For love or money Eugénie Grandet is one of the better known works from Honoré de Balzac’s Comédie Humaine, and for good reason. This...

Lanny Budd meets Hitler Dragon’s Teeth, published in 1942, is the third book in Upton Sinclair’s eleven-volume Lanny Budd series. It w...

A forgotten gem of American literary regionalism Emanuel Haldeman-Julius is best known as the publisher of the Little Blue Books, popul...

Poverty as poetry When one thinks of socially conscious realism in American literature, what usually springs to mind is the heyday of t...

Everything old is new again Richard Jefferies’s 1885 book, After London, is often described as a post-apocalyptic novel, but readers w...

Four out of five fail to impress F.D. Millet This is the fifth book in the ten-volume Stories by American Authors series published...

Fantasy island The City of the Sun was written in 1602 by Tommaso Campanella, an Italian philosopher and Dominican brother. It is a ut...