Set in 1925, this is a novel of the Jazz Age; of ambition, of the careless rich, of wild parties and flappers and bootleg booze; and the efforts of a dreamer to reunite with his lost love.
William Stoner is born at the end of the 19th century into a dirt-poor Missouri farming family.....
Though they've lived their entire lives less than five blocks from each other, Reuven Malter and Danny Saunders exist in very different worlds....
Listen to this free abridged edition of The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald published on Spotify. The 1925 novel is widely considered as one of the great American novels.
Jerusha Abbott was brought up at the John Grier Home, an old-fashioned orphanage.
Set in the 1870s, The Buccaneers is about five wealthy American girls denied entry into New York Society because their parents' money is too new....
Martin Eden, Jack London's semiautobiographical novel, is about a struggling young writer. It is considered by many to be the author's most mature work....
Can't sit still long enough to read the classics? Then listen up as John "Mighty Mouth" Moschitta, the world's fastest talking man, speeds through the world's greatest book in ten minutes flat.
Earthy, raunchy and high spirited, this story of larkabout Jeeter Lester's struggle to keep his farm is one of the most poignant and humorous in Depression-era literature and an American classic....
As much a historical document as it is a novel, this 1946 winner of the Houghton Mifflin Literary Fellowship Award is the poignant and unblinkingly honest story of Lutie Johnson....