hlungen.

by Truman Capote

Gottes Werk und Teufels Beitrag.

by John Irving

The Geraldi Trail : A Western Story (Five Star Standard Print Western Series)

The Geraldi Trail : A Western Story (Five Star Standard Print Western Series)

by Max Brand

James Geraldi only steals from other thieves. Having squared himself with the law, Geraldi is about to marry when his old friend Larry Burns rides in with a posse in pursuit. Geraldi takes Burns' place and leads the posse astray. But in that one rash move he has made himself a wanted man again, and sent his distraught bride into hiding.

El Hotel New Hampshire/the Hotel New Hampshire

El Hotel New Hampshire/the Hotel New Hampshire

by John Irving

Ivanhoe

by Sir Walter Scott

The epitome of the chivalric novel, Ivanhoe sweeps readers into Medieval England and the lives of a memorable cast of characters. Ivanhoe, a trusted ally of Richard-the-Lion-Hearted, returns from the Crusades to reclaim the inheritance his father denied him. Rebecca, a vibrant, beautiful Jewish woman is defended by Ivanhoe against a charge of witchcraft--but it is Lady Rowena who is Ivanhoe's true love. The wicked... (more)

Nathaniel Hawthorne The scarlet letter

Introduces and sets in context the enormous range of critical arguments that have been generated by this enduring work. From the comments and reviews of Hawthorne's contemporaries through discussions of the novel by fellow artists such as Henry James and D.H. Lawrence, to radical re-readings of the postwar decades, the reader is given an invaluable guide to the critical progress of this key American text.

Stolen Gold : A Western Trio (Thorndike Large Print Western Series)

Stolen Gold : A Western Trio (Thorndike Large Print Western Series)

by Max Brand

Hasty Wedding

by Mignon Good Eberhart

On the eve of her wedding, Dorcas slips out to pay a final farewell to Ronald, an old flame. Their parting words were far from pleasant, but nothing could have prepared Dorcas for the arrival of the police at her wedding--accusing her of Ronald's murder. Reissue.

Marching to Valhalla : A Novel of Custer's Last Days (G K Hall Large Print Book Series (Cloth))

Marching to Valhalla : A Novel of Custer's Last Days (G K Hall Large Print Book Series (Cloth))

by Michael Blake

The author of Dances With Wolves turns his creativity and imagination toward America's doomed romantic hero, George Armstrong Custer--the youngest general of the Civil War, trailblazer, Indian hunter, passionate lover, obsessive husband, and tormented, guilt-ridden soul. A wonderful merger of fact and fiction, Marching to Valhalla is soon to be a major motion picture starring Brad Pitt.

Precaution

by James Fenimore Cooper

Looks of a singular import were exchanged between Colonel Egerton and Sir Herbert Nicholson, at the mention of Denbigh's name; which, as the latter had just asked the favor of taking wine with Mrs. Wilson, did not escape her notice. Emily had innocently mentioned his precipitate retreat the night before; and he had, when reminded of his engagement to dine with them that very day, and promised an introduction to... (more)

White Fang and Call of the Wild (Signet Classic)

White Fang and Call of the Wild (Signet Classic)

by Jack London

The biting cold and the aching silence of the far North become an unforgettable backdrop for Jack London's vivid, rousing, superbly realistic wilderness adventure stories featuring the author's unique knowledge of the Yukon and the behavior of humans and animals facing nature at its cruelest.

The American Tradition in Literature

by George B. Perkins, Barbara Perkins, George Perkins

THE AMERICAN TRADITION IN LITERATURE has introduced nearly two million students to the historic sweep of American Literature. Now, in its eighth edition, this leading anthology once again presents the best collection published. Published in 3 volumes - I, II, and the Shorter Edition (a single volume) - they are all available in both hard and soft cover. This revision balances the major writers with new and newly... (more)

The Awakening, and Other Stories (Rinehart Editions, 142)

The Awakening, and Other Stories (Rinehart Editions, 142)

by Kate Chopin

The Awakening shocked turn-of-the-century readers with its forthright treatment of sex and suicide. Departing from literary convention, Kate Chopin failed to condemn her heroine's desire for an affair with the son of a Louisiana resort owner, whom she meets on vacation. The power of sensuality, the delusion of ecstatic love, and the solitude that accompanies the trappings of middle- and upper-class life are the... (more)

Don't Tell Dad; A Memoir

by Peter Fonda

What was it like to be both the voice of a generation and the symbol of Hollywood decadence? Fondas recollections of his Hollywood heyday feature unforgettable moments of partying and romancing, and of hanging out with just about everybody from Dylan to Dali, Beatty to Brando. He also offers some startling revelations about the Fonda family, including the effects of his mothers suicide and his largely neglectful... (more)

Shelfari Book Activity

Browse Subjects: american literature

Top Books

by Stephen King

by Peter Washington, Walt Whitman

by Jack London

by Herman Melville

by John Crowe Ransom

by George McMichael, J.C. Levenson, Leo Marx, David E. Smith, Mae Miller Claxton, Susan Bunn

by Truman Capote

by John Irving

by Max Brand

by John Irving

by Sir Walter Scott

by Max Brand

by Mignon Good Eberhart

by Michael Blake

by James Fenimore Cooper

by Jack London

by George B. Perkins, Barbara Perkins, George Perkins

by Kate Chopin

by Peter Fonda