The name "Tom Sawyer" is synonymous with the adventures of boyhood. Bold and clever, Tom gets into...

The beloved humorist and bestselling author returns with his most riotous collection of essays to date.

For a person seeking a single volume to serve as a captivating introduction and a dependable guide through...

Transported back in time to the regal days of chivalry, the quick-witted, sharp-tongued Connecticut Yankee...

Forty years ago, Paul Theroux first went to Africa as a teacher in the Malawi bush.

The writings of Josephus contain one of the few historical accounts of the wars of the Jews and the...

They began as courtiers in a hierarchy of privilege, but history remembers them as patriot-citizens in a commonwealth of equals.

Lemuel Gulliver, a surgeon and sea captain, journeys to different islands, where he meets some of the...

When President Thomas Jefferson acquired the Louisiana Purchase - the vast, unknown lands between...

When geologist Otto Lidenbrock discovers an ancient manuscript describing a passageway to the...

When geologist Otto Lidenbrock discovers an ancient manuscript describing a passageway to the...

In 1532, the fifty-four-year-old Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro led a force of 167 men, including his four brothers, to the shores of Peru. Unbeknownst to the Spaniards, the Inca rulers of Peru had just fought a bloody civil war in which the emperor Atahualpa had defeated his brother Huascar.

When Mark Twain was growing up, all he wanted to be was a steamboat man. And so Twain ran away...

In one of Mark Twain's most biting social satires, the allegedly pious town of Hadleyburg has its...

One of the greatest minds in American writing, Kurt Vonnegut has left an indelible impression on literature with such inventive novels as Cat's Cradle, Slaughterhouse-Five and Breakfast of Champions.

After the Civil War ended, Edmund McIlhenny, an ambitious and tenacious Louisiana businessman, found himself with few prospects.

In "A Modest Proposal," first published in 1729, Jonathan Swift heaps scorn on then-current political...

Mosby's Men is John H. Alexander's eyewitness account of his days with Mosby's Confederate...

From two leaders in executive education at Harvard Business School, here are the mental habits and proven strategies you need to achieve outstanding results in any negotiation.

Originally published in 1865, "The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" began Mark Twain's...

Surviving the Trojan War was just the beginning of the adventure for Odysseus. What lay ahead...

On Fields of Fury is a dramatic re-creation, largely in the words of participants, of Grant’s desperate attempt in May through June of 1864 to end the Civil War.

In this extraordinary memoir, Nobel Prize–winning author Günter Grass remembers his early life, from his boyhood in a cramped two-room apartment in Danzig through the late 1950s, when his book The Tin Drum was published.

This is the first comprehensive history of America's involvement in the Middle East from George Washington to George W. Bush.

When street urchin Tom Cantry trades places with Edward VI, Prince of Wales, he thinks everything's...