In the antebellum South, Tom Sawyer leads a life of pranks and pretend adventures, until he witnesses a very real murder in a graveyard. The novel balances the idyll of childhood...

Leopold Bloom, an advertising canvasser, wanders through Dublin on a single ordinary day, his path crossing with the young intellectual Stephen Dedalus. The novel uses a...

Experience the collision of Eastern society and Western reality when a wealthy socialite buys a ranch in New Mexico. Expecting a romanticized cowboy life, she is immediately...

A mock-biography that celebrates the life of a ruthless criminal as if he were a conquering hero of history. Fielding uses the career of this "Great Man" to satirize the amoral...

The glittering party is over, leaving behind a hangover of regret and lost opportunities. These stories traverse the landscape of early adulthood, where ambition crashes against...

The world is seen through the fresh, unfiltered eyes of a child as he experiences the warmth of family, the sting of discipline, and the first taste of grief. This introspective...

Even in the sanctuary of a honeymoon, the scent of danger returns to torment the survivors of the Yellow Room. A fortress on the coast becomes a prison of paranoia as the enemy...

Speed is the only defense for Alden as he carries the mail pouch through the most dangerous territory in the West. Alone on the trail, he faces blizzards, wolves, and bandits,...

A foul odor emanates from a pine box in the captain's cabin, fueling the narrator's wild theories about its contents. Only when the ship goes down does the tragic truth emerge: a...

In a quiet, unassuming American town, the most pompous and delightfully inept police chief stumbles his way through baffling mysteries and local scandals. Armed with unwavering...